Course detail

Bachelor Seminar

FSI-6AAcad. year: 2025/2026

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

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Lubomír Klimeš, Ph.D.

Department

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FSI)

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

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

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)
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

BIERNÁTOVÁ, Olga a SKŮPA, Jan. Bibliografické odkazy a citace dokumentů : dle ČSN ISO 690 (01 0197) [online]. V Brně : Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně, 2011. 27 s. Dostupné z: http://www.citace.com/soubory/csniso690-interpretace.pdf (CS)
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)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-ZSI-P Bachelor's

    specialization STI , 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    specialization MTI , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Lubomír Klimeš, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  1. Introduction to the course, the topic of the bachelor thesis
  2. Formal documents and directives, the structure of the bachelor thesis
  3. Elements of the bachelor thesis
  4. Information sources, information search
  5. Library at the BUT and FME, search in information sources
  6. Citations and citing
  7. Management of the elaboration of the bachelor thesis
  8. Text and graphics editors and further useful software
  9. Fundamentals of typesetting in LaTeXu and in a cloud-based editor Overleaf
  10. Typesetting, language-style writing, typography
  11. Most common faults and mistakes in bachelor theses
  12. Thesis defence and the final state exam
  13. Credit test