Having excellent national and international members of the Editorial Board, the latest issue of Acta Polytechnica Hungarica has been released (Volume 11, Issue Number 7, 2014) with the papers below.
The annual meeting of the board members and representative officers of the euRobotics AISBL nonprofit organization was held at the Antal Bejczy Center for Intelligent Robotics at Óbuda University between 8–10. September. The aim of this meeting was to lay the fundaments of the research, development, education and industrial perspectives of the European robotics community.
The Opening Ceremony for International Students was held on 5th September 2014. The students who start their academic year 2014/15 and take part in the Engineering and informatics courses in English language attended this ceremony.
Right before the IEEE INES conference in Tihany, robotic professionals gathered from all over the region to create the first topical organization: the Central European Living Lab for Intelligent Robotics (CELLI).
Duna International College is the official Pre-engineering course provider for Óbuda University, which efficiently prepares students for their education at this university. This College is a training-host for many international students, who wish to start their higher education in Hungary.
3 and 6 month long language course students (25) could enjoy a one week education in Révfülöp, in the Sport resort. Révfülöp is a resort town on the northern shore of Lake Balaton.
The students got to know about the contest in march, by their teacher recommendation, dr. Sandor Horvath. Using the downloaded rules from the Reccs site they started to think about the engineering problem. Before they got into the building so fast, they cooperated with the last years winner Miklós Vince to ask him about his experiences.
On 26th of May, 2014, the SYSTeMS research group (Dr. Robain de Keyser, head of the SYSTeMS group and Clara Ionescu researcher) of the Ghent University, Belgium visited the John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics and the recently established University Research and Innovation Center.
On May 22, 34 first year students from the Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern California (USC) visited the John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics. Under the guidance of their professors, the aim of visiting Hungary was an internship in order to visit multinational companies and universities from Hungary.