This collection aims to motivate students to study with the help of “all-in-one” books (working tools) while ensuring the good marketing of the publishing house production. The professors carrying out activities in a certain department should benefit from such a working tool from “The Student’s Book” collection, in order to achieve the teaching objectives.

We present below details regarding the form and content information on the books included in the collection proposed by Politehnica Publishing House.

The title of the books from this collection shall comply with the pattern “..., Student’s Book”. For instance, a title from this collection could be: “Electronic Engineering, Student’s Book”.

The body of authors should preferably include all the professors within the department in question. According to the above-mentioned example, the body of authors would be formed by the teaching professionals carrying out activities in the department of “Electronic engineering”.

The book structure should reflect the teaching activities carried out within the specific department the book is intended for. This structure is to be established by the body of authors in order to meet the student’s needs as much as possible and to achieve the objectives pursued. For example, we propose below a few suitable structural elements for “Electronic engineering”.

The basic text should comprise, as a course summary, essential information about electronic device operation, important relationships and values, etc. This section should not be as long as a course, in order to prevent the excessive increase in the length of the book.

Computing examples should be included as a way to consolidate the theory and to shape up a sense of measurement orders.

The simulated experiments ease learning, designing and testing in various operation conditions, preceding practical testing.

The physical experiments are designed to acquire applied practical skills. These experiments, referring preferably to plans from the basic text, stand for the classic laboratory works. The description of such a physical experiment should comprise 10-20 lines (draw the chart..., measure..., what happens if..., etc.). The book should comprise some space dedicated to tables of measured values, graphical representations, experimental conclusions, etc.

The solved problems (and/or proposed for solving) offer a way to self-assess the level of comprehension. We know that the students would like to have complete solutions to some problems. The problem sections may be used in the teaching activity (course, seminar), as well as for individual study, as homework, midterm assessments, etc.

Glossaries of terms may be included at the end of each section to point out important concepts.

Catalogue data may be included in order to emphasize the difference between the real parameters of devices and the ideal models used in the theoretical analysis.

References, related to the specific subject and comprising the most important materials published in the country or by foreign universities, should be included. The course may be supported by simulation elements, source programmes, virtual tools, technical charts, etc., in electronic format, stored on CDs or on memory stick, either attached to the book or in a dedicated cloud.

The book, individually completed by the students, could be used for their midterm assessment or at the end of the assessment stage of the subject in question.

Regarding the professors, the volumes of this collection should not involve high difficulty, as they are consistent with the usual teaching activity and should be drawn up in cooperation by all those involved in a certain department.

It is important for the authors to understand that the “all-in-one” volumes from “THE STUDENT’S BOOK” collection should be designed and drawn up according to the “non multa sed multum” principle.

Each faculty will receive its own space for book exhibition at the UPT bookshop (bookshop@upt) that will be opened in the autumn of this year, in the University library building. We recommend that the faculties be as well represented as possible through the own publishing house production, both for the good image of UPT and for their own visibility.

We invite the publishing board members of the UPT Publishing House to promote this proposal at their faculties and gather the potential recommendations for improvement. We look forward to those recommendations.

To put this project into practice, we kindly ask the teaching professors that intend to draw up compatible materials with the proposed topics to notify us until 15 September 2017, in order for us to include these materials in the editorial plan for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Timisoara, 21st of July 2017

Drawn up by:
Prof. Eng. Sabin IONEL, Ph.D
Prof. Eng. Nicolae MUNTEAN, Ph.D