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
- EZOP - management of research projects
- Central Library of the CTU
- Summon - unified search engine of our library
- EIZ - access to resources such as Web of Science or Scopus
- Software server of the CTU
- Lunch menu in university restaurants
- Football/floorball Tuesdays for the Department of Mechanics and friends
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 2013: 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 2013: 1. Imperial College, 2. Berkeley, 3. Tokyo; CTU in Prague shares positions 51-100 (e.g. with Caltech, Chalmers, IITs, KU Lueven, McGill, Northwestern, Princeton, TU Munchen, UCLA, or Virginia Tech)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
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.