The faculty participates also in the undergraduate programmes
of other faculties: Electrical Engineering, Electromechanical
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering delivering course units in
the fields of Control, Electronics and Computers. It is also included
in a Master programme of the Faculty of Mathematics.
The teaching staff (some 60 people) of the Faculty is included
in the three departments of the faculty:
- Department of Automatic Control (AC);
- Department of Electronics and Instrumentation (EI);
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CS).
The University of Craiova has 12 faculties. Some departments
appear in more than one faculty. For our faculty the following
departments of other faculties ensure the teaching activity:
- Electrical Engineering (EE) - Faculty of Electrical Engineering;
- Electrical Machines (EM) -Faculty of Electromechanical Engineering;
- Mechanical Engineering (ME) - Faculty of Mechanics;
- Mathematics (MA) - Faculty of Mathematics;
- Physics (PH) - Faculty of Science;
- Foreign Language (FL) - Faculty of Philology;
- Management and Marketing (MM) - Faculty of Social Science.
The Academic calendar is structured as follows. The Academic Year
is splitted in 2 semesters of 14 weeks each. The Fall Semester
starts on October 1. After 12 weeks the students and the staff
are offered a X-mas holiday of 2 weeks. After holiday 2 weeks
of classes follow and then there are 4 weeks of exams and various
assessments. With this the semester ends and both students and
staff are offered a 1-week holiday. The Spring Semester starts
around March 1 and lasts 14 weeks, interrupted by a 3-days Easter
holiday. The 4 weeks' exams and assessment session follow and
the Semester ends about July 10. The students have a two-weeks
stage of practice in industry (all levels) and around July 26
the Summer holiday starts. The students are offered an additional
Exams and Assessment Session in September. In September in also
organised the Selection competition for the future students.
Registration Procedures
The Romanian citizens that have passed the selection are automatically
registered at the Faculty Office (Lapusului Str. No.5, RO-1100
Craiova, Romania). Other people (i.e. non-Romanian citizen) wishing
to register as Students of our faculty have to apply to the Institutional
Coordinator of the University - Ministry of Education of Romania.
History and Development
In 1966 the Course (BEng) Programme on Automation started at the
Faculty of Electrical Engineering with 50 students of the 1-st
course. At the same time the corresponding Department was founded.
Since 1978 the Course of Computer Science and Engineering exists
too.
In 1990 the Faculty of Automation and Computers occured from the
former Faculty of Electrical Engineering. It had (and still has)
3 Departments as specified previously. In 1991 a new
Programme (Course) in Applied Electronics started. The teaching
staff grew from 34 people in 1990 up to 60 people in 1996 as follows :
Professors 4
Assoc. Professors 7
Lecturers 35
Instructors 16
Ph.D - Scientific Advisers - 2
The average percentage for the disciplines is :
Basic Sciences 30- 35%;
Engineering Courses 50 - 60%;
Non-technical Sciences 10 - 15%.
The average overall number of hours in each Course is about 8500
hours of Faculty training, practice and individual graduation
thesis (project).
The Faculty is involved in 3 TEMPUS programmes concerning improvement
and modernising of Universities of France, Belgium, Holland, Italy,
Greece,Germany,Ireland. Members of the Staff have been Visiting
Professors in several European Universities.
The information regarding our Faculty is structured as follows:
1. The Department of Computer Science & Engineering:
a) General Presentation, Degree Structure and Members of Computer Department
b) List of Subjects
c) Compulsory Disciplines
2. The Department of Automatic
a) General Presentation
b) Teaching Staff and Methods
c) Courses
3. The Department of Electronics