Course detail

Bachelor Project (B-PDS)

FSI-6APAcad. year: 2025/2026

Based on the individual assignment of the bachelor's thesis, students prepare a complex design of medium difficulty, including drawings of work containing sketches, variants, visualization and final presentation poster. Part of the solution is optional conceptual models, mandatory final model in the appropriate scale and accompanying report in connection with the subject "Bachelor Thesis Seminar".

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

10

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. arch. Jan Rajlich

Department

Institute of Machine and Industrial Design (ÚK)

Entry knowledge

Precondition for the course is to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills and overall creative erudition in the previous study. Students have mastered the fundamentals of drawing and modeling. It is also necessary understanding of the basic spatial creation, art composition and realization of three-dimensional models.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The condition of granting a classified credit is obligatory attendance at the seminars at the scheduled hours and individual consultation with the supervisor. The approach to the given task is evaluated as well as the completeness and quality of the individual stages of the work, and the submission of the specified outputs within the given deadlines. The final evaluation consists of evaluation of individual projects. In total it will be possible to aquire 100 points. Resulting classification will be defined by the ECTS scale.
According to the article No. 13 of Study and Examination Rules of Brno University of Technology ECTS evaluation degree scale is used. . If some of the projects are awarded less than 50 pts., final evaluation of the course is "failed". The course is evaluated with the following grades: ECTS EVALUATION DEGREES / PTS. RATING / NUMERIC RATING: A / 100 - 90 / 1 / Excellent; B /89 - 80 / 1,5 / Very good; C / 79 - 70 / 2 / Good; D / 69 - 60 / Satisfactory; E / 59 - 50 / Sufficient; F / 49 - 0 / 4 / Failed.
Compulsory attendance at seminars. Education runs according to the week schedule. The way of compensation of missed seminars is specified by the tutor.

Aims

The aim of the course is to design the industrial design of a medium-sized product (according to the bachelor's thesis) which will reflect the experience gained during the previous study of industrial design. The aim is also to examine the level of knowledge and skills gained so far in digital design.

The student acquires:
- The ability to elaborate a complex design of a medium difficulty, including the presentation of the achieved results.
- The ability to analyze the problem from the point of view of functional, aesthetic and technical aspects.
- The ability to determine the mutual relations of human-machine-environment system.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

DREYFUSS, Henry. Designing for people. New York: Allworth Press, 2003. ISBN 1581153120.
KULA, Daniel, Elodie TERNAUX a Quentin HIRSINGER. c2012. Materiology: průvodce světem materiálů a technologií pro architekty a designéry. Praha: Happy Materials. ISBN 978-80-260-0538-4.
PELCL, Jiří. Design: od myšlenky k realizaci = from idea to realization. V Praze: Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze, c2012. ISBN 978-80-86863-45-0.

Recommended reading

KULA, Daniel, Elodie TERNAUX a Quentin HIRSINGER. c2012. Materiology: průvodce světem materiálů a technologií pro architekty a designéry. Praha: Happy Materials. ISBN 978-80-260-0538-4.
PELCL, Jiří. Design: od myšlenky k realizaci = from idea to realization. V Praze: Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze, c2012. ISBN 978-80-86863-45-0.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-PDS-P Bachelor's 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Studio work

104 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. arch. Jan Rajlich

Syllabus

- Specification of the assignment (design of industrial tools, tools or equipment).
- Analysis, verification of documents, information.
- Preparatory drawings, sketches and variants.
- Work on design solutions, selection (consultation).
- Completion of drawings, alternatively conceptual model for verification.
- Elaboration of drawings in given scale.
- Selection of final proposals.
- Visualization, drafting of the proposals into the resulting posters. preparation for the creation of a physical model in given scale.
- Visualization, completion of drawing documentation in given scale, its inclusion in the text part of the project (accompanying reports).
- Physical model - design mock-up.
- Making a physical model in given scale.
- Submission of a complete bachelor project.

Supervision of Bachelor’s thesis

52 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. arch. Jan Rajlich

Syllabus

1. Specification of the topic according to the assignment of the thesis and the instructions of the supervisor;
2. List of existing resources;
3. Sketches of variants – consultation;
4. Sketches of variants - consultation;
5. 3D models of variants - consultation;
6. 3D models of variants - consultation;
7. Selection of final design - consultation;
8. Final variant - shape correction, details, ergonomics;
9. Final variant - color, graphics;
10. Poster;
11. Physical model - design mock-up;
12. Physical model - design mock-up;
13. Submission of a complete bachelor project.