Ion Bostan (academic)

• General Secondary Education: Middle School, Cahul City. • Higher Education: 1966-1971, Polytechnic Institute "S. Lazo "in Chișinău, Faculty of Mechanics. ==Professional and administrative activity==

• 1971 - 1974 engineer at ″Moldovahidromașina″, Chișinău; • 1974 - present, engineer, assistant, senior lecturer, professor, Department of Mechanisms and Machine Bodies, Polytechnic Institute of Chisinau (today Technical University of Moldova); • 1991 - 1992 the head of the Department of Mechanisms and Machine Bodies; • 1994 - present, president of the Association of Engineers of the Republic of Moldova; • 1992 - 2015 Rector of the Technical University of Moldova; • 2004 - 2006 President of the Black Sea Universities Network; • 2007 - present, President of the Council of Rectors of the Republic of Moldova. ==Awards==

• Order of the Star of Romania, 2000 • Order of the Republic (Moldova), 1994 • Premiul de Stat în domeniul ştiinţei – 1977 and 1999 • „Inventator Emerit al RM”, „Inventator de Elită al României” • ordinul „Merite de l’Invention”, Bruxelles: în 1997 – gradul Chevalier, în 1998 – gradul Officier, în 1999 – gradul Comandor • Medalia de Aur a OMPI, Geneva, 1998 • ordinul pentru ştiinţă „Meritul European”, Bruxelles, 1999. ==References==