Awards for Gdańsk Tech Researchers for Scientific and Educational Activities
On the occasion of the Polish Science Day, Awards of the Minister of Education and Science were granted. Among the distinguished were three scientists from Gdańsk Tech: Prof. Waldemar Magda from the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Prof. Sławomir Kozieł and PhD Eng. Anna Pietrenko-Dąbrowska from the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics.
On the occasion of the Polish Science Day, Awards of the Minister of Education and Science were granted. Among the distinguished were three scientists from Gdańsk Tech: Prof. Waldemar Magda from the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Prof. Sławomir Kozieł and PhD Eng. Anna Pietrenko-Dąbrowska from the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics.
MEiN Awards are granted for merits in five categories: significant achievements in scientific, didactic, implementation, organizational activities, as well as for overall accomplishments. This year, a total of 22 individual awards were given for overall accomplishments and 40 individual and team awards for scientific activities.
PhD Eng. Waldemar Magda, DSc, Prof. Gdańsk Tech, received an individual award for significant achievements in didactic activities. Prof. Waldemar Magda is the author of the book “Marine Construction. Selected Issues with Calculation Examples”, published in 2020. Until now, the Polish publishing market lacked a book published in the native language dealing with marine construction issues — a book that can be used in an accessible way in engineering and design practice, as well as — and perhaps even primarily — in didactic classes at technical universities (the last significant publication was “Hydrotechnician's Handbook” from 1992). Prof. Magda's book is an excellent response to this need. The author gathered and analyzed many important pieces of information mainly from the latest foreign specialist literature. The work also summarizes many years of scientific research and extensive didactic activity of the scientist in the field of marine engineering and geotechnical engineering.
Prof. Sławomir Kozieł and PhD Eng. Anna Pietrenko-Dąbrowska received a team award for significant achievements in scientific activities. The main objective of the research conducted by the team from Gdańsk Tech was to develop new techniques to increase the computational efficiency of modeling high-frequency systems, primarily antennas and passive microwave circuits.
The research conducted by the team is highly original and innovative, especially when compared to the results presented in the subject literature over recent years. Methodologically, they significantly differ from standard approaches to surrogate modeling issues, particularly the modeling of high-frequency systems, proposing an entirely new paradigm based on an analytical definition of the model domain and the use of problem knowledge encoded in available simulation data. Practically, the methods developed by the team offer much better parameters in terms of model accuracy and their applicability to solving practical design problems.Direct confirmation of the innovative nature of the research is the large number of scientific articles published by the team over the past two years in a range of prestigious journals. The significance of the team’s work for the state of knowledge in the considered field is invaluable on an international scale, as evidenced by the very high number of citations (over 250) of the works submitted for the award, bearing in mind that these are chronologically the newest publications (years 2019–2021).