Reports
The Research Center for Industrial Heritage of the Faculty of Architecture publishes a book entitled The Search for Universality. Contexts of industrial architecture in Czechoslovakia 1945–1992. The publication describes the processes that brought about the transformation of a modern factory from an individually conceived technical-architectural work into a universal and abstract format, and recalls valuable buildings that disappeared unnoticed.
Is a very specific assignment in architecture something that binds imagination or originality? The answer to this question was sought for the first time by the 13th annual student competition announced by the Central Group. Future architects were to design the appearance of five sections of an apartment building in a new residential area in Prague 6. The winners were Pavla Hanousková and Ondřej Čeliš from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University, Architecture and Civil Engineering program. The second place was taken by Laura Izabela Lukáčová and Miroslav Slezák from the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University and the third place belongs to Matouš Pluhař and Ondřej Pecháček, also from the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University.
Zuzana Zvěřová and Miroslav Myrončuk, a pair of students from Newton College bring good news for the environmentalists, as they came up with the Drink and Eat concept. For a long time they tried to figure out how to replace a plastic cup with an edible one that would eat instead of a biscuit after drinking coffee. The journey was not easy. For more than a year, they searched the home "laboratory" for a suitable dough recipe and tested Chinese baking equipment. There were still cracks in the cups. Then they turned to experts from the Institute of Process and Processing Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. The main researcher, Ing. Jaromír Štancl, Ph.D., shared further details about the collaboration.
The new air purifier concept relies on the filter material, which can be sterilized by electric current and reused. An innovative solution, the development of which was worked on last year by the team of doc. Lukáš Vojtěch and Ing. Marek Neruda from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEE), has all the prerequisites to become an effective means of collective protection against viruses such as COVID-19. It can also be used in air conditioning or ventilation systems of buildings or means of passenger and public transport, including cars, ships or planes.
The twenty-third year of the prestigious Werner von Siemens Prize, in which the Czech Siemens awards the best students, teachers and young scientists, took place in the context of a coronavirus pandemic. This did not affect the quality of the submitted works, which was extremely high. Independent juries selected the best works, projects and personalities from the field of technical and scientific disciplines in the categories: the best result of basic research, the best diploma thesis, the best dissertation and the best pedagogical worker.
2021/03/10
New specializations for bachelor program students are provided by the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT CTU). In addition to the recently modernized master's program with 9 specializations, the faculty now also offers 10 bachelor's specializations in Czech and English. Studying at FIT thus reflects current trends, IT requirements and topics of modern informatics. The teaching of such specializations as artificial intelligence, management informatics or computer security is a continuation of the faculty's efforts for continuous modernization, which will enable students a top-level education.
The Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering (FNSPE) became the first faculty within the Czech Technical University in Prague and the first in the Czech Republic to transfer the graduation ceremony to the online space. It happened on Thursday, 4 March 2021. A total of 69 bachelor's and master's degree graduates graduated.
The ockovani.opendatalab.cz website offers an overview of vacancies for vaccination against COVID-19. The aim of the application is to offer the citizens of the Czech Republic a quick overview of free capacities, which has not been available anywhere before. The application was developed by Marek Sušický and Jan Staněk from the Open Data Laboratory, a joint workplace of the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT ČVUT) and the company Profinit. The newly published open data also helped them to do this.
This year, the Association of Architecture Students at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague organized the 28th annual Olověný Dušan competition for the best architectural and design projects at the Faculty. This year's theme - without borders - was based on the transfer of the competition to the online environment and the resulting opportunity to address jurors from abroad. The international jury shared its experience with students and the general public in accompanying lectures, which preceded the announcement of the results. This took place at the Center for Architecture and Urban Planning on 4 March, 2021
Experts in the management of the construction company, investor preparation and development, with knowledge of building design, building materials and technologies, but also people able to succeed in any area of economics and management. Such should be the graduates of the bachelor's program Management and Economics in Construction, which has been returning as an independent student at the Faculty of Civil Engineering since the 2021/2022 academic year. Existing independently in the past, later it was included as a field under the study program Civil Engineering and students could choose it as a study specialization from the third year of study.