The Romanian Polytechnic University of Timisoara (PUT) awarded (28.05) the title of doctor honoris causa to Professor Jan Awrejcewicz, an outstanding mechanic, head of the Department of Automatic Control, Biomechanics and Mechatronics at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Lodz University of Technology.  

Prof. Jan Awrejcewicz is a correspondent member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, an honorary doctor of the Academy of Technology and Humanities in Bielsko-Biała, the Częstochowa University of Technology, the Gdańsk University of Technology, the Kielce University of Technology and the Kharkiv University of Technology.

-Our university is fully convinced that it honors a researcher with above-average scientific, didactic, managerial and professional achievements. We are honored to accept an outstanding personality into our academic family and we express our conviction that today’s ceremony is the beginning of a new chapter of future cooperation – said the PUT Rector, Prof. Florin Dragan, awarding Prof. Jan Awrejcewicz with an honorary doctorate.

The Polytechnic University of Timisoara is one of the largest technical universities in Central and Eastern Europe. It educates over 12,000 students at 10 faculties.