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It started with playing computer games to relax after school and ended with winning 100,000 CZK in a competition and a job offer on the top. That is how one could sum up the journey of Ondřej Baštař, a third-year student of the bachelor's programme in Cybernetics and Robotics (KyR) at FEE CTU, who won the Vrgineers competition. The task was to program an image processing algorithm for a VR headset on a graphics card, which is used to train pilots in augmented reality.
Twenty future transport pilots from Ukraine are currently studying in the Czech Republic. The training takes place in cooperation with F Air. From the summer semester onwards, CTU in Prague will be an independent guarantor of their training and the number of students will increase to twenty-five. The project, to which the Czech Republic contributed from the Reconstruction Programme for Ukraine, was presented during a meeting between the Rector of the National Aviation University in Kiev (NAU) Volodymyr Šulha and the Rector of CTU Vojtech Petráček. The meeting was attended by Minister Jan Lipavsky on behalf of the Czech government, and representatives of the Ukrainian and American embassies were also present - the USA also financially supported the project.
The Computerworld magazine annually brings a list of successful personalities from the domestic IT scene. At the end of the year, Computerworld publishes the medallions of the selected three dozen personalities who deserve to be known in the extensive special TOP IT Personalities. In the current TOP IT selection, FIT CTU has even a double representation of doc. Ing. Pavel Kordík, Ph.D., and Ing. Jiří Chludil.
The delegation of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University led by its president, Prof. Chi-Hung Lin, M.D., Ph.D, visited the Czech Technical University in Prague on Wednesday, January 10, where it was received by the CTU management team led by the rector doc. RNDr. Vojtěch Petráček, CSc.
57.4 million tonnes of electroning waste was produced globally in 2021, with total production growing at an average of two million tonnes per year. Yet only 17.4 percent of e-waste is collected and properly recycled. Preparing an alternative process for the production of electronic components that will be more environmentally friendly is the goal of researchers from the Department of Electricotechnology at FEL CTU and the Institute of Polymers at the ICT Prague. Polymers used for 3D printing appear to be a promising material for replacing very difficult to recycle epoxy resins.
Apply for the EU-funded I&E programme and become part of the international EIT Manufacturing community. This is a unique opportunity not only for those who have innovation and entrepreneurial ambitions in life, but also want to gain new knowledge and experiences with colleagues from other European universities and improve their soft skills.
The project "SUNFLOW biodynamic circadian LED floor lamp" has been announced as one of the winners of the international Lighting Design Award 2023 in the category of table and floor lamps. It was realized by a team led by Dr. Jan Havlik from the Department of Circuit Theory in cooperation with the University Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings (UCEEB) of CTU, Spectrasol Ltd. and the National Institute for Mental Health. The principal investigator of the project for the CTU is Ing. arch. Lenka Maierová, Ph.D. from UCEEB CTU, the task of the researchers from the Department of Circuit Theory was to develop the hardware and software of the control unit of the whole lamp.
On 11 January 2024, Prime Minister Petr Fiala visited Jaipur at the end of his working trip to India. The official delegation accompanying the Prime Minister included Ondřej Velek, Director of CIIRC CTU, and Prof. Vladimír Mařík, Scientific Director of CIIRC. Together they visited NIMS University, where they met with the school management and academics and discussed the development of joint research projects and the expansion of cooperation between universities and research institutions. They also visited the construction of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Cybernetics, named after Prof. Vladimir Mařík, to be completed this year.
During the visit to the university, a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics CTU and the National Institute of Medical Sciences University (NIMS University), which focuses on creating a digital partnership in the Indo-Pacific. NIMS University is one of the leading private educational institutions in India. In the interview, Vladimir Mařík stressed the importance of opening the path for the Czech engineering community to India as a promising technological and economic power.
This year's first Physics Thursday at Faculty of Electrical Engineering was dedicated to Nikola Tesla.
Seventy square metres of Prague's Jaroslav Fragner Gallery have become inaccessible to visitors since mid-December. The curator Karolína Plášková erected a construction fence around the centre of the exhibition hall to highlight the growing unaffordability of housing and to present Czech initiatives and artistic or protest actions that call for housing as a basic human right.