Gabriel-Mugurel Dragomir

• Head of Department at Polytechnic University of Timişoara

In a world in which the political crisis is escalating, causing the emergence of war and conflict, even in unexpected regions, the post-2021 Afghan situation of the population in general, and of the women in particular, is a reminder of the atrocities caused by colliding political powers. This article aims to raise Romanian students’ awareness of p...

This study compares online education to traditional face-to-face education in terms of effectiveness as perceived by university students. Within the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic, the research provides valuable insights into the rapid adaptation to digital learning environments. Through data collection and analysis, the study examines key aspe...

A major issue recurrent in sustainability ensuring concerns is pollution due to human activities, mainly related to the reduction in waste generation. The present study aims to identify students’ awareness of waste management, their daily routines in separately collecting recyclable waste, and their behaviors leading to reducing wasteful consumptio...

Echipa formată din Vasile Gherheș, Mariana Cernicova-Bucă, Gabriel-Mugurel Dragomir și Adina Palea împărtășesc, în capitolele prezentului volum, experiențele de promovare a sustenabilității prin proiectul University Students Engaging in Responsible and Sustainable Energy Consumption (USE-REC), finanțat cu sprijinul granturilor acordate prin mecanis...

The team formed by Vasile Gherheș, Mariana Cernicova-Bucă, Gabriel-Mugurel Dragomir and Adina Palea authoring the chapters of this volume share their experiences in promoting sustainability through the project University Students Engaging in Responsible and Sustainable Energy Consumption (USE-REC), funded with the support of grants granted through...

The understanding of student profiles is critical in educational processes, providing valuable information on the learner’s knowledge, aspirations, expectations, and behaviors. The research aims to profile students’ relationship with electric energy resources across three issues: the use of energy-efficient devices, interactions with available devi...

Climate awareness is a major topic of concern, and the Green Deal in Europe attempts to turn states, communities, and local actors towards more environmentally conscious action to reduce, by 2030, the net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55%. Universities voluntarily adhered to the 2030 Agenda, displaying a wide variety of approaches to respond...

The paper is an attempt to present current perceptions of Romanian PR practitioners on the output of higher education institutions, delivering programs for this new profession. It is based on a qualitative survey and on the discussion of the results, compared against relevant literature regarding the “professional identity” of PR specialists and th...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse faculty and students’ takeaway lessons from the pandemic classroom, comparing the educational partners’ views on the transition from in-campus to online learning. Data collection was conducted through focus groups to understand the key issues at the level of an educational program, the collected responses bei...

The COVID-19 pandemic has left a mark on education as it had been known before. Beyond his, attention needs to be paid to the transition back to face-to-face learning and its implications. Within this context of change, the present research focuses on identifying the students’ preferred aspects of online education during the pandemic, namely learni...

Socio-cultural patterns and communication styles differ from culture to culture. As such, the way in which people deal with a crisis situation is also culture-dependent. The COVID-19 pandemic has pointed, once more, to the cultural diversity of the world through a variety of reactions to the measures imposed by the global spread of the deadly virus...

The current study tackles teaching as a leading source of learning as part of the educational process. The research was conducted at University Politehnica of Timişoara (UPT), and it is based on an exploratory case study that consisted of an in-depth analysis of the institutional documents, archives, periodical reports and statistics available on t...

Aiming at shedding light on the implications the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the students’ social and personal lives, this study has focused on the verbal and non-verbal communication and on the surveyees’ personal lives during the pandemic as well as on the perspective of changing their communication behaviors after the pandemic. The 409 responde...

The response of most educational institutions to the health crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic was the adoption of emergency remote teaching and assessment. The paper aims to evaluate students’ satisfaction with assessment activities in a Romanian university and to identify elements pertaining to sustainable assessment in the post-pandemic p...

The study reports on research carried out at the five major technical higher institutions in Romania. It views the human values students bring with them to the educational setting as rhizomatic lines, in the Deleuzian sense, and aims at identifying the intensity of each value, respectively, at grasping the correlations between the students’ values...

This paper aims to diagnose Romanian engineering students in relation to their migration intentions, motivations, and destinations, and to predict the magnitude of migration in the polled population. It presents the results of a quantitative study based on a questionnaire survey consistent in terms of number and structure of variables and responses...

Monografia 25 DE ANI DE COMUNICARE ȘI TRADUCTOLOGIE ÎN UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA TIMIȘOARA, 1993-2018, dorește să prezinte cele mai importante momente care au marcat evoluția specializărilor de comunicare și limbi moderne aplicate în Universitatea Politehnica Timișoara, de la înființarea primei specializări de Comunicare profesională în anul 1993,...

In nowadayss’ society, founded on knowledge and information, universities and schools seem to be in a constant competition regarding educational offer, but more than that, they find themselves in a continuous and intense process of reorganization and adaptation under the pressure imposed by the change in the evolution of communication technologies...

Adult training in the field of equal opportunity and treatment is the main way of raising awareness, informing and promoting measures to prevent and fight discrimination in Romania. Contrary to many andragogical principles according to which adults learn if by learning they can solve specific personal problems, these training courses are generally...