Course detail

Forensic Engineering - General Methodology

FAST-DVB076Acad. year: 2023/2024

Activity of experts (history, present regulations, subject practicing expert activity). Discharge of the expert activity:
- Prime acts of the expert, expert’s share in a proof detention.
- Scheme of the expert evidence and expertise.
- Systematic complex concept of the experts evidence and expertise (systematic analysis of the accident’s process, array of hypotheses, array of traces, array of reflection, array of the damage equivalence, application of the logic rules, presumption of innocence in the application of the technical analysis).
- Methods of expert’s analysis (reverse calculation method of the accident process, method of narrowing of the limits, analysis of the processes in the time and space, law and engineering confrontation, analysis of the break down).
- Application of regulations in the expert evidence, probability in the expertise.
specificity of the expert activity in the individual sorts of proceeding (criminal, civil, administrative),
teamwork at expertise.
- Expert activity experience, expert evidence defects.
Introduction to special methodology of forensic engineering (civil engineering, mechanical engineering, analysis of traffic accidents, evaluation of property, assessment of financial damage).

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

8

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Aleš Vémola, Ph.D., dr. h. c.

Department

Institute of Structural Economics and Management (EKR)

Entry knowledge

Special input knowledge is not required

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The knowledge and skills acquired in the course will be tested on theoretical and practical skills when solving practical questions regarding the assessment of negative phenomena, the development of a sample expert opinion fitting the field of study, etc.


The definition of controlled teaching and the method of its implementation are determined by the annually updated requirements of the subject guarantor.

Aims

Legal regulation and method of performing expert work after 1.1. 2021, relation to Forensic Engineering.


Systematic knowledge of the Forensic Engineering subject and the practical skill of applying solutions to negative phenomena in engineering practice.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BRADÁČ, A. a kol.: Soudní inženýrství, Akademické nakladatelství CERM, Brno 1999 (CS)
BRADÁČ, A. a kol. (Vémola): Soudní znalectví ve vybraných technických a ekonomických oborech po 1. 1. 2021, Akademické nakladatelství CERM, Brno 2021 (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme DPC-E Doctoral 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme DPA-E Doctoral 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme DPC-E Doctoral 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme DKA-E Doctoral 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Aleš Vémola, Ph.D., dr. h. c.

Syllabus

1. Activity of experts (history, present regulations, subject practicing experts activity). 2. Prime acts of the expert, expert’s share in a proof detention. 3. Scheme of the experts evidence and expertise. 4. Systematic complex concept of the experts evidence and expertise (systematic analysis of the accident’s process, array of hypotheses, array of traces, array of reflection, array of the damage equivalence). 5. Application of the logic rules in the forensic engineering, presumption of innocence in the application of the technical analysis. 6. Methods of expert’s analysis (reverse calculation method of the accident process, method of the narrowing of the limits, analysis of the processes in the time and space, law and engineering confrontation, analysis of the break down). 7. Application of regulations in expert evidence, probability in the expertise. 8. Specificity of the expert activity in the individual sorts of proceeding (criminal, civil, administrative). 9. Teamwork at expertise. 10. Expert activity experience, expert evidence defects. 11. Introduction to special methodology of forensic engineering – cause of the defect and disturbance, expert activity in civil engineering. 12. Expert activity in mechanical engineering, analysis of traffic accidents. 13. property valuation, assessment of financial damage.