Course Details
Diploma Seminar (M)
Academic Year 2023/24
CJ008 course is part of 1 study plan
N-P-C-SI (N) / M Winter Semester 2nd year
The diploma seminar provides students with methodological and professional preparation to be able to tackle their diploma theses on a complex level. Processing information from professional literature. Completion and evaluation of obtained data, methodology of executing the theoretical and experimental part of the diploma thesis, interpretation and discussion of results, validation.
In further course of time results are individually evaluated using published finding of the department, domestic and foreign sources, as well as their processing in accordance with the diploma supervisors‘ recommendations. In order to satisfy the demands of the Institute for contentual and formal unification of theses, consultations are organized.The issues of technical backing of possible resits and unexpected situations in the finishing stages of diploma theses are addressed including extra consultations both internal and especially external. Questions of organisation are discussed, especially the excursions of students outside the Faculty to manufacturing and other organizations. External consultants and second readers are secured.
In further course of time results are individually evaluated using published finding of the department, domestic and foreign sources, as well as their processing in accordance with the diploma supervisors‘ recommendations. In order to satisfy the demands of the Institute for contentual and formal unification of theses, consultations are organized.The issues of technical backing of possible resits and unexpected situations in the finishing stages of diploma theses are addressed including extra consultations both internal and especially external. Questions of organisation are discussed, especially the excursions of students outside the Faculty to manufacturing and other organizations. External consultants and second readers are secured.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
The students will improve their knowledge and skills connected with problems of assigned dissertation. They are acquiring information of professional literature, studying domestic and foreign publications. They get acquainted with technical parameters of laboratory equipment and learn to work with special apparatuses. They will learn to perform independently experimental works (design and make test pieces, realize a complex of tests to determine physico-mechanical and physico-chemical properties), evaluate the obtained results and propose the further progress of works.
Knowledge
The student would manage the goal of the subject by acquiring knowledge and skills related to the problems of a given diploma thesis, get acquainted with technical parameters of laboratory equipment and special equipment. Further then will acquire also skills to independently prepare experimental works and evaluate achieved results and propose further work procedures.
Prerequisites
Methodological techniques of data processing, interpretation of results, application SW, products for graphical operations.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
graded course-unit credit
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Seminar
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1.Evaluation of data obtained from the subject of laboratory test of building materials and components with regard to the assignment of the diploma thesis.
2.Methods of processing information from specialised literature as a basis for the theoretical part of the diploma thesis.
3.Methods of evaluation of data gained from experiments.
4.Estimation of corrections of experimental works or methods of work.
5.Consultations concerning the procedures of results processing.
6.Individual consultation with regard to obtained results.
7.Individual consultations with regard to obtained results and to partial conclusions.
8.Consultations on the subject of results and conclusions, internal, in case of need external from experience.
9.Evaluation of results, confrontation with publications of domestic and foreign literature, discussion.
10.Evaluation of results, discussion of results.
11.Interpretation and discussion of results.
12.Validation of results.
13.Methods of composing the theoretical and experimental parts of work. Methods of completing the diploma thesis.