History
The social program includes welcome party in the Technical University Leisure House, official dinner in the ancient town of Sozopol, and excursion to some of the picturesque summer places of the Southern Bulgarian coast.
The symposium aims at becoming an annual scientific forum and venue for meetings, exchange of experience and ideas in the area of metrology and metrological ensurance between Bulgarian and foreign countries colleagues – metrologists, working in various fields of science, technologies, production, education, etc. Till the third issue of the symposium (1992) the basic topics were in the area of metrology and metrological ensurance of the measurement of electrical quantities.
From the fourth symposium (1993) as co-organisers were attracted Prof. D.Sc. Hristo K. Radev and the headed by him laboratory “Coordinate measurements in mechanical engineering” at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Technical University of Sofia. With their participation in the topics area were included also measurements of geometrical and mechanical quantities. Later the topics area was further expanded and today it includes the basic branches of metrology and metrological ensurance.
The name of the Symposium has been several times changed – “Metrology” (1990-1994), “Metrology and reliability” (1995-1996), “Metrology and metrological ensurance” (1997 till nowadays). These names specify the scientific and application area - metrology and metrological ensurance.
Chairmen of the Organising committee are Prof. Dr. Ivan N. Petrov (1990-1995), Prof. Dr. Dimitar S. Russev (1996-2000) and from 2001 – Prof. D.Sc. Hristo K. Radev.
The time and the venue of the Symposium are traditional, without changes – the mid of September in the town of Sozopol in the recreation home of the Technical University of Sofia.
The main organiser of the Symposium is the Technical University of Sofia, represented in the period of 1990 to 1995 by the two already mentioned laboratories and from 1996 till today – by the two departments “Electrical measurement technique” of the Faculty of Automation and “Precise technique and instrumentation” of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.
Co-organisers of the Symposium are the State Agency in Metrology and Technical Supervision ( the previous Committee on Standardization and Metrology), the Union of metrologists in Bulgaria, “The Nuclear Power Station – Kozloduy” - EAD and others.
The sponsors of the Scientific Symposium are various Bulgarian and foreign organizations and companies - Кarl Zeiss Industrielle Mestechnik GmbH, Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbH, Bruel & Kjaer, “UNITECH” SK, “KALVACHA” Ltd., “EMSYST” Ltd, “INTERINSTRUMENTATIONSERVICE” Ltd, etc.
The Symposium has official contacts and collaboration with the international organizations IEEE through the IEEE Bulgarian chapter and WSEAS (World Scientific Engineering and Academic Society).
In the years the Symposium has been recognized as a competent scientific forum with broad international participation. The topics of the papers are of underlined scientific and scientific application character and are related with the problems of production and practice. The requirements to the quality, the scientific and application contributions of the reported papers, which in the last years (from 2000 on) are being reviewed by the International Programme Committee, are constantly increasing.
The participants and the audience of the Symposium are from diverse areas of science and practice in Bulgaria and abroad – Technical Universities, Scientific Institutes and organizations, Metrology divisions of state and private organizations and companies, etc. The foreign participants are mainly from the universities, the various metrology organizations and companies from Germany, Great Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, the Czech republic, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Greece, Romania, Macedonia, Turkey, etc.
Organising Committee
