Scientific Work of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering UMNE Internationally Recognized
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Montenegro starts from the position that a lecturer at the University must be active in science, the Vice-Dean for science of this faculty, Vesna Popović-Bugarin believes.
The teaching and associate staff of this faculty, she adds, is traditionally continuously engaged in scientific research work, regardless of a great workload and commitment to the teaching process.
"As a lecturer, you must be active in science to monitor dynamic changes in the field of electrical engineering, innovate curricula on an annual basis and thus help educate engineers who are ready to meet the needs of the labor market, and pass on the love of science to students who decide to do research work ", Vice Dean Popović-Bugarin says.
At the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, she explains, it often happens that a professor and an associate are involved in several projects and prepare or are in the phase of reviewing more than one paper at a time.
As she points out, the cooperation between different groups at the faculty is intensive, as well as the cooperation with researchers from renowned foreign faculties and research centers.
"All colleagues are more or less actively engaged in research," Vice Dean Popović-Bugarin claims.
According to her, most of their papers are published in journals from the SCI list in the Q1 and Q2 groups of journals, which, as she points out, has almost become the rule. That is exactly the reason, according to Popović-Bugarin, that the dominant names are from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, professors and associates, at the top of the ranking list in terms of citations, from the University of Montenegro.
"When you manage to publish a paper in such quality journals, you know that your research is state-of-the-art, that it has been validated by the world's top researchers who are engaged as reviewers, and that it is therefore likely to be positively received by wider scientific research population ", Vice Dean Popović-Bugarin stated. It is interesting, she adds, that the review process is at such a high level in the mentioned journals, that, in addition to improving the quality of work, ideas for new research often appear. "No less important is the good feeling when you validate your research in front of scientists who fully understand it. In addition to citations, confirmation of our visibility and competitiveness at the international level comes through the fact that a large number of our employees are engaged as reviewers in journals from the Q1 group, members of the organizing committee of international conferences, and that we have several professors who are editors in Q1 group", Vice Dean Popović-Bugarin points out. Currently, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering has 12 active projects that are in conjunction with research work.
"Benefits of the projects are multiple. They connect science and profession, not only within Montenegro, but much more widely, enable our teaching staff to exchange knowledge and experiences with colleagues from other countries, and what is necessary for the survival of research, enable the retention and funding of young and promising people”, Vice Dean Popović-Bugarin points out. SCIENCE THROUGH PROJECT ACTIVITY The scientific activity of the professors of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering UMNE was highlighted through the participation of a group of professors in two HORIZON 2020 projects: TRINITY and CROSSBOW. "TRINITY is developing four independent but mutually complementary software designs that should facilitate penetration of renewable energy sources and enable interconnection of the electricity market in the region of Southeast Europe through improved cooperation and coordination between transmission system operators. CROSSBOW works with integration of renewable energy sources and electricity storage systems into the electricity system, as well as the way of managing such a modern electricity system in the conditions of the existence of the electricity market ", Vice Dean for Science Popović-Bugarin explains.
He adds that the EUREKA project FASTER must be mentioned, within which the creation and design of a small mobile device that can be placed on the chassis of a rotary machine with magnets and wirelessly update information related to the machine's condition on the main server is planned."By designing the FASTER device, on the one hand, the work of rotary actuators is improved by developing new algorithms for estimating the condition, and on the other hand, the use of acoustic signals in the real industrial environment is improved by developing adaptive techniques for contamination detection," Popović-Bugarin says. She points out that every year professors of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering not only do they manage to get a grant from the Ministry of Science of Montenegro, for national scientific research projects, but also their projects are included in the best evaluated applications.
"Thus, improving the energy efficiency of the induction motor with optimal solution of electromagnetic design was the third-ranked project in the call for 2018, while 3DP research and innovation for Covid-19 (3DPRI-COVID19) was the first-ranked project within the special call for Covid-19 research projects. I would also like to add the project of an instrumentation amplifier with current processing in 0.35 um CMOS technology with a controllable factor of suppressing the mean value of the signal, which is being realized as part of a long-term cooperation with the Technical University of Vienna. The chip was designed last summer, the fabrication was performed in the fall in a clean room in Germany, and the measurements were planned for this summer, “Popović-Bugarin said.