2013 ANNUAL REPORT of the Faculty of Civil Engineering Bratislava TabLE OF CONTENT Introduction .................................................................................................... 3 Bodies of the Faculty ........................................................................................ 6 Departments Department of Concrete Structures and Bridges ................................................. 12 Department of Transportation Engineering ........................................................ 18 Department of Theoretical Geodesy .................................................................. 22 Department of Surveying ................................................................................. 28 Department of Geotechnics ............................................................................. 33 Department of Land and Water Resources Management ....................................... 38 Department of Hydraulic Engineering ................................................................ 47 Department of Building Construction ................................................................. 51 Department of Steel and Timber Structures ........................................................ 58 Department of Mapping and Land Consolidation ................................................. 64 Department of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry ........................................ 66 Department of Physics .................................................................................... 76 Department of Structural Mechanics ................................................................. 78 Department of Material Engineering .................................................................. 84 Department of Building Technology ................................................................... 88 Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering ....................................... 97 Department of Building Services .................................................................... 102 Department of Architecture ........................................................................... 110 Institute for Forensic Engineering ................................................................... 115 Department of Languages ............................................................................. 113 Department of Physical Education .................................................................. 117 Department of Humane Sciences .................................................................... 118 Contacts .................................................................................................... 120 INTRODUCTION The activities of the Faculty are ruled by Act No. 131/2002 Coll., on universities, of the teaching process by the students. In the previous semester 40% of by the Statute of STU, the Statute of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of STU and students took part in this anonymous survey. We require from the lecturers to other principal documents of the Faculty, including the Long-Term Development consider this information and respond to the students by a common mail. The Goals of the Faculty. An essential and inherent part of the process of evaluating students appreciated this activity at several meetings. They also appreciated the Faculty is also reassessing if the Faculty’s current administration is meeting the exhibition of their dissertations and inspections at the classes (340 per an the primary tasks and aims which have been incorporated in the document academic year in total). “The Long-Term Development Goals of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of STU in Bratislava from 2011 to 2015” with specified goals for the year 2013. The Presidium of the Faculty strives to decrease the administration load imposed on the lecturers and researchers. The documents for the evaluation In accordance with the Bologna Declaration, the studies at the Faculty of teaching performance of the departments was centrally processed with of Civil Engineering have three levels that implement the credit system for minimum claims. Implementation of the data from the accreditation documents assessment. The instruction was realized in 30 study programs with the of study programs into information sheets of individual subjects into AIS is following structure: 8 at the bachelor level, 13 at the engineering level and 9 essential for obtaining ECTS – label. We required only to add the information at the doctoral level. In comparison to the academic year 2012/2013 the study missing in the accreditation documents. program of Environmental Engineering was substituted by the study program of Constructions for Creation and Protection of the Environment. The offer of In compliance with the provisions of the Act on Higher Education, study programs for the academic year 2013/14 did not change. a creative scientific and research work is an integral part of university education activities. Over the long run the strategy of the scientific-research In the process of admission of students for bachelor studies in the work of FCE, STU in Bratislava is based on the national policy on science academic year 2013/14 the entrance examination was omitted. In spite of as well as the predicted European and world trends in civil engineering this fact, we noticed a decline of students enrolled in the first year of bachelor and geodesy. The bodies of the Faculty discussed, and the Scientific Board studies and also a slight decline of students enrolled in the first year of approved, a new principal research orientation, while considering the engineering studies. The reason for the decline of students who are able to condition of the experimental bases of the departments, the development proceed to the second year of studies is that some students cannot cope with of which was a priority for achieving a higher standard of outcomes. In the the study requirements and tend to give up their studies during the first year. field of scientific-research activities, the Faculty of Civil Engineering will aim In comparison to the previous period this decline improved from 29 to 22%. at intelligent construction and transportation systems, modern materials The number of graduates in the bachelor and engineering studies remained and constructions, modeling of the processes of the internal environments approximately at the same level. There was a significant increase of the of buildings, protection of the environment and renewable energy sources, graduates at the doctoral study level. The ratio of students who succeeded in automatic control systems in civil engineering, the safety and reliability of the last year of the bachelor study level improved. A long-term positive trend constructions, optimizing plans, exploitation of hydraulic structures and their is the number of students who achieve excellent study scores as well as the interactions with the environment, and integrated protection from hydrospheric number of students of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, who take part in various extremes, including the monitoring of global and regional changes to the competitions organized by a commercial sector and receive numerous awards. environment. The Faculty will constantly disseminate information to the In the previous period we managed to increase the number of students who practice by the creation and updating of international, European and domestic went to study abroad, but the number of foreign students at the FCE is norms, as well as realizing tasks requested by companies or institutions. constantly low (2.9% of the number of students). One of the Faculty’s goals is to increase the number of foreign students as well as the number of students The greater demands for the submitted projects of particular agencies in of the Faculty of Civil Engineering who will take advantage of student mobility 2013 and the assessment of achieved results brought most research teams to programs. focus on meticulous preparation of new projects. In spite of the effort to attain as many financed projects as possible, only twenty two new projects were The Faculty of Civil Engineering along with the STU provides a social added up in 2013 – out of that number 5 APVV, 15 VEGA, 2 projects of ŠPVaV. allowance and social services for their students. In the academic year Final decision about many projects submitted in 2013 has not been made yet. 2012/2013 403 students received a social scholarship; 286 received In total the Faculty worked on 52 projects subsidized from the national budget a motivational scholarship and 273 were paid a special scholarship. – out of that number 21 APVV, 52 VEGA, 2 KEGA, 2 from the Ministry of Culture of the SR. Out of the current number of projects 17 were completed in 2013. The Faculty of Civil Engineering applies various tools of monitoring of the The total amount of funding from the national budget for these projects was teaching process. The Faculty regularly organizes an anonymous evaluation 1.35 million Euros. www.svf.stuba.sk 3 INTRODUCTION Faculty of Civil Engineering – Annual Report 2013 In order to increase the number of projects at the Faculty in 2013 the Due to the activities of its employees, FCE, STU is currently participating Presidium of the Faculty made strong effort to motivate their employees to in all the significant EU programs, including the TEMPUS-Tacis, SOCRATES- submit the projects within the grant scheme of ESF and other. The Faculty ERASMUS, and LEONARDO da VINCI II educational programs, but we also