Final of the EuroTeQaThon competition with the participation of FA students

The EuroTeQ Alliance promotes collaboration between 6 European universities and 45 technology partners. It develops a new approach to education, promoting innovation and knowledge sharing. The assignment for this year's EuroTeQaThon came from energy and industry partners and the proposed themes related to the Leave no waste behind challenge. Students from eight faculties and units of CTU were registered. The best student works, which were created within the Collider project course, advanced to the final round.

"The so-called Challenge Based Learning at technical universities is a meaningful way of combining assignments from industrial partners and innovative teaching, with an emphasis on current societal challenges," says Henri Achten, FA teacher and project leader of the EuroTeQ Collider course.

Three students from FA made it to the final round. Design student Hai Anh Nguyen was part of the Optimum Recycle project, which she worked on with students from the Faculty of Information Technology. The project created a web app to help manufacturers recycle the plastics they use and reduce their carbon footprint.

Architecture and urbanism students Evdokia Podobryaeva and Štěpán Schich competed together with students from the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Masaryk Institute of Higher Studies with their project PlanID. They have created a tool that uses a mathematical model to deploy charging nodes for electric vehicles in urban streets, which can be used in any European country where input data is available.

The winning team from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Nuclear and Physical Engineering scored with a project that dealt with the optimization of electricity production in natural gas pressure reduction stations. Using an innovative cycle, the design works with waste heat from a combustion turbine and uses it for additional power generation.

You can watch a recording of the final round here.