Trnava – one of the most significant towns in the Slovak Republic – lies 45km from Bratislava, the capital. The first written record of the town dates back to the year 1211. In 1238, Trnava, as the very first city in the territory of present Slovakia, was granted the privileges of a free royal town by Belo IV, the Hungarian king. The town entered the 18th century as the seat of the University established in 1635, famous all over Europe. The rich history of the town has left distinctive traces in its architecture, nowadays preserved within the Municipal Monument Reserve. Numerous churches have given Trnava its nickname of Little Rome.
The Faculty of Materials Science and Technology, established in 1986 under the original name of the Faculty of Machine Technology as the sixth faculty of the Slovak University of Technology, has been contributing to the academic character of the town for more than 20 years. However, regarding the technological development in machine production, the history of the Faculty is much longer than the date of its establishment shows, particularly thanks to the activities of Prof. J. Čabelka, the top expert in the field of welding technology.
The social changes introduced after 1989 and the consequent new demands challenged a wider orientation of the Faculty aimed at training university graduates for a wide scale of industrial and machine production. Consequently, in 1991, the Faculty was renamed the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology. The set of new programmes, unique in Slovakia, called for a new structure of the Faculty able to provide graduates with universal education and high placement rate prospects in the job market.
Currently, faculty trains university graduates in its campus in Trnava, as well as in detached workplace in Dubnica.