Department of Fundamentals of Machinery Design - RMT6 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering 

Scientific field

Engineering and Technical Sciences

Scientific discipline

Mechanical engineering

Priority Research Area of the Silesian University of Technology

POB2 Artificial intelligence and data processing

POB4 Smart cities and future mobility

POB5 Process automation and Industry 4.0

Scientific achievements:

• Development of a methodology for identification diagnostic models based on processing archiwal data from SCADA systems using selected KDD and DM methods.
• Develpment of a methodology of a leakage detecion and localization in water supply networks.
• Development of a methodology of the self-heating vibrothermograpy (SHVT) for non destructive diagnosis of polymer composities.

Research interests

• Application of methods of artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining in diagnostics of machines and systems.
• Diagnostics of polymer composistes using self-heating effect.

The course of a scientific career

• PhD – Mechanical Engineering, Silesian Univeristy of Technology – 2006
• MSc – Computer Aided Design and Exploitations of Machines, Silesian Uviversity of Technology (2000)

Membership in scientific associations:

• Polish Association of Technical Diagnostics (since 2018)

Prizes and awards:

• Collective stipend of the FIAT concern for the best MSc thesis (2000).
• Collective award of the Rector of the Silesian University of Technology for teaching activities (2011).
  
  

Scientific and industrial internships:

• Visiting researcher at the Institute of Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology (ILK). Technische Universität Dresden, Germany (4 weeks – 2007).

Teaching activities:

• Operation and Diagnostic of Machines and Devices (lecture / lab)
• Modal Analysis (lecture / lab)
• Fundamentals of Machinery Design (design)
• Measurement Systems (lab)
• Machine Fault Diagnostics (lab)
• Exploitation, Diagnostic and Machinery Safety (lab)
• Designing Robots and Manipulators (lab)
  
  

Topics of bachelor’s / master’s theses supervised in the last five years:

• System for assessing degree of wear of bicycle cassette sprockets.
• Design and construction of a test stand for testing inertial measurement units.
• Remote-controlled unmanned airship fuselage optimization.
• Generative CAD model of a pressure vessel.
• Design of a transport line for the production process of photovoltaic cells in simulation software.
• Design of a double pulley using generative design.
• Design of a mini-exciter with variable harmonic output.

Laboratories:

• Co-Supervisor of the Laboratory of Diagnostic, Exploitation and Machinery Dynamics at the Department of Fundamentals of Machinery Design (since 2006).

Organizational activities / other duties:

• Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) inspector at the Department of Fundamentals of Machinery Design (since 2014).