Plenary Lecture

Impact of European Aquis on Education and Praxis in Environmental Management

Αssoc. Professor Calin I. Ciufudean
“Stefan Cel Mare” Universtity of Suceava
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Automatics and Computers
9, University str., RO720225, Suceava
ROMANIA
calin@eed.usv.ro

Abstract:
Humanity has created a hard-to-solve equation:
SCIENCE + TECHNOLOGY = CIVILIZATION + POLLUTION.
The last term of this equation concerns soil pollution, water pollution, air pollution, as well as mental pollution (i.e. the new dimension of pollution affecting the human emotional intelligence by informational blast). We shall focus on the measures concerning the European aquis and praxis in environmental management, which have been implemented in our region. These issues are the subject of a series of projects that I have been working at, together with my students, such as:
-assembly of measure in education and acknowledgement of the population of Suceava about selecting and recycling waste products – a basic element for sustainable development; this grant represents an educational element of the European aquis implemented in our region and is sponsored by the Romanian Ministry of Environment and Water Management;
-an automated equipment for the ecological management of traffic in crossroads;
- a project entitled “Mini Device for Environmental Forensics (MiDEF)”, which focuses on the capability of an automated system to collect, interpret and manage complex information about environmental and human-made contaminants and about the factors of the environment such as air and ground temperature, humidity, pH, diurnal and nocturnal lighting, force and direction of the wind; MiDEF has the capability to store or transmit these data wireless to a server which supervises several MiDEFs displayed on an area through GPS; MiDEF offers the possibility to collect data in real time at a lower price than that of using conventional measurement devices;
-a study concerning intellectual and emotional capabilities of students according to their sources of information, especially the mass-media and the Internet.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Studies First Degree: BSc. Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Faculty of Electronics Telecommunications and Information Technology, Romania, 1986.
Post Graduate Titles: Ph.D. in Control Systems, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania, 2000
Honour Member of the Romanian Society of Electrical & Control Engineering
Member of the Romanian Technical Experts Corp.
Technical Expert of the Romanian Ministry of Justice
President of the Romanian Society of Electrical & Control Engineering, Suceava Branch.
Academic Positions: Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Automatics and Computers, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, “Stefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Romania.
Fields of Scientific Activities: Discrete Event Systems, Complex Measurement Systems, Reliability and Diagnosis of Control Systems, Environmental Management.
He published 6 books and over 120 scientific papers in conference proceedings and journals.