Department of Mechanics: Links

This is a selection of potentially useful links related to teaching, research and administration.

Resources of the Czech Technical University

• K132 - official web page of the Department of Mechanics
• Teacher - department server for management of course materials, homeworks etc.
• Student - department server for students (distribution of course materials, submission of homeworks)
• StavNet - intranet of the Faculty of Civil Engineering
• Rozvrhy - class schedule
• MIS - management information system
• KOS - exams, grading
• VVVS - publications and other research results
• Central Library of the CTU
• EIZ - access to resources such as Web of Science or Scopus
• Software server of the CTU
• Lunch menu in university restaurants
• [[ http://doodle.com/6uv55sepn3skwb7w%7CFootball/floorball Mondays]]

Professional associations

• Czech Society for Mechanics - affiliated member of EUROMECH (European Mechanics Society)
• ČBS - Czech Concrete Society
• RILEM - International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures
• IACM - International Association for Computational Mechanics
• NAFEMS - association dedicated to engineering analysis (finite elements, computational fluid dynamics)
• ECCOMAS - European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences
• fib - International Federation for Structural Concrete
• InterPore - International Society for Porous Media

International networks

• Nanocem - the industrial-academic research network on cement and concrete
• ALERT Geomaterials - the alliance of laboratories in Europe for research and technology (soils, rocks, concrete)
• SAHC - Advanced Masters in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions (an Erasmus Mundus Masters Programme)

Projects and groups

• SPOMECH (Ostrava, Czech Republic) - group focused on the development of numerical algorithms for reliable mechanics
• Prof. Zdeněk P. Bažant and his group at Northwestern University
• Edinburgh research group in optimization and their software

Evaluation of research and education

• Evaluation of research and development results by the Czech Research, Development and Innovation Council
• Impact Factor Ethics for Editors - comments from Editor's Update by Elsevier
• QS World University Rankings

Overall ranking 2012: 1. MIT, 2. Cambridge, 3. Harvard, 4. University College London, 5. Oxford; Charles University at position 286; Czech Technical University in Prague at position 501-550

Overall ranking 2011: 1. Cambridge, 2. Harvard, 3. MIT, 4. Yale, 5. Oxford; Charles University at position 276

Civil and Structural Engineering 2012: 1. MIT, 2. Tokyo, 3. Berkeley; CTU in Prague shares positions 101-150 (e.g. with Cardiff, Johns Hopkins, Michigan State, Torino, Technion, TU Dresden, TU Vienna, UPC Barcelona)

Civil and Structural Engineering 2011: 1. MIT, 2. Stanford, 3. Cambridge; CTU in Prague shares positions 151-200 (e.g. with UPC Barcelona, TU Dresden, TU Braunschweig, Illinois Institute of Technology or Michigan State)

• Times Higher Education

Overall ranking 2012/13: 1. Caltech, 2. Oxford, 3. Stanford, 4. Harvard, 5. MIT; Charles University shares positions 301-350

Overall ranking 2011/12: 1. Caltech, 2.-3. Harvard and Stanford, 4. Oxford, 5. Princeton; Charles University shares positions 301-350

Engineering and Technology 2012-13: 1. Caltech, 2. Princeton, 3. MIT

Engineering and Technology 2011-12: 1. Caltech, 2. MIT, 3. Princeton

• Academic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai Ranking)

Overall ranking 2012: 1. Harvard, 2. Stanford, 3. MIT, 4. Berkeley, 5. Cambridge; Charles University shares positions 201-300

Overall ranking 2011: 1. Harvard, 2. Stanford, 3. MIT, 4. Berkeley, 5. Cambridge; Charles University shares positions 201-300

Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences 2012: 1. MIT, 2. Stanford, 3. Berkeley

Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences 2011: 1. MIT, 2. Stanford, 3. Berkeley

Other academic and scientific resources

• The Open Academic - online articles on higher education in the US, access to the Online Colleges search engine