Education and research activities of the Heat treatment and surface engineering group

Abstract

The Institute of Material Science and Technology at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Informatics belonging to University of Miskolc has been conducting widely appreciated educational, research and technology development activities in the field of heat treatment for several decades. This is the consistent continuation of the professional job / work done by the Department of Mechanical Technologies as a legal predecessor. In our summary [1] published on the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the Department, we have presented the results of the previous decades in detail. The most important task of the next period is to develop of the technological and personal generation change. In this paper, we intend to detail the professional activities of the past ten years with special emphasis on the infrastructure developments and new R&D topics that play important roles in this change of generation.