Faculty of Textiles, Leather
& Industrial Management
Iasi, Romania
www.tex.tuiasi.ro
The Faculty of Textiles, Leather and Industrial
Management
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only one until 1990;
The Faculty of Textile and Leather Technology was
founded in 1934 in Bucharest;
Since 1952 it is located in Iasi and in 1955 it was
incorporated within The “Gh.Asachi” Technical University
Since 1995 it has been a member of AUTEX (Association
of Textile Universities);
Since 1999 our specializations are recognized by FEANI
(European
Federation
of
Naţional
Engineering
Associations);
Starting with 2000, The Textile Institute of Manchester
began to recognize our graduate diplomas.
Faculty of Textiles, Leather
& Industrial Management
 8 departments
 1 doctoral school
 9 research groups
 Over 1100 students
 Over 120 academic staff
Study at our Faculty
Bachelor of Science Programs
Programs
Specializations
Industrial
Engineering
Textile Technology and Design
Knitting and Clothing Technology
Footwear and Leather Goods Technology and
Design
Industrial Design
Chemical
Engineering
Textile Chemical Technology
Engineering &
Management
Industrial Business Engineering
Chemical Technology of Leather and Leather
Substitutes
Master Programs
1. Industrial Textile Design
2. Textiles Quality Insurance
3. Advances in Knitting Technologies
4. Innovative Systems for Clothing Manufacturing
5. Clothing Design
6. Apparel Designing and Modeling
7. Advances in Footwear Design and Technology
8. Eco-design in Textile Finishing
9. Advanced Processing of Protein Resources
10.Innovation and Entrepreneurship
11.Industrial Marketing
Doctoral study programs:
Industrial Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Engineering and Management
Number of PhD students
- Total: 130
- Full time: 44
- Projects financed by the European Social
Found: BRAIN, EURODOC, QUANTUM-DOC
Specialization
TEXTILE
TECHNOLOGY AND
DESIGN
Laboratory equipment
FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER
ENGINEERING
Specialization
KNITTING AND READYMADE CLOTHING
TECHNOLOGY
FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER
ENGINEERING
FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER
ENGINEERING
FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER
ENGINEERING
Specialization
FOOTWEAR AND
LEATHER GOODS
TECHNOLOGY AND
DESIGN
FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER
ENGINEERING
Facilities
A. Lecture classes and laboratories equipped with:
Equipment for educational communication;
The components and parts of machines for footwear and
leather goods manufacturing;
Moulding devices;
for testing the physical, mechanical and technological
features of raw and auxiliary materials, components and
shoes;
Computer network with internet accessibility;
Crispin Dynamic footwear CAD specialized software
B. Practical training workshops equipped with:
Clicking machines; Skiving machines ;
Upper and bottom stitching machines ;
Lasting machines for toe, hell and side parts ;
Counter activating and moulding machine ;
FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER
ENGINEERING
Specialization
TEXTILE CHEMICAL
TECHNOLOGY
FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER
ENGINEERING
Textile Chemical Technology
Facilities
Lecture classes and laboratories equipped with:
-Equipment essential for the analysis and
study of textile fibres and materials;
- Dyeing and finishing equipment;
- Equipment for specific chemical processes;
- Modern equipment for physical and chemical
investigation;
- Computers.
Pilot plant for micro-production and research.
Technical equipment:
Polarizing microscope;
Fabric air permeability tester;
Equipment to measure the shear
Datacolor Spectra flash computer
resistance;
colour matching system;
UV-VIS spectrophotometer;
X-ray difractometer;
Thin layer chromatograph;
BOD analysis system and
HT dyeing machine;
wastewater analysis equipment.
FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER
ENGINEERING
Specialization
CHEMICAL
TECHNOLOGY OF
LEATHER AND LEATHER
SUBSTITUTES
FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER
ENGINEERING
Laboratories
- Small tanneries and processing units;
- Raw materials collecting and trading societies;
-Equipments for leather and furs processing trading
societies;
- Production and trading of chemical auxiliaries;
- Dyeing and reconditioning works;
-Reconditioning and revaluation of antique leather goods
works;
- Higher revaluation of protein-containing by-products works,
for cosmetics and biomedical applications
FACULTY OF TEXTILES AND LEATHER
ENGINEERING
Specialization
BUSINESS
ENGINEERING
Research at our Faculty
9 researches groups
Technologies and machinery for yarns
processing
Designing of technical and specialty weaving
structures
Optimization of textile processes
Textile chemistry
Knitting and clothing – machinery,
technologies and design
Design and technology of footwear and leather
goods
Leather processing.
Research fields
New materials for innovative textiles
Functional textiles and related processes
Manufacturing systems and work study
Fashion design and product development
IT applications
Design and technology of footwear and
leather goods
Tissues engineering
Eco-design in textile chemistry
Environment
Management
Research projects
financed through grants awarded in national
competition (40 projects since 2006)
- Selection Research on decolourization of dyeing stuff by
new oxidative, microbiological methods for
rehabilitation and recycling used water from
textile industry
Textile composites for shielding
Genetic algorithms for optimization of the
processes in knitting industry
Integrated multifunctional technology for
conservation of national cultural patrimony
Textiles with controlled release of medicine in
treatment of dermatological diseases
Intelligent textile structures for communicant
clothing
International cooperation
Bilateral research projects: RomaniaTurkey (2008-2010, 2010-2012)
Eureka projects
InterReg projects
CEEPUS programs
Doctoral studies in co-supervising
Long Life Learning Programms:
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Leonardo da Vinci programms,
 Bilateral academic mobilities
exchanges - Erasmus
Inter-institutional Erasmus Agreements
2010-2011
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University of Ghent, Belgium
University of Gabrovo, Bulgaria
University of Zagreb, Croatia
Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Universite de Haute Alsace, France
ENSAIT – Roubaix, France
Hochschule Niederhein, Germany
Hochschule Reutlingen, Germany
TEI Piraeus, Greece
Aegean University, Greece
Riga Technical University, Latvia
Technical University of Lodz, Poland
University of Minho, Portugal
University of Maribor, Slovenia
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey
Cukurova University, Turkey
Namik Kemal University, Turkey
Anadolu University, Turkey
Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Ege University, Turkey
Usak University, Turkey
Nottingham Trent University, Great Britain
Evolution of Erasmus students mobilities
at University level
Incoming students University
2010-2011
The 46th International Federation
of Knitting Technologists Congress
IFKT Romanian section
www.ifkt.ro
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mirela BLAGA
President of the IFKT Congress the 46th
I\ongresaex.tuiasi.ro
Location of the IFKT Congress
The IFKT Congress will be organised in Romania,
Place: Sinaia, Date: 6th – 8th of September 2012
http://www.welcometoromania.ro/Sinaia/Sinaia_Lista_Obiective_e.htm
Symbols of local history: Peles Castle
The Congress Topics
Innovation in knitting technology
Innovation in machine building
Functional knitted materials
Medical textiles. Comfort and
wellbeing
Technical textiles
IT Applications
CAD/CAM in knitting
The Congress Topics
Simulation and modeling
Design, fashion in knitting and clothing
Finishing treatments of the knitted
fabrics
New fibers and materials
Quality and testing in knitting
Marketing and management in knitting
Education in knitting
You are kindly invited in Sinaia, Romania for the next
IFKT Congress – 2012,
6th – 8th of September 2012
mblaga@tex.tuiasi.ro