Course Details

Applied Software

Academic Year 2025/26

NJA027 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-SIM Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Use of computer technology in building practice, use of software support in MS Windows environment.
  • 2. Office Software Packages - MS Office.
  • 3. Using MS Excel spreadsheet in building practice.
  • 4. Formulate tasks to search for extreme functions.
  • 5. Assemble a Solver / Solver solution.
  • 6. Theoretical basis of the optimization task in the search for extreme functions.
  • 7. Algorithmization of tasks for extreme search, simplex method.
  • 8. Extreme formulation, description of conditions and limiting of linear task.
  • 9. Extreme formulation, description of conditions, and limitation of quadratic task.
  • 10. Mathematical programming, solution principle.
  • 11. Practical examples of search for extreme in building practice.
  • 12. Practical role of raw material composition suggestions.
  • 13. Software Support for Finding Extreme Tasks.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to MS Excel environment.
  • 2. Statistical functions in MS Excel.
  • 3. Normal distance.
  • 4. Solver.
  • 5. Basic of optimization process.
  • 6. Optimization of company production.
  • 7. Optimization of building materials recipes design.
  • 8. Optimization of production process from point of view of supply utilization.
  • 9. Optimization of concrete production and transport.
  • 10. Transport problem.
  • 11. Optimal design grading size curve.
  • 12. Utilization of optimization in building praxis.
  • 13. Verification, credit test, credits.