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St Nicholas at the MTF STU

On the occasion of the 25^th anniversary of the MTF STU the faculty organized several events. St Nicholas at the MTF was one of the events which were devoted employee's children of the faculty. This took place on Saturday the 3rd of December in the premises on Palinska Street.

St Nicholas with his company prepaid gifts and events for the children which they had to earn. The program consisted of dancing, singing, face painting and balloon modeling events. St Nicholas distributed gifts to the children; by the way, he came by Polar Express and was very busy because he had to meet more than seventy children. The event finished with a cartoon that had a Christmas theme. The event was a success and all enjoyed themselves and we are looking forward to the next year.

In Tatranska Lomica at the beginning of November the 39^th annual event of the international conference of Welding 2011 took place. The Slovak Welding Company gave an award to an employee of the MTF STU- Prof. Ing. Milan Turnu, PhD. IWE, with the name "Acknowledgment 3 times the best" -The Best Lecturer of 2011.

A representative of the Delcam Birmingham UK company - Antony Halland representatives of Delam Brno, s.r.o, the Director Pavol Simonek and Michal Jelinek. The Dean of the faculty - Professor Oliver Moracik and also the Vice Dean - J. Peterka welcomed these valuable guests. The Delcam company is a long term strategic partner of the MTF and in industry especially in the field of CAD/CAM software. The first applications of CAD/CAM software DUCT were at first used in Slovakia at the MTF prior to 1993. Since then the cooperation has spread in its use of software for 3D modeling applications and 5D milling via unlimited licensees for education and research.

On the 10^th of November 2011 at the MTF on Bottova Street, the third meeting of members of the Dean's advisory board took place and previous employees of the faculty were present. The Dean of the MTF STU - Oliver Moravcik greeted the guests. After a musical performance, those present were informed about the faculty's activities. The previous employees had a look at the new premises of the Centre of Excellence and the multi media classroom. On behalf of all those present, Doc Eva Doubkova thanked the MTF management for the event and she highlighted the feeling of fellowship which is created by such actions. After the discussion the retired employees were served lunch, following this they had the opportunity to reminisce. Each person received a small souvenir from the management of the faculty.

New trends in diagnostics of materials.

At the MTF STU in Trnava on the 22^nd of November 2011, new trends in diagnostics of materials took place. The aim of the seminar was to introduce new experimental and computing possibilities in the field of diagnostics of materials, which were created in the frame of the ITMS: 26220120048 project called CE for development and applications of diagnostic methods when handling materials, thanks to the support from OP research and development, co financed from the sources of the European fund of Regional Development and to mediate this information to the representatives from the cooperating universities, scientific institutions and mechanical enterprises.  In the first part of the seminar the Head of the Centre of Exellence - Doc Ing. Lubomir Caplovic , PhD. who spoke  about the intentions and goals of the centre. In the next part of the seminar the heads of individual laboratories spoke- Doc RNDr. Maria Behulova,CSc. ( Laboratory of thermal physical measurements and calculations), Ing Jozef Martinka, PhD.( Laboratory of thermal flows), doc Ing. Martin Kusy,PhD. ( laboratory of physical chemical measurements and processes) and doc.Ing.Roman Moravcik, PhD.(laboratory of thermal handling and mechanical experiments). The previous mentioned gave brief experimental and calculated capabilities of their laboratories. The concrete results and experiences with using top experimental techniques and the computing capabilities of the Centre of Excellence, as for example, instrumentational experiments of collision in a bend, laser scanning confocal microscopy, simultaneous thermal analysis( DTA/DSC, TG, MS), dilatometry, laser impulse analysis of thermal diffusion, evaluation of retarders of burning with the help of thermic analysis as well as numerical simulation of the development of a micro structure and properties of material during thermic handling with the use of a programmed system SYSWELD and DEFORM, calculations of phasal equilibrium  in material systems with the help of programs- Thermocalc and Dictra and stating material properties with the use of a programmed system JmatPro,  were all in the final part of the seminar. In the afternoon following the seminar was the colloquium called Innovations in molding of metallic materials. This was organized with the cooperation of the research centre of molding technologies FORTECH at the faculty of machining of Western Boheimian University in Plzen. All present appreciated the organizing of the seminar and colloquium that took place, especially due to gaining information about modern experimental methods and techniques used when diagnosing and characterizing materials, also the information about new possibilities and innovative technologies when handling materials in molds during different thermal mechanical regimes with an aim to gain the optimal microstructure and the required properties of the materials. The spreading of the new information and knowledge significantly helps to create cooperation amongst universities and scientific institutions aimed at material technological research as well as production which allows effective organizing of activities and the focusing on the aims of the Centers of Excellence.

Sme http://www.sme.sk, 05.01.2012: News from the Faculty of Materials Science STU

An MTF student is involved in removal of illegal dumps. This year is the 25th anniversary of the faculty's establishment.

Trnava. Ranking and Rating Agency (ARRA) 30.11.2011 published a report entitled Evaluation of faculties of university faculties in 2011

The Dean of the MTF, Professor Oliver Moravčík commented on the results of the evaluation regarding the MTF: "I am pleased to say that our faculty in the eighth place  among the 23 technical faculties of Slovak universities. We are in the fourth place among the 7 STU faculties. After the positions in the last years (2008: 16th, 2009:18th, 2010:18th) and regularly in seventh position within the STU that is rated among the most significant step among the evaluated institutions."

The basic organization of the Slovak Union of Nature and Landscape protection in Považská Bystrica granted an MTF STU student -Joseph Kozák Bc." a thank-you letter" for active participation in the project "Improving the environment in the village Pruzina, where we live and work."

Student Bc. Kozak, who was involved in the removal of illegal dumps and building a relaxation zone in the village, received a thank-you letter from the Dean of the MTF, this also thanked him for spreading the good reputation of the  MTF and the STU.

MTF STU at the fair and scientific seminar

In early November the STU presented the offer of accredited studies programs at the XVIII year of the European fair of Gaudeamus 2011 which took place in Brno with more 30 000 participants.

A few days latter in the premises of the company PRV  ZVÁRAČSKÁ, a.s. held in Bratislava a welding technology research seminar 2011-technology development of the EU industry's development. The organizers were organizers PRV  ZVÁRAČSKÁ, a.s. STU Bratislava (MTF, FEI, SjF), International Laser Center and TRUMPF SLOVAKIA, sro. The seminar offered a space for presentations of scientific work of young doctoral students and contributions of welding specialits.

Visitors to the Faculty

The representative of Delcam Birmingham, Anthony Hall and representatives of DELCAM Brno, sro, director Pavel Šimonek and Michal Jelinek, were admitted to the MTF by the Dean Prof. Moravčík and Vice-Dean  Prof. Peterka. Delcam is the strategic long-term partner of the MTF and especially in the field of CAD/CAM software.

In order to solidify contacts and discussions on the possibilities of cooperation in research, the Dean of the MTF , at the end of November , welcomed the rector of Izhevsk State Technical University, Prof. DSc. Boris Yakimovich along with other representatives of the university.

The STU in 2011 had a  25th anniversary of its establishment. On this occasion the Faculty organizes held numerous events, which are held on 10.11.2011 Meeting with former workers of the MTF STU.
On Saturday, 3.12.2011, the Faculty organized a pilot action of Saint Nicholas day, after which words of gratitude and praise were expressed by the children and parents - faculty staff.

The celebrations continued for three days in a gala evening at the theater of J. Palárik in Trnava, in which the Dean praised the staff of the faculty for the 25 years establishment of the STU.

After the valuation the participants returned to the theatrical performance ‘Once she came a night" which it was completed by a formal reception in the Mirror hall.

Žilinske newspaper, 05.01.2012: After a year of hard work you can see the result

[Žilinské newspapers; 50.51 / 2011, 19/12/2011, pages: 26,27,28, Editors, Inclusion: top managers Zilina]

In addition, Paul Pavlásek is a  teacher, businessmen and politician. Everywhere deals with transportation.

You are in a top managerial role. How do you become established in it?

A nice question for the introduction of the interview. To be naturalized in a top managerial role from my point of view is not possible. For once a man "domesticated" has ceased to be a top manager. Personally, I see that my current post of Director General of the Slovak Roads Administration is to meet the challenges to pick one up of a muddy path and put him on the road of the first class to create optimal conditions for SSC staff for the efficient performance of the activities associated with roads. What is equally important is that of fulfillment of personal ambitions of any one of the 350 highly qualified employees. Of course, the implementation of this call must be visible. This is what I mean by "the domestication". So far I'm satisfied. After a year of difficult but interesting work it is good to see the result.

Where have you worked in the past? What was your previous career?

After finishing at the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava, I was a young engineer full of ideals of taste and faithful to continue with my doctoral studies. It amused me to explore new ideas, but the "all-powerful Communist Party" had chosen other happy people, and thus, through these ups and downs, I joined the factory in New Castle, where I worked for three years as an independent researcher. This is, outside the scrutiny of communists and even without knowing Hungarian. I developed new products; for me a very interesting robot.

What did you manage at that time?

At that time I developed my first original product - a light for the recently completion bridge in Prague. From that time I also have a patent, which was unique to "ucháňa" from the factory. After three years, we are working in the factory with my wife and family "we packed our bags," and started work at the University of Transport and Communications in Žilina, where I am still active. I have a very good environment; it enriches me with a lot of precious people. Transport has become my profession, I enjoy life today. I got a PhD. in the fields closely related to transportation.

After the revolution, did it change your career?

Later, after November 1989, I qualified as an associate professor. I constantly worked with companies. In 1995 I started my own company for the development of means of transport. From that time now own more than 30 designs. Later I was elected to the Žilina Region, where I am today and I am a member of the Transport Commission, which takes care of regional roads. For over   10 years I have looked after public affairs, especially in the transport sector. The highlight of my managerial work is my current post of Director General of the SSC, where I have been since October 2010.

Why did you decide to just work in transportation?

Transport is a moving part, every healthy person throughout his life is transported somewhere. Transport significantly and positively affects our daily lives. But equally it could also complicate it. Here are the calls for the application of innovation, one would like to be numbered among those who are looking for new ideas. Today, there are opportunities for computer services, information and communication technologies and smart people.

How did you get into politics?

I was interested in Public Affairs from an early age, politics  is a public policy matter. I felt the impact of totalitarianism permanently on my the skin, as an ordinary man, a Christian, I perceive discrimination in public life at the time of becoming a socialist. I believe in personal freedom and responsibility of each person. The freedom to be constantly struggling. It attracted me, it makes my policy. In 1989 I was one of the few groups of people at the University during November. Following the establishment of autonomous regions, I stood in the elections for Members. There I saw the opportunity to help improve the lives of ordinary people in the region - transport, education, social affairs and culture. I went through the elections with a fear testing whether I could get the confidence of voters. There are many elected but few are called, I was delighted when I was elected. And now I'm in politics, albeit in only "small".

What are the most important tasks which you must deal with be in your  position in the Slovak Road Administration?

Slovak Road Administration manages about 3,500 km of roads that are first class. It is the largest manager of the road network in Slovakia, to there are good conditions to follow the appropriate conditions. There I found a profound failure to comply with the requirements and their financing. Roads of the 1st class have been for a long time in very poor conditions, finance and maintenance were set to 50%. After a year I managed to completely change the position of the SSC, the position of first class roads. Today we have a good budget, robots and quite good results. For the year I was able to prepare more than 25 major projects to find funding for them mostly from EU funds. A nice result was when we recovered over 100 km of  first class roads, in the region, we started with bypass Čadca, to build a better path between Dolny Kubin and Ružomberok, modernizing the  bridge in Zilina, preparing road reconstructions between Martin and Turčianske Teplice and we are building in Námestovo delay. Such shares are in Slovakia and very much reconstructed in the near future for another 570 km of roads. New roads will be broken without dangers, we will repair more than 40 bridges and that are in disrepair. It is very useful "work".

You manage large numbers of people. What is work with them? What is your recipe for satisfied employees?

I personally think the most important role in caring for people in the company is to be involved in problem solving to do their job well. Satisfaction and joy is what creates a presumption of compliance with the objectives of the entire company,  and of course, a good salary.

What is your managerial strategy?

Subsidiarity to action and personal responsibility for their work, building and maintaining the reputation of the worker and firms that cooperate in the formation of goals and the joy of every good deed.

What is this work compared with your teaching activities?

Working in an academic environment, and engineering firm is very similar, it's working with people. When you get them and they get me, it's fun. The particularities of each person, whether it be a university student or employee of SSC , I always respect that  each person is unique and effective in linking uniqueness of a common interest to achieve an objective better.

How did you take the fact that the government didn't receive  the trust in and therefore in March you will probably have to leave unfinished work?

It is said that the work can not run. Work remains, the government is changing. I am glad and challenged that I was significantly able to improve the condition of the SSC in terms of enforcement priorities aimed at 1^st class roads. Recovery will continue and a citizen has his eyes, h looks and sees, listens and hears. I prepared a lot of good projects that serve citizens, roads and bridges and bypasses. Many government buildings overlap in time, so I do not feel disappointed that I will not be able to finish the work, it may be completed by others and maybe I will after March 2012.

Will you in the future have to deal more in politics or management?

Personally, I prefer management to politics, and therefore I don't sit in a large parliament, I work, but on the other hand, I see that when we stop caring about politics, politics will take care of us.

You work in Bratislava. Have you moved there or do you commute?

Both. Ispend more time in Bratislava but SSC has roads and constructions all over Slovakia. The Road Administration has it's regional headquarters in Košice, Banská Bystrica, Žilina, Bratislava. I often travel, so work is more dynamic in the terrain by negotiating at offices, office work is rather routine. My permanent stay is in Zilina.

You have become accustomed to living in Bratislava?

I spent my high school and university years studying there, I also went to military service there. Life in this city is good.

What does your family think?

Quality of life in the family has changed, I have a lot of time outside, the family helps me a lot, I do not miss a single moment to spend time with my wife, children and grandchildren. We currently have "action-" weekends, true and pure love of family links even if we are spaced at 200 km apart.

Do you have time for hobbies? What do you do in your free time?

I like spending time with my wife in nature, hiking, walking, cycling and roller skating.The  Zilina dam site is our place for hobbies, around the town is unique. And a beer in the evening at Marino. Concerts in Fatra, performances in Martin, sometimes in Teplice spas, great, happy to live in Zilina. I have a nice books, I guess I will be able to read something good for the next Christmas.

What are your future plans?

Survive well each and every new day.

Business card

- Name: Doc. Ing. Pavel Pavlásek, PhD.

- Age: 59

- Education: University

- Company: Slovak Road Administration

- Function: CEO

- Number of employees: 350

- Status: Married

- Children: 2

Pravda, 05.01.2012: The end of our times? Salvation maybe  humanity.

[Pravda, 31.12.2011, p.: 20.21; Daniel Jancová; Classification: Interview]

Daniel Jancová Bratislava

The world as we know it has got to the edge. It is in a crisis and can no longer work, thinks psychologist and therapist Silvester Sawicki. We were mastered by materialism, now even though involuntarily, we will have to take care of our soul and learn to live modest, at the time of restlessness whist searching to find the world around us.

We had Christmas, marked by buying gifts and food more than for meditation. We won the matter of the spirit?

The world is a very strong movement of opinion on the crisis in the postmodern world, the crisis is precisely that spiritual values ​​are completely lost and replaced with purely material values. In view of the human psyche and society to become strong, someone called in the escalation of individualism. Selfishness and individualism lead to the fact that one focuses attention on themselves and their needs, but they are purely individual. It's a coin that has two sides - one spiritual, the other individual, if one is predominant it completely obscures the latter. Is natural that both sides should be balanced.

But it seems it is not.

The postmodern world contributes to the fact that only in the last decade, but even in the last one hundred years, the predominant is individualism and it's equivalent is materialism.

This means that many gifts and shopping is just a manifestation of our individual needs? Buy them a favor or forgiveness?

To tell you a little bit can be another example. My mother is 83 years old and recently gave my sister a doll she had as a little girl. It was the only doll that had a whole childhood, and though it's been eighty years, it still kept, be it in respect and love, the doll had a sort of spiritual connection. For a child a doll is a living thing, not something inanimate. It is a creature with which one can communicate and establish relationships. If one  has too many things, even as adults, one  can not create an adequate nor sufficiently deep relationship. Overgrowth of gifts for the child no longer have value, it is only short-term joy of something new, to which you do not create the relationship.

We adults are giving gifts to each other.

I started with the children because the relation to things and values that we create as children are relatively constant. What happens by five years of age is constant; we go in the same tracks as adults. In adults it is more that as things have value, we need to replace them for something new, because everything we can enjoy just for a while. Suddenly it becomes empty and we need something to replace it - so more and more presents are needed. So it is in everything, even in relationships - because we can not establish a spiritual relationship to some person, we have many other relationships. Still looking for something, this replaces the emptiness. This is also in sexuality; we feel that we can not satisfy a man, because it becomes empty, so we are looking for another. Buying gifts is a matter of personal gain, we are buying love and attention. For most it's about filling the void.

It is often simply human desire to please the other person behind the gift?

Of course we try to please a close person. Certainly a human needs a human. I point out that we can not meet each other in the emotional needs or the needs of others, that everything is too shallow and of short duration. This is due to the predominance of individual right, which is associated with the material. Spiritual, not religious significance, but the deeper meaning of things and any meaning in our lives and relationships is lacking.

Why is that?

In today's world, where we stultify advertising, capitalism, consumption, which continually produces something new and convinces us that we must have, it is a very easy subject. Susceptible too, because we as  people are shallow, postmodernism is simply a manifestation of a shallow life, we can not fill our lives with something deeply valuable. When you have free time, what do we do? We are going to buy something. We're not into nature, with someone to talk, walk, explore with him/her the beauty of nature, but turn on the TV, where there are a lot of things that we may have, or we go to the store.

It is not just a festive period and the arrival of an opportunity for us to focus more on the intangible value?

Let's open - a deeper, mystical meaning of Christmas not for almost anyone. The end of the year is just an opportunity for us to take a moment to relax from work. Even religious people have a very substantive relationship to their faith. Christianity over the  past hundred, two hundred years as a religion is very material.

How do you think?

Why do people go to church? Because when I go to church, I will fulfill the commandments of God, I get to heaven. This is a clear rational calculation. They do not go to church to have a deep spiritual experience. In villages it is an obligation, others go, I go  - what would they say about me. In cities it is a rational calculation - I'm going because I want to live a better life. For old people it's about not already having some content of life - lost and looking for support. This can be their support.  I use to go to church, I have always been faithful and somehow it always attracted me, but when I saw people their was nothing deep, spiritual or mystical and immediately after the church dealt with who did what, it seemed to me that It makes no sense. As people arrived they left the same - often full of envy, selfishness, individual interests.

This period of the year is associated not only with joy but also loneliness and depression. Can this can be avoided?

First, I focused on what depression is and why it occurs. Depression is really nothing more than showing that we are too focused on our individual needs. In life, when things do not come to us we do not follow - it is a natural cycle, and it's meaningless. When things come to us, we are in euphoria. When you do not follow, and we are too focused on our feelings thus  we are experiencing a very intenseness, and this is called depression. So, depression is nothing other than a very strong egocentrism which is a huge focus on yourself and your feelings. This is the opposite of spiritual. Spirituality is not religion, it is the opposite of individualism - not focused on their own feelings they are not a priority for me but focused on what is beyond me - on other people and nature.

So the drug may be in helping others, volunteering, charity?

If we carry something for others, it will have exactly that effect - we focus on ourselves but on others, we experience the joy of connection, convergence. The nations did not know the nature of civilization's mental illness, which are typical for us, such as depression. This did not exist because  individualism did not exist. They also had what in our post-modern era do not like to hear - as consciousness. Altered states of consciousness can also be artificially produce, but basically, what state of consciousness we are just about depends on which part of the brain is active. It depends on how our thoughts and actions are. We are in an altered state of consciousness when we love somebody and focus on them or when to listen to music.

Do you advise spending three days with an interest of others?

If we do something for others it will have this effect. We may feel joy from a closer connection.

The coming year 2012, the associated end of the current vision of the world, but also a real threat of economic crisis and currency, you pay. How it affects us?

People need to feed their families, keep a job, while politicians talk about the collapse of the euro and even a possible war. This still does not sound good.

But we do not need much to survive. I'll tell you an example. In the summer I went to India two months and saw tremendous poverty there. Although I've seen a lot more joy and satisfaction when at home. For  satisfaction, happiness and survival we do not need much. This is only an illusion that there is not enough. It's like when you take the drug addict - there comes a huge panic and will do anything to get what he needs. We say that we are accustomed to a standard - but it's just that we need more material to complement the illusion that we are satisfied. I really do not need much, as a simple meal will feed us.

But when the crisis will deepen, it will enlarge the differences and will increase social inequality and to the many this will not look good.

Capitalism produces ever greater and greater inequality by it's nature. The greater inequality the larger the social tensions. If you live in a society and we see that working hard and honestly  can not even buy a Fabia and someone is working as I do, but in another sector, or as an entrepreneur, and can have a Mercedes, it produces tension.

It begins with the end of our times? Life and society as we know it?

The change must inevitably come. It will be a long process, very complicated, there will be a lot of social tension and we do not know what it will contain. We will have to realize that the material world - the individual, has already passed the threshold and  it should not be developed any further. Its economic structure is capitalism, political democracy. I think neither one is no longer functional and must be a changed. Capitalism can not be reformed and has reached the edge of it's capabilities.

This reminds me of socialism, with this we have a good experience.

I am not talking about socialism at all. I say that capitalism produces material, and material dependence on the individual. The more we produce, the more urgent comes the associated feeling of emptiness and dissatisfaction - people are increasingly dissatisfied.

We have to find another way to organize society?

But definitely not to go back. Development always goes forward. This way of life came across a ceiling and can not develop further.