Based on Regulation № 320/15.07.1970 issued by the then Government of Bulgaria a new course called Automation of Discrete Production Engineering (ADPE) was launched at the Technical University Sofia /former VMEI Lenin/. Later that year Regulation № 6421/08.10.1970 by the Ministry of Education and accompanied by a Decision of the Faculty of Industrial Technology the Department of Automation of Discrete Mechanical Engineering opened up. Driving force behind both successful initiatives was the late great Prof. Vladimir Savov Ganovsky. Thus the academic year 1970/71 marked the start of the training in the engineering degree course Automation of Discrete Production Engineering with a yearly admission quota of 25 students.
By the time of the Department establishing the initiator and founder Vladimir Ganovsky was engaged an Assistant Professor at the Department of Technology of Machine Building and Machine Tools. As the Department of ADP opened up the first appointed lecturers were: Vladimir Ganovsky, Stoian Deliev, Ilia Simeonev, Liuben Klotchkov and Emil Manolov. New appointments were made in 1972 Ilia Boiadjiev, Todor Neshkov, Dimtcho Tchakarsky, Geno Hadjikosen and Petar Papasov. This team built the Department foundations, organized the teaching process and created its own Departmental laboratory facilities.
Since the Department’s start, the following lecturers and teachers have been appointed to it:
Budyoni Monov,
Evgeni Sokolov,
Natalia Andreeva,
Volodia Pashov,
Vlado Stankov
Aleksej Rajkov
Dobrin Dotsev,
Antonyi Ikonopisov,
Ivo Malakov,
Mladen Milushev,
Vania Georgieva,
Irina Topalova,
Ivo Ianakiev,
Angel Bachvarov,
Nikolay Krantov,
Julian Pankov,
Pantcho Tomov,
Vlaitcho Stantchev,
Aleksandar Tsokev,
Plamen Petrov,
Reneta Dimitrova,
Stiliyan Nikolov,
Velisar Sacharinov
Slav Dimitrov and
Dimitar Totev .
Some of them are still on the Department’s staff.
In the beginning, the Department had only one laboratory room where labs in the subject Automation and Automatic Lines in Mechanical Engineering were carried out.
In the eighties of the passed century, the Department operated:
• Postgraduate qualification school for Complex Automation of Discrete Production Engineering;
• A problem solving oriented research laboratory with 22 associates;
• A small-sized production facility ADP with a staff of 25.
During the period a significant number of industrial projects were worked out to the effect of multiple implementations.
Presently, the Department encompasses 12 laboratory facilities where both students training and research activities are being carried out.
During the period a significant number of industrial projects were worked out to the effect of multiple implementations.
Presently, the Department encompasses 12 laboratory facilities where both students training and research activities are being carried out.
• Production Engineering Automation,
• Automation of Engineering Processes and Automatic Design Systems,
• Automated Systems for Data Processing and Control.
Currently the Department is in charge of conducting the education in 52 subject courses in the fields of Production Engineering, Mechanical and Precision Engineering and Mechatronics.