Research year 2011

The research orientation of the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology corresponds with its pedagogic profile and the long-term orientation of STU. As amended by section 30, paragraph 1, sub-paragraph c of Act 131/2002 of the Coll. on Universities and as amended by other acts, the Faculty Scientific Board evaluates the Faculty's activity in the field of science and technology once a year.

 

Orientation of the research

The scientific and research activity of MTF STU's research and pedagogical staff is carried out in the following forms:

The research content is oriented to the following fields:

The Faculty of Materials Science and Technology with the seat in Trnava, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava was evaluated in four areas of research in the complex accreditation of activities. The research areas related to the faculty study programmes are:

Research area	Evaluation
Mechanical Engineering	A
Metallurgy and Materials	A
Information Sciences, Automation and Telecommunication	B
Engineering and Technology	B+

 

Research activities 

In year 2011 research projects under the VEGA, KEGA, AVV and other programmes were engaged in and solved at the faculty. The number of projects in the year 2011 from the particular agencies, grant schemes and contractual research are as follows:

	Number
Projects VEGA (Basic research grant agency)	26
Projects KEGA (Cultural and education agency)	8
APVV (Agency for support of research and development)	8
6th framework programme	1
7th framework programme	2
Other foreign projects	2
Projects of contractual research	77

 

Foreign relations

MTF STU forms cooperation on the basis of good partnership relations which are typified by mutual cooperation, profit in the area of research activities, or experience in education.

The active cooperation of our organisation, reflected in agreements concluded with foreign partners, is proof of the necessity for searching of new partnerships and cooperation according to this base.

Institutes which signed contracts for cooperation with the faculty:

Agreements on Cooperation with Foreign Partners

	Foreign Partner	Country	City/Town
1	Technical University of Brandenburg	Germany	Cottbus
2	Leibniz-Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden	Germany	Dresden
3	Anhlat University of Applied Sciences	Germany	Koethen
4	Faculty of Machining, University in Ljubljana	Slovenia	Ljubljana
5	St. Petersburg State University of Engineering and Elektrotechnics	Russia	Saint-Petersburg
6	Institute of Energy in Moscow	Russia	Moscow
7	Buehler GmbH	Germany	Düsseldorf
8	Ukrainian Academy of Engineering and Pedagogy	Ukraine	Charkov
9	Faculty of Applied Informatics and Robotechnology UGATU UFA	Russia	Ufa
10	Faculty of Economics, Management and Finances UGATU  UFA	Russia	Ufa
11	National Institute of R and D for Materials Physics	Romania	Bucharest
12	Faculty of Physics University of Bucharest	Romania	Bucharest
13	University of Science and Technology in Pohang	South Korea	Pohang
14	Fakulty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb	Croatia	Zagreb
15	Bekaert	Belgium	Zwevegem
16	Faculty of Machine Building Technical University of Cluj-Napoca	Romania	Cluj-Napoca
17	Instytut technologii eksploatacji (Institute of Technology)	Poland	Radoma
18	ČVUT Prague	Czech Republic	Praha
19	University of Miskolc	Hungary	Miskolc
20	Institute for Systematical Coaching and Organisation Advisory	Germany	Berlin
21	Delcam PLC, Birmingham	United Kingdom	Birmingham
22	Faculty of Economics and Management	Poland	Zielona Góra

 

Student Exchanges 

The students of MTF STU participate in exchange programs of short-term and also long-term scholarships. In 2011 the faculty had 32 agreements in the Erasmus programme. The dominant Erasmus partners are institutes in Poland (8 agreements), Czech Republic (5 agreements), Germany (5 agreements), and Hungary (3 agreements).

 

Development of relations with international partners in the last three years is reflected in the number of foreign guests and business travel of our employees to foreign institutes. 

 

Membership in Slovak and international organisations

The faculty cooperated on the international level in significant scientific and technical organisations in the last year. MTF STU is an institutional member in five professional international institutions. Employees of the faculty are active in different Slovak (139 individual memberships) and also international or world organisations (49 individual memberships) in different positions, from members to chairs, vice-chairs and members of councils.

  

Membership in international professional organisations

Association for Thermal Processing of Metals 

International Society for Engineering Pedagogy - IGIP 

European Platform of Women Scientists  

European Network Education and Training in Occupational Safety and Health (ENETOSH) 

Europalliance for Innovations

Memberships in the Slovak professional organisations

Slovak Natural Gas and Crude Oil Union

Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Slovak Society for Quality

Automobile Cluster

Slovak Society of Ergonomics

Slovak Society of Maintenance

Slovenská asociácia knižníc (Slovak Association of Libraries)

SSKI - Slovenská spoločnosť pre kybernetiku a informatiku pri SAV

(Slovak Society for Cybernetics and Informatics, SAV)

Zväz strojárskeho priemyslu SR (Association of Machining Industry SR)

  

Approved rights to provide habilitations and academic titles 

According to the Law N. 131/2002 (Collection of Laws), on universities and modification, and completion of some laws as amended, the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava is approved to process of habilitation and academic promotion of professors in the following study fields:

5.2.7.              Mechanical Engineering and Materials             

5.2.14.            Automation                           

5.2.26.            Materials                                           

5.2.50.            Production Techniques                             

5.2.52.            Industrial Engineering                   

8.3.5.              Occupational Health and Safety

5.2.57.            Production Quality

New Professors and Associate Professors in year 2011

New Professors -

prof. Ing. Milan Marônek, PhD. (24.1.2011)

prof. Ing. Peter Šugár, PhD. (24.1.2011)

 

Visting profesors -

Ing. Augustín Gese, CSc. (2. 5. 2011)

Ing. Miroslav Božik, PhD. (7.12.2011)

 

Associate Professors -

doc. Mgr. Dagmar Cagáňová, PhD. (2.5.2011)