Course detail
Forensic Engineering
FSI-QSI Acad. year: 2019/2020 Winter semester
This course makes students familiar with the rudiments of the theory of law, the Czech legal system and with the foundations and sources of criminal and civil law. In addition, it concerns with the Court experts and expertise in technical fields, in particular related to traffic and property assessment. Students will get the information on the legal system of the Czech Republic and rudimentary knowledge of the expertise and expert activities of an engineer.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
3
Supervisor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
This course enables students to comprehend the sense of the institute of justice in the society and to have a clear idea of basic legal norms, which are needed for contemporary engineering practice.
Prerequisites
Technical mechanics, elasticity and strength. Design of motor vehicles.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Examination has both oral and written parts and verifies the acquired knowledge in the scope of presented issues.
Aims
The aim of subject is to inform students of the content of the origins of constitutional law, penal code, civil rights, commercial and trade law and of activities of engineers as officially appointed experts in the are of road transport and property valuation.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Attendance is not checked.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme M2I-P: Mechanical Engineering, Master's
branch M-ADI: Automotive and Material Handling Engineering, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Legal law and society, historical phylogenesis of law and state.
2. Basics terms of law theory, law branches.
3. Constitutional law of CR.
4. Material criminal law.
5. Procedural criminal law.
6. Material civil law.
7. Procedural civil law.
8. Commercial and trade law.
9. Law in engineering practise.
10. Methodology of evidence securing in expert and jurist activity.
11. Responsibility for imperfect products and deliveries, complaint procedures.
12. Basics of valuation methodology of property.
13. Basics of determination of equity level detriment, basics of methodology and analysis of traffic accidents.