Course detail
Bachelor Seminar
FSI-6A Acad. year: 2024/2025 Winter semester
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
Supervisor
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.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B-ZSI-P: Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's
specialization MTI: Materials Engineering, elective
Programme B-ZSI-P: Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's
specialization STI: Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
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