Quality assurance

University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest has implemented and developed a Quality Management System that aims to increase performance, based on organizational support structures for implementation, such as: Quality Assessment and Assurance Commission, Quality Council at university level, Quality Commissions at the level of faculties, working groups at the departmental level, group of internal auditors and the Quality Service.

In order to ensure quality in the Faculty of Energy Engineering and to achieve the strategic objectives, the Dean appointed the Commission for quality management, communication and digital transformation consisting of:

Chairman

  • Associate Professor Constantin IONESCU – Vice-dean responsible for quality assurance

Members

  • Professor Sorina COSTINAS – Department of Energy Production and Use
  • Assistant Professor Dorian SIDEA – Department of Power Systems
  • Associate Professor Georgiana DUNCA – Department of Hydraulics, Hydraulic Machinery and Environmental Engineering
  • Lecturer Marius Daniel BONTOȘ – Department of Hydraulics, Hydraulic Machinery and Environmental Engineering
  • Assistant Professor Nicoleta ARGHIRA – representative of the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science in the Council of the Faculty of Energy Engineering

This structure has its own operating rules, but respects the fundamental principle in the field of quality, namely that the responsibility for ensuring the quality of processes in an organization lies with the management at the highest level. Therefore, the Quality Management System at the level of the Faculty of Energy Engineering is led by the Dean who, according to the Regulation on the Quality Management System at the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest:

Sets the strategy, policy, objectives and priorities of the faculty in the field of quality
Follows the acknowledgement and application in the faculty of both general and specific aspects
Appoints the Vice-Dean for Quality Assurance, who is the representative of the Dean for QMS, invested with responsibility and authority regarding the design, maintenance and improvement of QMS at the faculty level
Appoints the Vice-Dean for Quality Assurance, who is the representative of the Dean for QMS, invested with responsibility and authority regarding the design, maintenance and improvement of QMS at the faculty level

The Quality Management Commission is a collective working body of the faculty that identifies, analyzes and proposes solutions and decisions regarding QMS. It prepares the Annual Quality Assurance Report in the faculty, which is presented, discussed and endorsed by the Faculty Council.

At the level of each department in the faculty, the director of the department has appointed a person in charge of the quality assurance.

Also, at the level of the Faculty Council, there is the Specialized Commission for Quality Assurance, which also includes the representatives of the students.

The main responsibilities of the Commission for Quality Assurance in the Faculty of Energy Engineering are:

Supporting faculty management in developing quality policy and objectives
Identifying, defining and analyzing the main processes in the faculty to determine those that are critical to the quality of results and ensuring the means and methods of control and continuous improvement (student practice, organization of research at master's degree)
Ensuring common logistical support at the faculty level in order to prepare self-assessment reports (spaces, infrastructure, scientific research)
Coordinating the activity of regular internal evaluation of the quality of bachelor's and master's degree programs as well as other processes in the faculty, in order to improve the quality of these programs and increase the individual responsibilities of teachers
Developing and promoting a pro-quality attitude of teachers and students, in accordance with the requirements of internal and external partners of educational processes
Provides technical assistance to the developers of Self-Assessment Reports for the periodic evaluation by ARACIS of accredited bachelor and master degree programs
Prepares and presents to the Faculty Council the Annual Reports on the quality assurance of the educational and administrative processes in the faculty
Ensures the implementation of the annual plan to improve the quality of faculty processes
Makes proposals to improve the documents of the Quality Management System implemented in the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest

In recognition of the achievements of the entire academic community, in terms of the excellence of study programs, the quality and visibility of scientific research, through its administrative and institutional capacity, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest has been classified as a university of advanced research and education, as the only university in Romania which is in all areas of ranking in the first category (A) for all study programs. Also, in 2015, following the evaluation of the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, the university obtained the reconfirmation of accreditation, with a high degree of confidence.

All the study programs of the faculty are accredited with the qualification of trust by the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. In 2017, a program of studies obtained the EUR-ACE® international certification, conferred by the European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education (ENAEE), a certification that offers international recognition and value to the qualification and contributes to facilitating academic and professional mobility of the graduates.