Faculty of Electronic Engineering and Technology
www.tu-sofia.bg/Bul/faculties/fett/fett-home.htm
Address:
Technical University of Sofia, Bl. 1,
8 Kliment Ohridski Blvd., Sofia 1000
Dean’s office: Tania Kisiova, Adriana Nikolova, room 1332a, tel. (+359 2) 965 22 20, e-mail: fettdecanat@tu-sofia.bg
Students’ office: Krasimira Gerasimova, Veselina Peneva, room 1331, tel. (+359 2) 965 30 63, e-mail:
fett-k@tu-sofia.bg
ECTS faculty coordinator:
Assoc. Prof. Ph.D. Marin Marinov, room 1351, tel. (+359 2) 965 36 77, e-mail: mbm@tu-sofia.bg
Administration:
Dean: Prof. Ph.D. Marin Hristov, room 1331, tel. (+359 2) 965 22 20, e-mail: mhristov@ecad.tu-sofia.bg
Vice Dean on Education: Assoc. Prof. Ph.D. Anna Andonova, room 1325, tel. (+359 2) 965 32 63,
e-mail: ava@ecad.tu-sofia.bg
Vice Dean on Research and Staff Development: Assoc. Prof. Ph.D. Emil Manolov, tel. (+359 2) 965 32 69,
e-mail: edm@tu-sofia.bg
General description:
The Faculty of Electronic Engineering and Technology was established in 1987, following the division of
the former Faculty of Radio Electronics.
The Electronics course started in 1962 with specialisations in Semiconductor Electronics, Industry
Electronics and Computational Machines and devices.
It has over 30 student’s laboratories and 10 research laboratories. The academic staff engaged in
teaching, research and support consists of 34 lecturers (5 professors and 29 associate professors), 38
assistant professors, 10 engineers and 8 technical support personnel. More than 800 full-time students,
220 part-time students and 47 Ph.D. students in the Faculty. Over 200 PhD. theses are completed
successfully in it. The Faculty lecturers teach students from 7 main faculties of Technical University of
Sofia, and 3 from the Foreign Education Programme Divisions.
There are 4 departments in the faculty structure:
1.
Department of Electronic Engineering (Head of Department - Assoc. Prof. Ph.D. Stefan
Ovcharov)
2. Department of Power Electronics (Head of Department - Assoc. Prof. Ph.D. Peter Goranov)
3. Department of Microelectronics (Head of Department - Prof. Ph.D. Tihomir Takov)
4. Department of Chemistry
Degree Courses:
Faculty of Electronic Engineering and Technology offers Bachelor’s and Master’s degree course in
Electronics. The course has 4 specializations:
- Electronic Medical Equipment Engineering.
- Electronic Control Systems.
- Microelectronics.
- Power Electronics.
Programmes: full-time and part-time education
General characteristics of the education:
The education in Electronics covers wide variety of theoretical knowledge and practical skills for research
and design activities, which demonstrate the application of Electronics in Machine-building industry,
Energetics, Food and beverage industries, Chemical industry, Military industry, Healthcare, Banks and
finances, Agriculture, Tourism, Transport, Communications, etc.
The first two years cover mostly general engineering subjects, followed by the special ones. Most of the
special subjects can be chosen from a list, which gives the students the opportunity to specify by
themselves the direction of their education according to their individual interests. The Electronics course
includes four modules: “Electronic equipment in medicine”, “Electronic systems for management and
control”, “Power Electronics”, and “Microelectronics”. They differ in subjects studied during the last two
years. The specifics of every module are as follows:
The module “Electronic Equipment in Medicine” extends the knowledge of students in the following
scientific fields of study:
- Electronic equipment in medicine, devices for medical diagnostic images – X-ray and supersonic
engineering; Specific medical devices for haemodialysis, lithotripsy, and etc; Clinical appliances;
- Electronic tools for automaton and Electronic devices for programme control; Methods, devices and
systems for information processing.
The module “Electronic Systems for Management and Control” extends the knowledge of students in the
following scientific fields of study:
- Electronic systems for management and control, Methods and tools for measurement of electrical and
non-electrical quantities and their control; Optoelectronic and laser devices, method and tools for
generation, measurement and application of light emission in industry;
- Automation in hierarchical design of digital systems, ASICs and precise PCBs.
- Sensor circuits and devices, design and application of analog and digital circuits for measurement of
electrical and non-electrical quantities.
The module “Power Electronics” extends the knowledge of students in Basic of Power Engineering and
prepares specialists in the following scientific fields of study and application areas:
- DC and uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs), widely used in Computer Engineering,
Communications, Military and Aircraft and Space Engineering, and in Electroenergetics;
- Electrical energy converters, used to control DC, asynchronous and step motors, Light and
temperature regulators, battery charging, alternative energy sources and etc;
- Computer modeling of transient and solid-state conditions of power electronic circuits; Control systems
for energy converters and technical process controllers, built of ASICs and microprocessor circuits.
The module “Microelectronics” gives the students the opportunity to extend their knowledge,
understanding and skills in the field of contemporary technology development, basics and application of
microelectronics. They can gain knowledge in the following scientific fields of study:
- Modern methods for design of microelectronic devices, digital and analog integrated circuit design,
CAD and CAM systems for VLSI and ULSI;
- Different materials application in microelectronic technologies;
- Technology processes and equipment for semiconductor integrated circuits manufacturing;
- Microsystems and micro-modules, RF microelectronic devices, sensors, displays and etc.;
- Methods for quality and reliability testing of microelectronic devices;
During their study, students design, manufacture and test microelectronic devices in conditions close to
the real production ones, using modern equipment.
Educational and professional goals:
Successfully graduated students should:
- be well acquainted with information technologies and their application in engineering;
- have knowledge and experience in technology processes;
- be able to participate creatively in the process of engineering design at both levels of development
conceptually and detailed;
- have the abilities to work in a team and develop sense for social, legal and humanitarian aspects of
engineering.
Employment of the graduates:
Because of the wide-range fields of scientific study and good professional training, the Electronics course
graduates are welcomed in many public and private companies in Bulgaria and abroad. In 1995 the
course is officially accredited by the international professional engineering organization IEE (Institution of
Electrical Engineers) – London, England, which is a positive rating for the training level of students trained
in the Electronics course at the Faculty of Electronic and Engineering Technology.
International cooperation:
− companies: Bosch, Ford, FAG, Lufthansa, McGraw-Hill;
−
universities: University of Bologna & Scienter; UETP – Toscana (IT), University of Edinburgh (UK),
EN1K (FR), University of Twente, technical University of Cluj-Napoca (RO), ENPACKED
Consortium comprising 10 technical universities from Germany, The Czech Republic, Poland,
Hungary, Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia, USA, Macedonia and Romania.
Some recent research projects:
− COPERNICUS CP 96-170 – SYTIC - 97/98, Promotion of System Design Training and Information
Centres in CCE/NIS, Prof. M. Hristov, mhristov@ecad.tu-sofia.bg
− IST – 2000 – 30193 – REASON, Research and Training actions for System on Chip Design, Prof.
M. Hristov, mhristov@ecad.tu-sofia.bg
− ENK5 – CT – 2001 – 20528 – ENIRDGnet, European Network for Integration of regenerative
sources and Distributed Production, Assoc. Prof. A. Krasteva.
− ENK5 – CT – 2001 – 80526 – ERA Bioenergy, European Bioenergy Network, Assoc. Prof. A.
Krasteva.