Woodworking machines

About the department

Address: Department “Woodworking Machines”, University of Forestry, Faculty of Forest Industry, 10 Kliment Ohridski Blvd., 1797 Sofia, Bulgaria

Location: Building A, ground flour, Office 11.

Head of Department: Assoc. Prof. Eng. Pavlin Vitchev, PhD, e-mail: p_vitchev@ltu.bg

Quality manager: Chief Assistant Izabela Radkova

Administrative Secretary: Petya Pusheva, e-mail: pepi_pasheva@ltu.bg

History

The Department of “Woodworking Machines” was found in 1953 and throughout the years has been named as follow: from 1953 to 1972 – “Machines and Tools”, from 1972 to 1994 – “Mechanization and Automation of Woodworking” (the curriculum included the discipline “Electronic Computing Equipment”). Due to the structural changes occurred in 1994 at the University of Forestry, two independent departments, namely: “Machine Science and Automation of Production” and “Electronic Computing Equipment” were separated sequentially and the old department was renamed to “Woodworking Machines”.

The first head of the department: Assoc. Prof. Valko Gochev, PhD (1953 – 1966)

Consistently the heads of the department have been:

Prof. Tacho Iliev, PhD (1966 – 1989);

Prof. Georgi Filipov, DSc (1989 – 1990);

Prof. Hristo Shehtov, DSc (1990 – 1993);

Assoc. Prof. Petar Savov, PhD (1993 – 1999);

Assoc. Prof. Stefan Velkov, PhD (1999 – 2002);

Prof. Bozhidar Dinkov, PhD, (2002 – 2007);

Assoc. Prof. Zhivko Gochev, PhD (2007 – 2016);

Assoc. Prof. Vasil Vlasev (2016-2020);

Assoc. Prof. Pavlin Vitchev (2021 – Present).

Academic and research staff of the Department during the years:

Assoc. Prof. Valko Gochev, PhD;

Prof. Tacho Iliev, PhD;

Prof. Georgi Filipov, DSc;

Prof. Hristo Shehtov, DSc;

Prof. Nencho Deliiski, DSc;

Prof. Petko Grigorov, PhD;

Prof. Bozhidar Dinkov, PhD;

Prof. Petar Obreshkov, PhD;

Prof. Slavcho Sokolovski, PhD;

Prof. Zhivko Gochev, PhD;

Assoc. Prof. Gencho Genchev, PhD;

Assoc. Prof. Vladimir Barnekov, PhD;

Assoc. Prof. Boris Asenov, PhD;

Assoc. Prof. Stefan Velkov, PhD;

Assoc. Prof. Peycho Marvakov, PhD;

Assoc. Prof. Nikolina Ilkova, PhD;

Assoc. Prof. Vasil Vlasev;

Assoc. Prof. Pavlin Vitchev, PhD;

Chief Asisst. Prof. Dancho Sabevski;

Chief Asisst. Prof. Stoyan Kostov;

Chief Asisst. Prof. Petar Nikolov;

Chief Asisst. Prof. Valentin Atanasov;

Chief Asisst. Prof. Izabela Radkova;

Chief Asisst. Prof. Georgi Kovachev;

Asisst. Prof. Lachezar Nikolov;

S.R.F. Radka Dimitrova;

S.R.F. Anton Cheshmedzhiev, PhD;

S.R.F. Nikolay Yordanov;

Eng. Darina Dacheva;

Eng. Todor Zlatarov;

Eng. Radko Stoyanov;

Petar Stoyanov;

Hrisanta Tsalova;

Eng. Valentina Haralampieva;

Eng. Gergana Koleva.

Academic composition of the department:

проф. д-р инж. Живко Бонев Гочев

Prof. PhD Georgi Yordanov Vukov

Assoc. Prof. Eng. PhD Pavlin Biserov Vichev

доц. д-р инж. Валентин Атанасов Атанасов

chap. Assistant PhD Eng. Izabela Kirilova Radkova

Prof. Petko Grigorov, PhD;

Chief ас. д-р Петър Николов Николов

Chief ас. д-р Георги Константинов Ковачев

ас. Енгинджан Али Халим

Woodworking machines

Woodworking machines

About the department

History

Consistently the heads of the department have been:

Academic and research staff of the Department during the years:

Academic composition of the department:

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