Diploma Seminar (N-STG, Machining) (FSI-HD2)

Academic year 2024/2025
Supervisor: Ing. Petra Sliwková, Ph.D.  
Supervising institute: ÚST all courses guaranted by this institute
Teaching language: Czech
Aims of the course unit:

The goal of the course is to provide students with skills necessary for scientific work in the branch, and with the methodology of working out individual parts of a diploma thesis. It will familiarise them with the aspects of final formulation, editing and the layout of the diploma thesis. In the seminars, students will practice particular procedures applied when working out the diploma thesis, and will learn about the requirements for and the process of the final defence of their diploma theses.
Students will develop their planning, organizational and management skills, competences in proper selection, decision-making and pragmatic elaboration of technical-economic materials and information. They will be provided with the principles of working out the diploma thesis, work with technical literature, references, citations, text editing, preparing of presentation, and the presentation as such.
Learning outcomes and competences:
 
Prerequisites:
 
Course contents:

The course is intended as a support of elaborating of the diploma thesis. Students are methodically guided in their preparation for successful defence of their diploma theses. They are made familiar with the problems related to writing scientific publications including respective formal aspects. Also discussed are more general problems related to concrete solutions of individual diploma theses.
Teaching methods and criteria:
 
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes:

Course-unit credit is awarded on condition of having attended the seminars and worked out the diploma thesis, including its presentation. Participation in the courses is obligatory and can be specified by the supervisor of the diploma thesis. Attendance at seminars can be substituted by the agreement with the teacher by consultations on solved topics at a professional workplace outside the faculty, or by visiting a technical library.
Controlled participation in lessons:
 
Type of course unit:
    Exercise  13 × 2 hrs. compulsory                  
Course curriculum:
    Exercise 1. Beginning discussion about: conception of DW, concretization of DW topics.
1. Opening discussion: conception of the diploma thesis, concretization of the topics.
2. Analysis of the diploma work in process.
3. Fundamental principles of working out the diploma thesis.
4. Fundamental principles of working out the diploma thesis.
5. Work with the technical bibliography, references, citations, Internet sources.
6. Work with the technical bibliography, references, citations, Internet sources.
7. Text editing and layout of the diploma thesis.
8. Text editing and layout of the diploma thesis.
9. Preparing of presentations.
10. Preparing of presentations.
11. Project presentations.
12. Project presentations.
13. Course-unit credits.
Literature - fundamental:
1. Odborné a vědecké časopisy (CIRP, ASME)
2. Internet http://knihovna.fme.vutbr.cz/?iddm=640
3.

Dušan Katuščák: Jak psát závěrečné a kvalifikační práce. Enigma. 2022. s. 162. ISBN 978-80-89132-70-6. EAN 9788089132706
4.

ČSN ISO 5966 - Formální úprava vědeckých a technických zpráv. Český normalizační institut, Praha, 1995. 32 s. MDT 06.055.
5.

Anoop Desai, Aashi Mital. Production Economics: Evaluating Costs of Operations in Manufacturing and Service Industries. CRC Press, 2018. p. 530
The study programmes with the given course:
Programme Study form Branch Spec. Final classification   Course-unit credits     Obligation     Level     Year     Semester  
N-STG-P full-time study STG Manufacturing Technology -- Cr 4 Compulsory-optional 2 2 S