Faculty
of Civil Engineering
Short-term Study & Training
List of courses taught in English
Students on study placements at the FCE may choose from the following list of courses taught in English.
Please be aware that courses announced for the winter semester are not available in the summer semester, and vice versa.
The minimum requirement is 18 ECTS credits per semester.
BAA002 / Mathematics 2
Academic Year 2023/2024 5 credits Institute: Institute of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry
Functions in two and more variables. Limit and continuity, partial derivatives, implicit function, total differential, Taylor expansion, local minima and maxima, relative maxima and minima, maximum and minimum values of a function; directional derivative, gradient. Tangent to a 3-D curve, Tangent plane and normal to a surface.
BAA013 / Constructive Geometry
Academic Year 2023/2024 5 credits Institute: Institute of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry
Perspective collineation and affinity,circle in affinity. Coted projection, Monge`s projection, topographic surfaces, theoretical solution of the roofs, orthogonal axonometry and linear perspective.
BDA001 / Fundamentals of Structural Mechanics
Academic Year 2023/2024 5 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Mechanics
BDA003 / Structural Analysis 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 4 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Mechanics
Principle of virtual work. Clauses about virtual works reciprocity. Maxwell-Mohr integral. Solution of displacement and rotation of frame systems using method of unit forces, including the influence of temperature changes. Veresčagin’s rule.
Statically indeterminate structures. Degree of static indeterminacy. Solution methods. Force method. Elementary cantilever beam. Continuous girder is solved by three-torque equation. Moving load at continuous girder. Combinations of loads.
Planar frame using by force method, option of statically indeterminate values, canonical equations. Influence of shift of supports, effects of uniform and non-uniform temperature changes at frame structure. Utilization of shape symmetry.
Planar arc is solved by force method, influence of compression of line of arc, deflection load. Statically indeterminate truss girder is solved by force method.
BEA002 / Field Training in Geodesy
Academic Year 2023/2024 2 credits Institute: Institute of Geodesy
Collecting of available geodetic data (maps, information abou property relations, data from geographic information systems etc.) for given real locality, as preparation of project design. Use of geodetic data in designing. Basic measuring methods of data acquisition. Processing of measured data, elaboration of final documentation.
BFA002 / Soil Mechanics
Academic Year 2023/2024 5 credits Institute: Institute of Geotechnics
Soil properties from the perspective of the individual phases. State characteristics of soils.
Stress and strain in 2D (Mohr circle, Effective stress, drained ver. undrained conditions).
Water in the soil (permeability, seepage in the soil).
Compressibility of soil. Consolidation.
Shear strength of soils. Stress path.
Stress in the soil (Geostatic stress vertical and lateral. Stresses in soil due to surface loads).
Practical applications.
Settlement of foundation soil (total, consolidation).
Bearing capacity of foundation soil.
Slope Stability (principles of slope stability analysis, the effect of water on slope stability).
Earth pressures (active, at rest and passive).
BHA007 / Introduction to Buildings‘ Design 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
Methods of building design with the consideration of an architectural concept - building typology and layout arrangement requirements. Acceptance of valid standards and regulations. The application of architectural and structural design principles, present economic relations, energy efficiency requirements and environmental demands. Design principles for barrier-free residential houses and their neighbouring outdoor spaces. Design of residential houses is completed in practical classes.
BHA008 / Building Constructions 4
Academic Year 2023/2024 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
BHB002 / Computer Graphics (S)
Academic Year 2023/2024 3 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
BHB004 / Building Constructions 2 (S)
Academic Year 2023/2024 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
BHB005 / Thermal engineering
Academic Year 2023/2024 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
Thermal transmittance.
Surface temperature of the budilding structure.
Temperature evaluation in the structure.
Average thermal transmittance if the building envelope.
Interstitial condensation and evaporation.
Thremal stability of the room.
Air permeability of the building envelope.
BHB011 / Acoustics and Daylighting
Academic Year 2023/2024 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
The course presents fundamentals in room acoustics and daylighting in buildings. Knowledge of this subject will be practically used for the following study - in seminars, projects and master degree projects.
BHB012 / Bachelor Seminar (S-PST)
Academic Year 2023/2024 3 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
BHB013 / Failures and Reconstruction
Academic Year 2023/2024 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
BHB014 / Specialized Project (S-PST)
Academic Year 2023/2024 6 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
BIA001 / Building Materials
Academic Year 2023/2024 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Testing
Testing methods of physical-mechanical properties and durability with focus on destructive methods. Basic deformational characteristics of building materials and their monitoring.
Properties of building materials: stone, aggregate, binder, concrete, mortar, building ceramics, metal, timber, high molecular matters, bitumens, insulating materials, composite materials.
Practical laboratory tests of selected building materials with individual tasks for individual students including elaboration of records about the tests.
BLA001 / Members of Concrete Structures
Academic Year 2023/2024 5 credits Institute: Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures
Design of reinforced concrete members for bending and shear force - ultimate and serviceability limit states, detailing. Design of reinforced concrete members for axial force and bending moment. Principles of concrete members design subject to other effect of the load. Design of members from plain and lightly reinforced concrete.
Simple concrete members – one way reinforced slabs, beams, girders, lintels, cantilevered structures, columns and stairs.
BLA002 / Concrete Structures 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 4 credits Institute: Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures
Dimensioning reinforced concrete members considering theirs limit serviceability.
Two-ways slabs – edge supported. Circular and annular slabs. Two-way ribbed and cassette slabs. Wall beams – simple and continuous.
Construction and expansion joints in concrete structures. Realisation and control of concrete structures.
BLA004 / Masonry Structures (S)
Academic Year 2023/2024 5 credits Institute: Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures
Single-layer non-reinforced walls and piers. Ultimate limit states. Analyses of the basic loads masonry structures. Serviceability limit states.
Structural systems of masonry constructions. Masonry arches. Design of horizontal structures from shaped masonry bricks. Reinforced and prestressed masonry. Simlified design methods. Fire resistance assesment.
Reconstructions and strengthening of masonry structures.
BOA002 / Members of Metal Structures
Academic Year 2023/2024 5 credits Institute: Institute of Metal and Timber Structures
Material and selection of structural members.
Principles and rules of reliability approach in steel structures, allowable and ultimate limit state design methods. Probabilistic approach in steel structures.
Geometric and static characteristics of open and closed cross-sections of thin-walled steel members.
Connections of metal structures – principles of structural design (bolted, frictional and welded connections).
Tensile members. Bending – elastic and plastic action.
Simple and warping torsion of thin-walled open and closed cross-section members.
Stability and buckling resistance of compression members of solid and composed section.
Lateral buckling.
Members subject to tension and bending, compression and bending stress.
Global and local stability problems. Load-bearing capacity of thin-walled members.
Repeated load resistance of steel structures. Factors affecting steel fatigue strength.
BOA003 / Timber Structures (S)
Academic Year 2023/2024 4 credits Institute: Institute of Metal and Timber Structures
Limit states and rules of computer modelling. Basic types of strain of timber members and their verifying.
Fasteners – mechanical connections, glued connections.
Plane solid and truss structures – girders, frames, and arches. Rules of structural design and theoretical analysis.
Spatial structures – laminated structures, spatial trusses, ribbed domes, vaults and shells.
Timber bridges and footbridges. Specialized timber structures.
Production and assembly. Protection and maintenance.
Principles of reconstruction and rehabilitation.
Examples of realized timber structures.
BRB001 / Hydraulics and Hydrology (K),(V)
Academic Year 2023/2024 4 credits Institute: Institute of Water Structures
Basics of fluid statics – properties of fluids, pressure in a fluid at rest, hydrostatic forces on plain and curved surface, floatation
Basics of hydrodynamics, water flow in pressure pipeline systems.
Flow in systems with a free surface, in open channels and flow over hydraulic structures.
New finding in hydraulics of water structures.
Basics of groundwater flow, wells, collection galleries.
Basics in hydrology, water balance, precipitation, evaporation, surface runoff from watershed and its analysis, maximum and minimum discharges, M-day and N-year discharges.
Students will take the course partly in computational and laboratory exercises.
BTA002 / Building Services 2
Academic Year 2023/2024 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Services
BTB007 / Renewable and Alternative Sources of Energy
Academic Year 2023/2024 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Services
BVA002 / Principles of Business Economics
Academic Year 2023/2024 5 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Economics and Management
Activities in the construction company, organisation and production, outlet, sale, marketing
Investment activity in the firm, finances, taxes, construction orders and prices, contractual agreements
BVA016 / Project – Project Management of Building Constructions 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 5 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Economics and Management
It contains the creation of flowcharts in the course of project, structural plans, organograms, functional diagrams, plans of outputs, clearly and coordinating schedules in the form of network diagrams and Gantt diagrams, costs plans, deployment plans factual, personal and financial resources. Microsoft Project is used for processing. It also contains a plan for the organization of construction as part of the project documentation for the construction procedure, a proposal for a decision on the location of the building, a draft application for a building permit and a proposal for issuing the approval approval. Part of the documentation is the risk analysis of the project.
BWA002 / Technology of Constructions 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 4 credits Institute: Institute of Technology, Mechanisation and Construction Management
Construction sub-processes connected in particular with the main construction of building structures.
Principles of the staking out of buildings and built structures, principles of technological approaches and relationships during the performance of the technical stages of earthwork, basic lower structures, basic upper structures and the outer envelopes of buildings. Solution of the technological, spatial and temporal structures of construction processes, sequence of activities, level of preparedness of a workplace for construction, mutual dependencies and requirements concerning quality and safety – also with regard to the environment.
BWA004 / Construction Realization
Academic Year 2023/2024 4 credits Institute: Institute of Technology, Mechanisation and Construction Management
NBA007 / Applied Physics
Academic Year 2023/2024 3 credits Institute: Institute of Physics
NHB043 / Diploma Seminar (S-PST)
Academic Year 2023/2024 3 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
NHB044 / Low Energy Houses
Academic Year 2023/2024 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
Designing of Nearly zero energy houses and Passive houses with the use of passive solar systems. An introduction to the utilization of active solar systems and renewable energy sources. Students will be given a general layout of a family or residential house to adjust and design with satisfactory conditions. The balance of energy losses and gains will be calculated for the heating period as well as energy savings, heating expenses and calculation of the other technical indexes.
NHB046 / Sustainable Building
Academic Year 2023/2024 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
NHB047 / Selected Chapters from Building Constructions 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
NHB048 / Selected Chapters from Fire Protection of Buildings
Academic Year 2023/2024 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
NVB025 / Construction Valuation
Academic Year 2023/2024 3 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Economics and Management
VXC004 / Final Project
Academic Year 2023/2024 30 credits Institute: Institute of Computer Aided Engineering and Computer Science
VYA004 / English Upper-Intermediate 3
Academic Year 2023/2024 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
The content of the course is aimed at students who would benefit from studying and practicing B2 (higher Upper-Intermediate level) English with a native speaker, i.e. students who: wish to study abroad (e.g. with the Erasmus+ programme) or work abroad; want to prepare for the BY003 B2 level language exam (useful for Erasmus+); already speak English at a good Intermediate level and would like to improve; already speak English at an Upper Intermediate or Advanced level and would like to practice their English so as not to forget what they learned in previous years.
VYA005 / English Upper-Intermediate 4
Academic Year 2023/2024 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
The content of the VYA005 course is aimed at students who would benefit from studying and practicing B2 (higher Upper-Intermediate level) English with a native speaker, i.e. students who: wish to study abroad (e.g. with the Erasmus+ programme) or work abroad; want to prepare for the VYA013 B2 level language exam (useful for Erasmus+); already speak English at a good Intermediate level and would like to improve; already speak English at an Upper Intermediate or Advanced level and would like to practice their English so as not to forget what they learned in previous years.
VYA010 / English Upper-Intermediate 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
Vocabulary: personal questions, health, illness and treatment, clothes and fashion, travelling, weather, feelings, adjectives, my university/faculty/campus, my study programme, e-mail communication with professors
Reading: civil engineering / architecture course at a university abroad
Writing: comparing your study in the Czech Republic and a study of architecture /civil engineering abroad
VYA011 / English Upper-Intermediate 2
Academic Year 2023/2024 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
Vocabulary: music and emotions, body parts, media, towns and cities, accommodation, my future house, science, studying abroad.
VYA013 / English Upper-Intermediate, B2 Level (exam)
Academic Year 2023/2024 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
The exam is conducted orally with pairs of students and lasts 25 minutes.
The exam tests speaking skills such as interaction, pronunciation and the ability to construct connected sentences to give information or opinions on a certain topic. It also tests listening and reading ability, as well as grammar and vocabulary.
VYC001 / Czech Language for Foreigners 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
Grammar: conjugation of verbs in the present tense, accusative singular, and gender of nouns, adjectives and pronouns.
Vocabulary: family, jobs, food and drink, telling the time and date,numbers 0 - 1000