Current position:	Professor emeritus, Department of Electrical Machines, Marketing & Management, Technical University of Cluj
Mail address:	Baritiu str. 26-28, RO-400027 CLUJ, Romania
Telephone/fax:	(+40)-264-401-827 / (+40)-264-593-117
Email:	Karoly.Biró@mae.utcluj.ro

• 1953-1957 Gábor Áron Mixed Lyceum, Odorhei, Romania
• 1957 - 1962 Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Timisoara, Romania
• 1962 Dipl.-Ing.Degree (M.Sc.) in Electrical Engineering obtained from the Technical University of Timisoara, Romania
• 1978 Dr.-Ing.Degree (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering obtained from the Technical University of Timisoara, Romania

• 1962 - 1965 Teaching assistant at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 1965 - 1971 Assistant at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 1971 - 1980 Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 1980 - 1990 Associate Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 1990 - Professor of Electric Machines at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

• Electrical machines
• Small power electrical machines
• Design and building of electrical machines
• Modeling electrical machines
• High-power efficiency electrical machines

• 4 month scholarship at the Technical University of Budapest (Hungary) 1970
• 2 month (in 1967) and 1 month (in 1973) specialization at the Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara (Romania)
• Research Fellowship at Technical University of Budapest , Hungary (Advisor: Prof. G. Retter), September-Ianuary 1970;
• Research Fellowship at Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara ( Romania ) (Advisor: Prof. Toma DORDEA), October 1967, March 1969
• Invited Professor at Pannon University of Veszprém ( Hungary ) in September 2006, where he taught the lecture Small power special electrical machines. in November 2007 where he taught the lecture Special electrical machines used in industrial environment .

 

Visiting Researcher at :

Katholieke Hogeschool - St.Lieven , Gent , Belgium March 1998; TEMPUS Program JEP 9150-95.

Széchenyi István University of Gyor ( Hungary ), Institute of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, 1 st 22 nd July 2003. Bilateral Scientific and Technological Cooperation Romania - Hungary .

University of Veszprém (Hungary), Institute of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, 8 th -28 th Octomber 2003; Bilateral Scientific and Technological Cooperation Romania - Hungary.

Széchenyi István University of Gyor ( Hungary ), Institute of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, 25 th of October 9 th of November 2004. Bilateral Scientific and Technological Cooperation Romania - Hungary .

University of Veszprém ( Hungary ), Institute of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, in September 2004. Bilateral Scientific and Technological Cooperation Romania - Hungary .

University of Miskolc ( Hungary ), Institute of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, in March and November 2007 . Bilateral Scientific and Technological Cooperation Romania - Hungary .

Pannon University of Veszprém (Hungary) in November 2007, in the framework of the Bilateral Scientific and Technological Cooperation Romania - Hungary .

 

• 5 successful Ph.D. students
• 7 Ph.D. students presently working for their thesis

• Technical University of Cluj Senate Scientific Secretary, 1990 - 1992
• Electrical Machines Department Chairman 1992-2008

• Member of the IEEE Industry Applications Society (1992-1993)
• Member of Romanian National Association of Engineers
• Former Chairman of the Hungarian Technical Sciences Society of Transylvania (1998-2004)
• Member in the editorial board of the scientific journal Muszaki Szemle
• Conference director at the International Conference on Electrotechnics and Energetics ENELKO, Cluj (Romania)

• Proiectarea si executarea unor motoare trifazate cu colector , Beneficiary: UNIO Satu Mare, Project value in 1992-1994
• Variable speed electrical machines . Beneficiary: CNCSU. Grant no : 5003/93, Theme B3,
• Real-time implementation of neural, fuzzy and sliding-mode controllers for servomotors using digital signal processors, ( 1996-1997) Beneficiary: CNCSU, Grant type A, no  5003/96; Theme: 114.
• Automated electric drives with high power efficiency , ( 1998-2002) Beneficiary: CNCSU, Grant type D, Code CNCSIS: 44064/ D-23
• Real time torque-estimator for three-phase AC machines , ( 2000-2002) Beneficiary: CNCSU, Grant type A, no  : 37118/2000, theme: 28, code CNCSIS: 576.
• Seting up a laboratory with a multi-purpose test bench for real time testing of electrical machines , (2002) Beneficiary: CNCSU, Grant type E, no : 33531/2002, nr. theme: 1, code CNCSIS: 357.
• Adaptive and robust algorithms for speed sensorless ac motor drives . (2003-2005) Joint Research Project between University of Veszprém ( Hungary ) and Technical University of Cluj-Napoca ( Romania ), nr. C 18051/2003, ID nr. HU 12/02, within the framework of the Bilateral Scientific and Technological Cooperation Romania - Hungary
• Mobile systems of monitoring, diagnosis, testing and control of the electromechanical convertors . (2004-2007) Beneficiary: Ministry of Education, Research and Youth, National University Research Council, CNCSIS code 887; Grant type A, no 33385/2004, Theme: 10.
• Model-based fault diagnosis of induction machines , (2006-2007) Joint Research Project between the University Pannon of Veszprém (Hungary) and Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania), C 18001/2006, ID no. HU 38/06, within the framework of the Bilateral Scientific and Technological Cooperation Romania - Hungary.

• 14 books
• 126 scientific papers published in:
  • 57 in refereed international conference proceedings
  • 25 in refereed national journals and annals
  • 44 in national conference and symposium proceedings

• Patent (1):
  • A. Crisan, Biró K.Á. , I.A. Viorel, V. Iancu: Variable speed and frequency synchronous machine , Certificate nr. 56238/3.02.1973
• Innovations (3):
  • Biró K.Á. : Switching device for ampermeters . Patent act nr. 346/1969.
  • Biró K.Á. , V. Lupu: Switching device for wattmeters . Patent act nr. 263/1971.
  • Biró K.Á. , V. Lupu: Equipment for measuring the winding resistance . Patent act nr. 421/1973

• International Conference on Electrical Machines ICEM '82, Budapest (Hungary)
• International Conference on the Evolution and Modern Aspects of Synchronous Machines ' 91 Zurich
• International Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference MELECOM'94, Antalya (Turkey)
• International Conference on Electrical Machines ICEM '94 Paris
• International Symposium on Advanced Electromechanical Motion Control Systems ELECTOMOTION '95 and '97, Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
• International Power Electronics, Motion Control Conference PEMC'96, Budapest (Hungary)
• International Conference on Electrical Machines ICEM '98, Istanbul (Turkey)
• International Computer Science Conference MicroCAD in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006, Miskolc (Hungary) - see pictures .
• International Conference ELECTROMOTION '99 Patras (Greece)
• International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Electric Machines, Converters and Systems ELECTRIMACS '99, Lisbon (Portugal)
• International Conference on Electrical Machines ICEM '2000, Espoo (Finland) - see pictures
• International Power Electronics, Motion Control Conference PEMC '2000 Kosice (Slovak Republic) - see pictures
• Symposium on Intelligent Systems in Control and Measurement (Tempus Workshop) 2000, Veszprém (Hungary)
• International Conference on Electrotechnics and Energetics ENELKO, Cluj (Romania), 2000 , 2001 and 2002. See pictures taken at the Conference in 2002 and 2005 .
• International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Motion (PCIM '2006) , Nürnberg ( Germany )

• Prominent Associated Professor, 1986
• Membru onorific al "Conferintei m CAD, Miskolc"din 1999
• Ordinul National " Pentru Merit"in gradul de Cavaler, 2000, award from President of Romanien .

Research interests:

• Experimental parameter determination of electrical machines,
• Special electric machines design,
• Numeric modeling of transient behavior of electrical machines,
• Study and numeric modeling converter-machine systems,
• Motor Fault Detection and Diagnosis,
• Electronically commutated electrical motors

• Gardening
• Excursions