FIDES ET EXCELLENTIA EWSLETTER. Transilvania University of Braşov

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1 TWO INVENTIONS USING 3D PRINTING DESIGN IPC THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF DOCTORAL STUDENTS THE VISIT OF PROFESSOR GELU NIȚĂ FROM NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLOQUIUM OF CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN LITERATURE LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXERCISES FOR PROGRAMMING MOVEMENT CYCLES SOLUTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL APPROACHES CHAMBER JAZZ@UNIVERSITATEA TRANSILVANIA THE NATIONAL OLYMPIAD OF BUSINESS STUDENTS SUCCESSFUL ALUMNI EVENINGS AT THE FACULTY OF LETTERS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE UNDER THE AEGIS OF WSEAS SONGS OF APOCALYPSE GEORGE ROȘU A STUDY FOR TRAPS AND KEYBOARDS PROFESSORS WE TAKE PRIDE IN No. 63 July 2017 N EWSLETTER Transilvania University of Braşov It is not the walls that make a school, but the spirit that reigns within. (King Ferdinand I) What purpose does the university serve if not to pave the way for the society of wisdom? (Paolo Blasi) TWO INVENTIONS USING 3D PRINTING DESIGN Over two years of intense research have resulted in two novel projects completed this year. The first involves building a twos t r o ke h e a t e n g i n e w i t h 3 D p r i n t e d IPC THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE components obtained from metallic powders. OF DOCTORAL STUDENTS The engine has a cylinder capacity of 10 ccm. The The third edition of the International Conference for Doctoral Students engine block, the cylinder head and the piston are 3D (IPC 2017) was held in Braşov, on 22 and 23 June. The conference was coprinted from aluminium powders on a SLM printer. The organized by the Doctoral Institutes from the Transilvania University of same type of printer was used to obtain the motor shaft Braşov and Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. The purpose of the and the carburetor throttle valve from steel powder. The conference was to provide Ph.D. students with an opportunity to exhaust muffler, the locking cap of the engine block, the carburetor, the cylinder liner and the driving rod were discuss and exchange ideas and opinions regarding their current and ongoing research, allowing them to disseminate their most recent produced with the help of a SLS printer from steel mixed with and innovative contributions to scientific development in their bronze. The engine functions on a mixture of methanol and oil, respective research areas. Keynote presentations and parallel reaching a speed of 10,000 rpm. sessions were planned during the conference. The 105 The second project - a national first - is a 1:5 scale car model obtained by 3D printing from plastic on a SLS printer. The car model was papers accepted and registered for presentation at the initially built from clay, and its images were uploaded to the surface conference, with 166 authors from Romania and abroad modelling software SOLIDWORKS. The virtual model of the car body was (Italy, Bulgaria, China, Hungary, Ecuador, Iraq), covered subsequently divided into pieces of maximum 25x25 mm, to fit the printing the following topics: Mechanical Engineering, mass. At the end, the model was equipped with a 24 ccm petrol engine and a 4 I n d u st r i a l E n g i n e e r i n g, E n g i n e e r i n g a n d channel radio remote control. Management, Materials Engineering, Electrical Developing these projects benefitted, among others, from the support of Professor Ioan Vasile Abrudan, Rector of our University, who appreciated their Engineering, Computers and Information Technology, Forestry Engineering, Silviculture, importance from the inception phase. Mathematics, Informatics, Philology, History, Law, Economy, Management, Marketing, Dr Valentin Stamate, Researcher Finance, Music, Medicine, Theology, Creativity and Innovation. The conference venue was Transilvania University's Aula Magna. Further details about IPC 2017 are available on the conference website Dr Cătălin Alexandru

2 THE VISIT OF PROFESSOR GELU NIȚĂ FROM NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Between 29 May and 2 June, following an invitation from the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, our university welcomed Professor Gelu Niţă, member of the Physics Department at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and of the Center for Solar Terrestrial Research ( Professor Niţă met with the members of the physics group within the Department COLLABORATING WITH of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, for a discussion concerning Physics at NJIT, SPECIALISTS FROM DIASPORA and with the master students from the programs Simulation and Testing in Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering) and Mechatronic Systems for Industry and Medicine (Faculty of Product Design and Environment) to talk about Master programs at NJIT. Under the title Detection and discrimination of natural and artificial signals through statistical methods, Professor Niţă delivered a conference during which he outlined the main topics of his research. Professor Niţă is the initiator of the analysis using higher order statistics (spectral kurtosis) in the detection and elimination of transient signals from microwave solar radiation. Professor Niţă has had a long and close collaboration with the Computer Simulation and Wave Propagation group in the CAP Laboratory at the R&D Institute of our university in their search for material elastic constants using Doppler interferometry. One of the aims of this visit was to discuss problems associated with this field, but also to initiate new collaborations with teachers from the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering in joint research projects to take part in grant competitions in Romania and the USA. More details about Professor Niţă's visit and the interview he gave for the university Newsletter are available at Dr Nicolae Creţu THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLOQUIUM OF CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN LITERATURE SPECIAL GUESTS DANIEL VIGHI AND VIOREL MARINEASA The 14th edition of the National Colloquium of Contemporary Romanian Literature took place on 8 and 9 June. Already a tradition with the Faculty of Letters, the speakers this year were, besides Dean Adrian Lăcătuş, Virgil Podoabă, and Caius Dobrescu, two special guests writers Daniel Vighi and Viorel Marineasa. On the first day, BA students as well as MA students from different universities presented their research, receiving feedback from the writers, professors and researchers. The discussions on the first day concluded with a discussion with both authors who introduced the audience to an installation art documentary entitled Fahrplan für die SIXTIES. Held at the Multicultural Centre of Transilvania University, the second day of the colloquium revolved around researchers, professors and Ph.D. students who got their turn at sharing their ideas on the border/frontier trope. Before the second round of discussions with Daniel Vighi and Viorel Marineasa, the best student papers were awarded prizes consisting in books and merit diplomas, in recognition for their authors' efforts. Iulia Stoichiț, MA student, Faculty of Letters FESTO PRESENTATION AT THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT On 29 June, the FESTO National Training Centre from the Department of Engineering and LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS Industrial Management of the Faculty of Technological Engineering and Industrial Management AND EXERCISES FOR from Transilvania University, together with FESTO SRL Bucureşti, organized a new showcase of the PROGRAMMING MOVEMENT CYCLES latest technical breakthroughs of the FESTO AG&CO KG Company, within the framework of strengthening connections with the regional industrial environment. The goal of this meeting was to familiarize the customers with the state-of-the-art in the field of industrial automations, all oriented towards the 4.0 industry. The meeting consisted of presentations of the new FESTO electrical axles and live demonstrations of EGC, ELGA, and EGSK products. FESTO specialists explained the advantages of these products and their implementation on the production lines, while the participants were able to work on and program the movement cycles themselves. Among the participants were specialists from Autoliv Romania SRL, CADITEC SRL, Schaeffler Romania SRL, and AATEQ SRL Braşov. At the end of the event, they commended the goal of the presentation, they identified adequate solutions for their technical issues, and they expressed their wish to attend such meetings again in the future. The success of this event encourages the organizers to plan a new exhibition in the near future. Dr Tudor Deaconescu

3 INNOVATION DAYS AT THE FACULTY OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION In the month of June, Junior Achievement Romania joined forces with the Faculty of Economic Sciences SOLUTIONS FOR THE and Business Administration to DEVELOPMENT OF o rga n i ze a p i l o t e d i t i o n o f t h e ENTREPRENEURIAL APPROACHES Innovation Days event at the Research and Development Institute of Transilvania University of Braşov. In a relaxed, casual setting, the undergraduate students and their professors identified and debated on feasible solutions for the development of entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial approaches, and established measures to implement and capitalize on their own resources. Dr Ioana Chiţu CHAMBER JAZZ@UNIVERSITATEA TRANSILVANIA ALEX HARDING &LUCIAN BAN SOMETHIN' HOLY On 23 June, at the close of the first season of the Chamber Jazz at Transilvania University series, Somethin' Holy marked the reunion of saxophone player Alex Harding and pianist and composer Lucian Ban, 16 years after the release of the album with the same title and following a great number of joint musical projects. One of the most important baritone saxophone players in contemporary jazz, Alex Harding has played with Lucian Ban for almost two decades, since the latter moved to New York at the end of the 90s; this repeated exercise of appearing together, along with an obvious complementarity between Harding's intense and emotional performance and Ban's elegant and tempered style seem to have allowed them to achieve a level of synergy that is as important in any duo as it is rare in jazz shows. Beyond the manifest enthusiasm that the music of Alex Harding and Lucian Ban was greeted with by the local audience, the concert was a great example of what made this first year of Chamber Jazz at Transilvania University so special: privileged encounters with important names in contemporary jazz, musicians willing to engage with the public and committed to offering them a warm and often intimate performance and, mostly, the thrill of sharing a memorable experience. Maria Ghiurțu THE NATIONAL OLYMPIAD OF BUSINESS STUDENTS Between 28 and 30 June, the Faculty of UNDERGRADUATE Economics and Public Administration within the University Ştefan cel Mare of Suceava was the venue STUDENTS AT THE for the National Olympiad of Students in Economics. FACULTY OF ECONOMIC Business students representing our university SCIENCES AND BUSINESS won the Grand Prize with the paper Broadening the ADMINISTRATION horizon in product testing by integrating haptic WIN IMPORTANT AWARDS technology and neuromarketing, authored by master's students Florentina Stamate and Andra Tudor (supervisor Dr Alina Tecău) and the Award for applicability, with the paper The multidimensional analysis of online shops in Romania, by Raluca Roxana Luca and nd Andreea Ioana Prescoviță, 2 year undergraduate students at Economic Informatics (supervisor Dr Radu Lixăndroiu). The papers were based on research performed at the Research and Development Institute of Transilvania University of Braşov. Dr Ioana Chiţu

4 MEETING WITH NOVELIST MARIUS OPREA On 23 June, St. O. Iosif Book Store hosted the launch of the second novel by Marius Oprea, Neasemuita istorie a Imperiului Român de Răsărit (The Unparalleled History of the East Romanian Empire). The book was introduced by Dr Adrian Lăcătuş, Dean of the Faculty of Letters and by Dr Dan Ţăranu. Adrian Lăcătuş highlighted the originality of the author, whose novels are very different in style from the books of history or poetry known to the public: the stylistic and narrative EVENINGS touches are added in all the right places this comes with extensive literary practice under AT THE FACULTY OF LETTERS the influence of writer Alexandru Muşina. Adrian Lăcătuş added that both of Oprea's novels, Turma păstorului mut (The Herd of the Silent Shepherd) and Neasemuita istorie a Imperiului Român de Răsărit (The Unparalleled History of the East Romanian Empire) testify to the work of a very interesting writer with a rich and intense prose unfolding in his stories and in the worlds he writes about. Dan Ţăranu referred to the two types of writing we meet in the novelist's latest work: a spiritual biography, a quest of self-discovery with mystical accents (...) and in contrast with this biographical, spiritual dimension, there is this utopian postbiography in which Marius Oprea becomes the emperor of the Romanian Empire. According to Dan Țăranu, this is a type of virtual history, similar to those created by Robert Cowley or Neil Ferguson. The launch concluded with a Q&A session during which the public interacted with the author, followed by a book signing session. Iuliana Gabriela Răducan, doctoral student DR. ENG. JOHN SMINTINA John Smintina graduated the Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering within Transilvania University of Brașov in Up until 1995 he worked as a researcher with Gheorghe Ionescu-Şişeşti Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences in Bucharest, developing several models of analysis in the field of quantitative genetics, publicising his research at international conferences, such as those in Tampere (Finland), Berlin (Germany) or Montpellier (France). In 1995 he earned his doctoral degree in Forest Genetics at the Romanian Academy. Between 1996 and 2008 he was a Database Programmer, Applications and Data Warehouse Manager at Macy's (Seattle, USA). John Smintina is co-founder and president of Quantarium, LLC (Seattle, USA), playing a significant part in modelling and developing the Quantarium Valuation Model (QVM) algorithms. The company was acquired by Xome (Nationstar Mortgage) in He is currently a Sr. Data Scientist at Xome (Nationstar Mortgage) in Bellevue, USA. SUCCESSFUL ALUMNI Dr Bianca Tescaşiu INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE UNDER THE AEGIS OF WSEAS Between 27 and 28 June, the Department of Manufacturing Engineering within the Faculty of Technological Engineering and Industrial Management organized, under the aegis of the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society global organization, an international conference covering the following fields: Automatic Control, Modelling and Simulation; Manufacturing Engineering, Quality and Production Systems; Finance, Accounting and Auditing; Economics, Political and Law Science; Risk Management, Assessment and Mitigation; Environment, Ecosystems and Development; Energy and Environment Technologies and Equipment; Agricultural Science, Biotechnology, Food and Animal Science. The sponsors of the conference were Transilvania University of Brașov, the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest Faculty of Civil, Industrial, and Agricultural Engineering, and the Polytechnic School at Timișoara. The contributors represented universities from Colombia, France, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Serbia, USA, and Romania. NINE FIELDS AND PARTICIPANTS FROM EIGHT COUNTRIES Dr Badea Lepădătescu

5 MUSICAL READINGS WITH CAROLE ZALBERG AND CLEMENT WALKER-VIRY On 1 June, the French Lectorate, the Multicultural Centre of Transilvania University, and Alliance Française co-organized an event which featured the French author Carole Zalberg and pianist Clement Walker-Viry: Chants d'apocalypse a reading for two voices. Carole Zalberg wrote Chants d'apocalypse - du sombre au clair in 2015, during an artist residency program organized around the word Apocalypse. She chose to SONGS OF APOCALYPSE write poems about refugees and their feelings of being torn apart from their country, and the fact that they are rejected and seen more as a threat than as human beings. Shortly after she met Clement Walker-Viry, a young music composer and pianist with whom she decided to turn her poems into musical reading. Working together for over a year, they presented their work first in Angers (France) last December. Next, they performed in Bordeaux and in Corsica, to finally give their fourth performance at the Multicultural Centre of Transilvania University of Brașov, in front of a French-speaking, Francophile public. The event was introduced by Dr Monica Hârșan, professor of French literature at the Faculty of Letters, who introduced the audience to the works of Carole Zalberg and of Clement Walker-Viry. Dr Adèle Gousset, French lecturer at Transilvania University of Brașov GEORGE ROȘU A STUDY FOR TRAPS AND KEYBOARDS Inspired by a wordplay, since to play can be used either in association with a game, like in to play a game of tennis, or with a musical instrument, as in to play the piano, George Roșu has prepared two series of works for his exhibition at the Multicultural Centre. These text drawings, as the artist calls them, achieve, sometimes within the confines of the same work, the double task of asking serious questions about the dynamics of the contemporary art scene, for example, and of deriding conventional expectations and the solemnity with which we feel compelled to greet what is presented to us as a work of art. Thus, the texts representing the first collection of works, arranged on staves and specifically designed for the classical music festival Vibrate, are often self-referential, in a provocative and irreverent meta-artistic, self-conscious exercise, while the second series contains, as George Roșu himself says, already validated works. The latter bear a close resemblance to captions, offering the synthetic and often demystifying expression of everyday experiences or cultural motifs, clichés and unquestioned practices in the consumption of art. Apparently eclectic and refusing to settle for a stable meaning, George Roşu's exhibition finds its consistency precisely in its constant interest in cultivating paradoxical approaches and in invalidating and then reaffirming its own contents, just to invalidate them again, but also in its ability to propose new ways of delivering a message in contemporary art. TEXT DRAWINGS Maria Ghiurțu PROFESSORS WE TAKE PRIDE IN Professor Aurel Rusu was born on 9 June 1917, in Bărboși village, Mureș County. In 1935 AUREL RUSU, PhD he graduated from Ferdinand High-school of Turda, obtaining his Baccalaureate diploma at Cluj. He graduated the Faculty of Silviculture, within the Polytechnic University of Bucharest in 1940, and the Faculty of Geodesy in In 1941 he was employed at the Air photogrammetric Institute of Bucharest and in 1946, at the Directorate of Cadastre. In 1949 he took up a teaching position with the then newly established Faculty of Silviculture at Brașov where he remained as a tenured professor, teaching topography, geodesy and forestry photogrammetry. He is the author or coordinator of 16 university textbooks and treaties and published over 90 research articles. Professor Rusu was a member of Transilvania University Senate, and between 1972 and 1976 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Silviculture. In 1991, he became a corresponding member of Gheorghe IonescuȘișești Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, earning full membership in 1994, when he also became a member of the Silviculture Department within the Silvic Progress Society and of the Association of Scientists. Professor Rusu is honorary member of the Romanian Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Professor Aurel Rusu is acknowledged as an authority in the field of terrestrial measurements, gaining national and international th recognition within the professional community of forest and geodesic engineers. His 100 birthday was celebrated at the university's Aula Magna. This was another opportunity for his colleagues, friends, and former students to enjoy his presence and to admire professor Rusu for his spirit, poise, and elegance. Dr Alexandru Stelian Borz