Publication date: 
2023/02/09
There will be some innovations on this year’s Open Day at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEL) of CTU in Prague. The event will be held on February 17th in the Faculty’s buildings on Charles Square and in Dejvice. In Dejvice, for the first time, there will not be just a single big tour through the seven bachelor study programmes. Instead, there will be two shorter tracks, each of them for a smaller range of study programmes, and also a bigger thematic programme. It is necessary to register for the Open Day via the web, as there are only a limited number of places. Within the bachelor study programmes at FEL CTU you can study Electrical Engineering, Energetics and Management, Electronics and Communication, Open Informatics, Cybernetics and Robotics, Open Electronic Systems, Software Engineering and Technology, and Medical Electronics and Bioinformatics.

“We‘ve prepared four thematic tracks, a total of 20 excellently-equipped laboratories and classrooms, and a special Q&A stand, where you can get answers to all kinds of questions. Students can spend two hours or the whole day at FEL, and I think they will like what they see here,“ says Aleš Górecki from the international office of FEL CTU, on behalf of the team of organisers. He says that this year’s changes are in response to feedback from visitors to earlier Open Days. “Some people have already made up their mind to come and study at FEL, and come to the Open Day to confirm their decision. Others have not yet decided, and just want to find out what study opportunities they might have with us. We therefore want applicants and potential applicants to be able to adapt the Open Day to their own interests, according to the time that they have available,“ Aleš Górecki adds.

A mixture of engineering and art, and a visit to the quietest place in Prague

On the Yellow Track in Dejvice, students can take a look at research on electronics and sensors, and can also visit the audiovisual studio and the Institute of Intermedia, where the world of technology meets the world of art. Roman Berka, director of the Institute, says that on Open Day people will be shown round spaces equipped with a scenic park with lights, with a sound system, with a dance floor, or with a multiprojection system for virtual reality.

The Yellow Track will include the laboratory for research on a new generation of mobile networking. “Some of us already use 5G mobile networking, but what about 6G? You can find out more about it in our laboratory, where students learn in their classes how to set up and use their own mobile network. We’ll also show how you can become a specialist in communication networks and cybernetic security during your studies thanks to the virtual environment accessible on-line,“ says Jiří Vodrážka, head of the Department of Telecommunication Technology at FEL ČVUT.

On the Green Track, the attractions will include the wireless acoustic chamber, which is the quietest place in Prague, and the High Voltage laboratory. The Green Track will also feature a presentation by the eForce student team, which last year had a successful season with its electric-engine and autonomous  racing cars, and also the biomedical technologies laboratory. The Dejvicka part of the Open Day will feature themes connected with 3D printing, economics, management, and also cybersecurity.

Robots and computer games have their place in the classes

A busy programme is also being organized by the team at the Charles Square campus, where it is already traditional to have two tracks. “On the Red Track, visitors will encounter walking, riding and flying robots, and they will see the automatic control laboratory. They‘ll find out how easy, or how difficult, it is to design a control system for a helicopter, for example, or for a segway,“ says Krištof Pučejdl from the Department of Control Technology of FEL CTU. He points out that visitors to the Open Day will meet experts on cars of the near and distant future, and also the team of students whose autonomous robots and drones have been winning prestigious international competitions. “They’ll also have an opportunity to pose questions to their future fellow students and teachers,“ Krištof Pučejdl adds.

On the Blue Track, Karolína Poliaková from the Department of Computers will invite prospective students into her laboratory, where they will come into contact with robots and artificial intelligence, and with computer games. “We use these advanced technologies in teaching, and also in research. In addition, students can join our researchers‘ projects even while they are still working on their bachelor studies, which is a great experience for them, and will help them in their careers,“ Karolína Poliaková emphasizes.

The Open Day at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU in Prague is held twice a year, in December and in February, and each time it is attended by hundreds of visitors. This year in January, an on-line open day was held for the third time, giving secondary school students an opportunity to see from their own home what it is like to study at the faculty.