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Prof. Dr. Gherhes Vasile
Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania

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Journal article
Published: 20 August 2021 in Sustainability
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The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) estimates that the environmental pressure from households will increase significantly by 2030. Sustainable consumption means making consumers aware of the social and environmental impacts of the goods and services they use. In this respect, special attention must be paid to electricity consumption since its generation affects the environment. The present research aims at capturing electricity consumption behaviors among students, after having applied an online questionnaire between March and April 2021, recording 816 responses. The results of this research highlighted the fact that for seven out of fourteen statements, percentages of over 50% for the “always” and “often” answer variants were recorded, but cases when the highest percentages were for the “rarely” and “never” answer variants (e.g., “You read the hours on the light bulb packs before purchasing them”, “You put your mobile phone in the power saving mode so that you don’t have to charge it so often” and “You unplug the electrical and electronic equipment that you do not use”) were also observed. Decrypting consumer behaviors is a key point for building strategies that will lead to consumers’ awareness of conserving electricity in households and, thus, to a reduction in their environmental impact.

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Vasile Gherheș; Marcela Alina Fărcașiu. Sustainable Behavior among Romanian Students: A Perspective on Electricity Consumption in Households. Sustainability 2021, 13, 9357 .

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Vasile Gherheș, Marcela Alina Fărcașiu. Sustainable Behavior among Romanian Students: A Perspective on Electricity Consumption in Households. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):9357.

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Vasile Gherheș; Marcela Alina Fărcașiu. 2021. "Sustainable Behavior among Romanian Students: A Perspective on Electricity Consumption in Households." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 9357.

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Published: 03 August 2021 in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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The disruptive force of the COVID-19 pandemic is lessening in power and plans are being made for the postcrisis period, among which increasing the sustainability of higher education is of significant importance. The study aims at establishing students’ existing environment-related routines during their home confinement, as a basis for applying green measures to campus living once academic life is resumed with the physical presence of students. The collected data rely on self-reported information provided by 816 students from Politehnica University of Timisoara (Romania), collected via an online, anonymous survey. The novelty of the approach is that household environment-related routines are investigated during a crisis period, with the possibility to build upon the results to implement tailored measures to encourage or diminish environmentally relevant consumption by young, highly skilled individuals. The students display a moderate awareness of environmental issues and indicate consumption routines that may be steered towards an increased sustainability-conscious campus life, through the combined intervention of the university, city administration, and stakeholder involvement. The findings are used to explore the possible directions for action towards increasing or contributing to the territorial sustainability in the socio-ecological context of Timisoara, the largest university city in the western part of Romania via educational, managerial and policy interventions.

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Vasile Gherheș; Mariana Cernicova-Buca; Marcela Fărcașiu; Adina Palea. Romanian Students’ Environment-Related Routines during COVID-19 Home Confinement: Water, Plastic, and Paper Consumption. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2021, 18, 8209 .

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Vasile Gherheș, Mariana Cernicova-Buca, Marcela Fărcașiu, Adina Palea. Romanian Students’ Environment-Related Routines during COVID-19 Home Confinement: Water, Plastic, and Paper Consumption. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18 (15):8209.

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Vasile Gherheș; Mariana Cernicova-Buca; Marcela Fărcașiu; Adina Palea. 2021. "Romanian Students’ Environment-Related Routines during COVID-19 Home Confinement: Water, Plastic, and Paper Consumption." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 15: 8209.

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Published: 14 April 2021 in Sustainability
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Educational life worldwide has been shaken by the closure of schools due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The ripple effects have been felt in the way both teachers and students have adapted to the constraints imposed by the new online form of education. The present study focuses exclusively on the beneficiaries of the educational process and aims to find out their perceptions of face-to-face and e-learning and their desire to return, or not, to the traditional form of education. These perceptions are represented by 604 students of the Politehnica University of Timisoara, who were asked to respond anonymously to an 8-question questionnaire between December 2020 and February 2021. The results show the respondents’ levels of desire to return to school (especially of those who have only benefited from e-learning) and their degree of involvement during online classes. The results also specify the advantages and disadvantages of the two forms of education from a double perspective, namely that of first-year students (beneficiaries of e-learning exclusively), and of upper-year students (beneficiaries of both face-to-face and e-learning). The study points out key information about e-learning from the students’ perspectives, which should be considered to understand the ongoing changes of the educational process and to solve its specific problems, thus ensuring its sustainability.

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Vasile Gherheș; Claudia Stoian; Marcela Fărcașiu; Miroslav Stanici. E-Learning vs. Face-To-Face Learning: Analyzing Students’ Preferences and Behaviors. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4381 .

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Vasile Gherheș, Claudia Stoian, Marcela Fărcașiu, Miroslav Stanici. E-Learning vs. Face-To-Face Learning: Analyzing Students’ Preferences and Behaviors. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (8):4381.

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Vasile Gherheș; Claudia Stoian; Marcela Fărcașiu; Miroslav Stanici. 2021. "E-Learning vs. Face-To-Face Learning: Analyzing Students’ Preferences and Behaviors." Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4381.

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Published: 15 March 2021 in Sustainability
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Since, in some higher education institutions, it is not mandatory for students to turn their webcams on during online classes, teachers have complained that their students have adopted this behaviour once the educational activities moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Considering this, the present research aimed to identify the reasons behind students’ choice to hide their faces during online classes and find possible solutions to remedy the situation to enhance the educational process’s sustainability. Thus, this article presents the results obtained by applying an online questionnaire between December 2020 and January 2021 among the students pursuing an academic degree, recording 407 responses. The results highlighted the fact that more than half of the students participating in the study reported that they do not agree to keep their webcams on during online classes, the main reasons being anxiety/fear of being exposed/shame/shyness, desire to ensure privacy of the home/personal space, and chances that other people might walk into the background. The relevance of the research, besides the scarcity of studies on the topic, is also given by the fact that finding and understanding the reasons for this behaviour are, in fact, the first steps in undertaking regulatory interventions on it.

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Vasile Gherheș; Simona Șimon; Iulia Para. Analysing Students’ Reasons for Keeping Their Webcams on or off during Online Classes. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3203 .

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Vasile Gherheș, Simona Șimon, Iulia Para. Analysing Students’ Reasons for Keeping Their Webcams on or off during Online Classes. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (6):3203.

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Vasile Gherheș; Simona Șimon; Iulia Para. 2021. "Analysing Students’ Reasons for Keeping Their Webcams on or off during Online Classes." Sustainability 13, no. 6: 3203.

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Published: 09 September 2020 in Sustainability
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The study reports on research carried out at the five major technical higher institutions in Romania. It views the human values students bring with them to the educational setting as rhizomatic lines, in the Deleuzian sense, and aims at identifying the intensity of each value, respectively, at grasping the correlations between the students’ values and their projection concerning postgraduation life, including nomadic (i.e., migration) intentions. Such an approach is novel in educational research. The 1782 valid responses collected after applying an online questionnaire were subjected to multivariate statistical analyses. The results unfold the research stages, from intensity-identification concerning the 18 values included in the questionnaire to the factor extraction and correlation findings that highlight strata beneath the upper layer of responses. The values boil down to three nodes of the rhizome, anchoring the Romanian engineers-to-be in the present setting and allowing them to grow in a sustainable manner, i.e., to become professionals, socially accepted, and belonging to a group. The findings are useful to professors, who need to constantly check their assumptions about the profile of the young generation, to better ground their partnership relation with students in moral realities that are relevant and help learners face disruption, crisis, incertitude.

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Gabriel-Mugurel Dragomir; Mariana Cernicova-Buca; Vasile Gherheș; Liliana Cismariu. Engineering Students’ Human Values as Rhizomatic Lines of Sustainability. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7417 .

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Gabriel-Mugurel Dragomir, Mariana Cernicova-Buca, Vasile Gherheș, Liliana Cismariu. Engineering Students’ Human Values as Rhizomatic Lines of Sustainability. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (18):7417.

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Gabriel-Mugurel Dragomir; Mariana Cernicova-Buca; Vasile Gherheș; Liliana Cismariu. 2020. "Engineering Students’ Human Values as Rhizomatic Lines of Sustainability." Sustainability 12, no. 18: 7417.

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Published: 13 June 2020 in Sustainability
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This paper aims to diagnose Romanian engineering students in relation to their migration intentions, motivations, and destinations, and to predict the magnitude of migration in the polled population. It presents the results of a quantitative study based on a questionnaire survey consistent in terms of number and structure of variables and responses. The online questionnaire was self-administered by 1782 students from the five major technical Romanian universities, which are the main providers of the highly skilled labor force in the area of engineering. Regression analysis was carried out to correlate the drivers of migration and the potential for real migration. According to the results, Romanian students from technical universities are inclined to migrate in a significant proportion; the economic factor being the main migration driver. The predictive model built on the logistical regression and the collected data accounts only partially for the variations of the variable decision to migrate, so further research is needed. The analysis of the students’ mindset can prove useful to understand the future interactions between the new graduates and the labor market, to develop regional and national policies regarding human capital, and to root development plans towards sustainable economic growth in solid databases concerning the engineering profession.

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Vasile Gherheș; Gabriel-Mugurel Dragomir; Mariana Cernicova-Buca. Migration Intentions of Romanian Engineering Students. Sustainability 2020, 12, 1 .

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Vasile Gherheș, Gabriel-Mugurel Dragomir, Mariana Cernicova-Buca. Migration Intentions of Romanian Engineering Students. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (12):1.

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Vasile Gherheș; Gabriel-Mugurel Dragomir; Mariana Cernicova-Buca. 2020. "Migration Intentions of Romanian Engineering Students." Sustainability 12, no. 12: 1.

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Published: 01 April 2020 in Sustainability
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The concept of sustainability has been given more and more attention lately as the effects of climate change drastically impact society and threaten the wellbeing of future generations. In this context, universities are expected to build bridges between the academic and research communities on the one hand and society on the other, and to further the values associated with this concept in order to care for the generations to come. Thus, the present study describes the causes that have led to the emergence of this concept, defines it, and highlights some of the actions taken by universities and researchers. The question raised regards the position of the top Romanian universities towards the concept of sustainability. The way it is used explicitly in their strategic plans is viewed as proof as to whether the universities give it prominence or not, and as such, act accordingly. In order to achieve the primary objective of the research, a quantitative and a qualitative analysis were carried out. The main conclusion drawn is that the top Romanian universities are still at the beginning in terms of raising awareness about the concept and in terms of implementing sustainable measures in the domains that help them build sustainable universities.

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Simona Șimon; Claudia E. Stoian; Vasile Gherheș. The Concept of Sustainability in the Romanian Top Universities’ Strategic Plans. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2757 .

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Simona Șimon, Claudia E. Stoian, Vasile Gherheș. The Concept of Sustainability in the Romanian Top Universities’ Strategic Plans. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (7):2757.

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Simona Șimon; Claudia E. Stoian; Vasile Gherheș. 2020. "The Concept of Sustainability in the Romanian Top Universities’ Strategic Plans." Sustainability 12, no. 7: 2757.

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Published: 28 August 2018 in Sustainability
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This study investigates how the development of artificial intelligence (AI) is perceived by the students enrolled in technical and humanistic specializations at two universities in Timisoara. It has an emphasis on identifying their attitudes towards the phenomenon, on the connotations associated with it, and on the possible impact of artificial intelligence on certain areas of the social life. Moreover, the present study reveals the students’ perceptions on the sustainability of these changes and developments, and therefore aims to reduce the possible negative impact on consumers, and at anticipate the changes that AI will produce in the future. In order to collect the data, the authors have used a quantitative research method. A questionnaire-based sociological survey was completed by 928 students, with a representation error of only ±3%. The analysis has shown that a great number of respondents have a positive attitude towards the emergence of AI, who believe it will influence society for the better. The results have also underscored underlying differences based on the respondents’ type of specialization (humanistic or technical), and their gender.

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Vasile Gherheș; Ciprian Obrad. Technical and Humanities Students’ Perspectives on the Development and Sustainability of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Sustainability 2018, 10, 3066 .

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Vasile Gherheș, Ciprian Obrad. Technical and Humanities Students’ Perspectives on the Development and Sustainability of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Sustainability. 2018; 10 (9):3066.

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Vasile Gherheș; Ciprian Obrad. 2018. "Technical and Humanities Students’ Perspectives on the Development and Sustainability of Artificial Intelligence (AI)." Sustainability 10, no. 9: 3066.

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Published: 07 March 2018 in Sustainability
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This article aims to show the extent to which socially responsible Human Resource Management practices are implemented in multinational companies. As more recent studies highlight, the manner in which companies in Romania presently comprehend the social responsibility of their actions is mostly aimed towards the social component of the outer environment in which they function and less towards their own employees. In Romania, at the moment, there are only a few studies that catalogue the efforts made by companies in order to become more responsible towards their employees, or in other words, studies that present Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) within its relationship with Human Resources Management (HRM). The research method we used for our case study was the semi-structured interview, applied on 32 respondents from the multinational companies carrying out their activities in the automotive sector in western Romania. Our study shows that multinational companies from the automotive sector are aware that CSR effects a series of long-term advantages, either externally—enhancing the company’s reputation and consolidating its brand as employer, its competitive advantage on the market, its media visibility—or internally—fostering an organizational culture that may generate greater engagement from its own employees, and financial advantages.

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Ciprian Obrad; Vasile Gherheș. A Human Resources Perspective on Responsible Corporate Behavior. Case Study: The Multinational Companies in Western Romania. Sustainability 2018, 10, 726 .

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Ciprian Obrad, Vasile Gherheș. A Human Resources Perspective on Responsible Corporate Behavior. Case Study: The Multinational Companies in Western Romania. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (3):726.

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Ciprian Obrad; Vasile Gherheș. 2018. "A Human Resources Perspective on Responsible Corporate Behavior. Case Study: The Multinational Companies in Western Romania." Sustainability 10, no. 3: 726.

Journal article
Published: 27 June 2017 in Sustainability
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If in the past, the success of innovation was measured primarily in the economic sphere, recently the non-economic sphere has increasingly become more of a matter of corporate management and, therefore, of innovation management. Management’s acquisition of non-economic aspects has been strongly influenced by the vision of sustainable development. Sustainability is a direction of action important for innovation as well, integrating economic, social, and environmental responsibility in the management of innovation, leading to sustainability-oriented innovation (SOI). Research on SOI approached innovation processes has been carried out in large companies, however in recent years the use of TRIZ (teoriya resheniya izobretatelskikh zadach) tools has been tried for SOI. The TRIZ-based approach is a valuable tool because it does not require an encyclopedic knowledge of field-specific technology and it enables the expansion of the scope of problem solutions beyond the skills of the team members. This paper discusses the concepts of sustainability, innovation, and risk management in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for the purpose of developing a flow chart for the implementation of the TRIZ method in SMEs and for evaluating the state of innovation in such companies. Through the use of the TRIZ method in the field of SMEs, fast and efficient processes, products, and sustainable services have been obtained.

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Cristina Feniser; Gheorghe Burz; Marian Mocan; Larisa Ivascu; Vasile Gherhes; Calin Ciprian Otel. The Evaluation and Application of the TRIZ Method for Increasing Eco-Innovative Levels in SMEs. Sustainability 2017, 9, 1125 .

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Cristina Feniser, Gheorghe Burz, Marian Mocan, Larisa Ivascu, Vasile Gherhes, Calin Ciprian Otel. The Evaluation and Application of the TRIZ Method for Increasing Eco-Innovative Levels in SMEs. Sustainability. 2017; 9 (7):1125.

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Cristina Feniser; Gheorghe Burz; Marian Mocan; Larisa Ivascu; Vasile Gherhes; Calin Ciprian Otel. 2017. "The Evaluation and Application of the TRIZ Method for Increasing Eco-Innovative Levels in SMEs." Sustainability 9, no. 7: 1125.