University of Veszprém is the leading higher education institute of mid-Transdanubian area of Hungary. It has more than 60 programs for 7500 students.

Institute of Economics is responsible for economics, business and management programs. Seven departments offer mandatory and elective courses. Erasmus students are welcome to come.

The Department of Management gives the professional background of the Engineering Management program.

Our teaching and research activity includes strategic, logistics, production and human management.

In management of production and logistics we deal mainly with:

• Sensibility study of operation process based on discrete simulation and perturbation,
• Influence of activity based costing on operational decisions,
• Time based competition in operation management decisions,
• Application of knowledge based systems in production management,
• Investigation of operation management problems of flexible production,
• Evaluation of new production management tendencies (JIT, lean management, active production, concentrate production, virtual enterprise) with emphasis on Hungarian introduction,
• Investigation of reliability and maintenance of production systems,
• International comparison of solutions in different countries. (USA , Germany, Hungary).

Contact

Zoltán KOVACS Professor, Director of Institute of Economics at University of Veszprém. His primary research areas are the management of logistics, production and maintenance. Before he joined the University, he had worked for the meat production company ZALAHÚS and a coal mining trust. He has distance and continuing education experiences. He is the former director of the Center for Continuing Education at UV. He used to teach at University of Wisconsin Madison, US. Professor Kovacs' training and consulting references include companies like Plati, General Electric, Philips. e-mail: kovacsz@gtk.vein.hu