Reports

An extraordinary event took place at the Department of Microelectronics, which occurs at most once every ninety years. It was just such a jubilee that doc. Julius Foit celebrated. For his lifelong contribution to the development of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU, he was awarded the Trnka Medal*. The sheer number of years Doc. Foit spent actively working at and with the Faculty is nearing seven decades.

Eighty research and industry experts in robotics and industrial artificial intelligence (AI) from both sides of the Atlantic gathered last week at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CIIRC CTU) for a US-EU workshop to discuss what will be the defining scientific and technological development for industrial manufacturing in the next decade. The event was organized in close cooperation with three world-renowned personalities, Prof. Růžena Bajcsy from UC Berkeley, Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster from DFKI and Prof. Vladimír Mařík from CIIRC CTU. On this occasion, two commemorative medals were also awarded to Prof. Růžena Bajcsy. What are the main findings that will influence the industry and what is the direction of research and development in robotics and manufacturing for the near future?

Professor Růžena Bajcsy, a legend in the field of computer sciences, a world robotics personality of Slovak origin, was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Žilina and a medal of the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CIIRC CTUT) for her lifelong contribution to the development of science and Czech-Slovak-American scientific relations. This was during the US-EU workshop on the use of artificial intelligence in industry, which Prof. Bajcsy co-organized in Prague together with Prof. Vladimír Mařík and Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster.

Another edition of the Czech Rocket Challenge competition organized by the Czech Rocket Society took place at Brno Medlánky Airport on Friday, 10 June 2022.

Launching a balloon probe to measure the transmission of telemetry data - that was the dream of Jakub Dvořák, a student at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague. He chose the topic of his bachelor thesis accordingly. The measurements from his probe, which ascended to an altitude of seventeen kilometres with the help of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, will be used by scientists to deploy 5G and 6G communication networks.

The book Houses in Free Verse introduces the work and personality of the architect and Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague Ladislav Labus. His colleagues and friends have taken on the role of curators, presenting him as a poet, an intellectual and a demanding creator who is strict with himself and his buildings. The editor of the book is Matúš Dulla.

After two weeks of very intensive work, the FIRSTLIFE CTU student team successfully handed over its competition object to the organizers of the international Solar Decathlon Europe 21/22 competition in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, on Friday, 3 June, 2022 at 13:00. This fulfilled the condition for full participation in the next rounds of the competition. In the following days, the completed houses were subjected to air tightness measurements and a dynamic heating test was carried out, for which the student teams will submit their parallel simulation calculation.

The National Centre for Industry 4.0 has prepared an Analysis of Czech Industry 2/2022 on the occasion of the National Industrial Summit, which will take place on 10 June in Bethlehem Chapel. The analysis is based on data obtained during 237 interviews with key representatives of selected companies in Czech industry.

The CTU in Prague has achieved another historic success - for the first time in history of measuring university quality in the prestigious QS World University Rankings it has reached the Top 400. Compared to last year, it improved by 25 places and took 378th place out of this year's total of 2,642 ranked universities.

The Faculty of Transportation Sciences of the Czech Technical University in Prague (FD) signed a memorandum of cooperation with another major European university - Technische Universität Dresden, specifically with Fakultät Verkehrswissenschaften "Fridrich List" within the framework of the international scientific symposium SCSP 2022. After the Technische Universität Berlin, with which the faculty, through its new dean Professor Ondřej Přibyl, signed a memorandum already in February this year, this is the second very important European scientific institution since his February appointment as dean of the faculty.