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.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
4
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
General knowledge with respect to the chosen topis of the thesis.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
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.
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.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-AIŘ-P: Applied Computer Science and Control, Master's, 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.