TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING OF BUCHAREST, ROMANIA

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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERINGOF
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
1st Project Meeting in TAMK
IGUAL Innovation for Equality in Latin American
University (Innovación para la iGualdad en la
Universidad de America Latina)
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ROMANIA
LOCATION Eastern Europe POLITICAL SYSTEM
Parliamentary Republic POPULATION 22,651,000
inhabitants AREA 238,391 sq. km. CAPITAL
CITY Bucharest NATIONAL DAY December the 1st
(anniversary of the
1918 union of all Romanians into a single state)
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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
A BRIEF HISTORY

• 1818 School for Land Surveyors
• 1864 School of Bridges and Roads, Mines and
  Architecture
• 1867 School of Bridges, Roads and Mines
• 1888 National School of Bridges and Roads
• 1921 Polytechnic School of Bucharest - Division
  of Civil Engineering (Faculty of Civil
  Engineering in 1938)
• 1948 The Faculty of Civil Engineering was
  separated from the Polytechnic School and called
  Civil Engineering Institute - Bucharest
• 1994 Technical University of Civil Engineering -
  Bucharest (UTCB), the only Romanian university
  devoted entirely to civil engineering and related
  fields.

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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
AT PRESENT

• In 2009 the Technical University of Civil
  Engineering of Bucharest has a remarkable
  academic staff (157 professors and consulting
  professors, 122 associate professors, 107
  lecturers, 198 assistant professors and junior
  assistants), who have distinguished themselves
  both through the results of their teaching and
  research activity and through their direct
  participation in the most important construction
  works of our country.
• Reorganizing the civil engineering higher
  education according to the Bologna process offers
  the graduates from the Technical University of
  Civil Engineering of Bucharest the opportunity to
  be validated and integrated into the European job
  market.
• The Technical University of Civil Engineering of
  Bucharest is the initiator and coordinator of
  EUCEET Thematic Network, which includes 131
  partner institutions from 29 European countries.
• In March 2001, the Technical University of Civil
  Engineering of Bucharest reached a Double-Diploma
  agreement with Ecole Nationale des Ponts et
  Chaussées, the first agreement of this kind in
  the Romanian civil engineering higher education.

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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
ACADEMIC UNITS

• DEPARTMENTS SUBORDINATED TO THE ACADEMIC COLLEGE
• Department of Mathematics and Informatics
• Department of Physics
• Department of Chemistry and Building Materials
• Department of Descriptive Geometry, Technical
  Drawing and Infographics
• Department of Humanities
• Department of Physical Education
• FACULTY OF CIVIL, INDUSTRIAL AND AGRICULTURAL
  BUILDINGS
• Department of Civil Engineering, Urban
  Engineering and Technology
• Department of Reinforced Concrete Buildings
• Department of Metallic Buildings
• Department of Building Mechanics, Statics and
  Dynamics
• Department of Management

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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
ACADEMIC UNITS

• FACULTY OF HYDROTECHNICS
• Department of Hydraulic Structures
• Department of Hydraulics and Environmental
  Protection
• Department of Geotechnics and Foundations
• Department of Sanitary Engineering and Water
  Protection
• FACULTY OF RAILWAYS, ROADS AND BRIDGES
• Department of Bridges
• Department of Strength of Materials
• Department of Roads and Railways
• FACULTY OF BUILDING SERVICES
• Department of Hydraulic and Thermal
  Installations and Atmosphere protection
• Department of Termotechnics
• Department of Electrotechnics
• Department of Illumination and Electrical Systems

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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
ACADEMIC UNITS

• FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT
• Department of Building Equipment
• Department of Mechanical Technology and Machine
  Parts
• Department of Technical Mechanics and Mechanisms
• FACULTY OF GEODESY
• Department of Geodesy and Photogrammetry
• Department of Surveying and Cadastre
• FACULTY OF ENGINEERING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES
• (Full time instruction in english or french)
• DEPARTMENT OF DOCTORAL STUDIES (PhD STUDIES)
• DEPARTMENT OF TEACHER TRAINING
• DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND COMMUNICATION

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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
DEGREE PROGRAMMES 4 year full-time
instruction Degree awarded Engineer
FACULTY OF CIVIL, INDUSTRIAL AND AGRICULTURAL
BUILDINGS Specialization Civil, Industrial and
Agricultural Buildings Specialization Urban
Engineering and Regional Development Specializatio
n Ecomomic Engineering FACULTY OF
HYDROTECHNICS Specialization Hydrotechnical
Works and Structures Specialization
Environmental Engineering Specialization
Sanitary Engineering and Environmental
Protection Specialization Automatics and
informatics in civil engineering FACULTY OF
RAILWAYS, ROADS AND BRIDGES Specialization
Railways, Roads and Bridges Specialization
Infrastructure of metropolitan transports, FACULTY
OF BUILDING SERVICES Specialization Buildings
services for civil engineering, Specialization
Installations and Equpment for Atmospheric
Protection,
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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
DEGREE PROGRAMMES 4 year full-time
instruction Degree awarded Engineer
FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT Specialization
Technological equipment for civil
engineering Specialization Technological
resources engineering and management FACULTY OF
GEODESY Specialization Land Surveying and
cadastre FACULTY OF ENGINEERING IN FOREIGN
LANGUAGES (Full time instruction in english or
french) Field Civil engineering Specialization
Civil engineering (with full instruction in
English or French) Specialization Building
services in civil engineering (with full
instruction in French).
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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
DEGREE PROGRAMMES 4 year full-time
instruction Degree awarded Engineer
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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
DEGREE PROGRAMMES 3 year full-time
instruction Degree awarded Conference
interpreter-Translator
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND COMMUNICATION
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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
DEGREE PROGRAMMES 3 year full-time
instruction Degree awarded Conference
interpreter-Translator
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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
MASTERS DEGREE PROGRAMME Period 3 semesters, 90
ECTS 30 ECTS final thesis
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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
DOCTORAL PROGRAMMES 3 year doctoral
programme Degree awarded Doctor of Science in
Engineering
DEPARTMENT OF DOCTORAL STUDIES (PhD STUDIES)
General field Engineering Sciences Doctoral
fields 6, with 24 specializations - Civil
Engineering (16 specializations) - Geodesy
Engineering (1 specialization) - Mechanical
Engineering (3 specialization) - Electrical
Engineering (2 specialization) - Industrial
Engineering (1 specialization) - Engineering and
Management (1 specialization) (3 reports 120
ETCS) thesis
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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
DOCTORAL PROGRAMMES 3 year doctoral
programme Degree awarded Doctor of Science in
Engineering
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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
Post-graduate training courses organized by
T.U.C.E.B. for the teaching staff in the
pre-academic education system

• DEPARTMENT OF TEACHER TRAINING
• Post-graduate training courses in Technological
  Education
• Post-graduate training courses in Informatics
• Post-graduate training courses of professional
  conversion
• Specialization of Technological Education
  full-time instruction and long-distance studies
• Post-graduate training courses in Pedagogy (Art
  68 Law of the Education System)
• Professional conversion at academic level in
  Technological Education/ Informatics
• (College graduates)

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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
Post-graduate training courses organized by
T.U.C.E.B. for the teaching staff in the
pre-academic education system
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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
RESEARCH CENTRES

• Structure safety at natural hazard actions
• Research centre for civil engineering
• Research centre for roads and airfields
• Geotechnical engineering centre
• Research centre for environmental protection
• Hydraulic engineering and water resources
  administration
• Equipment and technological processes engineering

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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
Research activity Main fields
The most significant research projects are
enumerated below Calculation and behaviour of
reinforced concrete, masonry, metallic and wooden
structures at seismic actions and stress
Seismic zoning of the Romanian territory
Setting up the norms and standards in accordance
with the present European legislation (civil
engineering, building services, roads and
railways, environmental protection, EUROCODES)
Seismic response of the existing buildings and
safety strategies Research concerning the
modelling of the static and dynamic linear and
non-linear response of skeleton structures in the
field of transport infrastructure (roads,
bridges, railways, tunnels) Rebuilding,
expansion and modernization of the water supply
systems, sewage and sewage treatment Static and
seismic response of hydraulic structures, as well
as their risk and safety analyses Modern
calculation programmes for modelling the
soil-structure interaction Exploitation and
protection of the underground water resources and
the dispersion of the polluting agents in the
porous and fluid media
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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
Research activity Main fields
Improving water supply networks Technologies
of investigating and valuing industrial waste
Chemical analyses of the polluting agents and
physical and chemical methods to avoid
pollution Energetic efficiency, safety,
steadiness and reliability of building services
(thermal, refrigeration, sanitary, electric,
illumination and air conditioning equipment)
Approving the installation equipment
Environmental condition and impact studies
Researches concerning the hydro mechanical
driving systems, the automation and robotizing of
the technological processes within the field of
civil engineering Research concerning machines
with vibrating drive and machine dynamics
Designing and producing the geodesic propping
networks. The modernization of the national
geodesic network and its inclusion in the
European networks Using the remote sensing data
for obtaining information about the space
Research concerning the creation of the cadastre
computerized system for locality management by
the local administrators and others.
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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
Social assistance

• T.U.C.E.B. students have the opportunity to be
  accomodated in the hostels of the university,
  within the number of available rooms.
• They can have their meals at the university
  canteen.
• Accommodation and meals are provided in exchange
  for a fee established in accordance with the
  provisions of the Regulation concerning the
  organization of student hostels and canteens.
• T.U.C.E.B. students receive medical assistance
  for free at the infirmery of T.U.C.E.B.

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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
IGUAL ROMANIAN TEAM
Prof. PhD. Romica TRANDAFIR
Assoc. Prof. PhD. Ion MIERLUS MAZILU
Asistant. Luciana CARABANEANU
Ec. Lucia Nicoleta IANCU - Administrative
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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
BUCHAREST
IGUAL
IGUAL local coordinator Associate Professor Ion
MIERLUS-MAZILU mmi_at_mail.utcb.ro http//www.mierlus
-mazilu.ro
Thank you!