Course detail

Diploma Seminar (N-AIR)

FSI-VD8 Acad. year: 2026/2027 Summer semester

This course should help students to elaborate and to present their diploma projects at a high professional level. They are introduced to the methodology and technology of scientific research, as well as the process of literature retrieval, and to the content-bearing and formal requirements of a diploma project. Principal ethical features of scientific work and of oral and written presentations are overviewed. Students are warned of substantial content-bearing mistakes, which frequently occur in diploma projects. The way of presenting a diploma project is shown. The scope of the diploma project is consulted with each student.

Supervisor

prof. Ing. Zdeněk Hadaš, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Automation and Computer Science

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Prerequisites

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Individual interview with students about their diploma projects. Presentations about the progress of their diploma projects during the semester.
Presence in seminars is required and recorded.

Language of instruction

Czech

Aims

The aim of the "Diploma Seminar" is to prepare the students for the defence of their thesis in the final state examination.
Students will clarify their own diploma project priorities and become familiar with the knowledge required to work out the thesis, as well as with the appropriate form of publication, presentation, and evaluation of the thesis.

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

The study programmes with the given course

Programme N-AIŘ-P: Applied Computer Science and Control, Master's
branch ---: no specialisation, 4 credits, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Syllabus


  • Characteristics of scientific works.

  • Characteristics of a diploma project.

  • System approach to analyzing the topic of a diploma project.

  • Approaches and methods in solutions to problems.

  • State of the art and references

  • Bibliografic databases

  • AI and the ethical side

  • Formal and language side of the diploma project.

  • Presentation of the diploma project.