Course detail

Seminar for Bachelorship

FAST-BJ54Acad. year: 2012/2013

The students are in the seminar for bachelorship methodically and professionally prepared for their theses.
The subject contents the inaugural lecture, in which the students are familiarized with problems of the Institute´s conditions, the safety of work and with temporal possibilities of experimental work with respect to the educational capacity.
In further course of time every student works separately: he secures the special literature and standards according to the orientation of work, he acquaints himself with technical parameters of laboratory equipments and with the course of work with special apparatuses.
Afterwards follow laboratory works according to individual tasks. The methodical approaches are consulted with respective heads of degree work in the same way as the performance of laboratory works. The guarantor who leads the seminar secures the coordination of educational and bachelorship works including the perfect working order of the laboratory techniques and apparatuses.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components (THD)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The students will improve their knowledge and skills connected with problems of their bachelor thesis: procedures of information evaluation from special literature; securing of raw materials, raw materials treatment, test preparation; preparation of test pieces; test procedures; evaluation of results; discussion of results; formulation of conclusions.

Prerequisites

Basic methods of preparation, treatment and testing of building materials. Working with technical literature and standards.

Co-requisites

Binders and Concrete Technology.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Students work individually under the guidance of a supervisor of the bachelor thesis.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Submission of the evaluated seminar work.

Course curriculum

1.The service conditions in the Institute laboratories, operation of equipments.
2.Safety of work in laboratories of the Institute.
3.Methods of experimental work, time table of work.
4.Procedures of information evaluation from special literature.
5.Securing of raw materials, raw materials treatment, test preparation.
6.Preparation of test pieces, test procedures, evaluation of results.
7.Separate preparation of test pieces, tests, continuous evaluation.
8.Separate preparation of test pieces, tests, continuous evaluation.
9.Separate preparation of test pieces, tests, continuous evaluation.
10.Tests, continuous evaluation.
11.Evaluation of measured data, interpretation and discussion of results.
12.Processing of seminar work results, consultations, conclusions.
13.Consultations, conclusions. Completing of the seminar work.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The students will improve their knowledge and skills connected with problems of their bachelor´s dissertation.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Povinná literatura bude určena vedoucím bakalářské práce. 0.

Recommended reading

HEWLWTT, Peter C.: Lea´s Chemistry of Cement and Concrete. Oxford: Elsevier Ltd., 2010. ISBN 978-0-7506-6256-7. (EN)
KOLLER, Aleš: Structure and Properties of Ceramics. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 1994. ISBN 9780444987198. (EN)
NEVILLE, Adam M.: Properties of Concrete. London: Pearson, 2011. ISBN 978-0-273-75580-7. (EN)
VALENTA Ladislav: Keramická příručka. Praha: Silikátový svaz, 2007. ISBN 978-80-86821-46-7. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-ST Bachelor's

    branch M , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme B-P-E-SI Bachelor's

    branch M , 4 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's

    branch M , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme B-K-C-SI Bachelor's

    branch M , 4 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1.The service conditions in the Institute laboratories, operation of equipments.
2.Safety of work in laboratories of the Institute.
3.Methods of experimental work, time table of work.
4.Procedures of information evaluation from special literature.
5.Securing of raw materials, raw materials treatment, test preparation.
6.Preparation of test pieces, test procedures, evaluation of results.
7.Separate preparation of test pieces, tests, continuous evaluation.
8.Separate preparation of test pieces, tests, continuous evaluation.
9.Separate preparation of test pieces, tests, continuous evaluation.
10.Tests, continuous evaluation.
11.Evaluation of measured data, interpretation and discussion of results.
12.Processing of seminar work results, consultations, conclusions.
13.Consultations, conclusions. Completing of the seminar work.