UPT teachers, awarded by the Romanian Academy

UPT teachers, awarded by the Romanian Academy

Thursday, December 12, 2019, the ceremony of the Romanian Academy awards for the most representative scientific and cultural creations made in 2017 took place. In a festive setting, in the Classroom of the Romanian Academy, the awards were presented by Ioan-Aurel Pop, the president of the Romanian Academy, in the presence of the Presidium Bureau and the members of the General Assembly.

There were awarded 70 awards, which reward the Romanian cultural and scientific performance of the year 2017, materialized in individual papers or realized in collaboration.

Of these, three returned to groups of authors from Politehnica University Timisoara, two from the Faculty of Civil Engineering and one from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering:

• "Henri Coanda" Award for the paper "Solar heating and cooling systems: fundamentals, experiments and applications ", by prof. Ion Sȃrbu and prof. Calin Sebarchievici (Collective of Civil Constructions and Installations, Department of CCI - Civil Constructions and Installations);
• "Anghel Saligny" Award, for the group of papers "High strength joints between beam and tubular poles made of steel-concrete", authors Cristian Vulcu, prof. assoc. Aurel Stratan, prof. Adrian Ciutină and academ. Dan Dubină (from the CMMC department - Metal Constructions and Construction Mechanics);
• "Aurel Vlaicu" Award, for the paper "Fatigue of conductors of overhead power lines", authors Anghel Cernescu and Ion Dumitru.

The prizes of the Romanian Academy are 81, each having the name of a personality from the scientific and cultural fields represented in the 14 sections of the Romanian Academy: philology and literature, history, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geonomy, technical sciences, agronomy and forestry, medicine, economics, legal sciences and sociology, philosophy, theology, psychology and pedagogy, arts, architecture and audiovisual, information science and technology.