Course details
Year Project 1
YP1a Acad. year 2021/2022 Winter semester 4 credits
Students will receive an individual project specification from various computer science areas in order to work them out individually under the supervising of a skilled supervisor. 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 Year Project is defended in front of an examination board at its end.
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Time span
- 52 hrs projects
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Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
Knowledge and experience with engineering project building, its documentation, and defence.
Own time management during creation of a complex engineering project. Communication with and reporting to the project supervisor. Presentation of the project by the final technical report and defense.
Learning objectives
The goal of this course is to support the individual creative student work during the engineering project solving, its formal description and defence.
Why is the course taught
Within the Year Project, the student selects a topic from the given set of technical assignments according to their focus of study and will individually - under the supervision of the supervisor - work on solving it. They will learn to decompose a complex technical problem, study relevant literature and other sources, and to come up with a technical solution, document it and defend it in a scholarly debate.
Study literature
- Pokyny pro vypracování diplomových prací.
- 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 690:1987: 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
Progress assessment
Consultations with the student's supervisor.
Exam prerequisites
Delivering partial solution of the whole work (to be finished in the Year Project 2, in the summer semester), as agreed with the project supervisor.