Course detail

Diploma Seminar (M-ADI)

FSI-QD6Acad. year: 2020/2021

This course enables students to learn how to elaborate the diploma thesis.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students learn how to write their diploma thesis to meet factual and formal requirements.

Prerequisites

Knowledge in the scope of the Master degree study of the Institute of Transport Engineering, speciality of Motor vehicles and combustion engines. Study of literature in accordance with the diploma thesis assignment.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through exercises which are focused on practical topics presented in lectures.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

The course-unit credit award is conditioned by the attendance at lessons and by the presentation of selected parts of the diploma thesis.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The goal of the course is to teach students how to elaborate and present results of their diploma thesis to an audience.

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

Attendance at seminars is obligatory, checked by a teacher. The way of compensation of absence is solved individually with a subject provider.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Aktuální směrnice VUT Úprava, odevzdání a zveřejňování závěrečných prací
ČSN EN ISO 690 (01 0197). Informace a dokumentace - Pravidla pro bibliografické odkazy a citace informačních zdrojů. Praha : Úřad pro technickou normalizaci, metrologii a státní zkušebnictví, 2011. 39 s. (CS)
GASTEL, Barbara a Robert A. DAY. How to write and publish a scientific paper. Eighth edition. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, [2016]. ISBN 978-1-4408-4262-7. (EN)
JANÍČEK, Přemysl. Systémové pojetí vybraných oborů pro techniky: hledání souvislostí : učební texty. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7204-554-9. (CS)
Literatura podle zadání diplomové práce.

Recommended reading

Geršlová, J. Metodologie odborné práce [online]. (CS)

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Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme M2I-P Master's

    branch M-ADI , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. - 2. General principles suitable for the elaboration of diploma thesis .
3. - 4. Content optimalization and time management of elaboration of diploma thesis.
5. - 6. Analysing of student's work from the wiev of the above mentioned rules.
7. - 8. Formal and graphic format of the diploma thesis, results formulation, drawing documentation.
9. - 13. Presentation of solved results. Oral speech and presentation with a data-projector. Answers to opponent's questions. Presentation of partial results of the diploma thesis.

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