Dr. Sorin Mihăilescu is an Associate Professor at the University of Petroșani, Romania. He has teaching activity in the field of mechanical engineering and transport engineering. His research interests are in the planning, functional design, operation and management of facilities for road and railway transportation and also design, construction, maintenance and usage of mining equipment. Was Editor-in-Chief of the magazine ”Annals of the University of Petroșani - Mechanical Engineering”. He is member of the National Register of Evaluators for the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, C10 - Mechanical Engineering and member of professional associations like Ukrainian Transport Academy; Romanian Society of Automobile Engineers. Author and co-author of numerous scientific publications and 1 invention.