Reports
This year, the prestigious Generation Google Scholarship: for women in computer science was awarded to Daria Mikhaylovskaya, a student of the Open Informatics (OI) programme at Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU. The expert jury was impressed by the wide range of activities Daria Mikhaylovskaya is engaged in during her studies and the successes she has already achieved. The student works in the Humanoid Robotics Team at CTU Faculty of Electrical Engineering led by doc. Matej Hofmann.
Just like last year, CTU employees organized a collection for gifts for Ukrainian refugee children staying at the Strahov dormitory.
2023/12/19
On Monday, 18 December, the building of CTU Faculty of Biomedical Engineering was lit up again. It was a relief for the soul in the pre-Christmas time.
Ing. Marek Suchánek, Ph.D. et PhD., is the first graduate of the Double Degree program at Faculty of Information Technology of Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU) and Faculty of Applied Economics of University of Antwerp (FAE UA). He successfully defended his dissertation and received diplomas from his home and prestigious foreign partner university at the same time on 22 November, 2023. The University of Antwerp is currently ranked 280th in the global QS World University Rankings, while CTU is ranked 454th.
The final of the CTU FEL Robotics Competition for secondary schools took place at Faculty of Electrical Engineering CTU in Prague on Friday 15 December and featured 36 of the best Lego robotic vehicles that advanced from 4 preliminary rounds and from a total of 168 "secondary school" robots. Historically, the most difficult task in the 15-year history of the competition was best accomplished by the teams SAKIRI from ISŠT Benešov (1st place), Rossum's Universal Robots from Gymnasium Na Vítězné pláni (2nd place) and Kachničky from Gymnasium Voděradská (3rd place and the Robot Design Award).
Is it possible to program a working computer game in 48 hours? The participants of the GameHack game development competition tried it out under the guidance of experts at FIT CTU in Prague on 17-19 November 2023.
2023/12/15
On Thursday 14 December, the best CTU athletes for 2023 received their awards from the hands of CTU Rector Vojtěch Petráček and representatives of the Institute for Physical Education and Sport, Deputy Director Jaroslav Schmid and Zdeněk Valjent, who is responsible for sports representation.
2023/12/14
On Tuesday, 12 December, the President of the Republic Petr Pavel and the Minister of Education Mikuláš Bek handed over the professorial decrees. Five people from CTU received them.
Even instruments from the laboratories of electrical engineers, robotics engineers and computer scientists can be turned into musical instruments. In their Christmas video, researchers from FEL CTU demonstrate this in an unconventional experiment by "tuning" their technology to the Christmas tune in the English carol We Wish You a Merry Christmas.
The Rector's Office of CTU hosted the presentation and opening ceremony of the Centre for Law, Finance and Technology (CeLFaT) of the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies of CTU in Prague on Friday 8 December 2023.