Reports

This year, for the third time, the finals of the Technology Olympiad, organized by the company Technologická gramotnost s.r.o., took place on Friday, April 12, 2024 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the CTU. The competition has seen great interest among students, with almost 1,600 students registered for the school round. The one-day finals in Prague were attended by 78 students from secondary schools and grammar schools from all over the Czech Republic, who were divided into 26 teams.

The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra (SOČR) yesterday presented its plans for the 2024/2025 concert season, which will be themed "SOČR in the heart of Prague", reflecting the venues where SOČR will perform. In addition to the Rudolfinum, the Municipal House and the Dox, the ensemble is also planning five concerts at the Bethlehem Chapel that belongs to Czech Technical University in Prague. The university will thus be a proud partner of the world-famous orchestra for the second season.

A total of 11 teams entered the open call to create a manual for the use of the Bethlehem Chapel courtyard. The applications were assessed by a working group composed of stakeholders operating in the area and experts in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and monument conservation. The following teams were shortlisted: Šrámek and Krejčí architects + Steiner and Malíková landscape architects; atelier tečka + Radmila Fingerová + Studio Richard Loskot + Jan Matoušek and Miroko Morocco; Kolektiv Betlém (Sebastian Sticzay, Jakub Herza, Lenka Dřevjaná, Eduard Herrmann).

The Dean awarded teachers for outstanding teaching performance based on the recommendations of a committee established by him. The committee based its recommendations on the results of a survey with emphasis on verbal evaluations by students, suggestions from department chairs, and also took into account factors such as the quality of course materials and the difficulty of teaching. In the evaluation, the committee selected among teachers who had not been awarded in the same category in the last three years.

On 23 April 2024, the Academic Senate of CTU Faculty of Biomedical Engineering elected a candidate for Dean of FBMI. In a secret ballot, Prof. MUDr. Jozef Rosina, Ph.D., MBA was unanimously elected for the term 2024-2028 as the new Dean of FBMI.

Membership in the Athens organisation enables hundreds of CTU students each year to attend week-long intensive courses at prestigious European universities, while hundreds of foreign students come to CTU each year for professional week-long courses.

More accurate and faster mapping of water pollution as well as better control of passive surface vessels towed by ships were the main objectives of the cooperation projects of robotic drones developed by the Multirobotic Systems Group of CTU FEL (MRS) and autonomously controlled ships. The results were presented by the researchers on 22 April at the banks of the Orlik reservoir. More than 40 flying robots soared above the water and the surrounding meadows during the camp in the previous days, and around 60 experts were also involved in various experiments. The demonstrations are based on several projects on which a group from Faculty of Electrical Engineering collaborated with experts from Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague (ČZU) and companies Fly4Future and Eurosecur.

Today, Vojtěch Petráček, rector of CTU, and Hou Tuo-Hung, Director General of TSRI, have signed two major documents – a Memorandum of Cooperation and, most importantly, an agreement to establish a Taiwanese training base for international professionals working in chip development – IC.

Truly April weather prevailed on 16 April, as the Vektor Technická programme launched again this year.

Architecture teaching at CTU has moved up 50 places in a prestigious university ranking. In the Architecture and Built Environment category, it is ranked first in the Czech Republic. It is also the highest ranked discipline at CTU.