PERSONAL DATA

Name & first name: Trifa Viorel
Residence: Cluj-Napoca, Romania
E-mail: Viorel.Trifa@edr.utcluj.ro
Citizenship: Romanian
Languages: English, French and some German and Russian
Hobbies: fishing, gardening, skiing
Academic Background: Degree in Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, graduated 1969

PRESENT POSITION

Professor of Digital circuits and Servo-mechanisms at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Faculty of Electrical Engineering: 1964-1969, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, MSc earned 1969
Doctorate stage: 1973-1978, Polytechnic University of Timisoara, title of PhD thesis: "Stepping motor positioning control systems", Doctoral degree earned 1978, specialty of Electrical engineering
Doctorate supervisor since 1991, specialty of Electrical engineering.

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor: 1969-1976, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Lecturer: 1976-1981,
Associate Professor: 1981-1991,
Professor: 1991- , Professor Emeritus: 2012, all in the same institution.

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

Digital Control of Electrical Machines
Servo-mechanisms & intelligent motion control.

SCIENTIFIC RECOGNITION

National Reward for Applied Inventions, 1985
Nominated for Who's Who Encyclopedia - Romania.

SOCIETIES AFFILIATED

Romanian Association of Electrical Drives
General Association of Romanian Engineers
Romanian Association of Inventors

PUBLICATIONS

14 printed books as first/single author or co-author
188 scientific papers (131 published in Romania and 57 published abroad) mainly in the field of Electrical Machines and Drives.
14 national patents in the field of Motion Control Systems and applications.
More than 50 Scientific and Technologic Research Contracts.

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