Course detail

Bachelor Seminar

FSI-6A Acad. year: 2025/2026 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

doc. Ing. Lubomír Klimeš, Ph.D.

Department

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

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

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