For over fifteen years, Prof. Łukasz Madej has been involved in the education of undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students at the Faculty of Metals Engineering and Industrial Computer Science of AGH University in the broad fields of materials engineering, numerical modelling, and industrial digitisation techniques. He constantly develops new lectures, seminars and laboratory classes, adapting the educational offer to the changing needs of students and future employers. Over the last twenty years, he has developed and conducted classes in 22 subjects in Polish and English. He is the author of three academic textbooks on numerical modelling in materials engineering. The education of young people also includes the promotion of 5 doctoral students who defended their theses with distinction, as well as 71 master’s and 85 bachelor’s students. From 2016 to 2023, he served as the head of doctoral studies, coordinating the education of doctoral students at the Faculty. In this regard, in 2019, he was also a member of the team organising the Doctoral School at AGH. Since that year, he has been involved in the work of the School Council, and since 2024, he has been the deputy director of the AGH Doctoral School.
He is also very active in reviewing master’s, bachelor’s, and doctoral theses. In the latter case, he has conducted over 20 reviews in Poland and abroad. He was a long-term member of the faculty committee for doctoral dissertations, the faculty commission for diploma examinations, the faculty committee for thesis defense and the faculty commission for the quality of education. In the years 2012-2016, he served as the chairman of the Senate Committee on Student Disciplinary Affairs, and in the period 2020-2024, he was a member of the Senate Committee on Education.
Professor Madej is also involved in the popularisation of science at the secondary school level, for example, through a series of lectures entitled “Is computer science needed by an engineer”, which introduce complex scientific issues to young people. For 15 years, he has also been collaborating with the Special School and Educational Centre No. 3 in Krakow on the development and use of modern technologies, including motion controllers and virtual reality goggles, in education and therapy. As a result of this cooperation, many computer programs and therapeutic devices were developed, which are used in practice by teachers during classroom instruction.
