Reports
Vojtěch Rudorfer, a recent graduate and doctoral student at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University, became the winner of the 6th annual Kaplicky Internship competition for beginning architects. He succeeded with his diploma project of a hangar for a research airship in Svalbard, which he worked on in the studio of Mirko Baum and Vojtěch Hybler. He also gets the opportunity to complete a three-month paid internship in the famous London studio of David Chipperfield. The competition, reminiscent of the legacy of architect Jan Kaplický, is organized by the Bakala Foundation in cooperation with the Museum of Design in London and the Kaplicky Center Endowment Fund.
CTU student projects were presented to the public on Technická Street on Wednesday, 30 September during the exhibition entitled Day with formulas and racing motorcycles of CTU 2020. In addition to electric and combustion formulas from the workshops of CTU CarTech team from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and from the eForce FEE Prague Formula from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, for the second time this year the racing motorcycles of the CTU Lions team from the Faculty of Transportation Technology and the first Czech autonomous electric formula of the eForce team showcased as well.
Czech Technical University in Prague has become a member of the SIAM Student Chapter Prague, a student association supported by the worldwide professional organization of applied mathematicians, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
This year's INSPIRELI AWARDS competition was attended by 1336 students from 106 countries around the world. A total of 1305 projects were sent to all categories of the competition, which is about a third more than in the previous year. The greatest interest has traditionally been in the Architecture category, in which 1,093 projects competed to enter the finals, and 39 projects will eventually compete for victory. Six projects in the categories of Interior Design and Urbanism Also entered the finals. In the specific category INSPIRELI COMPETITION, in which the students had the task of designing an amphitheater in Burkina Faso this year, out of a total of 146 designs, the top twenty-four reached the finals. This year, for the first time, high school students could compete in the INSPIRELI LUMION PRIZE special category. From the Faculty of Civil Engineering, which together with the Czech Technical University in Prague co-organizes the competition, the works of two students, both in the Architecture category, made it to the narrowest final selection.
The CTU Orientation Week was launched on 14 September, during which we welcomed approximately 250 foreign exchange students from almost 50 countries. The event was organized by the student teams International Student Club at CTU and Study at CTU.
An important part of the NATO 2020 Days in Ostrava and the Air Force Days of the Army of the Czech Republic was the ceremonial awarding of members and employees of the integrated rescue system, security forces and public hygiene stations. Among the winners was also a student of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of the Czech Technical University, doctoral study program of Population Protection, Ing. Denisa Charlotte Ralbovská.
A team of scientists from the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic participated in the development of a new patent for a device used to test the toxicity of complex mixtures of air pollutants. The toxicological incubator, on which experts from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Czech Technical University and the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague also cooperated, is able to test, for example, emissions of internal combustion engines in real operation.
Two new student formulas were revealed on 4 September after technical presentations. Despite the cancellation of all international Formula Student races, the eForce FEE Prague Formula team did not slow down in development and presented the invited guests with a complete novelty in addition to the optimized electric formula model - a self-driving formula that the team was the first to construct in the Czech Republic. Both formulas have won several awards this summer in online alternatives to traditional international races.
On September 1st, 2020, Mr. Ching-Jong Liao, President of the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, signed a memorandum of cooperation between the two universities aimed at further common opportunities and developments in science and research. Memorandum signed by the Rector of CTU in Prague doc. Vojtěch Petráček was brought to the handover ceremony by the Vice-Rector for Information System of the Czech Technical University in Prague, Radek Holý.
You can visit the world premiere of the exhibition "iMucha - the famous collection in motion" in the Prague Municipal House from 21 August. Among other things, the exhibition features an animated self-portrait of Alfons Mucha or moving beauties from his famous posters. The animations were created also with the help of the EbSynth tool, which was developed by the emerging company Secret Weapons, which is backed by conceptual designer Jakub Javora and researchers Ondřej Jamriška and Šárka Sochorová from the team of prof. Daniel Sýkora from the Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Thanks to their efforts, the world-unique algorithms developed at the department are coming into real practice.