Course detail

Bachelor seminar

FAST-BN51Acad. year: 2013/2014

Preliminary work and completion of bachelor’s project. Seminars for topical issues of railway structures and construction technology.
Completion and defense seminar thesis with the same theme as bachelor’s project.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Otto Plášek, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Railway Structures and Constructions (ZEL)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

A student acquires a preliminary thesis on bachelor’s project, is introduced in recent technical development of railway constructions and structures.

Prerequisites

Railway track geometry components and alignment, railway track design and subdivision and construction of rail substructure and its construction layers, railway superstructure

Co-requisites

Construction of transport structures, fundamentals of track technologies, machines, measuring and diagnostic systems. basic design elements of steel and concrete bridges, underground structures.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching is kept in a form seminars and individual consultations. The students' work is completed by specified individual work, work assigned for individual study with the active participation of students. Excursions to the construction sites or to manufacturers are organized.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

The course is completed with a credit, whose acquisition is conditional on attendance on presentations of student projects and a presentation of development of the bachelor work.

Course curriculum

1.-3. Preliminary work on bachelor’s project.
3.-8. Seminars for topical issues of railway structures and construction technology.
9.-13. Completion and defence seminar thesis with the same theme as bachelor’s project.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The objective of the subject is preliminary work on bachelor’s project.

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

A student can attend conferences, workshops or excursions focused on railway structures. The student can take a part in solving of research and development projects.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Coenraad Esveld: Modern Railway Track. MRT-Productions, 2001. (EN)
kol.: British Railway Track. The Permanent Way Institution, 1993. (EN)
Nová železniční technika. KPM Consult, 2013. (CS)

Recommended reading

Railvolution. M-Presse s.r.o., 2013. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-K-C-SI Bachelor's

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

  • Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's

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

  • Programme B-P-C-ST Bachelor's

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

  • Programme B-P-E-SI Bachelor's

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

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Otto Plášek, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1.-3. Preliminary work on bachelor’s project.
3.-8. Seminars for topical issues of railway structures and construction technology.
9.-11. Completion and defence seminar thesis with the same theme as bachelor’s project.