Department of Mechanics: Links

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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
  • 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
  • Football Thursday 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

Evaluation of research and education

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 2014: 1. MIT, 2. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3. Berkeley; 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 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 (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 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
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

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.
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