Study Civil Engineering at BUT
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.
BAA001 / Mathematics 1
Academic Year 2025/2026 7 credits Institute: Institute of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry
Linear algebra (basics of the matrix calculus, rank of a matrix, Gauss elimination method, inverse to a matrix, determinants and their applications). Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a matrix. Basics of vectors, vector spaces. Linear spaces. Analytic geometry (dot, cross and mixed product of vectors, affine and metric problems for linear bodies in 3D).
The basic problems in numerical mathematics (interpolation, solving nonlinear equation and systems of linear equations, numerical differentiation).
BAA003 / Mathematics 3
Academic Year 2025/2026 5 credits Institute: Institute of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry
Curvilinear integral in a scalar field, its calculation and application. Divergence and rotation of a vector field. Curvilinear integral in a vector field, its calculation and application. Independence of a curvilinear integral on the integration path. Green`s theorem.
Existence and uniqueness of solutions to first order differential equations. n-th order homogeneous linear differential equations with constant coefficients. Solutions to non-homogeneous linear differential equations with special-type right-hand sides. Variation-of-constants method.
BAA004 / Mathematics 4
Academic Year 2025/2026 5 credits Institute: Institute of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry
Random sample, point estimation of an unknown distribution parameter and its properties, interval estimation of a distribution parameter, testing of statistical hypotheses, tests of distribution parameters, goodness-of-fit tests, basics of regression analysis.
BBA001 / Physics
Academic Year 2025/2026 5 credits Institute: Institute of Physics
BDA002 / Elasticity and Plasticity
Academic Year 2025/2026 5 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Mechanics
Analysis of a straight bar – basic assumptions. The interaction between the internal force components and the stress components, and between the internal force components and the external load. Basic cases of the loads of a bar. Simple tension and compression – the stress, the strain, the deflection. The influence of the temperature and the initial stresses. Simple shearing load. Simple bending load –calculation of the normal (axial) stresses. Design of the bent beams. The deflection of the bent beams. Differential equation of the deformation line. Method of initial parameters a Mohr’s method. Calculation of the tangent stresses – massive and thin-walled cross-sections. The consideration of the shear stress in the bent beam. The centre of the shear. Pure torsion and warping torsion. Free warping – massive circular and non-circular cross-section. Thin-walled closed and opened cross-section.
Composed load cases of the bar. Spatial and biaxial bending. Tension (Compression) and bending in a plane. Eccentric torsion and compression. The core of the section. Design of the beams in the case of the composed (complex) load.
The stability and the bucking strength of the compressed bars. Euler’s solution. The critical force and the critical stress. The strength approach to stability. A bar loaded by a bending and buckling load. The check of the buckling bars.
The theory of the material strength and failure. The stress and strain state in a point of the body. The principal stress at the plane stress problem.
BDA007 / Structural Analysis 2
Academic Year 2025/2026 4 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Mechanics
Solution of rectangular frames and continuous girders. Temperature influences, shift of supports. Truss girder is solved by deflection method. Bar with variable cross-section with height linear ramping, determination of deflection coefficient. Solution of spatial frames using deflection method. Calculation model for simplified deflection method.
BEA001 / Geodesy
Academic Year 2025/2026 3 credits Institute: Institute of Geodesy
The importance of geodesy in civil engineering. Coordinate systems, reference frames and vertical datum in Czech republic and EU.
Angle-, distance-, height measurements, geodetic calculations. Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS).
Methods of spatial data collecting - surveying, GNSS, terrestrial and airborne laser scanning, mobile mapping systems.
Setting out of structures, check measurements, determination of displacements and deformations, special measurements.
Cadastre of real estates, retrieval of informations from cadastre.
Cartography, state map series, geographical information systems (GIS), building information model (BIM).
BFA001 / Geology
Academic Year 2025/2026 5 credits Institute: Institute of Geotechnics
Earth’s interior and Earth’s crust, plate tectonic, subduction and rift zones, technical petrography – rock-forming minerals, structures and textures affecting rock properties, igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks – formation, classification, properties and application of rocks in civil engineering practice (aggregates, building and ornamental stones), assessment of foundation soils composed of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, problems during construction caused by various types of foundation soils, endogenous geological processes – volcanism, earthquake, tectonic forces, folding, faults, cracks in rock environment and their affecting of construction, principles of structural geology, exogenous geological processes – weathering, erosion, geodynamic processes and their affecting of construction, basics of geomorphology, basics of hydrogeology – groundwater in construction site, geological maps, principles of regional geology of the Czech Republic – Bohemian Massif, Western Carpathians, methods of engineering geological survey.
BFA003 / Foundation Engineering (S)
Academic Year 2025/2026 4 credits Institute: Institute of Geotechnics
Deep foundations - division of elements. Piles - distribution (displacement, replacement). Drilled piles, CFA - technology of building. Design of axial loaded bored piles - limit bearing capacity, limit loading curve. Uncased piles - building technology. Vibropiles. Micropiles - types, building technology, utilization. Diaphragm walls and lamellas - building technology and utilization. Anchors - distribution, design and construction methods, anchor prestressing.
Jet grouting - technology, recovery. Classical injection - sealing, hardening, compensation, injection materials.
Foundation pits and their timbering. Rider sheeting, pile walls, diaphragm walls. Cofferdams. Static design of foundation pit timbering. Foundation pit dewatering.
Underpinning.
BHA001 / Building Constructions 1
Academic Year 2025/2026 7 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
BHA006 / Building Constructions 3 (S)
Academic Year 2025/2026 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
BHA009 / Fire Safety of Buildings
Academic Year 2025/2026 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
BIA002 / Testing and Technology
Academic Year 2025/2026 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Testing
The content of the subject is divided into two specialized sections:
1) Testing in civil engineering and
2) Technology of concrete and silicate production.
Ad 1)
Requirements for building materials according to the EU directive on building products and the system of tests of materials, segments and constructions.
Division of tests into certificate tests and checking tests, destructive and non-destructive.
Regression relations and statistic evaluation of results.
Essentials of non-destructive testing methods and their application in laboratories (electro-acoustic, magnetic and hardness non-destructive measurement methods).
Radiometric methods of the detection of reinforcement location, volume mass and moisture of bulk materials and radon in buildings.
Ad 2)
Technology of concrete production. Types and components of concrete.
Fresh concrete processing, concrete hardening and curing.
Basic findings about production and usage of silicate products.
BLA003 / Concrete Structures 2
Academic Year 2025/2026 5 credits Institute: Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures
Precast structures – halls, skeletons, buildings from flat and spatial units. Type of units. Arrangement and details of connections. Calculation of precast units and structures, joint members, anchorages and mounting lugs. Spatial rigidity. Special units and structures. Design and application of composite structures on constructions of structural engineering.
Selected structures of civil engineering – storages, tanks. Design principles of prestressed concrete members.
BOA001 / Engineering and Transport Structures
Academic Year 2025/2026 5 credits Institute: Institute of Metal and Timber Structures
Basic types of building and engineering structures and their general characteristics.
Building materials – material properties from the viewpoint of usage in building structures, basic material characteristics.
Load of building structure, load classification, particular load cases and their combinations.
Concrete and masonry structures, metal and timber structures – basic types, dispositional and structural design, significant structural details.
Basis of design and computer modelling of engineering structures.
Concrete and steel bridges and timber footbridges, masonry bridges and vaults: overview of types.
Transportation history, categorization, social aspects, transportation advantages and disadvantages. Integrated transport systems. Transportation terminology and basic concepts.
Railway transport charakteristic, basic concepts, alignment and profile of the line, permanent way and subgrade. Railway station.
Roadway and motorway characteristics in CR, design of road structures, technologies for road construction, urban infrastructure.
Airports.
BOA008 / Metal Structures 1
Academic Year 2025/2026 5 credits Institute: Institute of Metal and Timber Structures
Design of industrial buildings.
Roof structures (cladding, rafters, purlins, girders, bracing, bearings, optional roof members).
Crane girders and material handling systems in industrial buildings.
Crane girder design for travelling cranes (rail, main girder, horizontal bracing beam, bumpers).
Transmission principles of crane girder braking force into substructure.
Bent systems of industrial buildings.
Design of web-plate and built-up columns, footing and column anchorage.
Spatial rigidity of industrial building systems.
Lateral (wind) bracing, bracing systems of buildings with socketed columns only.
Exposed and interior walls structure of industrial buildings.
Window and portal lintel dimensioning.
Production, assembly, maintenance and rebuilding of metal-framed industrial bearing structures.
BSA001 / Waterworks Structures
Academic Year 2025/2026 5 credits Institute: Institute of Landscape Water Management
Water courses regulations, flood control, weirs, water courses restoration. Water abstraction from water courses, artificial channels, waterways, water reservoirs. Construction, arrangement and use of water reservoirs, ponds and purpose reservoirs. Watershed protection,land consolidation. Landscape restoration,landscape water management. Irrigation, drainage, municipal engineering, catchment of water sources. Water supply, water treatment, water reservoirs and water towers. Sewerage, sewage water treatment, sludge management, sewage water treatment plants, waste disposal, landfills. Balneology, water management research.
BTA001 / Building Services 1
Academic Year 2025/2026 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Services
Basic principles of disposal of waste water from buildings. Hydraulics and design of drainage systems. Design of wastewater and rainwater drainage systems. Control runoff of rainwater. Sewer connections.
Basic principles of water installations. Designing of water installation. Hydraulics and sizing of water installation. Protection against pollution of potable water. Water heaters. Thermal insulation of pipes. Equipment for fire water supply. Water connections.
Basic principles of building gas supply. Types and characteristics of combustible gases. Designing a gas installation pipework. Sizing gas installations. Categories and placement of gas appliances. Gas service lines.
Internal electrical power distribution. Materials for electrical installations. Electrical connections. Conductors.
BTA003 / Building Services 3
Academic Year 2025/2026 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Services
BUA001 / Informatics
Academic Year 2025/2026 3 credits Institute: Institute of Computer Aided Engineering and Computer Science
Basic principles of operation system usage and management.
Cloud services.
Computer networks, Internet (principles, network protocols, Internet services)
Computer network security
Basic principles of computer graphics and image processing
Basics of typography.
Computer document processing using MS Word.
Advanced engineering computations using MS Excel
BVA001 / Economics
Academic Year 2025/2026 3 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Economics and Management
BVA004 / Financing of Construction Order
Academic Year 2025/2026 4 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Economics and Management
Financial sources of the civil firm, own and foreign sources, short-term and long-term sources.
Firm’s property, the management of particular parts of the property and the coverage of the property from various sources. Structural order and its determination.
Budget. Monitoring of the costs connected with the order, the running of the structural order from the technological and financial aspect.
Financial sources for the order assurance.
Financial plan of the order.
The cash flow of the company and the cash flow of the order.
Comparison of planned and real state of the structural order from the financial aspect.
Evaluation of the differences.
BWA003 / Technology of Constructions 2
Academic Year 2025/2026 4 credits Institute: Institute of Technology, Mechanisation and Construction Management
BZA003 / Building Law
Academic Year 2025/2026 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
NAA019 / Mathematics 5 (S)
Academic Year 2025/2026 4 credits Institute: Institute of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry
NDA015 / Elasticity and Plasticity
Academic Year 2025/2026 5 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Mechanics
NHA040-A / Introduction to Buildings‘ Design 2
Academic Year 2025/2026 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
Elementary architectural and structural design principles of civil buildings. Rooms and floor areas requirements, building volume and zones, cardinal point orientation, operation schemes, interiors equipments and furniture.
Respect for applicable ordinances, regulations, standards. Application of current requirements for economy, energy efficiency of buildings and environmental protection. Requirements for barrier-free design of buildings and accessibility to them.
NHB041 / Computer Aided Building Physics Application
Academic Year 2025/2026 3 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
In particular, the assessment of structures in terms of thermal and acoustic techniques
Verification of thermal comfort, sound and light microclimate of buildings.
The calculation and design is to optimize the structural design of the building envelope and the doors and windows, including the resolution of structural details.
NHB042 / Saving and Building Adaptation
Academic Year 2025/2026 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
NHB049 / Structural Detail (S-PST)
Academic Year 2025/2026 3 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
NHB053 / Reconstruction and Renovation of Historical Buildings
Academic Year 2025/2026 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
NHB055 / Selected Chapters from Building Constructions 2
Academic Year 2025/2026 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
NIB011 / Modern building materials
Academic Year 2025/2026 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Testing
Specifying the requirements for maintenance, repair and reconstruction from the point of view of used materials.
Evaluation of data obtained by diagnostic methods for materials choice.
Checking of materials properties with certificate tests.
Theoretic essentials of composite materials (particles and fibre composites).
Polymer-cement mortars and concrete, impregnation of concretes.
Permanent elastic mastics, their use and their significance in construction.
Glues of building materials and technology of joints.
Hydro-insulating materials and technology, additional thermal insulation. Preservation and replacement of reinforcement in reinforced concretes.
Dispersed reinforcement, wirecutted concrete, self-compacting concretes.
Materials for re-development technologies of reinforced constructions.
Seminary paper with individual task on choice of materials for re-development technology.
NLA022 / Concrete Structures (S)
Academic Year 2025/2026 5 credits Institute: Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures
NOA019 / Metal Structures 2
Academic Year 2025/2026 5 credits Institute: Institute of Metal and Timber Structures
Rules of structural design of multi-storey buildings. Spatial rigidity, bracing and reinforcing systems. Floor and platform bearing systems.
Multi-storey building columns, footing and column anchorage.
Large-span roofing. Spatial trusses. Structural design of truss plates and grid systems.
Production and assembly of metal structures. Reinforcing, reconstructing and rebuilding problems of steel framed buildings.
Design of metal structures based on experimental results. Tests realization and interpretation.
Catastrophic events and their reflecting in design concepts of structural systems.
NZB014 / Company Practice Psychology
Academic Year 2025/2026 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
VXC004 / Final Project
Academic Year 2025/2026 30 credits Institute: Faculty of Civil Engineering
VYA004 / English Upper-Intermediate 3
Academic Year 2025/2026 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 2025/2026 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 2025/2026 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 2025/2026 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 2025/2026 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 2025/2026 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
The course is intended for beginner students.
Grammar: conjugation of verbs in the present tense, accusative singular, gender of nouns, adjectives and pronouns.
Vocabulary: family, jobs, food and drink, telling the time and date, numbers 0 - 1000.