A large selection means a variety of intellectual explorations and solving ambitious tasks under the supervision of highly qualified academic staff.

In addition, due to territorial changes, the Lviv Polytechnic, the oldest Polish technical university, found itself within the borders of the USSR.

The concept was endorsed by the Rector of the Mining Academy, Professor Walery Goetel, and by the Minister of Education, Stanisław Skrzeszewski.

In 1945, the Minister of Education authorised the organisation of the following polytechnic faculties at the Mining Academy: Architecture, Forestry, and Civil, Hydraulic and Surveying Engineering.

Almost from the beginning of its existence, Cracow University of Technology has been implementing a broad programme of research activities and cooperation with industry.

As a result, by the early 1970s, three of its four faculties had been granted full academic rights to confer doctoral and postdoctoral degrees.

Identifying the main areas of research activity made it possible to base the university's organisational structure on faculties clustered around these disciplines.

In the interwar period – after changing the name to the barracks of King Jan III Sobieski – Polish troops were stationed here.

After World War II, the complex was handed over to the Cracow University of Technology, initially on a free lease for a period of 5 years with the possibility of extension for a further 15.

New buildings have been built on the campus, and the historical facades have been renovated, making the premises of the Cracow University of Technology an excellent example of combining history with modernity.

In 2010, Cracow University of Technology purchased a building on the campus in Warszawska Street from the Military Property Agency - a former cannon house.

The Dean's Offices of the Faculties of Architecture and Materials Engineering and Physics are based in the former Royal Palace in Łobzów (currently Podchorążych Street) – the oldest summer residence of the kings of Poland.

The Samuel Maciejowski Palace, on Kanonicza Street, houses the Department of History of Architecture and Conservation of Monuments.

The design of the new complex, prepared by Professor Witold Cęckiewicz in cooperation with the Bureau of Metallurgical Studies and Projects BIPROSTAL, was approved in 1972.

In 1974, in the southern zone, the construction of the facilities for the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, the third dormitory, a hotel for teaching assistants, and a canteen building began.

Eventually – in the northern zone of the site – four dormitories, a hotel for teaching assistants and a social house with a canteen were built.

Work on the premises of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering continued intermittently, but the first units began to be moved from Warszawska Street in 1980.

Over the years of the association's existence, titled athletes trained in its ranks, and among the students, employees and graduates of the university, there were many Olympic athletes, including: Zdzisław Styczeń, Czesław Marchewczyk, Józef Marusarz, Włodzimierz Czarniak, Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś, Andrzej Sztolf, Joanna Bartosz, Czesław Lorenc, Jerzy Solarz, Agnieszka Szwarnóg, Wiesław Glos, Renata Knapik-Miazga.

Bilateral agreements concluded by the Cracow University of Technology allow cooperation with more than 50 countries, including the United States, Japan, Australia, the Republic of Korea, China, India, Mexico and Ukraine.

Scientists from the Cracow University of Technology also had a major contribution to the creation of the Large Hadron Collider, including designing and constructing the devices located in the spaces between the accelerator's main magnets.

The laboratory building is divided into 14 climatic and energy zones, where research on the properties of energy-saving materials and technologies is carried out.

In addition, the laboratory conducts research in such areas as: computer modelling and simulation, as well as the design of hydraulic and pneumatic components and systems for the drive and control of machinery and equipment, combined with experimental verification tests, computational methods and functional optimisation of industrial transport systems, including cranes and conveyors, determination of operating parameters of industrial transport means, design of electromechanical drives and modernisation of existing systems for industrial needs, development of methods of structural, kinematic and dynamic analysis and synthesis of mechanisms, computer simulation of mechanisms and their control, research and vibroacoustic diagnostics of machines and devices, design and evaluation of acoustic protection (cabins, enclosures, silencers); tests of acoustic properties of materials, tests in the field of workstation ergonomics (tests of noise, vibrations, thermal comfort and lighting).

Piotr Śliwiński was preparing for the expedition to Mount Everest at the Laboratory of Technoclimatic Research and Working Machines of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Cracow University of Technology.

The Laboratory of Environmental Aerodynamics will allow specialists to conduct research, expert opinions and analyses regarding, among others, urban ventilation, transport of pollutants, dynamic impact on smog, air exchange and regeneration systems.

In the laboratory building, two mixed-circuit wind tunnels were designed, each equipped with two measurement spaces and a diverse system of fans and technical infrastructure elements, shaping the parameters of the incoming air.

Worth over PLN 49.8 million, the NSMET project is implemented under the Smart Growth Operational Programme (measure 4.2 "Development of modern research infrastructure of the science sector").

In the new research centre, measurements will be performed primarily on machine and system components from a wide range of industries, including automotive, aerospace, energy, medical, bioengineering, composite materials and nanomaterials.