Course detail

Semestral Project

ÚSI-2ICSPAcad. year: 2017/2018

Students will receive an individual project specification from various computer science areas in order to work them out individually under the supervising of some skilled leaders. Students will proceed as follows: problem analysis, solution, verification, implementation, documentation, presentation. During their work, the students will follow all the required instructions concerning requests on contents and volume of the project, the project adjustment, the literature, the language quality and written report typography as well as project parts consigned in the electronic form. The course is successfully completed when the written report and realized project outputs are given to the departmental committee (consisting of pedagogues from the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology).

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

10

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will acquire knowledge and experience at creating individual engineering project and its documentation. Then they must be able to successfully defend it.

Prerequisites

Students continuously monitor the latest information and instructions on the subject “Term Project” provided by the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, and they follow published information and instructions. Activities can be summarized as follows: Consultations with student's supervisor, developing and submitting a written technical report along with realized project outputs no later than the announced deadline (beginning of the examination period after winter semester), and the defence of written technical report before faculty committee (first half of the examination period after winter semester). The course is completed via classified credit, therefore no alternative terms of defence are allowed.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching is carried out through seminars and projects. It is a way of teaching where the emphasis is on individual student work. Important parts of the teaching are presentations of individual works and critical discussions.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Defence of a project, written technical report and realized project outputs with a minimum of 50 points.

Course curriculum

Work on the project according to specifications and additional guidance from consultations with the supervisor.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The fundamental goal of this course is to support the individual creative student work during the engineering project solving, its formal description, and defence.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Not applicable.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Project Management Institute, 2008, ISBN 978-1-933890-51-7.
ISO 2145:1978: Documentation - Numbering of divisions and subdivisions in written documents.
ISO 7144:1986: Documentation - Presentation of theses and similar documents.
ISO 690:1987: Documentation - Bibliographic references. Content, form and structure.
Eco, U.: Jak napsat diplomovou práci, z ital. originálu Come si fa una tesi di laures, Milano: Bompiani, 1977, Olomouc: Votobia. 278 s. ISBN 80-7198-1773-7
Úřední deska FIT VUT v Brně: Pokyny pro vypracování semestrálního projektu

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme MRzI Master's

    branch RIS , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Project

65 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer