Mircea Bara (born in 1959) is currently professor at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Automotive, Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering,, Dept. of Mechatronics and Machine Dynamics. He received the PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in 2000. He specialized in the field of modelling the mechanical transmissions (1988) and CATIA V5 (1999) at the University of Padova and University of Zaragoza, respectively. The main field of scientific activity is the development of new types of mechanical transmissions and their implementation in various industrial equipment. In this field he led two nationally funded research projects and abstained from two inventive patents. He has published three specialized books, over 70 articles published in the country and abroad, of which 10 are included in internationally recognized databases (ISI Journal, ISI Proceeding, Scopus, etc.) and is the co-author of three inventions. He is awarded the Aurel Vlaicu prize of the Romanian Academy for the group of works Front ball reducers.