Dear Readers,
Non-ferrous metals, often called “colored metals,” are among the most precious resources of our magnificent planet. They also form an essential component of the entire cosmic space. Among colored metals, gold, silver, platinum, copper, zinc, and aluminum have always created — and continue to create — fundamental foundations of global civilizational development, much like oxygen is essential for life. Their potential and omnipresence shape the entirety of our existence. Medicine, sports and tourism, ubiquitous electronics and information technology, energy, transportation and aviation, defense industry, as well as construction, architecture, and households could not exist or develop effectively without non-ferrous metals.
The Faculty of Non-Ferrous Metals, one of the most outstanding scientific and educational units of the AGH University of Science and Technology, the only one of its kind in Poland and unique on a global scale, was established in 1962. Its purpose is to educate specialists and conduct research on modern technologies for the production and processing of non-ferrous metals to meet social and economic needs.
The Faculty’s mission continues the vision of Stanisław Staszic (1755–1826) — the great Patron of our University — who wished for Polish schools to educate Polish engineers for the effective development of Poland’s mineral resources. At the Faculty, students gain knowledge in chemical/metallurgical and materials engineering, learning methods for producing advanced non-ferrous metal compositions and techniques for transforming them into both traditional and innovative products.
At the Faculty of Non-Ferrous Metals, an experienced faculty team trains young professionals in acquiring skills to create modern trends in the advanced development and management of non-ferrous metal technologies. Students gain knowledge about the structure, properties, formation, and applications of these metals. Graduates pursue their professional passions in numerous industrial plants and research institutes worldwide, thereby extending the rich tradition of AGH alumni, a tradition that began in 1918 immediately after Poland regained independence following 123 years of absence from the map of Europe.
Our motto is to care for both tradition and modernity, ensuring a high standard of education and research while fostering collaboration and drawing on the expertise of the global scientific, educational, and industrial communities.
Tadeusz Knych
