Events at MTF STU

January 2014

AWARDS

New Year’s Meeting

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The management of the faculty evaluated proposals and documents for awards in year 2013 and they decided to give financial awards in the following categories:

The best dissertation thesis:

The best habilitation thesis

Ing. Roman Èièka, PhD. (UMAT) – habilitation thesis titled: “Experimental and computational thermodynamics of material systems“

The best publication

Palcut, Marián - Priputen, Pavol - Kusý, Martin - Janovec, Jozef : Corrosion behavior of Al-29at%Co alloy in aqueous NaCl. - registered: Web of Science, Master Journal List, Scopus.

In: Corrosion Science. - ISSN 0010-938X. - Vol. 75 (2013), p. 461-466Impact Factor of the journal Corrosion Science is 3.615.

The best project team

The research team of the combined workplace Mattaba (including ÚMMS SAV and the Institute of Materials MTF STU).

Team members from the MTF STU:

Ing. Svetozár DemianProf. Ing. Jozef Janovec, DrSc.Assoc. Prof. Ing. Mária Dománková, PhD.Assoc. Prof. Ing. Bohumil Taraba, PhD. (the former employee of the MTF STU)

Award for cooperation with industry

Assoc. Prof. Ing. Martin Kusý, PhD. (UMAT)

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The Award from the company Orange Slovensko (The prize was awarded by Ing. Golian, CSc. – Orange Slovensko,a.s.)

RNDr. Marcel Abas, PhD – for publication activity in the sphere of application of mathematics in problem solving in engineering sciencesIng. Martin Juhás, PhD – for achieved results in the teaching process

Awards to employees who have worked 25 years at the faculty

1.1.1988 - Švecová Libuša 1.4.1988 - Sýkora Ján 1.8.1988 - Mišútová Mária, doc. RNDr. PhD. 1.10.1988 - Minárik Stanislav, doc. Ing. PhD. 1.11.1988 - Moravèík Oliver, Dr.h.c. Prof. Dr. Ing.

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New Year’s Meeting

The New Year’s Meeting of employees and friends of the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology STU offers an occasion to evaluate the previous year and to preview future activities which will follow in the next year. But especially it is an opportunity for a social event. The year 2013 was a year that required a lot of difficult work for the success of the faculty.

We welcomed very special quests – The Honorable Rector of STU Mr. Róbert Redhammer, representatives of the other universities and faculties, representatives of entrepreneurs and cooperative subjects, special foreign and local guests.

The introduction speech was delivered by the Dean of the Faculty Dr.h.c. Prof. Dr. Ing. Oliver Moravèík. The Dean evaluated the previous year, proudly named all successes of the faculty and also pointed out the points where improvement is needed. He thanked all participants for the growing quality of the faculty, not only in domestic but also in foreign evaluations. (The speech of the dean)

Every year the New Year’s Meeting is concluded with an expert lecture by a personality from the research and social environment. We welcomed with pleasure the following professionals from our academic field:

Dr.h.c. prof. Ing. Milan Šikula, DrSc., Director of the Institute of Economy SAV, with a lecture on the topic: The Continuing Global Crisis and New Challenges for Science

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Ing. Štefan Chudoba, PhD., the State Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Science,

Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic: Slovak Science in the Collective European Research Space.

The second part of the programme was connected with awards for the year 2013.

Rector of STU, Prof. Ing. Róbert Redhammer, PhD. presented a personal letter to Dean Professor Oliver Moravèík on the occasion of his 25th anniversary of work at MTF STU.

The management of the faculty evaluated proposals and documents for awards in year 2013 and they decided to give financial awards in the categories.

The event was moderated by Assoc.Prof. Ing. Peter Schreiber, CSc.

Soloists of Opera SND Bratislava - Andrea Vizvári and Ondrej Šaling performed after the awards, with piano accompaniment by Marián Varinsky.

Friendly informal talk continued in the faculty entrance hall with pleasant folk music performed by Trnafèan, led by Peter Reiter.

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Presentation by Bosch Èeské Budìjovice

On the11th December 2013, on the premises of the MTF STU, a presentation by Bosch Èeské Budìjovice took place. The company is a successful supplier of products for the automotive industry and covers all major brands. The aim of the presentation was to introduce students of UBEK and UPIM to employment opportunities in regards to quality for the position of Quality Engineer and in terms of customer quality. This meeting was initiated by Ing. Jozefina Kudièová who is a graduate from SP Engineering production quality, with her colleagues she presented the company product portfolio in an engaging manner. They summarized the possibilities for our graduates and students in their company.

In conclusion, the HR manager of the company introduced their social agenda as well as benefits for students and potential employees. We would like to thank our colleagues and doctoral students from UPIM for helping to organize the event.

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Open House

On Wednesday January 29th 2014, the Eighth Annual “Open House” for students of middle schools who would be interested in study at one of the accredited study programmes at MTF STU—Trnava was held. The programme started at 10 a.m. with a speech by the vice-dean for bachelor study Assoc. Prof RNDr. Mária Mišútová, PhD. The speech was followed with a video presentation on each of the offered study programmes.

After the official programme in the Lecture Hall of Prof. Adamka on Bottova Street the students moved to the particular workplaces – the faculty institutes where they could hear more detailed information on their activities, study programmes, and concrete curricula, and they could see the faculty environment. In laboratories there were presentations on topics from the areas of material properties, reverse engineering, art casting, dangerous chemical reactions, evidentiary reactions in chemistry, as well as robotics and pneumatics. The students had the possibility to see examples of products and to try some devices. In seminar rooms questions from applicants interested in study of management and informatics were answered.

We are glad that we could inform students about the enrollment process and to explain specific features of our study programmes in a friendly atmosphere. Acknowledgment is made to department employees who personally met interested students as well as employees of the Division of Academic Activities for preparation, organization and offering of general information about the enrollment process and study. We want to also thank employees of the Division of Maintenance and the Division of Information Systems.

Approximately 350 students from middle schools used the chance to see the faculty environment; they came from not only Trnava, but as well as Malacky, Myjava, Pieš�any and other Slovak towns.

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Expert lecture by RNDr. Juraj Kliment

On the11th December 2013, within the scope of TQM at the premises of MTF STU, a professional lecture by RNDr. Juraj Kliment - lead auditor for the automotive industry, Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance took place.

The aim of the lecture was to familiarize students with the standard imposing requirements for quality management systems in the automotive industry ISO / TS 16949. The lecturer integrated students into the discussion and the lecture significantly contributed to raising the level of knowledge of students from the study programs IKP and PMA regarding specific aspects of quality management in the automotive industry and also helped increase the applicability of our graduates in practice.

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Discussions with Practice IX

The next lecture from “Discussions with Practice” on “Digital Enterprise and its Application in the practice of car industry” was held on December 2nd, 2013 at the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology STU in Trnava. The lecturers were Ing. Jozef HNÁT, PhD., a researcher from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Žilina, Department of Industrial Engineering, and Ing. Marián KUPKA, from the company CEIT Consulting, s.r.o., Bratislava.

The lecture consisted of several interesting topics – an introduction of the CEIT GROUP (CEIT / Central European Institute) and its area of research - Digital Enterprise. In this area the group deals with 3D documentation, conceptual and detail projection, and 2D and 3D simulation. Simultaneously, the map PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) was introduced. The lecture was completed with practical examples from concrete areas and rich discussion.

Discussions with Practice IX were organized as a part of the project “Increase of Technical Knowledge Base and Practical Skills of Teachers and Students of the Institute UPIM in the Concept “Digital Enterprise” “. The project is financed with support from the foundation Volkswagen Slovakia through the grant programme “To develop (with) technology” (Rozvíja� technik(o)u).

VISITS

Meeting with the Rector and Vice-rectors of STU for preparation of the projects HORIZONT 2020On 20.01.2014 at the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology, the management of STU organized a meeting with part of the management of STU and employees of the MTF STU for preparing project proposals for HORIZONT 2020. The Honorable rector of STU R. Redhammer was accompanied by the Honorable Vice-rectors Peciar and Biskupiè. The Faculty MTF STU was represented by members of the faculty management, institutes and faculty workplaces. The presentation of Assoc. Prof. Strémy (of the Research Workplace of Progressive Technologies) followed after a welcoming by the faculty dean and introductory information by the Rector. The delegation of STU toured the faculty laboratories.

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SATISFACTION AND COMMUNICATION

Ing. Svetlana Mihoková and Ing. Peter Kleinedler, PhD. appointed as heads of departments

With effect from the 15.12.2013 the Dean - Dr. h. c. Prof. Dr. Ing. Oliver Moravèík has appointed Ing. Svetlana Mihoková as Head of the Department of Economic Activities and Ing. Peter Kleinedler, PhD. as Head of the Teaching department in Dubnica nad Váhom.

We wish them success in their new roles.

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Signing the implementation Agreement for Cooperation with IFW Dresden

On the 5th December, at IFW i.V. Dresden, the Dean of Faculty and the Director of the Institute of Materials Professor Janovec signed the implementation Agreement for cooperation in the years 2013-2015 with our long term partner.

The protocol was also signed by two directors of IFW i.V. Dresden and board members of the Institute, Dr.hc Prof. Dr. Habil. Juergen Eckert and Dr.h.c. Rolf Pfrengle. The possibilities of joint participation in future HORIZONT 2020 projects were discussed.

OTHERS

IDS 2014 Zielona Góra-first call

All information about IDS 2014 Zielona Góra can be found at: The League Against Cancer is joining the worldwide initiative of the Union for International Cancer Control again this year. Joining together with 155 countries, the day reminds us of the importance of the fight against oncologic illnesses on the 4th of February – the World Cancer Day. The aim of this initiative is to save millions of human lives by increasing awareness of possibilities for cancer prevention and removal of prejudice and myths connected with this illness.

Programme of the event at MTF STU:

10.00 – 11.00 a.m. Lecture on the topic:

Myths about Cancer

Lecturer: PhDr. Andrea KrižanováRoom: Z 086, Paulínska 16, Trnavaexposition of materials from the League Against Cancer

We look forward to welcoming you.

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World Cancer Day at MTF

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