UNIVERSITY "POLITEHNICA" TIMISOARA
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Welding Equipment and Technology Department
Bd. Mihai Viteazul no.1
300222 Timisoara
Tel./Fax: +40-256-491810
E-mail: uts@mec.utt.ro
SHORT HISTORY
The Welding Equipment and Technology Department was founded in 1952 being the first department with this speciality in Romania, which prepares mechanical engineers in the field of WELDING. Later on (1976) the technical universities from Bucuresti, Brasov si Galaşi adopted this speciality.
TEACHING STAFF
The personnel of the department is made out of 3 professors, 7 lecturers and 4 auxiliary teaching staff. 6 of them have the scientific title of doctor engineer (2 are co-ordinators for a doctor's degree), and 3 of them are candidates for a doctor's degree.
FUNDAMENTAL DIDACTICAL ACTIVITY
The fundamental characteristic of the welding engineer's professional training is the interdisciplinarity (mechanics, metallurgy and electrotechnics).
The base characteristic in the managerial and technological field, got in the first three years is completed by the disciplines:
- Welding processes
- Materials and thermal treatment for welded structures
- Welding technologies
- Welding equipment
- Design of welded structures
- Fabrication of welded structures
- Welding using radiation
- Control of welds and welded products
The fundamental of the didactical and research activity is represented by the seven laboratories, which were modernised by its endowment with the last generation equipment in the field. It is worth mentioning the shielding gas welding equipment, submerged arc welding equipment, plasma welding and cutting equipment, resistance welding equipment and non-destructive examination apparata. This action goes on by the assistance from the part of welding equipment-producing firms all over the world having representations in Romania.
THE POSTUNIVERSITARY EDUCATION
Starting with the university year 1996-1997 the department co-ordinates the master study cycle "Welding engineering" which consists of:
- Welding processes and technologies
- Stability of the source-arc systems
- Materials and their welding behaviour
- Building and design
- Fabrication and application engineering
- Mechanical processing of the parts to be welded
- Metallography of failures
- Computer Aided Engineering in welding
The Welding Equipment and Technology Department also offers for the production personnel SHORT TIME AND LONG TIME POST UNIVERSITY STUDIES in the following fields: shielding gas welding, high productivity welding processes and non-destructive control industrial techniques.
The Welding Equipment and Technology Department also co-ordinates the training activity of the teaching staff in the pre-university education system
DOCTOR'S DEGREE
The staff of the Equipment and Technology Department assures training possibilities as a doctor's degree in the following specialities:
- Material Science - scientific co-ordinator Prof. dr. eng. Voicu Safta;
- Industrial engineering - scientific co-ordinator Prof. dr. eng. Livius Milos
Till now 78 titles of doctor engineers were obtained in the field of welding, and at present other 19 specialists are in the preparatory stage of the doctor's degree theses.
RESEARCH
The research activity was centred on the following directions:
- Welding processes modelling;
- Elaboration of shielding gas welding technologies, pulsed current welding and submerged arc welding technologies;
- Direct current resistance welding technologies
- Methods for limiting stresses and strains in welded structures
- Defects and quality assurance systems
- Consulting in the field of welding.
There were developed and finalised a series of fundamental original researches referring to:
- Thoroughgoing study of the processes and the elaboration of welding technologies on dissimilar components
- Stress-relieving of liquated petroleum product tanks
- Special plants for stored energy microwelding
- Technologies for robot welding of chassis elements for railroad cars
- Welding technology optimisation using computer
- Defects of welded joints
- Establishment of residual stresses when welding
Some of them allowed the implication in different international research programmes.
SYMPOSIA AND PUBLICATIONS
The Welding Equipment and Technology Department implied itself in organising the most representative scientific events in the field of welding, national conferences and international ones.
- The seven national welding material testing conferences with international participation (1954-1987)
- "Teaching in the welding" international symposium (1993)
- "Informatics and optimisation in welding" (1995)
- "60 years of co-operation in the field of welding" (1999)
- "Modern welding technologies and allied processes" (1999)
The staff of the Welding Equipment and Technology Department was included into the scientific and technical committees organising different national and international symposia, being appointed as scientific referents for technical reviews, too.
The research activity was materialised by a number of over 500 scientific papers, publications and invention and innovation patents as well as a number of over 40 monographs and original treatises published in the last 20 years. Two of them, which are considered priority on the national plan, were awarded prises of the Romanian Academy namely "TraianVuia" and "Aurel Vaicu".
IMPLICATION INTO INDUSTRY
The members of the department were solicited to solve some major technical problems from the beginning. The following can be mentioned as representative examples: development of the national exhibition pavilion Bucharest, the road bridges over the Danube, locomotive fabrication in Romania, welding materials assimilation, maintenance of the chemical and petroleum societies, fabrication of busses.
Within the Welding Equipment and Technology Department scientific research contracts were developed having as beneficiaries institutes, representative firms, small and middle enterprises: INCERC Bucuresti, ISIM Timisoara, TES Timisoara. CNCSU Bucuresti, TIMASUD Timisoara, IMUT Moreni, PRIMACONSTRUCT Timisoara, ROCAR Bucuresti, TCMRIC Bucuresti, INDES Sibiu, USPS Buzãu, MECANICA Cugir, UCM Resişa, SANTIERUL NAVAL Drobeta Turnu Severin, SANTIERUL NAVAL Galaşi, SANTIERUL NAVAL Constanşa, SANTIERUL NAVAL Orsova.
The staff of Welding Equipment and Technology Department is certified by TÜV Rheinland Hungary Kft according to ISO 9001 for:
- Welders' education, qualification according to EN 287
- Welding procedures qualification according to EN 288-3 and AD-Mblt.HPO
- Quality requirements for welding according to EN 729
- Welders' base knowledge certification according to TÜV requirements
- Technical supervision of the pressure vessels, tanks and complete projects according to TÜV requirements
- Products testing according to TÜV specifications.
The graduates specialised in welding can make performance careers in the field of chemical, petrochemical, industry, nuclear and classical energy, aeronautic constructions, transport means, machine constructions etc.
In the last decade the requirements for employing young engineers offered through the Welding Equipment and Technology Department by firms in the west zone of the country and abroad exceeded the number of graduates.
SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
The staff of the Welding Equipment and Technology Department is one of the most representative scientific team of research and education in the field of welding in Romania.
The staff is the co-ordinator of the harmonisation action of the higher education plan in the field through collaboration with the teaching staff and the specialised teams within the Politechnical Univeristies from Bucuresti, Galaşi, Brasov. The members of the Welding Equipment and Technology Department are part of the following professional bodies and associations:
- ASR - Romanian Welding Society;
- EWF - European Welding Federation;
- AWS - American Welding Society;
- IIW - International Institute of Welding
- ACM -V - Association for Multidisciplinary Research West Zone
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
The members of the Welding Equipment and Technology Department have collaboration relationship with the following institutes in the field:
- AEAI Israel
- FHT Esslingen, Germany;
- ISQ Lisbon, Portugal;
- ISF Aachen, Germany.
- JOM Denmark
- MTI -TU Budapest, Hungary;
- SLV München, Germany;
- TUV Rheinland Hungary Kft.
Contact person: Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Eng. Livius Milos
Tel.: + 40-256-491810
E-mail uts@ mec.utt.ro
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