Faculty of Textiles, Leather & Industrial Management Iasi, Romania www.tex.tuiasi.ro

1. Faculty of Textiles, Leather & Industrial Management Iasi, Romania www.tex.tuiasi.ro

3. The Faculty of Textiles, Leather and Industrial Management • The Faculty is the first textile faculty in Romania and the only one until 1990; • The Faculty of Textile and Leather Technology was founded in 1934 in Bucharest; • Since 1952 it is located in Iasi and in 1955 it was incorporated within The “Gh.Asachi” Technical University • Since 1995 it has been a member of AUTEX (Association of Textile Universities); • Since 1999our specializations are recognized by FEANI (European Federation of Naţional Engineering Associations); • Starting with 2000, The Textile Institute of Manchester began to recognize our graduate diplomas.

4. Faculty of Textiles, Leather & Industrial Management • 8 departments • 1 doctoral school • 9 research groups • Over 1100 students • Over 120 academic staff

5. Study at our Faculty

6. Bachelor of Science Programs

7. Master Programs • Industrial Textile Design • Textiles Quality Insurance • Advances in Knitting Technologies • Innovative Systems for Clothing Manufacturing • Clothing Design • Apparel Designing and Modeling • Advances in Footwear Design and Technology • Eco-design in Textile Finishing • Advanced Processing of Protein Resources • Innovation and Entrepreneurship • Industrial Marketing

8. Doctoral study programs: • Industrial Engineering • Chemical Engineering • Engineering and Management • Number of PhD students • Total: 130 • Full time: 44 • Projects financed by the European Social Found: BRAIN, EURODOC, QUANTUM-DOC

9. SpecializationTEXTILE TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN

10. Laboratory equipment In spinning In weaving

11. SpecializationKNITTING AND READY-MADE CLOTHING TECHNOLOGY FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER ENGINEERING

12. Knitting machines Clothing equipment FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER ENGINEERING

13. Laboratory equipment FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER ENGINEERING Practical training workshops ... in knitting ... and in clothing

14. SpecializationFOOTWEAR AND LEATHER GOODSTECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER ENGINEERING

15. Facilities A. Lecture classes and laboratories equipped with: • Equipment for educational communication; • The components and parts of machines for footwear and leather goods manufacturing; • Moulding devices; • for testing the physical, mechanical and technological features of raw and auxiliary materials, components and shoes; • Computer network with internet accessibility; • Crispin Dynamic footwear CAD specialized software FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER ENGINEERING • B.Practical training workshops equipped with: • Clicking machines; Skiving machines ; • Upper and bottom stitching machines ; • Lasting machines for toe, hell and side parts ; • Counter activating and moulding machine ;

16. SpecializationTEXTILE CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER ENGINEERING

17. Textile Chemical Technology Facilities • Lecture classes and laboratories equipped with: • Equipment essential for the analysis and study of textile fibres and materials; • Dyeing and finishing equipment; • Equipment for specific chemical processes; • Modern equipment for physical and chemical investigation; • Computers. FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER ENGINEERING • Pilot plant for micro-production and research. Technical equipment: • Polarizing microscope; • Equipment to measure the shear resistance; • UV-VIS spectrophotometer; • Thin layer chromatograph; • HT dyeing machine; • Fabric air permeability tester; • Datacolor Spectra flash computer colour matching system; • X-ray difractometer; • BOD analysis system and wastewater analysis equipment.

18. SpecializationCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY OF LEATHER AND LEATHER SUBSTITUTES FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER ENGINEERING

19. Laboratories - Small tanneries and processing units; - Raw materials collecting and trading societies; -Equipments for leather and furs processing trading societies; - Production and trading of chemical auxiliaries; - Dyeing and reconditioning works; -Reconditioning and revaluation of antique leather goods works; - Higher revaluation of protein-containing by-products works, for cosmetics and biomedical applications FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER ENGINEERING

20. SpecializationBUSINESS ENGINEERING FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER ENGINEERING

21. Research at our Faculty 9 researches groups • Technologies and machinery for yarns processing • Designing of technical and specialty weaving structures • Optimization of textile processes • Textile chemistry • Knitting and clothing – machinery, technologies and design • Design and technology of footwear and leather goods • Leather processing.

22. Research fields • New materials for innovative textiles • Functional textiles and related processes • Manufacturing systems and work study • Fashion design and product development • IT applications • Design and technology of footwear and leather goods • Tissues engineering • Eco-design in textile chemistry • Environment • Management

23. Research projectsfinanced through grants awarded in national competition (40 projects since 2006)- Selection - • Research on decolourization of dyeing stuff by new oxidative, microbiological methods for rehabilitation and recycling used water from textile industry • Textile composites for shielding • Genetic algorithms for optimization of the processes in knitting industry • Integrated multifunctional technology for conservation of national cultural patrimony • Textiles with controlled release of medicine in treatment of dermatological diseases • Intelligent textile structures for communicant clothing

24. International cooperation • Bilateral research projects: Romania-Turkey (2008-2010, 2010-2012) • Eureka projects • InterReg projects • CEEPUS programs • Doctoral studies in co-supervising • Long Life Learning Programms: • Leonardo da Vinci programms, • Bilateral academic mobilities exchanges - Erasmus

25. Inter-institutional Erasmus Agreements2010-2011 • University of Ghent, Belgium • University of Gabrovo, Bulgaria • University of Zagreb, Croatia • Tampere University of Technology, Finland • Universite de Haute Alsace, France • ENSAIT – Roubaix, France • Hochschule Niederhein, Germany • Hochschule Reutlingen, Germany • TEI Piraeus, Greece • Aegean University, Greece • Riga Technical University, Latvia • Technical University of Lodz, Poland • University of Minho, Portugal • University of Maribor, Slovenia • University of Ljubljana, Slovenia • Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey • Cukurova University, Turkey • Namik Kemal University, Turkey • Anadolu University, Turkey • Istanbul Technical University, Turkey • Ege University, Turkey • Usak University, Turkey • Nottingham Trent University, Great Britain

26. Evolution of Erasmus students mobilities at University level

27. Incoming students University 2010-2011

28. The 46th International Federation of Knitting Technologists Congress IFKT Romanian section www.ifkt.ro Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mirela BLAGA President of the IFKT Congress the 46th I\ongresaex.tuiasi.ro

29. Location of the IFKT Congress The IFKT Congress will be organised in Romania, Place: Sinaia, Date: 6th – 8th of September 2012 http://www.welcometoromania.ro/Sinaia/Sinaia_Lista_Obiective_e.htm Symbols of local history: Peles Castle

30. The Congress Topics • Innovation in knitting technology • Innovation in machine building • Functional knitted materials • Medical textiles. Comfort and wellbeing • Technical textiles • IT Applications • CAD/CAM in knitting

31. The Congress Topics • Simulation and modeling • Design, fashion in knitting and clothing • Finishing treatments of the knitted fabrics • New fibers and materials • Quality and testing in knitting • Marketing and management in knitting • Education in knitting

32. You are kindly invited in Sinaia, Romania for the next IFKT Congress – 2012, 6th – 8th of September 2012 mblaga@tex.tuiasi.ro