The department leads education in the subjects “Material Science” and “Technology of Materials” for the students from Faculty of Automatics, Faculty of Electricity, Energy Mechanical Faculty, Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Faculty of Industrial Technologies, Faculty of Management, and Transport Faculty. Its lecturers hold courses at the Faculty of German Engineering Education and Industrial Management and at the English Language Faculty of Engineering.
There are threo research laboratories to the department: “Electro-physical Technologies for Thermal Processing of Metals” , “Mechanical Testing of Metals” and “Tribology”.
The lecturers of the department educate students (in Bulgarian, German, and French language) of 9 faculties (Faculty of Industrial Technologies, Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Transport Faculty, Faculty of Automatics, Faculty of Electricity, Energy Mechanical Faculty, Faculty of Management, Faculty of German Engineering Education and Industrial Management), of the subsidiary universities in Plovdiv and Sliven, and of The College of Machine Engineering to Technical University of Sofia in 32 subjects for BSc degree and 16 subjects for MSc degree.
There are two laboratories to the department:
• R&D Laboratory “Technological preparation of CNC machines”;
• Research Laboratory “Testing of industrial machinery, tools and equipment”.
The lecturers from the department educate (in Bulgarian and English) students from 9 faculties of TU-Sofia (Faculty of Automatics, Faculty of Electricity, Energy Mechanical Faculty, Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Faculty of Industrial Technologies, Faculty of Management and Transport Faculty) in 9 subjects for BSc degree and 5 subjects for MSc degree. The research fields at the department are the following:
• structure-metrical synthesis and kinematic analysis; design of mechanisms, modules and means for automation;
• vibration, stability, vibro-insulation, vibro-protection;
• dynamical analysis and synthesis of machines;
• kinetic energy accumulators, dynamics of rotor machines;
• micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS).
