Course detail

Semester Project

FSI-GSPAcad. year: 2025/2026

Students are working out their projects. The course “Semester Project“ is intended to facilitate this process. It serves as an introductory and studying part of solving the problem; the problem is then solved in the courses “Final Project” and “Diploma Project”. Students familiarises themselves with the problem, establishes contacts with a workplace, for which he/she is going to solve the problem, and clarifies the objectives and areas of solution.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Dr. Ing. Jiří Marek, Ph.D., DBA, FEng.

Department

Institute of Production Machines, Systems and Robotics (ÚVSSR)

Entry knowledge

Knowledge gained by the previous studies.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Course-unit credit is conditional on the following: - participation in lessons, especially in check lessons, presentation of running results of own work, - presentation of results in a written form; app. 20 pages.


Attendance at check laboratory seminars is obligatory, only substantial reasons of absence are accepted and the state of project solution has to be checked in other agreed seminar.

Aims

The aim of DP I is to make students familiar with the procedures of an extensive project. The task is to make the students realize and manage the links and continuity in designing and projecting.


Students will be made familiar with basic rules applied in the introductory stage of a project solution. They will master the formulation of expected goals of the project, retrieving information and collection of needed documents and results of previous works, they will study and analyse the collected documents, and will be able to set the following steps necessary for solving of the whole project.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Šviráková, E.: Dynamika projektu - uplatnění systémové dynamiky v řízení projektu. 1st. ed. Praha: Verbum Publishing, 2011. 144 p. ISBN: 978-80-87500-07-1 (CS)
Bělohoubek, P., Kolíbal, Z.: Projektování výrobních systémů s PRaM. Skriptum VUT-FSI, Brno, 1993 (CS)
Máchal, P.: Světové standardy projektového řízení pro malé a střední firmy 1st ed. Praha: Grada, 2015. 144 p. 978-80-247-5321-8 (CS)

Recommended reading

Bělohoubek, P. – Kolíbal, Z.: Projektování výrobních systémů s PRaM. Skriptum VUT-FSI, Brno, 1993 (CS)
Binder,R.: Diplomové práce a obhajoby, učební pomůcka (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-VSR-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Computer-assisted exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Dr. Ing. Jiří Marek, Ph.D., DBA, FEng.

Syllabus

1. Project specification, the contents, area of interest, scope of solution, variants, used methods, used literature, references, study material etc.
2. Study of collected materials.
3. Presentation of a written form of the results.
4. Proposing of a solution and methods to be used. Time schedule of solution process.
5-7. Individual solving of projects.
8. Running check of solutions through presentations of obtained results.
9-12. Individual solving of projects.
13. Closing the project, its delivery and evaluation.