Standards 101
Standards 101 About This webinar is for the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering students who would like to enhance their careers through understanding standardization, or improving their existing career path by getting involved with current practices in aviation...
EASN Conference Thessaloniki 8-11 Oct 2024
The 14th Conference of the European Aeronautical Sciences Network will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 8-11 October 2024. The annual EASN conference grew into the most important aerospace event in Europe. The presented papers have a number of publishing...
Malaysian 370 – Ten Years After
Late Edit: We started a new section of this site dedicated to this subject: <MH370> Are you interested in the MH370 case? What are the scenarios, and what is their probability? What can be done to avoid a similar case in the future? Which lessons can the...
First Digital AIP Romania
First Digital AIP Romania by Octavian Thor Pleter Recently I found and scanned some old documents, dated 1991-1992, which prompted memories of my first professional achievements. When I graduated the Faculty of Aeronautics in 1986, I had already discovered my...
New Aerospace Engineering Master of La Sapienza University in Rome
A new Level 2 aerospace engineering master program AvIMO will be launched at La Sapienza University in Rome, entirely taught in English. The event will take place in Rome on 11th December. The courses will start next year and the successful candidates that will pass...
NASA Space Apps Challenge Romania
Registrations are now open for the NASA Space Apps Challenge Romania, the largest international hackathon! Are you passionate about Space and science and want to make a difference? We invite you to register for the NASA Space Apps Challenge Romania, the largest...
Professional opportunity for aerospace engineers
Opportunity! If you are an aeronautics engineering graduate and want to work in an international environment, Akkodis France has some proposals for you! We hire juniors and experts eager to work for major aero companies. The available positions are in Toulouse,...
UAV International Contest
A first major UAV competition will be hosted by the University Politehnica of Bucharest this year. Student teams from any university in the EELISA alliance may participate. The contest calendar and other information may be found at <EELISA UAV Contest 2023> We...
EASN Conference Salerno 5-8 Sep 2023
The 13th Conference of the European Aeronautical Sciences Network will take place in Salerno, Italy, on 5-8 September 2023. The annual EASN conference grew into the most important such aerospace event in Europe. The presented papers have a number of publishing...
AIAS Job Openings
Civil Aviation Safety Investigation and Analysis Authority (SIAA in Romanian AIAS) publishes job openings which could interest our members. Further information on the SIAA site (in Romanian only):...
Air Transport Engineering (ATE)
Air Transport Engineering (ATE) taught entirely in English is a modern multidisciplinary master program, founded in 2013, aligned to the Next Generation of Aviation Professionals (NGAP) strategy of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). It is the...
Dan Stefanescu
Another fallen star of the Romanian aviation! The aviation community is in tears. Dan Ștefănescu was a top class pilot engineer, who fascinated us with his evolutions. There is so much left to learn from him. At the Aerobatic Yakers Aerodrome, pilots came to achieve...
Air Navigation – Upcoming Book
This book represents the professional statement of my 30+ year career. Working with my aerospace engineering students, pilot students, and air traffic controller students over many generations has been challenging in the best possible way. Debates, ideas and questions...
Air Navigation Convention 2021 Debrief
In today's world, air travel is all about efficiency, speed, interconnectedness, and universal accessibility. Aviation has certainly been at the forefront of innovation, becoming one of the world's safest and most trustworthy means of transportation nowadays. However,...
Joburi în dezvoltare ATM la JLG
Courtesy of our Alumnus Andrei Florea, graduate of Air Navigation 2019, we inform you about very attractive job openings in a prestigious Romanian company, JLG Consulting. This company exports IT solutions and software to important aviation companies, being also an...
Air Navigation Convention 2021
Air Navigation Convention – 12th Edition Aviation Emerging Challenges: Innovation and Coping with Change As we progress through the ages, we start to realize just how much the world of Aerospace has gone forward since its inception, at the beginning of the 20th...
EASN Conference 2021
EASN is the largest and important scientific network in the aerospace field. The EASN Conference 2021 will take place on 1-4 September 2021 in Salerno, Italy. The prestigious conference creates the opportunity of networking with the most important Eurpean...
Ciprian Dumitrache – awarded researcher 2020
Alumnus 2010 Dr. ing. Ciprian Dumitrache was awarded the prestigious prize Ad Astra 2020 for excellency in scientific research, at the engineering sciences section. Graduate 2010 of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering University Politehnica of Bucharest,...
Irish Aviation Authority – 2 job vacancies
Two job vacancies were announced by the Irish Aviation Authority, deadline 10 March 2020. Our graduates have been successful with their application at IAA in the past, so there is some goodwill gathered by our Alumni. <Details>
Interview România Cultural
After 9 years, tomorrow, 18.02.2020, a new interview will take place with Mr. Conf. Petrișor Valentin Pârvu regarding the activity related to UAVs in the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. The interview 9 years ago took place at the show Science Cafe, transmitted from...
Invitation to Conference
We are pleased to invite faculty and interested students to attend the International Conference: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND STORAGE OF ENERGY ICEESEN 2020, Kayseri, Turkey Why this conference? relatively small participation fee: 350EUR for...
CATIA Lab 4 – ALTEN Delivery Center Bucharest
ALTEN Delivery Center Bucharest, subsidary of the French Group ALTEN, leader in engineering and technology continues its involvement in the academic community and its support of the new generations of engineers by organizing of a new session of the CATIA Lab, in...
Fokker Academy 2020
Fokker Academy was established in March 2017, in the wake of signing the Partnership between UPB Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and GKN Fokker Engineering Romania. In the Fokker Academy, our students learn to design directly from highly experienced engineers,...
ESA: Applications now open for Alpbach Summer School 2020
The 44th edition of the Summer School Alpbach will be held from 14 to 23 July 2020, the topic of the 2020 edition is “ Comparative Plasma Physics in the Universe”. University students and young graduates have until 31 March 2020 to apply. Held annually since 1975 in...
8-th International Workshop on Numerical Modelling in Aerospace Sciences
NMAS 2020 20 - 21 May 2020, Bucharest, Romania Workshop will be held in Bucharest, at INCAS, B-dul Iuliu Maniu no. 220, sector 6 To the Participants: Professors, engineers, researchers and interested students are invited to participate in the 8th...
Young Aviation Network Contest
Courtesy of Mr. Mihail Ionescu, Director of Air Transport Directorate of the Ministry of Transport, we announce a student contest to select a national representative of the Young Aviation Network, which will gather between 1-15 July 2020 at Eurocontrol....
Engineers Openings Tarom
Courtesy of our Alumnus Eng. Constantin Petrescu, we inform you that the National Company TAROM recruites engineers. More details: https://www.tarom.ro/sites/default/files/u1348/anunt_recrutare_ing_ap_bord_0.pdf...
Dean 2020-2024 Contest
The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of the University Politehnica of Bucharest announces the public contest for the position of Dean in the 2020-2024 mandate. Applicants should submit applications on 6-7 January 2020. UPB staff or any other university staff...
HYPER @ UCF
Students from UPB/FIA are invited to apply for a DoD sponsored research internship at the University of Central Florida. The details of the invitation can be found below. Dear Sterian, Because of your strong connection with undergraduate students who may pursue...
Events of the French Institute in Bucharest
Tuesday, 19 November 2019, French Institute in Bucharest, 7 pm. Projection of the movie 16 levers de soleil will be followed by a debate with Ms. Mioara Mandea from the National center for Space Studies of France (CNES) and Marius Piso of the Romanian Space Agency....
ESA Academy’s Space Systems Engineering Training Course 2020
To help prepare the next generation of space systems engineers, the ESA Education Office is looking for 30 highly motivated and enthusiastic university students to participate in the Space Systems Engineering Training Course 2020, to be held from 3 – 6 March...
DiscoverEU
DiscoverEU winter round registrations will start on Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 12:00 pm (CET) and will end on Thursday, November 28, 2019 at 12:00 pm (CET). DiscoverEU is an initiative of the European Union that gives you the opportunity to discover Europe through...
Student Contests in Aeronautics and Astronautics
UPB Faculty of Aerospace Engineering has a tradition of participating in student contests in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. We encourage the current students to engage in these activities. All students who want to participate in student competitions as...
ESA Concurrent Engineering Workshop
ESA’s Education Office is looking for 30 talented and motivated university students with an engineering or physics background from ESA Member States, Canada and Slovenia to take part in the upcoming Concurrent Engineering Workshop set to take place between 14 to 17...
Opening 2019
The new University Year 2019-2020 will be opened on 23 September 2019 in the Aula of the University Politehnica of Bucharest, starting at 10 am. 1st Year students are expected at the entrance at 9:40 am. There are 55 seats reserved in the middle of the room for the...
Dr. Marius Ioan Piso DHC
Based on the proposal of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, the Senate of the University Politehnica of Bucharest awards the title of Doctor Honoris Causa to the President of the Romanian Space Agency, Dr. Marius Ioan Piso. The ceremony will take place in the...
Lessons from the Boeing 737 MAX Crisis
In the Boeing 737 MAX crisis we have extensive coverage from many affected stakeholders except the aeronautical engineers, who actually hold responsibility of every factor significant in the loss of 346 lives in the Lion Air 610 and Ethiopian 302 accidents: Design of...
Flight Training 2019
Since its beginning, the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering organized a long awaited event for the students: the flight training at the end of the second year of study. This tradition was discontinued in the late 90’s, only to be brought back recently with the...
Romanian Aviation Academy Hires Aviation Engineers
Romanian Civil Aviation Academy (SSAvC) hires two aviation engineers. Details <here>. UPB Faculty of Aerospace Engineering signed in 2016 a strategic partnership with the Aviation Academy materialized in students internship, aircraft maintenance, pilots...
3DEXPERIENCE: The New French Revolution
Today we celebrate France and we remember the French Revolution, which reshaped the history of Europe and of the mankind. Less would we expect a New French Revolution, infinitely more peaceful, to reshape the history of Europe and of the mankind starting from...