Reports

With a design for cleaning the construction site, a team of students at the Faculty of Civil Engineering won against 1259 participants from 58 countries in the international creative student competition The Trail by Vinci Construction which focuses on innovations and new technologies in building construction. The team of Lucie Stupková, Jakub Starosta, Radek Benetka and Jakub Volf won the Leonard category, which allows for entry into the Paris start-up incubator of the VINCI Construction group and to turn the project into practice together with developers and specialists.

The automotive novelty has been successfully tested by scientists at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. They developed a driving control system similar to that used in both civilian and military aircraft. The pilot does not control the individual elements directly, but only passes the impulses to the electronic control unit which then performs maneuvers itself with respect to other flight parameters.

The Unique Laboratory of Anatomical Models was opened on 25 May at the CTU Faculty of Biomedical Engineering in Kladno. The opening of the Laboratory equipped with plasticised human bodies and authentic human organs supplemented the presentation of the virtual autopsy table by Hellago, a sought acquisition by the faculty. It's basically a giant tablet with virtual scalpel that allows for virtual cuts on the human body.

Diploma works of Ing. arch. Filip Galko and Ing. arch. Veronika Indrová succeeded in the Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA) 2018. They were among the top 40 out of the 334 nominated best diploma projects by schools of 32 countries selected by international jury. Filip Galko was a student of Stempel & Beneš Studio, Veronika Indrova studied at Novotny - Koňata - Zmek Studio, both of which are part of the Design Institute I.

The Center of City of the Future at CTU-CIIRC (CCF) was opened in the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics on 23 May, under the auspices of the Rector of CTU, doc. RNDr. Vojtěch Petráček, CSc. The CCF is conceived as a virtual experimental testbed of a city, region, landscape and its technical infrastructure as well as other types of urban settlements and features that are located there. This complex interconnected system will serve as urban research tool, link academia, commercial spheres and municipalities, help present projects and augment education. This workplace is part of the Department of Intelligent Systems led by the director of CTU-CIIRC prof. Ing. Vladimír Marík, DrSc., and will be managed under the direction of Ing. arch. Michal Postránecký.

Representatives of the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, ERA-BHC CS s.r.o., Omnipol, a.s., CybEe and Ambassador of Estonia in the Czech Republic signed a contract to provide the Cyber Hygiene e-Learning Software platform. It consists of one thousand user licenses for the needs of university students and employees. For now the licence will be available for a period of two years, provided in cooperation with the distributor of this platform for the Czech Republic, ERA-HBC CS s.r.o., intended for use by selected academic staff and students of Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies and the Department of Telecommunication Technology of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies and Czech Airlines Technics (CSAT), a subsidiary of Czech Aeroholding providing maintenance and repairs of aircraft, signed a Memorandum of Cooperation on Lean Management and other projects on 2 May, through which they will exchange information important for both business development and education. Students will acquire theoretical and practical knowledge through partnerships directly from the company's operations.

The new Laboratory of Ethical Hacking opened on 26 April the Faculty of Information Technology of the Czech Technical University in Prague in cooperation with the NN Group. The lab offers students a great opportunity to try out theoretically acquired experience in practice.

The EAIE Spring Academy, the largest and most prestigious European educational event for professionals in the field of higher education, took place in the CTU - CIIRC building on 16 to 20 April.

The meeting was about the successful cooperation between the American universities and CTU so far, and their further development. However, the main topic was science, technology and engineering, especially the unique collaborative cooperation of CTU with GE Aviaton Czech, which takes place within the Center of Aerospace Research at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. This cooperation will lead to the development of the aviation industry in the Czech Republic and the consolidation of CTU's position in Industry 4.0.