Venue Conference Topics

Cluj-Napoca is the most active city from scientific and cultural Quality Engineering and Management
perspectives in Transylvania, a very famous historical province Track coordinators: Numan DURAKBASA and Sorin POPESCU
of Romania. Located in the Northwestern region of Romania, - Quality and performance management
Investeºte în oameni! - Quality systems and organizational excellence
Proiect cofinanþat din Fondul Social European prin Programul Operaþional Sectorial pentru the city was first attested during the Roman occupation of - Industrial Metrology
Dezvoltarea Resurselor Umane 2007-2013 Dacia, in 106 A.D. Since the middle of the 16th century, the city - Quality measurement and control
became the main commercial center of Transylvania and one of - Technology and quality improvement
the most important ones in Eastern Europe. Nowadays, - Management for sustainability
400.000 people call this city home. - The future of quality
- Quality for “life”
The Technical University of Cluj-Napoca invites you to the: - Education for quality and Quality for education
Innovation Engineering and Management
Track coordinator: Stelian BRAD
- Innovative processes and models
- Methods and tools for innovation
1st International Conference on - Business and process innovation
- Innovative quality tools
Quality and Innovation in - Barriers and success factors for quality and
innovation
Engineering and Management - E-Innovation and E-Quality
Design Engineering and Management
Cluj-Napoca, 17th - 19th of March 2011 Track coordinator: Daniela POPESCU
- Product development
- Sustainable product innovation
- Organizational intelligence and competitive
development
- Project management

Important Dates:

QIEM
Abstract submission: January 5, 2011
Abstract acceptance notification: January 12, 2011
Having a strong multi-cultural nature, Cluj-Napoca is inhabited Full-paper submission: February 14, 2011
by Romanians, Hungarians, Germans, Jews and other ethnic Full-paper acceptance: March 7, 2011
groups. As multi-culturalism enables the exchange of ideas, Fees:
higher education naturally developed during the last century,
becoming one of the major strengths of the city. The city is a Conference attendance & electronic proceedings 100 €
Printed proceedings 25 €
major university center of Romania, hosting six important Gala dinner 25 €
higher education institutions, with over 100.000 students.
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Among them, The Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
PhD students will receive 50% discount of the above fees

AND represents the main center for engineering sciences and
related fields, with 70 research centers, 9 faculties, over 650
CALL FOR PAPERS academic staff and over 12.000 students which follow courses
in 42 specializations (Bsc, Msc, PhD, PostDoc) from 20 fields of
study.
Papers will be reviewed and published in the official Conference
Proceedings. Selected papers, in expanded version, will be
considered for publication as full-length research papers subjected
to full peer reviewing with appropriate revisions in scientific journals
indexed in international databases.
 Scientific Committee:
Ioan ABRUDAN, Romania
Branimir BARISIC, Croatia
Tony BENDELL, England
Liam BLUNT, England
Constantin BRÃTIANU, Romania
Leonardo DE CHIFFRE, Denmark
Adrian CURAJ, Romania
Mihaela DRÃGAN, Romania
Numan DURAKBASA, Austria
Gert GOCH, Germany
Piotr GRUDOWSKI, Poland
Jussi HORELLI, Finland
Liviu ILIEª, Romania
W³adys³aw JAKUBIEC, Poland
Dãnuþ JULEAN, Romania
Claudiu Vasile KIFOR, Romania
Ivan KURIC, Slovakia
Jutta LIEBELT, Germany
Hermann LÖDDING, Germany
Inocenþiu MANIU, Romania
Martin MOLITOR, Germany
Radu MUNTEANU, Romania
Stephen T. NEWMAN, England
Jozef NOVAK-MARCINCIN, SK
Constantin OPREAN, Romania
Zoran PANDILOV, Macedonia
Valentin POPA, Romania
Costache RUSU, Romania
Jan SLADEK, Slovakia
Mihail ÞÎÞU, Romania
Xavier VELAY, England
Aurel VLAICU, Romania
Hartmut WEISE, Germany
Petra WINZER, Germany
Plowucha WOJCIECH, Poland
Heinz-Reiner WOLLERSHEIM, DE
Stanis³aw ADAMCZAK, Poland
Peter BAUMGARTNER, Austria
Petru BERCE, Romania
Stefan BRACKE, Germany
Dan CÂNDEA, Romania
Carmen CONSTANTINESCU, DE
Michael DIETZSCH, Germany
Jan DUDA, Poland
Valentina GECEVSKA, MK
Adrian GRAUR, Romania
Dietrich HOFMANN, Germany
Zbigniew HUMIENNY, Poland
Hans-Friedrich JACOBI, Germany
Roland JOCHEM, Germany
Claus KEFERSTEIN, Switzerland
Benno KOTTERBA, Germany
Stanislaw LEGUTKO, Poland
Gerhard LINß, Germany
Jan MADL, Czech Republic
Jozef MATUSZEK, Poland
Cornel MUNTEANU, Romania
Mircea NEAGOE, Romania
Adrian NICOLESCU, Romania
Marieta OLARU, Romania
Peter Herbert OSANNA, Austria
Brigitte PETERSEN, Germany
Heikki RUOHOMAA, Finland
Enrico SAVIO, Italy
Ludwig THEUVSEN, Germany
Matti VÄÄNÄNEN, Finland
Ion VIªA, Romania
Albert WECKENMANN, Germany
Engelbert WESTKÄMPER, DE
Lutz WISWEH, Germany
Ralf WOLL, Germany
Objective:
The primary objective of QIEM 2011 is to provide an international
forum for researchers to discuss the state of the art in the fields of
quality and innovation and to disseminate their recent advances and
their views in these areas.
Conference Chairman:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing.E.h. Dr. h.c. mult.
Albert WECKENMANN
Program Chairs:
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Prof.E.h. O.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing.
Dr.-Ing.E.h. Dr. h.c. mult. Dr. h.c. mult. Dr.techn.
Engelbert WESTKÄMPER Peter Herbert OSANNA
Local Committee:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Daniela POPESCU - Track Coordinator
email: Daniela.Popescu@muri.utcluj.ro
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
28 Memorandumului Street, 400114, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sorin POPESCU - Track Coordinator www.utcluj.ro
email: Sorin.Popescu@muri.utcluj.ro
Organizers:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stelian BRAD - Track Coordinator
The Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, as the main organizer of the
Stelian.Brad@staff.utcluj.ro
conference, proposes the Conference Topics in order to capitalize
upon the research activity, experience and competences, from the
major fields of interest within the Department of Machine-Tools and
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Liviu CRIªAN - Administration
Industrial Robots.
email: Liviu.Crisan@muri.utcluj.ro
Lecturer Dr.-Ing. Dan HURGOIU - Papers & Proceedings For additional information please refer to:
email: Dan.Hurgoiu@muri.utcluj.ro Conference website: www.qiem.utcluj.ro
Lecturer Dr.-Ing. Cãlin NEAMÞU - Technical Support Email: contact@qiem.utcluj.ro
email: Calin.Neamtu@muri.utcluj.ro Tel / Fax: +40 264 415710
Assist. Dr.-Ing. Mihai DRAGOMIR - Communications The support of the EU funded project
email: Mihai.Dragomir@muri.utcluj.ro POSDRU/18/1.2/G/9136 is acknowledged with gratitude