Strategy of the Gdynia Maritime University
The University’s strategic aims
-
Maintain its own high-quality teaching and research staff;
-
Obtain by all Faculties the rights to award doctors and university professors’ degrees;
-
Implementation of three level system of studies: bachelor or engineer graduation, master and doctor graduations;
-
Improve the maritime nature of the University by developing maritime fields and specialisations of studies and maritime orientation of scientific research;
-
Balance the intra-mural student numbers and extra-mural student numbers accompanied by developing post-graduate studies providing opportunities to acquire new professional competences;
-
Systematically develop the teaching and research staff in the domains making up for the specific maritime nature of the University;
-
Encourage participation of the University research teams in national and international research projects;
-
Develop cooperation with national, European and world-class schools and universities with respect to upgrade education levels and perform scientific research;
-
Upgrade laboratory facilities and improve standards of the University premises;
-
Strengthen the University’s links with enterprises, self-government and social bodies and also with research and professional associations of regional, national and international standing;
-
Strengthen the university’s role as one of the world’s centre for maritime education and training;
The Maritime University’s activities till 2008
1. Within the teaching area:
-
Maintain the current number of candidates admitted for the intra-mural studies taking into account that the admission figures for extra-mural studies will decrease due to the falling demographic trends in Poland;
-
Inaugurate new fields and specialisations of studies:
Faculty of Navigation - Sea-going traffic engineering,
- Systems of maritime safety,
- Geographical information systems,
- Commanding large seagoing yachts.
Faculty of Marine Engineering and Electrical Engineering:
- Operation of mechatronic facilities,
- Operation of oil-drilling platforms.
-
Develop distance learning technologies;
-
Obtain certificates in the teaching quality, accreditation for the fields of studies and selected laboratories of individual Faculties;
-
Implement didactic modules based on the use of the Internet technologies in order to increase effectiveness of education and reduction of the teaching costs;
-
Implement and upgrade plans and syllabuses of studies based on the ECTS system which enable more flexible structuring of the students’ educational profiles;
-
Establish cooperation between the Faculty of Business Administration and Commodity Sciences and other Faculties in order to develop and implement post-graduation studies for graduates in maritime fields, for example syllabuses for MBA studies for merchant shipping officers in arrangement with national and foreign institutions of a recognized standing;
-
Undertake joint didactic projects with schools and universities abroad, e.g. organise a shared specialisation of studies by the Electrical Engineering Faculty and Hochschule Bremerhaven in the area of computer control systems;
-
Develop scientific activities of the students gathered in Scientific Circles at individual fields of studies;
2. Within the areas of the academic staff development
-
Promote by each one Faculty a minimum of: 3 -4 doctors, 1 – 2 assistant professors and one scientific title of the professor;
-
Support employees in obtaining the highest marine certificates of competency;
-
Obtain by the Navigation Faculty the rights to award a title of the doctor in the domain of transport;
-
Obtain by the Electrical Engineering Faculty the rights to award a title of the doctor in the domain of electrical engineering and further on in electronic engineering;
-
Obtain by the Faculty of Business Administration and Commodity Sciences the rights to award a title of the assistant professor in the domain of commodity sciences and a title of a doctor in the domain of management;
3. Within the area research
-
Obtain by individual Faculties a higher category within the parameter assessment system of the Scientific Research Committee (KBN);
-
Develop research with students’ participation and implement crediting subjects on the basis of the participation in research or in work within a Scientific Circle;
-
Extend the employees and students’ access to modern information systems supporting education and scientific research;
-
Make training vessels available to conduct scientific research;
-
Each Faculty to organise annually 2 – 3 scientific conferences national or international;
Faculty of Navigation
-
Safety and Reliability - International Conference ESREL-KOBIN (2005, 2007);
-
Navigational Symposium – Safety of Navigation and Sea Transport (2005, 2007);
-
All-Poland Polar Meteorological and Climatologic Seminar (2004, 2006, 2008);
-
Satellite System Symposium;
-
Integrated Bridge Systems Symposium.
Faculty of Marine Engineering
-
Scientific and Technical Issues in the Professional Sailing Sports (2004);
-
Basics of Machine Construction Symposium (2005);
-
Physical and Chemical Issues in Water Ecology (2006);
-
Ship Engine Room Symposium (2007).
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
-
Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems IEEE MIXDES (2005 or 2006);
-
IMECO TC4 (2005);
-
Advances in Ship Control Systems IEEE MMAR (2005, 2006);
-
Evolution Algorithm Workshops (2005, 2007);
-
Distance Learning Support Facilities (2005);
-
Virtual Learning Systems (2004, 2006).
Faculty of Business Administration and Commodity Science
-
Development and Assessment of Food and Nutrition Quality;
-
Development and Significance of Tourism;
-
Knowledge of Management;
-
European Integration Issues;
-
Information Technologies in Management;
-
Transport and Logistics;
-
Knowledge of Quality;
-
Participation in national, European and world programmes.
Faculty of Navigation
-
Modelling Safety and Reliability of Complex Systems and Processes;
-
Integrated Safety and Reliability - Transport Management Systems;
-
Hornsund Climate;
-
Issues in Navigation, Safety of Shipping, Technical Navigation, Navigational Infrastructure, Vessel Manoeuvring, Operation of Ports.
Faculty of Marine Engineering
-
Implementation of a Satellite Method for the Control of Ecosystems in Monitoring the Polish Economic Zone of the Baltic Sea;
-
Operational Properties of Coats from Intermetal Phases;
-
Internal Stress in Products Made with Plastic Forming Methods;
-
Influence of the Cooling Method when Destroying Stainless Steel on Selected Machining Properties;
-
Method of Non-stationary Greasing of Human Joints with Deformed Cartilage in Electromagnetic Field Accompanied by a Computer-Assisted Optimization of Bone Tissues in Bioreactors;
-
Development of a Decision Making Support System in the Process of in the Engine Room Operations;
-
Influence of Sea Transport on Natural Environment;
-
Research in Biofuels;
-
Safety of the Ship’s Engine Room Operator;
-
Risk Analysis in Navigation;
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
-
Microprocessor-based Facility for Measuring the Moment, Rotational Speed on the Screw Propeller Shaft with a Possibility to Assess the Ship Engine;
-
Ceramic Ferro Electrical Materials and their Applications;
-
Intelligent Integrated System for the Ship’s Safety Monitoring and Control;
-
Application of Internet Technologies in Monitoring Industrial Products (the JENET Project);
-
Implementation of New Tools and Techniques in Teaching and also Development and Harmonisation of the Teaching Plans and Syllabuses at Maritime Academies of the Candidate and Present EU States (the METNET Project).
Faculty of Business Administration and Commodity Science
-
Marine Environment Protection;
-
Safety of Transport;
-
Information Technologies in Transport and Logistics;
-
Shaping Quality of Products and Services;
-
Research into Consumers’ Preferences;
-
Development and Significance of Tourism.
4. Within the maritime matters:
-
Further develop cooperation with the shipowners and operators and national and foreign manning agencies in order to ensure all students, first adequate apprenticeship and then employment after graduation;
-
Financial self-sufficiency of the training vessels including their repairs on the basis of the regular grant from the Ministry of Infrastructure and own revenues;
-
Extension of the training vessels’ employment time within a year;
5. Within the matters pertaining organisation, finance and premises:
-
Amend the University Statutes and Regulations;
-
Obtain by the University the ISO Quality Certificate;
-
Undertake initiatives aiming to acquire additional premises for the didactic activities from the Gdynia City Authorities;
-
Construct the new Students’ Club within the main warehouse spaces, transfer of the Senate Hall and Rector’s Offices to the Bukszpryt Club spaces;
-
Reissue Academic Maritime Herald as a magazine shared by the students, employees and graduates of the Gdynia Maritime University.
-
Renew activities of the Association of Maritime Schools Graduates by an active encouragement for membership application from the part of year-to-year graduates of the Gdynia Maritime University and further develop cooperation with the Association of Seagoing Masters in Gdyni (SKŻW), Association of Marine Chief Engineers (SSMM) and Association of Marine Electrical Engineers (SEO);
-
Establish a team for obtaining European Union resources for performance of the University projects.
Chairman of the Senate
Gdynia Maritime University
Prof. Józef Lisowski D.Sc, Hab. Eng.
Adopted at the Meeting of the Gdynia Maritime University Senate
on the day of 30 October 2003
|
