Course detail
Diploma Seminar (M)
FAST-CJ008Acad. year: 2018/2019
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.
Supervisor
Department
Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components (THD)
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Students will improve their knowledge and skills connected with the matter of the diploma thesis. They obtain information from technical literature and study both domestic and foreign sources. They get acquainted with technical parameters of laboratory equipment and learn to work with special devices. They will learn to perform experiments independently (design and make test specimens, execute a complex of tests to determine the physico-mechanical and the physico-chemical properties), evaluate the obtained results and draw a proposal for further progress.
Prerequisites
Methodological techniques of data processing, interpretation of results, application SW, products for graphical operations.
Co-requisites
Knowledge of Laboratory Tests of Building Materials and Components.
Recommended optional programme components
Not applicable.
Recommended or required reading
Not applicable.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Students work individually under the guidance of a supervisor of the master thesis. The topic of the diploma thesis may be a part of the research project or grant.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Passmark: at least 90 % of the diploma thesis.
Language of instruction
Czech
Work placements
Not applicable.
Aims
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.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme N-P-C-SI (N) Master's
branch M , 2. year of study, winter semester, 5 credits, compulsory
- Programme N-P-E-SI (N) Master's
branch M , 2. year of study, winter semester, 5 credits, compulsory
- Programme N-K-C-SI (N) Master's
branch M , 2. year of study, winter semester, 5 credits, compulsory
Type of course unit
Exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
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.