{"id":256365,"date":"2024-02-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/9-out-of-10-students-found-cimne-winter-school-very-interesting\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:23:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:23:46","slug":"9-out-of-10-students-found-cimne-winter-school-very-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/9-out-of-10-students-found-cimne-winter-school-very-interesting\/","title":{"rendered":"9 out of 10 students found CIMNE Winter School \u201cvery interesting\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">More than<strong> 9 out of 10 participants<\/strong> in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cws2024.cimne.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">CIMNE\u2019s Winter School 2024<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">, which introduced PhD students into the basics of Computational Methods, say they found <strong>the topics covered in the course \u201cvery interesting\u201d<\/strong>, and <strong>would attend a similar workshop organised by the <a href=\"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/comunitat\/formacio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CIMNE School<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">The week-long workshop, held in January 2024, offered a <strong>first look at fundamental aspects of computational methods<\/strong>, such as linear algebra, continuum mechanics or the basics of FEM (Finite Element Method). Top researchers from the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International <\/a><\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cimne.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering<\/span><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\"> (CIMNE) led theoretical and practical sessions as part of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Severo Ochoa Programme<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">of Excellence<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\"> at the centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">According to self-reported, anonymised data collected by CIMNE, <strong>92% of participants surveyed agreed that the teachers were knowledgable<\/strong>\u00a0of the courses they taught, while <strong>85% said they learned from them<\/strong>. <strong>All respondents said they would recommend the course to a colleague.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/andreas-wanninger-2343b4171_cimne-winter-school-2024-activity-7157798561319923712-HaK_?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public online<\/a> note, Masters student and course participant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/andreas-wanninger-2343b4171\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andreas Wanninger<\/a> described the workshop as <strong>\u201cinspiring and eye-opening\u201d<\/strong>, and recommended the CIMNE School to <strong>\u201canyone wanting to get into computational mechanics.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 Civil engineer and fellow course participant <strong>Christian A. Padilla<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cristhianalbertpadilla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> it was <strong>\u201cvery motivating\u201d to learn from \u201ctop level researchers\u201d<\/strong>, an experience that<strong> \u201cbrings [him] closer\u201d to his career goals<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimne.com\/cvdata\/cntr2\/spc2\/dtos\/mdia\/News\/20240122-CIMNE-Winter-School.jpg\" alt=\"A classroom overview of the first session of CIMNE Winter School 2024\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\"><span class=\"cimne green\">A classroom overview of the first session of CIMNE Winter School 2024<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Dozens of students attended the third edition of CIMNE\u2019s Winter School online and in-person at CIMNE\u2019s headquarters in Barcelona from January 22 to 26. Participants delved into the theoretical framework and use cases of computational methods&#8217; technology by renowned CIMNE experts <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">including professors <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cimne.com\/sgp\/dir\/Profile.aspx?id=563\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Riccardo Rossi<\/span><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">, <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacan.upc.edu\/users\/zlotnik\/cv-sz-html\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Sergio Zlotnik<\/span><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cimne.com\/sgp\/dir\/Profile.aspx?id=543\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\"><strong>Jordi Pons-Prats<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">, <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cimne.com\/sgp\/dir\/Profile.aspx?id=861\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Lucia Barbu<\/span><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cimne.com\/sgp\/dir\/Profile.aspx?id=488\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\"><strong>Xavier Martinez<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 9 out of 10 participants in CIMNE\u2019s Winter School 2024, which introduced PhD students into the basics of Computational Methods, say they found the topics covered in the course \u201cvery interesting\u201d, and would attend a similar workshop organised by the CIMNE School.\u00a0 The week-long workshop, held in January 2024, offered a first look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","slim_seo":{"title":"9 out of 10 students found CIMNE Winter School \u201cvery interesting\u201d - CIMNE","description":"More than 9 out of 10 participants in CIMNE\u2019s Winter School 2024 , which introduced PhD students into the basics of Computational Methods, say they found the to"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,312,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-fons","category-formacio","category-noticies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256368,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256365\/revisions\/256368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}