49 Years of successful Work of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Celebrated
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The session which celebrated 49 years of successful work of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Montenegro was held on May 31st, 2019. The importance and the role of this higher education institution was emphasized at the session, and diploma papers of undergraduate, specialist and master studies were given.
The speech of Igor Vusanovic, PhD, the Dean, held at this solemn occasion is given below.
Respected President of UoM, respected Vice-rectors, senators, deans and vice-deans of the UoM and faculties from the neighborhood, respected assistant ministers, directors of Directorates and high- ranking officials in the Government of Montenegro, dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, friends and guests of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
I have a great pleasure and honor to greet you all and wish you welcome ahead the institution which celebrates nearly half a century since when Montenegrins have taught studies of technique, which began in far school 1970/71 year.
This is the opportunity to say who we were, who we are now and what we intend to be in the forthcoming period. The first two items are the past and the present, that are less important and on which we do not have influence, but it is important to know from where we started, how we grew up, what successes and mistakes we had, in order to make our step in the future stronger, more determined and for the benefit of the community we serve and without which our existence would not make any sense.
As the intellectual cream of our society, the task and obligation of our University and Faculty is to see better and further than others, to point out the ways and directions where we should go, how to be determined and stable, and to earn the trust of the community where we belong to.
The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering was strong support to Montenegro in the past half-century, its post-war industrial development, when with its existence trained hundreds of engineers who have led our economy, who were bearers of the development and took important decisions in our raising of backwardness and suffering that have been our destiny after the world wars in the previous century.
We are very proud on our past in the last half-century and what we have given to Montenegro and neighbors, but we are mostly concentrated on the future today and how to be prepared to answer on challenges of a new time and to give our full contribution in it, and to leave our mark and legacy to generations after us.
My, and some older generations lived and still live in the time of transition to a modern society where we still travelling, so our duty is to behave and adapt according to that. We survived a very difficult period of transition and now, we are on a new road, full of challenges for our profession and we believe with right that better days are coming. That optimism that better tomorrow is coming we have traditionally, we always spread among young people, and give impetus to older people that we can do more and better than now.
Strong reforms in our programs and curricula marked the previous period, we have a modern European accepted study model 3+2+3. However, we believe that we can do better and more efficient, so we are ready to innovate our programs for the next re-accreditation according to that, which will be next year. The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering wants and can give a strong contribution to the fields of renewable energy sources, energetic efficiency, electrification of transport, elimination of greenhouse gas and fossil fuel use from all fields related to our profession, to which we will give full contribution to the policies of the Government of Montenegro and our obligations as a new member of EU in the shortest time. That gives us the right our basic and interdisciplinary study programs Mechatronics, Energetic Efficiency that we develop through the partnership with the Faculty of Civil Engineering, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the Faculty of Architecture at the UoM, as well as the Department of Energetics at our study program Mechanical Engineering.
The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering goes through the transition in the human sense through all these years, the change of generations is running these years intensively. Generations of professors who set the Faculty to its feet and made an immeasurable contribution to its development, will be retired soon, but now, some new kids ready to breathe new energy to the Faculty, to study out of Montenegro and to bring new knowledge and spirit that are essential, are growing. New people we would like to see at the Faculty must have the passion for science, be visionaries and willing to move boundries, what will be the best way to contribute to the community for which we are here.
Today’s road has many challenges: how to create a new product whose owner will be not Montenegro but world, how to create new small companies which will generate social wealth, how to answer on complex questions related to the decarbonization of all sectors in economy, reduction of air and water pollution, how to implement smart technologies related to the traffic and transport, how to reduce the energy consumption in industry and public sector, etc.
We take this opportunity to point out that Montenegro has almost no unemployed mechanical engineers, with which we want to send a message to young people that our invitation is appealing and that the decision to become our student , and engineer later, will be sure ticket for better life in Montenegro and not to talk about beyond. One of our missions will be better connection with the institutions in the surroundings, both: state or business, to which we want to present what we can do and to contribute to the overall contribution through the partnership relation.
We are very keen to nurture the partnership relations with the faculties in the neighborhood and wide. Ideas, exchange of thoughts, people, cooperation on projects are very important factors of success on the road in front of us. I proudly point out our partner cooperation with the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering from Belgrade, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Banja Luka and Ljubljana. We can do further and better, we have the cooperation with the faculties in Europe; USA and Asia: the University of Minnesota, Texas Tech, Purdue, Indian Institute of Science from Bangalore, Maryland and others. We will send our best PhD students there, and next to it we will try that the cooperation with them get new shapes and forms.
The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering was and will be reliable support to all state institutions in competences that are our jurisdiction. Our work is characterized by the precision, empathy and criticality to what we think is not good. Our people gave and will give the contribution in the development of other institutions, the work on specific projects in business entities, expertise for the needs of the country, and everywhere else where our profession was necessary for solving the problems that are constantly occurring and will occur.
Our guiding principles for the XXI century are to educate people who will open their own companies and to increase the wealth of our community on that way. We will work and behave like that in our community we call the University of Montenegro, we will work for its good and progress.
Finally, respected ladies and gentlemen, dear friend and guests, thank you again for your presence you make better this day. Your presence is our confirmation that we were working well, that we have never betrayed you, although we are aware that we are not perfect and we can be always better and better.
We can promise that we will develop the Faculty in the forthcoming years, that you will have the opportunity to see something new each year. We can have secure future only in that way.
Thank you for your attention and cheers!