Guidelines for the diploma thesis / bachelor work.

Individual thesis Assignment

According the Schedule of the academic year (actually on the address https://www.fs.cvut.cz/en/studies/bachelor-and-master-studies/schedule-of-academic-year/) you should get an individual thesis assignment somewhere in the half of the last semester. Assignment has to be prepared in the KOS about four weeks before the date in this document.

How to submit a thesis:

1. A bound (printed) version is required for the assessment. One copy is now sufficient, sometimes the supervisor ask for another copy. For a foreign student will be useful to keep the third copy for personal use.
2. The thesis must contain an inserted CD with the entire text of the thesis or bachelor work (preferably in the pdf). It may also include other attachments, such as the translated application, the measured data or source code programs, but it is not necessary. If a CD is a problem, you can use micro-SD card (just electronic version of thesis independent on the internet).
3. Prior to submission of the thesis you must fill the annotation (abstract) and upload your thesis to the study information system, KOS (https://kos.is.cvut.cz/kos/logout.do).
4. Your thesis supervisor has to confirm in the KOS, that he accepts your thesis.
5. You have the right to see the reviewer report and the supervisor's reference a week before the thesis defending. At this time, your thesis and reviews should be laid on the department for anyone interested to look at.
6. You should prepare the groundwork for an opinion for reviewer's comments or questions. It is recommended to prepare a powerpoint presentation (one slide, or one slide per question) with your response or explanation.
7. After you have got all your credits (including thesis assessment), you can apply for the state exam at the Study department. The deadline is in the Schedule of the academic year. In a problematic situation, it is possible to defend thesis only, and finish your study by state exam in the next semester. In this case, consult me, please. If it is possible, it is better to postpone both.

The content of the thesis/bachelor work

• From 2017, thesis hard binding should follow the Graphics manual (see page 108). If the link does not work, click on Grafický manuál identity ČVUT v Praze on the web address https://www.cvut.cz/logo-a-graficky-manual. At the same address, there is a link to the title page example ("Graduate Thesis Template"). This should be translated to English. Font "Technika" is required - can be downloaded from the Inforek (login required).
• The first page inside should be the title page (example in the Czech here; for an English version, use texts "Czech Technical University in Prague", "Faculty of Mechanical Engineering"); with title of work (missing in template), name and year.
• The thesis proposition should be bound as the next - you get one, in the copies must be a copy. Into KOS (the pdf version of thesis), use version without signatures (available for you in the KOS).
• At the next page must be a statement. Minimum text of the statement is something like "I declare that I have written this work on my own, and all the literature I have used is referred in this work", possibly "thesis" instead of "work".
• In the Czech republic, due legislative, every final work (thesis, diploma thesis, dissertation) has to be published on the internet. It will be published by our university on DSpace (where you can find some examples of thesis).
• On the next page, type the title of your thesis/bachelor work and annotation (abstract). It's not that much extra work, the same texts you have to fill in the KOS server. There must be an English and a Czech version of the abstract and keywords. Ask your supervisor to translate the abstract for you (but let him/her a week for doing this).
• Please, prepare a list of used symbols or abbreviations on the next page. It is useful for persons, who are not specialized in your problematic.
• Then just follow the usual components of thesis/bachelor work (contents, introduction, theoretical part, practical part, conclusion or summary, bibliography, appendixes (program listing, reproduced literature, instructions for use, drawing and photo-documentation, etc.). You can ask your supervisor to borrow some older master thesis.
• Sequence of chapters is usually as follows:
  • content,
  • overview of used signs, or abbreviations
  • introduction - write here, what was the goal of the work, etc.
  • theoretical part (at least 10 pages). There is frequent to cite parts of literature, but they must be properly marked with reference to literature (source). Master thesis should refer more sources and compare them.
  • practical part - the reviewer must be able easily decide, what is still a theoretical analysis, and what is already your own work.
  • conclusion - highlight your own contribution and the practical use
  • list of references
  • attachments and appendixes; if you have inserted just a copy (paper copy, as was a Xerox), then on the CD could be only list of the appendixes. The attachments can also contain instructions for installation, proposition for your follower and so on.
• Please, number the pictures, equations and tables. Including of the first level of chapter into object numbering is recommended.
• Typical range is 20 pages for 3-year bachelor, 30+ pages for an Information and Automation Technology bachelor, and 50 pages for master thesis. (It is probably possible to create thesis without practical part by keeping the same rules as with humanity universities, but the research work must compare and evaluate relevant resources, and the range of work is usually twice longer than ours, so-called design type of thesis; special exception from the guarantor of our study program is required).

Citations

In the references, keep the rules current in the technical literature (in MS Word, the IEEE style).

Link to State exam questions.