He is head of the Department of Technologies and Materials and Vice-Rector for Development and Construction of the University. He served as Vice-Dean for 4 years and Vice-Rector for 8 years. He works in the area of evaluating of material properties, material failures, analysis and quantification of production factors influence in production of thin steel sheet stamping parts, modelling and simulation of technological processes, mainly forming processes. He is national secretary and a member of International Deep-Drawing Research Group. He is author of 5 monographs and more than 200 publications in journals and conference proceedings at Slovakia and abroad. His published works were cited 115 times. He has been worked on 60 grant projects, research tasks and 47 projects solved for industry. Ján Slota, doc. Ing. PhD. (born 1974) is associated professor of Department of Technologies and Materials, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Košice. He is graduated on Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, TU in Košice, where he received also scientific degree PhD and where he habilitated at the field of mechanical engineering processes and materials. From 2004, he has been head of section of Computer Aided of Production Engineering on the Department. His research works are mainly focused on the area of computer simulations in deep-drawing processes. He is a member of International Deep-Drawing Research Group. He is author of three university textbooks and more than 70 publications in journals and conference proceedings at Slovakia and abroad. He has been worked on several grant projects, research tasks and many projects solved for industry. Miroslav Tomáš, Ing. PhD.