Reports

A second detector developed and manufactured by scientists from the Department of Physics at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague (FNSPE) in cooperation with esc Aerospace company entered Earth orbit on Thursday, 13 January 2022. The unique 2SD particle detector will map so-called space weather and ionising radiation in orbit. It was carried there by SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from the US Cape Canaveral.

What is the real carbon footprint of the Czech Republic? How should companies from different industries measure it in order to reduce it? And how will companies succeed in reducing CO2 emissions? A unique platform, which brings together a number of companies from several sectors of the Czech economy and of which the CTU in Prague is a member, wants to answer these questions. Its aim is to help companies map the situation and make the transition to more sustainable operations. The first comprehensive report, called Carbon Tracker 2022, will be published in late May and early June.

The National Centre for Industry 4.0 (NCP4.0) has expanded its scope of activities to include a podcast. Starting 13 January, it will regularly publish a new episode of Inovacast every Thursday - a podcast about Industry 4.0 and the innovative people who make it happen. The content will be available on Spotify and YouTube and is aimed not only at the professional public, but at anyone interested in the future of our society and modern technology.

The ever-accelerating development of modern technologies places high demands on their protection. At the Embedded Security Lab at the Faculty of Information Technology of Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU), students learn how to secure smart devices and prevent hacker attacks. They study various aspects of the Internet of Things (IoT) and embedded systems security. Thanks to new laboratory equipment, students experiment with different types of cryptanalytic attacks in practical exercises to learn how to identify security threats and how to defend against them.

Demands for data connectivity, especially for wireless connectivity anytime, anywhere, are constantly increasing. Data communication parameters must be tested and measured. This can be done using a device called F-Tester® developed at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEL), which can now also measure 5G networks.

The ninth annual Electrotechnical Olympics brought a significant increase in the interest of competitors. More than 300 registered high school students took the knowledge test in the field of electrical engineering. Perfect knowledge was demonstrated by 19 participants who passed the test with 100% success. In the follow-up phase of the competition, the jury evaluated 25 technically oriented presentations that the participants developed with the support of their high schools from all over the Czech Republic. The ten best-ranked projects then advanced to the final round, which took place on 10 December 2021 in the online environment of MS Teams.

Watch in a short video how our Christmas card was made with FEL CTU robots and researchers in the main roles. The Christmas video with robots has so far been viewed by more than 25 thousand people on social media of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU.

On 14 December, the best CTU athletes for 2021 were awarded. The first three places were taken by canoe slalom racers Vít Přindiš, Martina Satková and Antonie Galušková. The rector of CTU, doc. Vojtěch Petráček, awarded four athletes in the presence of Director doc. Jiří Drnek and doc. Zdeněk Valjent of the Institute of Physical Education and Sport of CTU. In the poll for the best CTU athlete for 2021, 17 athletes were selected.

Klára Janoušková, a student of Open Informatics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU, has been working on computer vision, specifically on text detection and recognition, for example on a photo taken on the street. With this project, Klára has already completed an internship at the University of Barcelona. Currently, her one-semester internship in Zurich, Switzerland, is coming to an end after she had successfully passed the demanding selection process for the IBM Great Minds program.

Ambassador Tae Jin Kim of the Republic of Korea visited the VR-1 Vrabec nuclear reactor operated by the Faculty of Nuclear and Physical Engineering of CTU in Prague (FJFI) in early December 2021. He was accompanied by the Rector of CTU doc. Vojtěch Petráček, Dean of the FJFI prof. Igor Jex and Head of the Department of Nuclear Reactors Jan Rataj.