Department of Mechanics: Links

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

Resources of the Czech Technical University

• ČVUT - new public CTU web site (in Czech)
• 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
• EZOP - management of research projects
• Central Library of the CTU
• Recommendations for PhD students (dissertation, citations, ethics, plagiarism), in Czech
• Summon - unified search engine of our library
• EIZ - access to resources such as Web of Science or Scopus
• DSpace - digital library of the CTU (institutional repository)
• DSpace - Department of Mechanics - repository of theses and other documents
• Software server of the CTU
• Lunch menu of university restaurants and of Avantgardino
• Portál ekonomických služeb - internal data management system, in Czech
• Vnitřní předpisy - internal regulations, in Czech

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
• Legato Team - Stéphane Bordas & Co.

Evaluation of research and education

• Blog Daniela Municha o hodnocení a financování vědy
• 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 2015/16: 1. MIT, 2. Harvard, 3.-4. Cambridge and Stanford, 5. Caltech; Charles University at position 279; Czech Technical University in Prague at position 451-460

Overall ranking 2014/15: 1. MIT, 2.-3. Cambridge and Imperial College London, 4. Harvard, 5.-6. University College London and Oxford; Charles University at position 244; Czech Technical University in Prague at position 411-420

Overall ranking 2013/14: 1. MIT, 2. Harvard, 3. Cambridge, 4. University College London, 5. Imperial College London; Charles University at position 233; Czech Technical University in Prague at position 451-460

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 2016: 1. MIT, 2. Cambridge, 3. National University of Singapore; CTU in Prague shares positions 51-100

Civil and Structural Engineering 2015: 1. MIT, 2. Delft University of Technology, 3. National University of Singapore; CTU in Prague shares positions 51-100

Civil and Structural Engineering 2014: 1. MIT, 2. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3. Berkeley; CTU in Prague shares positions 51-100

Civil and Structural Engineering 2013: 1. Imperial College, 2. Berkeley, 3. Tokyo; CTU in Prague shares positions 51-100

Civil and Structural Engineering 2012: 1. MIT, 2. Tokyo, 3. Berkeley; CTU in Prague shares positions 101-150

Civil and Structural Engineering 2011: 1. MIT, 2. Stanford, 3. Cambridge; CTU in Prague shares positions 151-200

• Times Higher Education

Overall ranking 2015/16: 1. Caltech, 2. Oxford, 3. Stanford, 4. Cambridge, 5. MIT; Charles University shares positions 401-500

Overall ranking 2014/15: 1. Caltech, 2. Harvard, 3. Oxford, 4. Stanford, 5. Cambridge; Charles University shares positions 301-350

Overall ranking 2013/14: 1. Caltech, 2. Harvard, 3. Oxford, 4. Stanford, 5. MIT; Charles University shares positions 351-400

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 2014/15: 1. MIT, 2. Stanford, 3. Caltech

Engineering and Technology 2013/14: 1. MIT, 2. Stanford, 3. Berkeley

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 2014: 1. Harvard, 2. Stanford, 3. MIT, 4. Berkeley, 5. Cambridge; Charles University shares positions 201-300

Overall ranking 2013: 1. Harvard, 2. Stanford, 3. Berkeley, 4. MIT, 5. Cambridge; Charles University shares positions 201-300

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 2014: 1. MIT, 2. Stanford, 3. Berkeley

Other academic and scientific resources

• Research Gate - a tool for researchers who wish to communicate, discuss problems and share their results
• The Open Academic - online articles on higher education in the US, access to the Online Colleges search engine
• The Journal Finder - find the optimal journal for your paper (based on the title and abstract)
• SherpaRoMEO - search for publisher's policies for self-archiving of your paper published in a specific journal
• Easyclass - platform for online management of classes
• San Francisco Edit - scientific proofreading and editing
• Guide to Academic and Scientific Publication by Linda Olson
• Innovating the Authorship Experience by Warren Raye, Amanda Hindle and Benjamin Shaw
• Springer's Author Academy

Education theory

and interesting links regarding motivation and new (more effective than traditional) approaches in education

• Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation - Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories - and maybe, a way forward.
• Sugata Mitra: Kids can teach themselves - Educational researcher Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves?
• Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud - Sugata Mitra is the winner of the 2013 TED Prize. His wish: Build a School in the Cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another.
• Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education - Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education - the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.