Course detail
Bachelor Seminar
FSI-6AAcad. year: 2024/2025
The aim of the course is to provide students with theoretical information and practical skills needed for the elaboration of the bachelor thesis. This includes the selection of the topic for the bachelor thesis, formal documents and directives, structure and elements of the bachelor thesis, information sources and search of information, citations, time management, text and graphics editors, typesetting, language-style writing and typography, the final state exam and the defence of the bachelor thesis.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
General knowledge and skills at the level of the bachelor study programme focused on mechanical engineering.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Conditions for completing the course and acquiring the credits: participation and successful completion (obtaining at least 50% of points) of the theoretical test in e-learning. In case of failure, the test can be once repeated.
Aims
Provide students with information about formal requirements related to the bachelor thesis and about the typical progress of the final state exam. Learn students to find relevant information in information sources and how to cite them. Familiarize students with the management of the elaboration of the bachelor thesis. Provide information on how to write a bachelor thesis as a technical text having a rather large extent. Extend the typographical and presentation skills of the students.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
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)
GUSTAVII, Björn. How to Write and Ilustrate Scientific Papers. 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-521-87890-6. (EN)
Recommended reading
KATUŠČÁK, Dušan, Barbora DROBÍKOVÁ a Richard PAPÍK. Jak psát závěrečné a kvalifikační práce: jak psát bakalářské práce, diplomové práce, dizertační práce, specializační práce, habilitační práce, seminární a ročníkové práce, práce studentské vědecké a odborné činnosti, jak vytvořit bibliografické citace a odkazy a citovat tradiční a elektronické dokumenty. Nitra: Enigma, c2008. ISBN 978-808-9132-706. (CS)
SCHNEIDEROVÁ, Soňa. Jak nepsat diplomovou práci. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2011. Günther. ISBN 978-80-244-2968-7. (CS)
Elearning
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Introduction to the course, the topic of the bachelor thesis
- Formal documents and directives, the structure of the bachelor thesis
- Elements of the bachelor thesis
- Information sources, information search
- Library at the BUT and FME, search in information sources
- Citations and citing
- Management of the elaboration of the bachelor thesis
- Text and graphics editors and further useful software
- Fundamentals of typesetting in LaTeXu and in a cloud-based editor Overleaf
- Typesetting, language-style writing, typography
- Most common faults and mistakes in bachelor theses
- Thesis defence and the final state exam
- Credit test
Elearning