By the decision of the Končar-Elektroindustrija Managing Board, professor Mislav Grgić, PhD, has been appointed as the Scientific Advisor to the president of the Končar-Elektroindustrija Managing Board for a period of two years, from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2020. This appointment is in line with the business development policy of the KONČAR Group, which includes connecting industry and science, co-operation with scientists and scientific institutions, and especially co-operation with FER on research and development projects. The Scientific Advisor is responsible for monitoring and application of new insights into KONČAR’s fields of activities and is also involved in activities related to EU projects which stimulate development of KONČAR Companies and scientific and professional development of professional staff.

“The society of university teachers, scholars and other scientists – Zagreb” awarded the 2018 Annual Award to teaching assistant Marko Đurasević, PhD, for his work "An overview of dispatch rules for a dynamic environment of unrelated machines". The aim of the paper is to analyze the existing dispatch rules for various criteria and to characterize the dispatching rules appropriate for the optimization of each criterion, based on proven experiments.

The Faculty established new research laboratory called " Data Streams Laboratory " (StreamsLab). The Laboratory was launced with the goals of continuing research and development activities in the field of data flow processing and networking, as well as increasing the visibility of researchers in the international research space, transfering knowledge to the Croatian economy, organizing teaching and including students in project tasks. StreamsLab is headed by associate professor Krešimir Pripužić, PhD, and assistant professor Zdravko Galić, PhD, as his deputy.

Academician professor emeritus Leo Budin, PhD, has been elected as a member of the Presidency of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU), while academician professor Ignac Lovrek, PhD, has become a member of the Presidency as the secretary of the Department of Technical Sciences. Presidency of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, which is the executive body of the Assembly, is elected for a period of four years and consists of the Management Board members, secretaries of the departments and five full members of the Academy elected by the Assembly. Professor Budin has been a full member of the Department of Technical Sciences since 2004, and from 2011 has been serving as the president of the Scientific Council for Croatian Research Infrastructure. Professor Lovrek has been a member of the Academy since 2008, and by being elected as the secretary of the Department of Technical Sciences in 2019, became a member of the HAZU Presidency.