In many countries, there is concern that enrolment in science and technology professions is decreasing and that more students need to be directed and interested in a career in science and technology. The reason why students do not choose science and technology studies is usually not about their abilities, but it is more related to student perceptio...

By Safet Brdarević, Dino Arnaut

The paper describes the microstructural examination of a joint of the base material, austenitic stainless steel with intermetallic strengthening classified according to its chemical composition and properties according to standard SAE AMS 5528 and metallic coating marked as NiCrAlY 4516 according to manufacturer catalog, Sulzer Metco. Coating is ap...

By Milenko Rimac, Mirsada Oruč, Strain Posavljak

It is obvious that higher education throughout Europe within the Bologna Process has been, and still is, undergoing serious and far-reaching reform processes with the ultimate goal of creating a European area of higher education. Quality assurance has been identified as one of the key segments of this process. In a series of communiques from minist...

By Ibrahim Plančić, Malik Čabaravdić

Higher education institutions are special organizational and business systems with an important role in the system of overall social reproduction. Accordingly, the activity itself, the mission, the forms of organization, the main contours of the process, structure, outcomes, and constraints are, to a greater or lesser extent, determined by the supe...

By Safet Brdarević, Nermina Zaimović-Uzunović

Maintenance has been changing over the period. Today we are moving to the fourth generation of Industry, where we are talking about great changes in field of production, work and understanding thereof. With device integration we will take care of the integration and exchange of information between machines and devices. Everything we start with word...

By Peter Krebelj

Reality in industry, thinking of maintenence approach in many cases, is disproportional with available technologies and knowledge. This situation is decreasing company´s competitiveness or decreasing the possible or projected profit. In the global market, when resources show stable or increasing prices, and final product price drop, future is...

By Haris Trobradović

As the result of combustion process in boilers of the Thermal Power Plant „Kakanj“, flue gases develop, which are undesirable for the environment, for people living in the plant neighborhood and for flora and fauna. In order to perform environmental protection a lot of efforts and organizational activities should be put in action and si...

By Elma Ekinović, Nedim Hodžić, Almir Kahriman

In this paper, the possibility of proportioning self-compacting concrete with high volume calcareous fly ash (W) for precast elements has been investigated. So far, numerous mix design methods for self-compacting concrete have been developed, so as the most appropriate method in this investigation, the UCL method was chosen. In the first phase, the...

By Adnan Mujkanović, Ilhan Bušatlić, Marina Jovanović, Dženana Bečirhodžić, Vahid Redžić

The article gives an overview of techniques for making different types of time plans. Their advantages and disadvantages due to the requirements for maintenance planning of technical systems were analyzed. Reference is made to the possibility of increasing the efficiency of maintenance by applying suitable planning techniques and optimization solut...

By Držislav Vidaković, Zorislav Kraus, Hrvoje Glavaš

Establishing rational system for waste tyre management in Bosnia and Herzegovina would represent significant contribution to environmental protection and usage of alternate energy sources. Waste tyres represent valuable raw material which can be recycled by mechanical and thermal processes. In European Union 80% of all produced waste tyres are used...

By Jovan Sredojević, Maja Krajišnik