Reports

Sleep is extremely important for the human body. Most people are aware that they need to sleep for a reasonable length of time and at a convenient time, yet a large proportion of the population does not act accordingly. Sleep is shortened and the quality of sleep is also reduced due to alcohol or other addictive substances. Complaints about sleep are some of the most common that doctors hear in their practices.

Open-Cube is a new platform based on the popular Raspberry Pi PICO. It aims to replace the now hard to find or worn out LEGO Mindstorms that have been used so far in the Robots course or in various robotics competitions. It supports sensors and motors from both the NXT and EV3 kits, as well as self-developed sensors such as the laser rangefinder. Open-Cube is meant to be an open platform with available HW and FW source files that anyone can build and possibly contribute their own ideas to its development.

The CTU Lions motorcycle team, composed of CTU students, proved their skills and abilities in the international MotoStudent competition held in Aragon, Spain. In this prestigious competition, where more than 43 teams from all over the world competed in the category of electric motorcycles, CTU Lions won an excellent 13th place and proved that they are among the top in the construction and design of motorcycles.

Czech Technical University in Prague hosted the first meeting of working groups composed of CTU experts and representatives of the General Staff of the Czech Army and the Ministry of Defence on Friday, 1 December. These meetings were held within the framework of the Structured Scientific Research Dialogue between CTU and the General Staff of the Czech Army and were opened by the Rector of CTU Vojtěch Petráček and the 1st Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Army, Lieutenant General Miroslav Hlaváč. The conference was also attended by the Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Army, Lieutenant General Karel Rehka.

Ninety thousand, that is the number of students who have passed through the doors of the Centre for Information and Counselling Services, established by the Rector's Office of CTU in Prague, over the past twenty years. It is ninety thousand stories, questions, study and personal difficulties that CIPS helped to solve. However, this issue also contains thousands of joys of solved problems, passed exams and successfully completed studies.

Thanks to a Fulbright-Masaryk Scholarship, educator and popularizer of playful science Jiří Zemánek spent the 2019/2020 academic year at MIT. After three years, he returned to the world's top-ranked technological university according to the QS ranking, accompanied by his colleague Kristof Pučejdl and two master's students. We had the following conversation with the two researchers from the Department of Control Engineering at the FEL CTU about their work trip, inspirations for their own research in the field of digital materials, as well as the differences between their students and those at MIT.

EuroTeQ Engineering University - successful alliance, whose further development was supported by the European Commission with 12.8 million EUR, has now expanded to include HEC Paris and IESE Business School Barcelona. On 21 and 22 November, representatives of the eight partner universities met at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) to demonstrate their commitment to joint transformation of university teaching and lifelong learning.

Experts from the Department of Nuclear Reactors at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague have scored another success - this year's award of the Engineering Academy of the Czech Republic for the outstanding technical project 2023 went to the project "Subcritical Reactor VR-2". The preparation and management of the construction and commissioning of the reactor was carried out by the team of the Department of Nuclear Reactors (KJR), led by Ing. Jan Rataj Ph.D. and Ing. Filip Fejt, Ph.D.

Czech Technical University in Prague awarded its best students with the Stanislav Hanzel Prize on the occasion of the International Student Day on 17 November. The award ceremony took place in the Bethlehem Chapel on 28 November 2023 during the gala concert of the Czech Engineering Academy. The students received the award from the hands of the Rector of Czech Technical University in Prague doc. Vojtěch Petráček, doc. Antonín Pokorný, Chairman of the Board of the CTU Foundation Stanislav Hanzel, Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering doc. Ing. Miroslav Španiel, CSc. and the Rector Emeritus of CTU prof. Ing. Petr Zuna, CSc. D.Eng. h. c.

Faculty of Architecture of Czech Technical University in Prage held a ceremony to announce the winning projects of the third year of the Dean's Award on Thursday, 23 November. The jury awarded the best studio and diploma works of the past academic year. They are on display at faculty of Arts until 15 January 2024.