Technical University of Varna
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The Technical University of Varna is a state university in Varna
, Bulgaria
, founded in 1962.
The creation of MEI - Varna is a great restoration of the Technical Department at the State University "St. Cyril Slavyanobalgarski" Varna, officially established on 18 August 1945. Technical Faculty had the following departments: Machinery, Shipbuilding, Electrical, Construction and Architectural and Industrial Chemistry. Because of the changes in social and political life in Bulgaria during this period, the Faculty as well as the University had undergone significant changes and the last shipbuilding engineers that were taught in the Technical Faculty graduated in 1958. The first professors in MEI - Varna are former professors from the Technical Faculty and its graduates therefore it is considered that MEI - Varna is the successor of the Technical Faculty at the Varna State University. During the years of its existence MEI - Varna a small institute preparing engineering staff of regional significance has become the Technical University of national importance, training students in 23 subjects. For 40-year period of activity of Technical University - Varna 28,976 professionals have graduated of higher education in the field of “Engineering Sciences”, “Science, Mathematics and Computer Science”, “Social, Economic and Legal Sciences” and “Pedagogical Sciences, Engineering and Technology Direction “. At present, Technical University - Varna has a passive buildings with extended built - up area of 67,542 m2.
Varna
Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...
, Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
, founded in 1962.
History
The Technical University of Varna was established in 1962 by the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria and the Decree of the National Assembly in order to ensure the training of engineering staff in the field of shipbuilding, transportation, mechanical engineering, electrical energetics and communication techniques necessary for developing industrial complexes in northeastern Bulgaria in the field of chemistry, shipbuilding and ship repairing, engine building, transportation, electric energetics, electronics and communications.Additional information
Initially, the University is established as the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Institute (MEI - Varna) of three faculties: Machinery, Electrical and Shipbuilding. The first intake of students in MEI - Varna occurs in the 1963/64 school year on the following subjects: Internal-combustion Engines, Marine Equipment and machinery, Shipbuilding, Mechanical engineering technology, Electrical machinery and apparatus, Radio equipment, telecommunication engineering and telemechanics and Automation of production.The creation of MEI - Varna is a great restoration of the Technical Department at the State University "St. Cyril Slavyanobalgarski" Varna, officially established on 18 August 1945. Technical Faculty had the following departments: Machinery, Shipbuilding, Electrical, Construction and Architectural and Industrial Chemistry. Because of the changes in social and political life in Bulgaria during this period, the Faculty as well as the University had undergone significant changes and the last shipbuilding engineers that were taught in the Technical Faculty graduated in 1958. The first professors in MEI - Varna are former professors from the Technical Faculty and its graduates therefore it is considered that MEI - Varna is the successor of the Technical Faculty at the Varna State University. During the years of its existence MEI - Varna a small institute preparing engineering staff of regional significance has become the Technical University of national importance, training students in 23 subjects. For 40-year period of activity of Technical University - Varna 28,976 professionals have graduated of higher education in the field of “Engineering Sciences”, “Science, Mathematics and Computer Science”, “Social, Economic and Legal Sciences” and “Pedagogical Sciences, Engineering and Technology Direction “. At present, Technical University - Varna has a passive buildings with extended built - up area of 67,542 m2.
Structure
- Faculty of ComputingComputingComputing is usually defined as the activity of using and improving computer hardware and software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology...
and AutomationAutomationAutomation is the use of control systems and information technologies to reduce the need for human work in the production of goods and services. In the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization...
- Computer Science and Engineering Department http://cs.tu-varna.bg/
- Automation Department http://www.tu-varna.bg/tu-varnaap/
- Faculty of ElectronicsElectronicsElectronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...
- Electronic techniques and Microelectronics Department http://www.tu-varna.bg/tu-varnaetm/
- Department of Radio Engineering http://www.tu-varna.bg/tu-varnar/
- Communications Techniques http://www.tu-varna.bg/tu-varnaktt/
- Social and Law Sciences Department http://www.tu-varna.bg/tu-varnandpspd/
- Faculty of Electrical EngineeringElectrical engineeringElectrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
- Faculty of Mechanical EngineeringMechanical engineeringMechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
and TechnologiesMechanical engineering technologyMechanical engineering technology is the application of physical principles and current technological developments to the creation of useful machinery and operation design. Technologies such as solid models may be used as the basis for finite element analysis and / or computational fluid dynamics ... - Faculty of ShipbuildingShipbuildingShipbuilding is the construction of ships and floating vessels. It normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard. Shipbuilders, also called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces its roots to before recorded history.Shipbuilding and ship repairs, both...
- Faculty of Marine Sciences and EcologyEcologyEcology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...
- Ecology and Environmental Protection Department http://www.tu-varna.bg/tu-varnaeooc/
- Navigation, Transport Management and Waterways Preservation Department http://www.tu-varna.bg/tu-varnakut/
- Physics Department http://www.tu-varna.bg/tu-varnafiz/
- Economics and Management Department http://www.tu-varna.bg/tu-varnaim/
- Dobrudza Technological College - DobrichDobrichDobrich is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, the administrative centre of Dobrich Province. With 91,030 inhabitants, as of February 2011, Dobrich is the ninth most populated town in Bulgaria, being the centre of the historical region of Southern Dobruja...
http://www.tu-varna.bg/tu-varnakd/ - College in the structure of the Technical University of Varna http://www.tu-varna.bg/tu-varnakv/
- Department of Foreign Languages and Mathematics http://www.tu-varna.bg/tu-varnameo/
- Foreign students Dean's office http://tu-varna.bg/tu-varnatr/index.php?lang=en
- Chair of PhD Students http://www.tu-varna.bg/tu-varnafdd/
Facts
- The Bulgarian painter of futuristic art Stefan LefterovStefan LefterovStefan Lefterov was a noted Bulgarian painter of futuristic art with more than 400 paintings large amount of which he donated to friends, colleagues and planetariums. He was the first author in his country to promote this style with art exhibitions and events....
worked in the university until 1992 as a mathematician. He donated many of his paintings to his colleagues and the university.
See also
- Balkan Universities NetworkBalkan Universities NetworkThe Balkan Universities Network or BUN in its present form was created after the end of the SFR Yugoslavia, the founding of new universities, and the implementation of the Bologna Process in Balkan Universities...
- Bulgarian Virtual UniversityBulgarian Virtual UniversityThe Bulgarian Virtual University is a partnership of Bulgarian universities collaborating in the development of distance and online education.-History:The Bulgarian Virtual University was established at the end of 2004...
- List of universities in Bulgaria
- VarnaVarnaVarna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...