All three of the best diploma theses in the 9th annual competition for the best student Ansys project were written by students from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. They also won one place among the three winning bachelor's theses. The winners are decided by the competition's scientific jury, which consists of both internal and external specialists.

First place went to David Los for his thesis "Passive cooling of the busbar compartment of the electrical switchgear," which he wrote at the Energy Institute. "David impressed the jury primarily with his combined analysis—electromagnetic simulation plus fluid flow simulation using multiple Ansys software programs. At the same time, it was a practical work dealing with real equipment. A nice example of the applicability of numerical simulations in practice," the jury praised the work.

The imaginary silver medal went to Tomáš Slezák from the Institute of Machine and Industrial Design for his work "Design of an Extruder for 3D Printing of Low-Melting Metal Alloys." The bronze position was taken by David Riedl with his thesis "Sensitivity analysis of generic vehicle model of N2A and N3D category" written at the Institure of Automotive Engineering.

Three bachelor's theses also received awards from the jury. One of them was written by Marek Najman, who measured the characteristics of the composite chassis of a Formula car from the TU Brno Racing.

Professor Buchar's awards focus on solving any original task in the Ansys, Particleworks, or custom code software environment. The winning theses receive financial awards, and all students at the top of the rankings can look forward to specialized training from SVS FEM.

Congratulations to all the awardees!