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Graduation ceremony in 2025 is photographed by MgA. Jan Eliáš. Register for Alumni and get a 50% discount.

27. 5. 2025 News 9920 - Public Relations

A dragon spar adorns the entrance to the university's main building

Representatives of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Secondary School - Technical Vocational Training Centre Uherský Brod today opened an exhibition of the Dragon Claw exhibit in the entrance carousel of the building A.

9. 4. 2025 News FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Posts on 3D printing by photopolymerisation reach record number of citations

The paper titled A Review of Vat Photopolymerization Technology: Materials, Applications, Challenges, and Future Trends of 3D Printing, authored by a team from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, has achieved historical success in citation numbers. With over 500 citations in the Scopus database, this paper has become the most cited work affiliated with VSB-TUO, featuring original domestic authors, within four years.

1. 4. 2025 News 9920 - Public Relations

Establishment of Protohub Training Centre at VSB-TUO – Significant Cooperation with Prusa Research

A new Protohub Training and Teaching Centre has been established at VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava. This is the result of the university's long-term cooperation with the international leader in 3D printing, Prusa Research. The centre is equipped with state-of-the-art 3D printers and technologies worth over half a million crowns, which provides quality facilities for training and experiments in the field of 3D printing.

31. 3. 2025 Official statements 9920 - Public Relations

Postdoc in Machining, Engineering Metrology and Additive Technologies (Candidates for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025) (VSB - Technical University of Ostrava)

Dean of Faculty of Mechanical Engineering VSB – Technical University of Ostrava announces a selection procedure for Candidates for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 - Postdoc in Machining, Engineering Metrology and Additive Technologies (researcher) for the Department of Machining, Assembly and Engineering Metrology.

11. 3. 2025 Job opportunities FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Meeting with the Minister at the International Industrial Fair

On Tuesday, 8 October 2024, Minister of the Environment Petr Hladík visited the stand of the Department of Machining, Assembly and Engineering Metrology of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at this year's 65th International Industrial Fair in Brno.

9. 10. 2024 News 346 - Department of Machining, Assembly and Engineering Metrology

Innovation sanctified by experts from the peer-reviewed magazine

The scientific team from the Department of Machine Parts and Mechanisms published an article entitled "Modern Design of Carrier for Overhead Conveyor" in the prestigious journal Applied Sciences published by MDPI.

19. 8. 2024 News 347 - Department of Machine Parts and Mechanisms

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering has another faculty school

On the last Friday in June, students received their report cards at secondary schools. The Dean of the FME in Uherský Brod handed over another certificate with the designation "faculty school".

15. 7. 2024 News FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Two new relaxation zones

There are new relaxation zones on the 4th and 7th floors of the building A.

12. 7. 2024 News FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Formula TU Ostrava team presents its ninth model of racing car

Since September last year they have been diligently designing, testing, constructing and the result of their work was, as is tradition, presented at an event known as Rollout. The students involved in the project unveiled the ninth monopost.

24. 6. 2024 News FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Internship in Protolab

He found himself in Ostrava by coincidence, but he came twice. The first time he was brought here in 2022 by the Erasmus programme, the second time he went to the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of VSB-TUO on purpose. Twenty-one-year-old Gabriel Prat from France was one of the trainees in Protolab. What is his experience?

11. 3. 2024 News 346 - Department of Machining, Assembly and Engineering Metrology

Dean Čep's second term begins

On the first of March, the second "four-year term" of the current management of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of VSB-TUO, headed by Dean Robert Čep, starts. What changes is the re-elected head of the faculty planning?

1. 3. 2024 News FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering has new 3D printing technology

Before the Christmas holidays, the Department of Mechanical Technology acquired a new robotic laser device for its inventory. The LMD (Laser Metal Deposition) technology, or the deposition of laser melted metal powder, is one of the latest trends in welding.

22. 1. 2024 News FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

PF 2024

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

21. 12. 2023 News FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

10th year of the robotics conference hosted by VŠB-TUO

The beginning of December was dedicated to a scientific conference for the Department of Robotics, which brought together Master and PhD students in robotics across Czech universities to establish a natural collaboration and share different scientific approaches in the field of planning, artificial intelligence and robotics.

19. 12. 2023 News 354 - Department of Robotics

It was a success. The innovation by FS experts is already working in practice

Better efficiency and greater savings in the context of operation and maintenance are promised at Maxion Wheels after experts from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering helped them to optimise the design of the wheel carrier on the rope conveyor. Doctors Lukáš Hruzík and Miroslav Trochta from the Department of Machine Parts and Mechanisms are behind the innovation, which is already being used in practice.

11. 12. 2023 News 347 - Department of Machine Parts and Mechanisms

Students of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering successfully participated in an international workshop in Gliwice

In the autumn of this year, students mainly from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of VSB-TUO actively participated in an international workshop called Global Capstone Design 2023. Ten teams consisting of Polish, Korean and Czech students were given the opportunity to work in teams on the topic of Future mobility and compete for the best project.

6. 12. 2023 News 330 - Department of Applied Mechanics

Robert Čep continues as Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

The Academic Senate of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering today confirmed by its election the continuation of the current dean in office. Professor Robert Čep was the only candidate on whom all eleven departments agreed in their proposals. He will continue to lead the institution in the 2024-2028 term.

5. 12. 2023 News FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Gold medal for cooperation with a Vietnamese university

The cooperation between the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering VSB-TUO and the Ton Duc Thang University in Vietnam has been successfully developing for several years, which was appreciated by the management of both institutions during a recent visit of representatives of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. They brought a gold medal to Vietnam as a thank you for their mutual efforts.

14. 11. 2023 News FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Meeting with the Ambassador of the Czech Republic in Vietnam

Representatives of the management of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of VSB-TUO met with His Excellency, Ambassador of the Czech Republic in Vietnam Hynek Kmoníček during their working trip to Vietnamese universities.

3. 11. 2023 News FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Newcomers got a chance to compete at the robot competition in Poland

After a demanding competition in the USA, the RoverOva team set off for a traditional racing tour in Kielce, Poland. With their mobile robot, the students did not achieve the impressive, in many cases medal placements from the past, but they managed to break the newcomers in and motivate them to further work in the team.

31. 10. 2023 News FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Medal for successful cooperation for Polish colleagues

There has been a long-standing cooperation between experts from the Department of Mechanical Technology at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and their counterparts at the Faculty of Non-Ferrous Metals of AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, which has brought interesting scientific findings. Professor Stanislav Rusz now awarded the joint work with a gold medal.

23. 10. 2023 News FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

The last and most prestigious race was managed by the formula team with honour

The Ostrava Formula team finished the racing season by participating in the most prestigious Formula Student competition in Germany. "Qualification alone is a great success. We succeeded for the first time in history and we were looking forward to measuring our strength with the racing elite," described the team captain Zdeněk Petera from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. How did this comparison turn out?

11. 10. 2023 News FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Formula won bronze in the discipline and 11th place overall

For the second race of the season, the Formula TU Ostrava team went to Hungary, to the famous Hungaroring. In the competition of 22 teams from all over the world, the Ostrava students managed to snatch the bronze in the dynamic acceleration discipline and overall placed in the middle of the starting field.

7. 9. 2023 News FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Global Startup Camp 2023 has its winners

At the end of May, the Department of Applied Mechanics in cooperation with the Technical University of Korea organized an event called Global Startup Camp 2023. Six teams consisting of Korean and Czech students were given the opportunity to compare their design skills and compete for the best project.

16. 6. 2023 News 330 - Department of Applied Mechanics

Double victory in the Czech Industry Challenge for the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

This year's fourth edition of the prestigious Czech Industry Challenge was successful for the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of VSB-TUO. Both applications submitted to the competition in the autumn turned into gold. Creative recruitment activities from the campaign called The mechanical engineer: a star won the award.

6. 6. 2023 News FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

The Restoration Workshop is a new full member of FIVA

Obtaining the status of a regular member of the organization FIVA is another recognition of the Restoration Workshop at the Department of Machine and Industrial Design, VSB-TUO.

23. 5. 2023 News 340 - Department of Machine and Industrial Design

From Denmark just a short hop home. How does Magda rate Erasmus?

Magda Krčmářová was charmed by her stay in a foreign country. The third-year student of the Bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering came from Odense, Denmark, full of impressions that she wants to share and inspire her classmates to go. "It's the best thing you can do during your studies," she says.

20. 2. 2023 News FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Support for technical education in Uherský Brod

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering VSB-TUO signed a memorandum on mutual cooperation and support of technical education in the Uherský Brod micro-region with Česká zbrojovka and Secondary School - Technical Vocational Training Centre Uherský Brod.

7. 2. 2023 News FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Participation at MSV 2022

Restoration Workshop was again part of the university exhibition at the International Engineering Fair in Brno.

14. 10. 2022 News 340 - Department of Machine and Industrial Design