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	Current position: Professor, Department of Electrical Machines, Marketing & Management, Technical University of Cluj
	Mail address: Bariţiu str. 26-28, RO-400027 CLUJ, Romania
	Telephone/fax: (+40)-264-401-828 / (+40)-264-592-055
	E-mail: Karoly.Biró@mae.utcluj.ro

Date and place of birth: May 29,1941 in Vlahiţa (Romania)

Education:

• 1953-1957 Gábor Áron Mixed Lyceum, Odorhei, Romania
• 1957 - 1962 Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Timişoara, Romania
• 1962 Dipl.-Ing.Degree (M.Sc.) in Electrical Engineering obtained from the Technical University of Timişoara, Romania
• 1978 Dr.-Ing.Degree (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering obtained from the Technical University of Timişoara, Romania

Professional experience:

• 1962 - 1965 Teaching assistant at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 1965 - 1971 Assistant at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 1971 - 1980 Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 1980 - 1990 Associate Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 1990 - Professor of Electric Machines at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Professional activities:

Undergraduate lectures:

• Electrical machines
• Small power electrical machines
• Design and building of electrical machines
• Modeling electrical machines
• High-power efficiency electrical machines

Visiting Scholar:

• 4 month scholarship at the Technical University of Budapest (Hungary) 1970
• 2 month (in 1967) and 1 month (in 1973) specialization at the Polytechnic Institute of Timişoara (Romania)

Ph.D. supervisor since 1992 in "Electrical machines and apparatus".

• 5 successful Ph.D. students (see the list of them)
• 7 Ph.D. students presently working for their thesis

University services:

• Technical University of Cluj Senate Scientific Secretary, 1990 - 1992

Professional Committee Memberships:

• Member of the IEEE Industry Applications Society (1992-1993)
• Member of Romanian National Association of Engineers
• Former Chairman of the Hungarian Technical Sciences Society of Transylvania (1998-2004)
• Member in the editorial board of the scientific journal Műszaki Szemle
• Conference director at the International Conference on Electrotechnics and Energetics ENELKO, Cluj (Romania)

Research: project manager in over 35 research projects (see a selective list of them) in the fields of:

• Experimental parameter determination of electrical machines
• Special electric machines design
• Static frequency converters feeding a.c.motors
• Numeric modeling of transient behavior of electrical machines
• Electronically commutated electrical motors
• Study and numeric modeling convertor-machine systems

Publications: (see detailed list of publications)

• 14 books
• 106 scientific papers published in:
  • 43 in refereed international conference proceedings
  • 23 in refereed national journals and annals
  • 40 in national conference and symposium proceedings

Patents and innovations:

• Patent (1):
  • A. Crişan, Biró K.Á., I.A. Viorel, V. Iancu: Variable speed and frequency synchronous machine, Certificate nr. 56238/3.02.1973
• Innovations (3):
  • Biró K.Á.: Switching device for ampermeters. Patent act nr. 346/1969.
  • Biró K.Á., V. Lupu: Switching device for wattmeters. Patent act nr. 263/1971.
  • Biró K.Á., V. Lupu: Equipment for measuring the winding resistance. Patent act nr. 421/1973

Participation in major international conferences and meetings:

• International Conference on Electrical Machines ICEM '82, Budapest (Hungary)
• International Conference on the Evolution and Modern Aspects of Synchronous Machines '91 Zurich
• International Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference MELECOM'94, Antalya (Turkey)
• International Conference on Electrical Machines ICEM '94 Paris
• International Symposium on Advanced Electromechanical Motion Control Systems ELECTOMOTION '95 and '97, Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
• International Power Electronics, Motion Control Conference PEMC'96, Budapest (Hungary)
• International Conference on Electrical Machines ICEM '98, Istanbul (Turkey)
• International Computer Science Conference MicroCAD in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006, Miskolc (Hungary) - see pictures.
• International Conference ELECTROMOTION '99 Patras (Greece)
• International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Electric Machines, Converters and Systems ELECTRIMACS '99, Lisbon (Portugal)
• International Conference on Electrical Machines ICEM '2000, Espoo (Finland) - see pictures
• International Power Electronics, Motion Control Conference PEMC '2000 Kosice (Slovak Republic) - see pictures
• Symposium on Intelligent Systems in Control and Measurement (Tempus Workshop) 2000, Veszprém (Hungary)
• International Conference on Electrotechnics and Energetics ENELKO, Cluj (Romania), 2000, 2001 and 2002. See pictures taken at the Conference in 2002 and 2005.

Honors:

• Prominent Associated Professor, 1986

Hobbies:

• Gardening
• Excursions

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