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LIGHTING ENGINEERING CENTER – LEC UTC-N
FIVE YEARS ANNIVERSARY
Florin POP
Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca (Technical University)
Lighting Engineering Center - LEC – was
created following the Tempus-Phare programme
CME-03551-97 [15 December 1998 – 14 March
2000] – see the web site
http://bavaria.utcluj.ro/~lec.
Co-ordinated by Professor Florin POP, the
CMEs project entitled Lighting Engineering
Centre - LEC involved the university Lighting
Laboratories from Barcelona – Professor
Ramon SAN MARTIN, the contractor of the
project, Helsinki – Professor Liisa HALONEN
and Naples – Professor Luciano DI FRAIA, and
specific departments from Babes Bolyai
University, Department of Computer Science –
Professor Horia F. POP, Universitat Politecnica
de Catalunya, Department of Student Guidance,
Theresa BOFILL GORINA, Electric Suply
Branch of Electrica – General manager Gabriel
RUGA, and Energobit Schréder Lighting –
Vice-president Pál PETER.
Professors Florin POP and Ramon SAN MARTIN
Its milestone was the creation of an excellence
centre for consultancy and continuing education
in lighting field in direct link with the needs of
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the labour market, in the North-Western
Romania, to support the process of university
reform at management level with a view to
develop managerial and administrative skills,
taking into consideration: - the undergraduates’
problems concerned with their further
placement on the job market; - the employees’
problems concerned with a possible
redistribution of the work force caused by the
current economy restructure; - the necessity to
refurbish almost entirely old lighting
installations; - the achieving a permanent cooperation
between university and a specific
economic sector, one of the ways that increase
the reform process in Romanian education and
economy system in one of their aspect, the
lighting field.
The LEC UTCN-N area of activity
14 March 2000 – Seminar dedicated to the end
of the LEC - Tempus-Phare program and the
inauguration of the modernized Electric
Installations and Lighting Laboratory, with the
financial support of the Universitatea Tehnică
and the sponsorship of PHILIPS Romania
/FLASH Transilvania, ABB Romania, Total
Quality/ACI – Cluj-Napoca.