Please note that authors are exclusively responsible for the contents of their submissions. Each author is kindly asked to ensure that the submitted paper respects the ethical standards concerning plagiarism. All received papers are thoroughly checked for plagiarism. During the editorial process the submitted manuscripts are also examined using a plagiarism detection software (Plagiarism Detector). Any paper proved as plagiarism (by either peer reviewers or staff editors, before or after acceptance, during editing, or at any time before publication) will be rejected and its authors will be informed and banned from publishing in the Bulletin of the Polytechnic Institute of Iasi. If plagiarism is detected after publication, the editors will notify readers of the infraction through an editor's note in the journal, and the author's employer may be notified of the breach. Please avoid self-plagiarism: if the submitted paper is based on an author's own previously copyrighted work (i.e. conference proceedings), proper reference should be given for the original text.