Environmental Engineering and Management Journal July 2014, Vol.13, No. 7, 1559-1560 [619153]

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal July 2014, Vol.13, No. 7, 1559-1560
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“Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania

EDITORIAL

A SPECIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO

SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGICAL DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION
FOR GREEN MECHANICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

This special issue of Environmental
Engineering and Management Journal includes a
selection of the peer-reviewed papers presented within
the international conference Constructive and
Technological Design Optimization in the Machines Building Field – OPROTEH, organized in Bac ău,
Romania on May 23-25, 2013 (http://oproteh.ub.ro) by
the ”Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacau, Romania.
The main aim of the conference is to bring in
the front of the specialist from the entire world some of the novelties from the machine building field and from
some related scientific domains, contributing in the
same time to the consolidation of national and
international partnerships in research, development and
innovation. The conference is organized since 2002,
first annually, as a national conference; starting with
2009, each edition of the conference has become an
international biennial conference.

Focused on optimization in the machine
building fields and environmental engineering, the conference included the following topics:

 optimization in environmental engineering and
environmental protection;
 optimization of manufacturing processes and
systems;
 computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD,
CAM, CAE, CAPP);

 optimization of thermal, hydraulic and pneumatic
equipment, optimization of technologies and equipment from process industries;
 optimization of mechan ical structures and
automatic control in mechatronic systems;
 engineering and management;
 fracture mechanics;
 applied sciences;
 sciences of education.
The tenth edition of the conference was
attended by ten well-known scientific personalities as
key-note speakers in the conference topics: Deborah Panepinto – Politecnico di Torino, Italy, Giuseppe
Genon – Politecnico di Torino, Italy, Gheorghe Voicu –
University of Bucharest, Romania, Nikola Mihailov –
University of Ruse, Bulgaria, Pedro Muñoz – University
of La Rioja, Spain, Dumitru Nedelcu –”Gheorghe
Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania, Ion Bostan – Technical Univers ity of Moldova, Moldova,
Maricel Agop – ”Gheorghe Asachi” Technical
University of Iasi, Romania, Diaka Sidibe – Faculty of
Sciences, Tétouan, Mhannech, Maroc, Eve Jeanne
Lambertine – Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis, Senegal.

The conference was attended by more than 110
participants coming from 11 countries. Participants
came from 34 institutions: 22 universities, 7 public institutions and research institutes, 5 economic
companies and NGO entities.

Editorial/Environmental Engin eering and Management Journal 13 (2014), 7, 1559-1560

Valentin Nedeff (1958) is professor at the Department of Environmental and Mechanical
Engineering – Faculty of Engineering of the Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania, where
he teaches courses in Procedures and Techniques for Environmental Protection, Higher Valorization
of Resources. His research interests include su stainable development, st udy of soil and water
pollution, and wastewater treatment. He supervises doctoral thesis in the field of Environmental
Engineering. Prof. Nedeff has authored more than 300 articles and books in the fields of physics and
environmental engineering. He is Associate Member of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and
Forestry Gheorghe Ionescu Sisesti Bucharest Romania and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of
Engineering Studies and Research .

Carol Schnakovszky (1961) is professor at the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and
Management – Faculty of Engineering of the Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania,
where he teaches courses in Industrial Engineeri ng Systems and Data Anal ysis for Experimental
Design. His research interests include industrial systems optim ization, development of eco-
technologies and experimental da ta processing. Prof. Schnakovszky has authored more than 100
articles and books in the fields of engineering technology and ec odesign. He is Chairman of the
Constructive and Technological Desi gn Optimization in the Machines Building Field International
Conference.

Gabriel Lazar (1965) is professor at the Department of E nvironmental and Mechanical Engineering
– Faculty of Engineering of the Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania, where he teaches
courses in Geographic Informa tion Systems, Pollution Sources and Factors, Principles of
Measurement. Laboratory Techniques. His resear ch interests include GIS-based systems for
environment monitoring and photocatalytic methods for wastewater treatment. He supervises
doctoral thesis in the field of Environmental Engi neering. Prof. Lazar has authored more than 120
articles and books in the fields of physics and envi ronmental engineering. He is Managing Editor of
the Journal of Engineerin g Studies and Research .
A number of 158 scientific papers were
presented during the conference, 28 of them being selected for publication in Environmental Engineering
and Management Journal.

Guest editors:

Valentin Nedeff
Carol Schnakovszky
Gabriel Lazar
“Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacau, Romania