University habilitation criteria in mechanical engineering.
| Criterion | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Publications | At least 4 articles in Scopus-indexed JCR journals, or 3 Scopus articles and one accepted national or international patent. The candidate is first author of at least 2 articles, one of them without a co-author who is a doctoral student or a doctor not recruited as a faculty member or researcher. For the other publications, the candidate may be second author if the first author is a doctoral student at the date of submission. |
| Additional evidence (at least one) | Another Scopus article; two papers published in peer-reviewed proceedings; a book chapter or a book with an ISBN; an accepted patent. |
| Conference papers | At least 2 oral presentations at national or international conferences, after appointment to the rank of assistant professor. |
| Journals | No publication fees, except for at most one open-access article in a Clarivate journal ranked Q1 or Q2. Work carried out after appointment to the rank of assistant professor. |
| Supervision | Supervision of at least one defended research master’s dissertation in mechanical engineering, or strong involvement in the supervision of a thesis, attested by a letter from the thesis supervisor. |
| Teaching activities | One published textbook or at least 2 recent course handouts (lectures, tutorials or practicals) deposited in the institution’s library; supervision of at least 2 final-year projects. |
| Institutional life | Involvement in the life of the institution or university: scientific council, head of department, chair of a master’s committee, coordination of a teaching team, organising committee of a scientific event. |