Course Details

Informatics

Academic Year 2025/26

BUA001 course is part of 3 study plans

​ BPA-SI Winter Semester 1st year

​ BPC-SI / VS Winter Semester 1st year

​ BKC-SI Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Miroslav Menšík, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Computer Aided Engineering and Computer Science

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Credits

3 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

To offer to students of all faculties

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289631

Exercise

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Computer lab use policy, FCE computer network, BUT mail, cloud services, computer network security, BUT information system.
  • 2. Rudiments of spreadsheets: cell addressing, entering names, copying, formatting, built-in Excel functions, formulas.
  • 3. Conditional formatting, data validation, data import (measurement data import).
  • 4. Graphic output.
  • 5. Advanced computations in engineering science using spreadsheets.
  • 6. Database applications (sorting, pivot tables, filtering).
  • 7. Analytical tools: goal seek, solver.
  • 8.–9. Basics of computer typography: text processing, document structure, styles, headings, references, footnotes, content.
  • 10. Typesetting of technical documents. Formulas, tables, pictures.
  • 11.–12. Basics of computer graphics: Image/photo processing using text processor and raster editor, image parameters for typesetting.
  • 13. Final test, final work (document) evaluation.