Reports

A novelty of this year's Energy Olympiad, which culminated in the final round on November 3-5, 2021, was the focus on the currently much discussed issue of climate change. Students had the opportunity to better understand the context in this area.

At the International Engineering Fair in Brno, a prototype of the STOL Cruiser aircraft, which is developed in cooperation between the Brno-based manufacturer of ultralight aircraft Direct Fly, s.r.o. and the Institute of Aircraft Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, CTU in Prague, was publicly presented for the first time. The development of the aircraft was co-funded with state support from the Czech Technology Agency under the EPSILON Programme.

Associate Professor Dalibor Hlaváček was elected as a candidate for the position of Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of CTU, at the meeting of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Architecture on 10 November. After his appointment by the Rector, he will replace as of February 2022 the current Dean of the Faculty, Professor Ladislav Lábus.

The lectures and evening performances by Color Force at the Centre for Advanced Applied Science (CAAS) Gala Assembly captivated and enthralled the audience. The program on Thursday November 4, 2021, shortly after 4 p.m. at the Archa Theatre was introduced by CAAS Director and Dean of the Faculty of Nuclear and Physical Engineering of CTU Prof. Igor Jex, who himself prepared one lecture - Fractals and Quantum Information.

As one of the largest R&D public-private partnership in Europe – kicked off in October 2016 to join efforts with the aim to build an ecosystem for aerospace technologies – at the MSV-International Engineering Fair, the Czech Technical University’s Centre of Aviation and Space Research CTU in Prague and GE Aviation Czech announced an expansion of their collaboration to demonstrate Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).

Rector of CTU doc. Vojtěch Petráček sent an open letter today to the Minister of Health of the Czech Republic Adam Vojtěch, in which he strongly protests against the aggressive campaign, using real images of the dying and the dead at COVID to "motivate" them to be vaccinated.

A light blue glow, Cherenkov radiation, is produced when a charged particle moves through space at a higher speed than the speed of light in that environment. It was this phenomenon that the Department of Nuclear Reactors (DNR) of the Faculty of Nuclear and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague (FNPE) demonstrated to students on its school reactor VR-1 Vrabec in early November.

The Korea Testing Laboratory (KTL) was established in 1966 by the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy to promote new technologies by testing and evaluating them and to create new standards. It is now focusing on the area of new Industry 4.0 technologies and the application of artificial intelligence. KTL is also an important link in pushing 5G mobile networks into the management of modern manufacturing processes. These are also the strengths of CIIRC CUT in Prague, where within the unique Industry 4.0 Testbed with the newly implemented first stand-alone 5G private network, CIIRC is experimenting and within the National Industry 4.0 Centre supporting the dissemination of these technologies to industrial companies in the Czech Republic and the creation of joint use cases.

On Sunday, 24 October, the Eye was officially opened over Nebusice. The original viewpoint was designed and built by students of the Seho-Poláček studio from the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague. The Eye is a viewing platform as well as an unconventional swing.

It has been one year since the first patient was successfully connected to the CoroVent pulmonary ventilator which was developed by a team led by Professor Karel Roubik from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of the Czech Technical University (FBME) in March 2020 in response to alarming reports from around the world about the rapid increase in the number of COVID-19 virus patients and the shortage of pulmonary ventilators to treat these patients in Italy and other countries around the world. It happened on 31 October 2020 at the Regional Health Masaryk Hospital in Ústí nad Labem.