Reports

The team of the Department of Control Engineering from Faculty of Electrical Engineering experienced a successful summer. After local students won first place by a wide margin in the Autonomously Driven Vehicle Competition, which took place from 10 to 12 July 2024 at the American Control Conference in Toronto, the decision was made to establish a new intensive training course with international participation at the faculty.

Berislav Vekić, Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to the Czech Republic, Jan Korseska, Mayor of Prague 2 and Vojtěch Petráček, Rector of Czech Technical University in Prague, signed a memorandum expressing their will to cooperate in the long term to promote cultural and historical heritage and develop mutual relations.

The prize, sponsored by the CEACM (The Central European Association for Computational Mechanics), is awarded annually to outstanding personalities in the Central and Eastern European region for their contribution to computational mechanics. It is named after Herbert Mang, a living Viennese professor who founded CEACM in 1992, was its first president and was instrumental in the development of computational methods and the development of the finite element method.

The eForce Prague Formula team from CTU achieved extraordinary success at this year's Formula Student Germany (FSG), one of the most prestigious engineering competitions in the world. The team placed 3rd overall and 3rd in the prestigious Engineering Design Event (EDE) category.

It is characterized by high conductivity but has the properties of an insulator at the same time. In the future, the newly discovered material could replace commonly used semiconductors such as silicon or germanium, and open the door to the world of “carbon electronics”. It was a team of researchers from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the CTU, the Technical University of Berlin, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin research center and the Element Six GmbH company who succeeded in proving the existence of another carbon allotrope.

The National Contact Centre - Gender and Science, within the framework of the STRATIN+ shared activities project, is preparing analyses of Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) in the Czech Republic. The aim of the study is to map the existence of GEPs in public and state universities and public research organisations over the years and to analyse their content, thus providing feedback to the institutions.

Training on safe behaviour on the Internet for employees, initial analyses of IT systems, as well as the involvement of students in long-term internships - all this brought the first months of cooperation between the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic and CTU Faculty of Electrical Engineering. The aim of the cooperation is to increase the information security of the top state office.

Four CTU students represented the Czech Republic at the Summer Olympics in Paris. We asked each of them a few questions and asked them for actual pictures. Individual medallions appeared on CTU social media, here is a summary of them (published by start date).

In July 2024, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports approved the project proposal entitled "Support for Green Skills and Sustainability at CTU in Prague" with registration number NPO_CVUT_MSMT-2123/2024-4. The project has been prepared for the call launched for the RePowerEU plan of the National Recovery Plan, Component 7.4 "Adaptation of School Programmes - Promotion of Green Skills and Sustainability at Universities". The CTU project was supported with a maximum total amount of CZK 59,142,000 in eligible project expenditure.

The Max Planck Society has awarded Dr. Marketa Icha Kubánková, a graduate of Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of Czech Technical University, the H. Neuhaus prize. Dr. Icha Kubánková is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and the Max Planck-Institut für Physik und Medizin.