CEEPUS Tribology BG 0703

Short description, research and educational contributions

The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is one of sixteen members of the university and educates mechanical engineers in five different studying programs: Production Engineering; Energetic and Traffic Mechanical Engineering; Mechatronics; Industrial Engineering and Management; Safety at Work.

In the program of Energetic and Traffic Mechanical Engineering there are 3 different fields: Energy, Thermo technique and Traffic Mechanical Engineering. Also, in the program of The Production Engineering specific program exists - Wood processing technology. At present, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is a modern university institution which offers a wide range of qualifications through undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programs. There are five courses for Bachelors followed with five courses for Masters and five courses for Doctoral degree. The credit system compatible with the ECTS has been fully introduced at the Faculty.

The Department of Production Engineering is the carrier of the study program 'Production Engineering' at the bachelor and the master level. In order to increase competitiveness in the labor market, mechanical engineers from the Department have knowledge of traditional techniques: machining, forming, joining techniques, combined with new technologies such as robotics, mechatronics, automation, information technology.

The activities are realizing within following laboratories:

· Laboratory for metal cutting, tool machines and tool design,

· Laboratory for dynamic of machines,

· Laboratory for automation,

· Laboratory for mechatronics and robotics,

· CAPP Laboratory,

· Laboratory for metal forming,

· Laboratory for materials and welding technique,

· Laboratory for hydraulic and pneumatic technique,

· CAD Laboratory.

In particular, the Department of Production Engineering aims participating in the current CEEPUS project through investigation of the following research topics:

• Development of technological processes, design of cutting tools and products;

• Modeling and simulation of cutting process;

• Programming of CNC tool machines;

• Design, reconstruction and modernization of production systems,

• Application of robots in manufacturing and robot programming;

• Machining of heavy machinability material;

• CAD/CAPP/CAM techniques in field of metal machining;

• Cutting tool wear monitoring;

• Machinability determination of new construction materials;

• Model development to define the universal machinability of materials;

• Prediction of output parameters of the process using artificial intelligence (neural networks);

• Identification of dynamic parameters of tool machines.