Course detail

Bachelor's Thesis

FIT-IBTeAcad. year: 2017/2018

Students will receive an individual project specification from various computer science areas in order to work them out individually under the supervision of selected supervisor from academic stuff of faculty. 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. MSc Project/Thesis is defended in front of the comission.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

13

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Bohuslav Křena, Ph.D.

Department

Faculty of Information Technology (FIT)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Knowledge and experience with engineering project building, its documentation, and defence.

Prerequisites

Wide knowledge of information technology basics.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

To meet the prerequisite conditions, submission of technical report and realization output in prescribed date and defense of the thesis in front of commission.
Submitted results must meet these requirements:
  • Cover and title page must be created according to BUT decrees (LaTeX template can be used).
  • Extent of technical report must be at least 40 standard pages (usually 60 - 80, no more than 100)
  • Final version of thesis and realisation output have to be consulted with supervisor in agreed time before submission.
  • Electronic and printed version must be the same and a signed declaration of compliance must be submitted.
  • Source and resulting version of the technical report and the source and executable version of realisation output must be on included CD/DVD, SD card or thin USB Flash.
In order to gain a credit it is necessary to gain at least 50 points from 100 during the defence.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

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

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

Consultations with student's supervisor. Sending of technical report to student's supervisor in adequate time before submission.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

  • A Guide To The Project Management Body Of Knowledge, Fifth Edition, Project Management Institute, 2013, ISBN 978-1-935589-67-9.
  • ISO 2145:1978: Documentation - Numbering of divisions and subdivisions in written documents.
  • ISO 7144:1986: Documentation - Presentation of theses and similar documents.
  • ISO 690:2010: Information and documentation -- Guidelines for bibliographic references and citations to information resources.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme IT-BC-1H Bachelor's

    branch BCH , any year of study, summer semester, recommended

Type of course unit

 

Project

143 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Bohuslav Křena, Ph.D.