This department provides courses of lectures, seminars and laboratory classes for the following disciplines: mechanics physics and molecular physics (1st year all specialisations), as well all courses of lectures, tutorials and laboratory work relevant to physics of liquids (4th year Physics), and physics and protection of the environment (4th and 5th year Technological Physics).
In addition, Master's degree programmes are available in Physics of Polymer Materials and Physics of the Atmosphere and of the Earth. This is the only institution in Romania that trains specialists in these domains.
The Physics of Polymer Materials Master's programme deals with current problems concerning the structure and the physico-chemical properties of polymers and elastomers, conductor and semi-conductor polymers, composite polymer materials, and liquid crystals, and problems concerning the degradation of polymers which nowadays have a great impact on environmental protection. Students on the programme have the use of an up-to-date laboratory of calculation techniques, endowed with a computer network connected to the Internet, on which complex simulations and data processing can be performed. Graduates of the programme are well qualified for work at research centres such as: ICECHIM Bucharest, Centre for Plastic Materials Bucharest, Research Laboratory for the Technology of Rubber and Plastic Materials Bucharest, Research Centre for Synthetic Fibres Iasi, Centre for Plastic Materials Timişoara, Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry Iaşi, etc. They may also go on to work in the polymer materials industry (rubbers, plastic materials, fibres, varnishes and dyes etc.) as specialists in the investigation of the structure and the physical-chemical properties of these materials, in the process of fabrication as well as in the process of exploitation.
The Master's degree in Physics of the Atmosphere and of the Earth represents one of the oldest areas of specialisation in the faculty (1954) and is unique in Romania. The specialisation in Physics and Environmental Protection with a syllabus comprising 4 semesters of study as part of the technological physics programme, was inaugurated in 1993.
Alongside their teaching activity, the staff involved in this specialisation have also gained international recognition for their research work, and have published extensively in the field. The role of these courses is to prepare specialists in the atmosphere, meteorology, the physics of the Earth, and the physics of the environment, having as main objectives:
- knowing and understanding the elements of the environmental system, and the interaction between these elements and physical processes or phenomena
- understanding the processes in the atmosphere, modeling and interpretation of such phenomena for a good weather forecast
- knowing the methods, materials and technologies necessary for environmental protection;
Graduates are qualified for work in research institutions - ICIM (Institute for Environmental Engineering and Research), INMH (National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology), Centre for the Physics of the Earth and Seismology, other environmental agencies and local administration.
