Course name: Computer-Aided Technology (KPV/CAT)Type: core electiveNumber of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Josef Basl, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Cierp, J. K.: ERP: A-Z Implementers´ Guide for Success, Resource Publisher, 2000,

ISBN 0-9700352-1-7[2] www.sap.com [3] www.oracle.com [4] www.microsoft.com [5] www.apics.org [6] www.forrester.com

Brief characteristics:The course focuses on the following areas:theoretical and practical explanation of methods applied in computer-aided software tools used for decision-making support in an enterprise; Material Requirements Planning (MRP); Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II); Optimized Production Technology (OPT).

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Course name: Database Systems in Computer Integrated Manufacturing (KPV/DBC)

Type: compulsory Number of contact hours/week: 3 (lecture) + 3 (laboratory work)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Pavel Kopeček, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Batini, C., Ceri, S., Navath, S.: Conceptual Database Design in E-R Approach, The

Benjamin/Cummings Publ. Comp., Inc., 1992.[2] Celko, J. – Joe Celko’s SQL FOR SMARTIES: Advanced SQL Programming,

Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1995.[3] Gray, J., Reuter, A. – Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques, Morgan

Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1993.[4] Kimball, R.- The Data Warehouse Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Building

Dimensional Data Warehouses, John Wille, 1996.

Brief characteristics:The course is intended to give students a good insight into the following areas:data and information, logical data structure (linear, hierarchical, network, relational), physical data structure (organization of storage disk, data storing, data access, data searching), data organization, data definition languages, data manipulation languages, SQL, multi-user access, architecture of database systems (client - server), examples of database systems (Informix, Oracle, MS-FoxPro, dBase), data modelling, E-R-A Diagrams, principle of distributed database systems. During their training in the laboratory students gain experience of a selected database system.

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Course name: Tax System (KPV/DSP)Type: core elective Number of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study) Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Lilia Dvořáková, CSc.

List of literature:ACCA TEXTBOOKS: Tax Framework. At Foulks Lynch Ltd, 1996[1] ACCA TEXTBOOKS: Tax Planning. At Foulks Lynch Ltd, 1996

Brief characteristics:The course focuses on the following areas:enterprise and its status in the Czech tax system; basic elements of direct and indirect taxes and their impact on corporate economy; accounting and tax profit (loss) in different accounting systems; optimization of taxable income; income tax; value-added tax; property taxes; tax and fee administration; tax planning in market economy.

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Course name: Economic Evaluation of Production Processes (KPV/EHV)Type: compulsory Number of contact hours/week: 3 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Ing. Jana Kleinová, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Ardalan, A.: Economic and Financial Analysis for Engineering and Project

Management. CRC Press 2000

Brief characteristics:The objective of the course is to provide students with a sound knowledge of the fundamentals of economic analysis and evaluation of production processes for engineers. The subject is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part describes the methodology of technical and economic analysis, setting of job standards, calculations, technology and investment decision-making.The practical part comprises case studies dealing with the choice of optimal technology or optimal investment alternatives.

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Course name: Econometrics (KPV/EKM)Type: core electiveNumber of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Ing. Jana Kleinová, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Jorgenson, D. W.: Econometric Modelling of Producer Behaviour. MIT Press 2000

Brief characteristics:The objective of the course is to provide students with a sound knowledge of the fundamentals of econometrics. The introductory part of the course deals with statistical analysis for business and economy and the difference between this analysis and econometric analysis. The main part of the course focuses on the econometric analysis of reproduction processes (cost analysis, cost-benefit analysis, break-even analysis and analysis of production). The last part describes the construction of basic econometric models.

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Course name: Corporate Finance (KPV/FPX)Type: compulsoryNumber of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Ing. Jana Kleinová, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Banninga, S., Sarig, O., Benninga, S.: Corporate Finance. McGraw - Hill Companies

1997

Brief characteristics:The objective of the course is to provide students with a sound knowledge of corporate finance and financial management. It has three basic parts.The first part describes the financial resources of a corporation and methods of its financing (internal, external and special).The second part deals with the management of current assets and short-term financing, management of investment assets and long-term financing.The third part focuses on financial analysis and planning.

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Course name: Corporate Economic System (KPV/HSP)Type: compulsory Number of contact hours/week: 3 (lecture) + 3 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Lilia Dvořáková, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Meigs, W. B., Meigs, R. F.: Accounting: The Basis for Bussines Decisions, USA 1987

Brief characteristics:The course focuses on the following areas:recent trends in financial accounting, international accounting standards; financial reporting and its role in operational, tactical and strategic management; double-entry bookkeeping; analysis and evaluation of financial information system data; SAP and EXACT GLOBE information systems in financial management.

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Course name: Production Control Methodology (KPV/MRV)

Vymezení: compulsoryNumber of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Gejza Horváth, CSc.

List of literature:Dilworth, J., B.: Production and operations management, Random House New York 1986

Brief characteristics:The objective of the course is to prepare future engineers to deal with tasks in the preparation, organization, planning and control of engineering production. Production is presented as a complicated process of creating a new material value. Special attention is paid to factors affecting its control and to proper operational control. The seminars are devoted to case studies using both arithmetic methods and the SW product MS Project.

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Course name: Managerial Accounting and Controlling (KPV/MUC)

Type: core electiveNumber of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Lilia Dvořáková, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Drury, C.: Management & Cost Accounting. Fifth edition published by Thomson

Learning 2002

Brief characteristics:The course focuses on the following areas:managerial accounting and controlling and their development; methods of cost determination and cost, revenue and profit management; usage of calculations in controlling; budgeting; decision-making situations with and without capital requirements; price decision-making.

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Course name: Organization of Industrial Enterprises (KPV/ORP)Type: compulsory Number of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Jan Horejc, Ph.D.

List of literature:[1] Gibson, J. L., Ivancevich, J. M., Donnelly, J. H.: Organizations – Behavior, Structure,

Processes. Business Publications, Plano, 1988.[2] Mintzberg, H.: Mintzberg on Management – Inside Our Strange World of

Organizations. Free Press, New York, 1989.[3] Mullins, L. J.: Management and Organizational Behaviour, Pitman, London, 1991[4] Hammer, M., Champy, J.: Reengineering the Corporation – A Manifesto for the

Business Revolution. Harper Business, New York, 1993

Brief characteristics:The course is intended to give students a good insight into the following areas:types of enterprises, organization design processes, types of organizational structures (stable and flexible structures), organization of managerial processes, organization of industrial enterprises, organization of holdings and chains of enterprises, organizational standards, organizational diagnostics, organizational changes, project of organizational structures, organizational development. During their training in the laboratory students gain experience of selected organizational problems (e.g. division of labour, delegation of power, coordination, modelling of managerial processes, organizational standards design, business process reengineering)..

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Course name: Operations Research 1 (KPV/OV1)Type: compulsoryNumber of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

3 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Eva Mainzová, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Hillier, F. S., Lieberman, G. J.: Introduction to Operations Research 4th. Edition,

ISBN 0-07-028908-5

Brief characteristics:The course is intended to give students a good insight into the following areas:operation analysis, characteristics, development, classification of methods - linear programming, Simplex method, duality theory of LP, postoptimality analysis, distribution methods: transportation problem, assignment problem, combinatoric problems, travelling salesman problem, network analysis methods: CPM time analysis, CPM cost analysis, CPM source analysis, PERT method: probability analysis.

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Course name: Company Economics (KPV/PE)Type: compulsoryNumber of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Oldřich Vykypěl, CSc., MBA

List of literature:[1] FORMTEXT Drury, C.: Management and cost accounting. Chapman and Hall,

London, 1991[2] Jauch, L. R., Glueck, W. F.: Business policy and strategic management. McGraw Hill,

New York, 1988

Brief characteristics:The course focuses on the following areas:company in a market economy; mission and objectives; capital structure of a company; assets, liabilities and stockholders' equity; classification of costs; process costing; current assets, fixed assets and labour; production process; planning and budgeting process.

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Course name: Industrial Engineering (KPV/PI)Type: compulsoryNumber of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Prof. Ing. Edvard Leeder, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Salvedy, G.: Handbook of Industrial Engineering, Institute of IE, 1991[2] Hodson, W.: Maynard´s Industrial Engineering Handbook, McGraw Hill, 1992[3] Warnecke, H.: Der Produktionsbetrieb 1-3, Springer, 1995[4] Aggteleky, B.: Fabrikplanung 1-3, Hausner,1991[5] Eversheim, W.: Produktionstechnik 1- 4, VDI, 1989[6] Engel, J.: Praxishandbuch für den Betriebsleiter 1- 4, Weka Augsburg, 1995

Brief characteristics:The course is intended to increase students' knowledge of the technological preparation and rationalization of production. It covers the follwing areas: industrial engineering, definition, structure, components, system relations; basic components and structures of FMS (Flexible Manufacturing Systems); system relationships of FMS and their environment, implications, technological subsystems (role, procedures, structures, requirements, composition); manipulating, control and supporting subsystems, structure of building FMS; prefabricated and modular structures; basic methodology of FMS design, economic aspects.

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Course name: Enterprise Information Systems (KPV/PIS)Type: core elective Number of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Josef Basl, CSc.

List of literature:[7] Cierp, J. K.: ERP: A-Z Implementers´ Guide for Success, Resource Publisher, 2000,

ISBN 0-9700352-1-7[8] www.apics.org [9] www.forrester.com

Brief characteristics:The course focuses on the following areas: models of ERP software products; main functionality of ERP; supported business processes; principles of effective ERP implementation; selection criteria of suitable ERP; problems of ERP systems implementation; practical experience of ERP systems implementation; role of people in ERP systems.

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Course name: Information Systems Planning (KPV/PISV)Type: core elective Number of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Václav Votava, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Coad P.,Yourdon E.:Object-Oriented Analysis, Yourdon Press, 1991,

ISBN 0-13-629981-4[2] Yourdon, E.: Modern Structured Analysis, Prentice-Hall, 1989[3] Martin, J., Odell, J.,J.: Object-Oriented Analysis & Design, Prentice-Hall, 1992,

ISBN 0-13-630245-9

Brief characteristics:The course focuses on the following areas: enterprise information systems, their role, approaches to IS design methodology of IS design, comparison of several methodologies (SDM, SSADM, object oriented,...) project life cycle, phases methods and models used for IS analysis and design data modelling, data analysis, function analysis object-oriented analysis and design CASE tools principles, classification, comparison personnel, programming, organizational and technical aspects of CASE tools, CASE structure, CASE tools trends practical use of the methods and CASE tools on PC.

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Course name: Logistics in an Enterprise (KPV/PL)Type: compulsoryNumber of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Gejza Horváth, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Christopher, M.: Logistics and supply chain management, Prentice Hall, 1998,

ISBN 0273630490

Brief characteristics:The course focuses on industrial, in particular engineering enterprises, whose main purpose is to create new useful things. Logistics is a complex technological and economic science based on the theory of systems. It can be seen as a strategic and conceptual tool which may be successfully used to improve enterprise processes and structure. In this way logistics can serve to create enterprises as strategic, market oriented logistical systems playing an important role in the macrologistical chain, operating on the market of customers. If an enterprise uses the most important logistical concept Just in Time, it will win a significant competitive advantage on the market.

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Course name: Industrial Marketing (KPV/PM)Type: compulsoryNumber of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Eva Mainzová, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Kotler, P.: Marketing management. Viktoria Publishing, 1991

Brief characteristics:The objective of the course is to provide students with a sound knowledge of the fundamentals of:market economics and marketing: essential features, content and function of marketing, types of marketing, marketing organization, marketing concept of enterprise management, marketing research and marketing analysis, marketing mix: product, contract, communication and distribution strategies, psychology of marketing behaviour.

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Course name: Introduction to Management of Industrial Enterprises for Engineers (KPV/PMA)

Type: compulsory Number of contact hours/week: 3 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Jan Horejc, Ph.D.

List of literature:[1] Koontz, H., Weihrich, H.: Management, McGraw Hill, Singapore, 1988.[2] Aldag, R. J., Stearns, T. M.: Management, South-Western Publishing Co., Cincinnati,

1987[3] Griffin, R. W.: Management, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1990[4] Kinard, J.: Management, D.C. Heath and Company, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1988

Brief characteristics:The course is intended to give students a good insight into the following areas: management of industrial enterprises, managerial planning, organization of industrial enterprises, staffing, leadership, controlling process, managerial decision-making, information support of managerial work, personality of the manager of industrial enterprises, development of management of industrial enterprises, comparison of European, American and Japanese management, future trends in management of industrial enterprises. In the seminars students gain experience of selected managerial techniques (e.g. timemanagement, assertivity, managerial negotiation, managing groups, managerial thinking)

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Course name: Enterprise Logistics Practicum (KPV/PPL)Number of contact hours/week: 0 (lecture) + 4 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Josef Basl, CSc.

List of literature:[10] Scheer, A.-W.: ARIS Toolset _ Business Process Modeling, Springer Verlag, 2000[11] Cierp, J. K.: ERP: A-Z Implementers´ Guide for Success, Resource Publisher, 2000,

ISBN 0-9700352-1-7[12] www.sap.com [13] www.apics.org

Brief characteristics:The course focuses on the following areas: SAP software products supporting business processes; SAP R/3; mySAP Business Suite; material planning in SAP; financial management in SAP; practical scenarios presented on examples.

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Course name: Comp. Support in Mech. Engineering (KPV/PPVS)

Type: compulsory Number of contact hours/week: 4 (lecture) + 2 (laboratory work)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Pavel Kopeček, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Doores, J., Reiblein,A.R., Vadera, S.: Programming for Tomorrow, Sigma Press, Wilmslow 1987[2] Wirth, N.: Algorithms and Data structures, Prentice-Hall, 1986[3] Hay, D.: Data Model Patterns, Conventions of Thought, Dorset House 1996

Brief characteristics:The course is intended to give students a good insight into the following areas:introduction to data processing, formats and data processing, conventional batch data processing, sequencing programs; spreadsheets in technological and economic applications, elementary properties of spreadsheets, generation of macros, programming, examples from the field of logistical processes in engineering; CA-technologies in engineering plants, computer aided design, technology, planning, controlling, development – integration; internal and external computer integration in CAD; design, display, documentation by means of CAD tools; CIM environment, product creation process (sequence of design, technology and other activities).

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Course name: Project Management in Engineering (KPV/PRM)Type: compulsoryNumber of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Prof. Ing. Edvard Leeder, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Stover, T.S.: Microsoft Project Version 2002 Inside Out, Microsoft Press, 2002[2] Portny, S.E.: Project Management for Dummies, For Dummies, 2000[3] Project Management Institute: A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge,

Project Management Institute, 2000[4] Kerzner, H.: Project Management:  A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and

Controlling, John Wiley & Sons, 2003[5] Schwalbe, K.: Information Technology Project Management, Second Edition, Course

Technology, 2001[6] Sodhi, J., Sodhi, P.: IT Project Management Handbook, Management Concepts, Inc.,

2002

Brief characteristics:The objective of the course is to make students familiar with all the stages of a project from its initiation to its implementation and subsequent evaluation; these stages include the initiation of the project, all the strategic and organizational matters that accompany it, the establishment of a project team, the actual planning, organization and management of the project, risk management and the definition of the critical factors of success; these stages are followed by actual project implementation and evaluation of the success of the implementation. In the seminars students work on case studies using the knowledge gained in the lectures.

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Course name: Strategic Management (KPV/PS)Type: core electiveNumber of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Oldřich Vykypěl, CSc., MBA

List of literature:[1] Johnson, G., Scholes, K.: Exploring corporate strategy. Prentice Hall, 1993

Brief characteristics:The course focuses on the following areas : the strategic management process; strategic management elements; analysing the environment; internal analysis; strategic choice; the implementation process; strategic management in SMEs; case studies.

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Course name: Corporate Accounting 1 (KPV/PU1)Type: electiveNumber of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Lilia Dvořáková, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Meigs, W. B.and Meigs, R. F.: Accounting: The Basis for Bussines Decisions, seventh

edition, USA, 1987

Brief characteristics:The course focuses on the following areas:principles of accounting and reporting, balance sheet, function, structure, selected areas of accounting, conclusive evidence of the internal accounting checking system; statement of accounts; SAP and EXACT GLOBE information systems in financial management

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Course name: Corporate Accounting 2 (KPV/PU2)Type: electiveNumber of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Lilia Dvořáková, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Drury, C.: Management & Cost Accounting. Fifth edition published by Thomson

Learning 2002

Brief characteristics:The course focuses on the following areas:recent trends in financial and managerial accounting; world accounting harmonization; international accounting standards (IAS); harmonization strategy of accounting in Europe. In the seminars and tutorials students gain the knowledge and practical skills necessary for working with EXACT GLOBE SW in financial and managerial accounting and financial management.

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Course name: Computer Skills 1 (KPV/PVT)Type: electiveNumber of contact hours/week: 0 (lecture) + 3 (laboratory work)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Ing. Stanislav Novák

List of literature:Any literature containing the basics of MS DOS, MS Windows, MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Excel

Brief characteristics:The course provides students with basic computer skills necessary for future studies. It covers the following topics: PC components, MS DOS Commands, MS Windows, spreadsheets, MS Excel, text editors, MS Word, Internet, mail, searching, MS PowerPoint.

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Course name: Computer Skills 2 (KPV/PVT2) Type: elective Number of contact hours/week: 0 (lecture) + 3 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Ing. Jan Hán

List of literature:[1] Lemay, L., Colburn, R.: Seams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML &

XHTML in 21 Days, Fourth Edition. SAMS, 4th edition, 2003[2] Burdea, G. C., Coiffet, P.: Virtual Reality Technology, Second Edition with CD-ROM.

JohnWiley & Sons, 2nd BOOK and CD-ROM edition, 2003

Brief characteristics:The course focuses on the following areas: basic elements of ICT networks, typology of computer networks, properties of ICT networks, basic protocols on the internet, basic services on the internet, tools of computer mediated communication, HTML, creation of simple web pages, basics of computer graphics, basic formats of graphic data files and their properties, commonly used graphic tools, basics of computer animations, software for animations development, basics of digital video, basic formats of digital video files, codecs, digital video processing, software for digital video playing, software for digital video processing, basics of digital sounds, basic formats of digital sound files, digital sound processing, software for digital sound playing, software for digital sound processing, types and properties of virtual worlds, VRML introduction, software for VRML viewing.

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Course name: Control of Commercial and Technical Activities (KPV/ROT)Type: core electiveNumber of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantors: Doc. Ing. Gejza Horváth, CSc., Doc. Ing. Eva Mainzová, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Pike Andrew: Engineering, Tenders, Sales and Contracts: Standard Form and Procedures,

ISBN 0419195302[2] Henry, J. Mayle, D.: Managing Innovation and Change, The Open University School

MBA, 2003 FORMTEXT [3] D. Clay Whybark, Gyula Vastag: Global Manufacturing Practices: A

Worldwide Survey of Practices and Control (Manufacturing Research and Technology, Vol. 17/B), Elsevier Science Ltd, July 1993, ASIN 0444899782

Brief characteristics:The objective of the course is to provide students with a sound knowledge of the fundamentals of:functions, kinds and organization of commercial activities, sales strategies, control of sales activities, psychology of sales, organization of export and import, delivery and payment conditions, customs clearance;importance of technical progress for the success of industrial enterprises, theory of innovation and its use in enterprise practice, economic point of view of innovation in enterprises, content, organization and control of technical activities in industrial enterprises, special features and modern methods of technical activities management, project management, methodology of value analysis.

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Course name: Human Resource Management (KPV/ŘLZ)Type: compulsoryNumber of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Ing. Jan Hán

List of literature:[1] Armstrong, M.: A Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice, Kogan Page

Limited, London, 2001

Brief characteristics:The course focuses on the following areas:goals and tasks of HRM, jobs, personnel planning, recruitment, placement, performance management, reward management, workforce care.

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Course name: Labour Organization and Management (KPV/ŘOP)Specification: core elective Number of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Ing. Zdeněk Ulrych, Ph.D.

List of literature:[1] Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics by Gavriel Salvendy, Publisher: Wiley-

Interscience; 2nd edition (April 1997)[2] Behavior in Organizations: Understanding and Managing the Human Side of Work by

Jerald Greenberg, Robert A. Baron, Prentice Hall College Div; 8th edition (November 22, 2002)

Brief characteristics:The course focuses on the following areas:production system, creation of jobs and organizational set-up, sequence of operations, work measuring, organization of working hours, creation of optimal work environment, ergonomics, anxiety, safety at work, manpower management, employer - employee relations.

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Course name: Simulation in Mechanical Engineering (KPV/SS)Type: compulsory Number of contact hours/week: 3 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study) Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Václav Votava, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Banks, J., Carson, J.S., Nelson, B.R., Nicol, D.M.: Discrete-Event System Simulation,

Prentice Hall, 2001, ISBN 0-13-088702-1[2] Banks, J.: Handbook of Simulation, John Wiley & Sons, 1998, ISBN 0-471-13403-1[3] Martin, J., Odell, J.J.: Object-Oriented Analysis & Design, Prentice Hall, 1992,

ISBN 0-13-630245-9[4] ARENA Guidelines

Brief characteristics:The course focuses on the following areas:basic terms, principles and procedures in simulation; fields of applications; event scheduling, process interaction; simulation languages classification - types A, T, AT, TA; model building cycles; pseudorandom numbers generation, transformations, tests; principles of Monte Carlo methods; simulation models algorithms and programming; principles of SIMULA language, class, quasiparallel system, system classes - SIMSET, SIMULATION; trends in discrete events simulation, languages and systems; principles of ARENA; continuous modelling techniques; practical use of simulation languages on PC.

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Course name: Software Engineering (KPV/SWI)Type: compulsory Number of contact hours/week: 3 (lectures) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Pavel Kopeček, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Bank,J., Kruger,M.J.: Software Engineering: Methods and Techniques, John Wiley /

Interscience, New York 1993[2] Shepperd,M.: Foundation of Software Measurement, Prentice-Hall 1995[3] Somerville,I.: Software Engineering, Adison-Wesley, 1996

Brief characteristics:The course is intended to give students a good insight into the following areas:organization of programmers’ teams, software ergonomics, complexity of programming systems, program reliability, comparison of programming languages in CIM, software as a kind of goods, software laws, localization of software products in national languages, program interface in control systems, structure of programs for direct production control, interface with the user and response to failures in systems of direct production control, implementation of large programming systems. In the seminars students gain experience of MS Office programming.

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Course name: Introduction to Computer Science in Mechanical Engineering (KPV/TI)

Type: compulsory Number of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (laboratory work)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Doc. Ing. Pavel Kopeček, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Wirth N.: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, Prentice Hall, 1976 [2] Kolář, J.: Introduction to Computer Programming I, ČVUT Prague, 1995[3] Mallozzi, J. S.: Turbo Pascal for Program Design, Mc Graw-Hill, 1998

Brief characteristics:The course is intended to give students a good insight into the following areas:fundamentals of technical informatics, computer systems, algorithms and programs, programming languages and compilers, basics of Pascal: program structure, lexical elements, identifiers, constants, variables, Pascal types: integer, real, char, Boolean, string; input/output, assignment statement, compound statement, if and case statements, loop statements (While, Repeat, For), goto statement, empty statement; procedures and functions, block structure, parameters, recursivity; user Pascal types: intervals, enumerated types, sets, arrays, records, files, pointers.

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Course name: Technical Creativity (KPV/TK)Type: compulsoryNumber of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Ing. Michal Šimon, Ph.D.

List of literature:[7] Mauzy, J., Harriman, R.A.: Creativity Inc.: Building an Inventive Organization, Harvard

Business School Press, 2003[8] Davenport, T.H., Prusak, L., Wilson, H. J.: What's the Big Idea? Creating and

Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking, Harvard Business School Press, 2003

[9] Csikszent, M.: Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention,Harper Collins, 1997

[10]Foote, C.S., Bellerose, M.:The Business Side of Creativity: The Complete Guide forRunning a Graphic Design or Communications Business, W.W. Norton & Company,2002

[11]Altshuller, G., Shulyak, L., Rodman, S.: 40 Principles: TRIZ Keys to TechnicalInnovation, Technical Innovation Center, 1997

[12]Altshuller, G.: The Innovation Algorithm: TRIZ, Systematic Innovation and TechnicalCreativity, Technical Innovation Center, 1999

Brief characteristics:The objective of the course is to acquaint students with methods helpful in seeking solutions to given problems and, in the first place, to develop their ability to think creatively. The lectures deal with basic concepts of thinking and creative thinking with focus on technical creativity, methods of seeking creative solutions and their application. In the seminars these methods are elaborated on and students are trained to use them.

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Course name: Costing in Engineering Enterprises (KPV/PNS)Type: compulsoryNumber of contact hours/week: 2 (lecture) + 2 (seminar)

2 (self-study)Course guarantor: Ing. Jana Kleinová, CSc.

List of literature:[1] Lucey, T.: Costing. Continuum International Publishing Group 2002[2] Brimson, J. A.: Activity Accounting: An Activity - Based Costing Approach. John

Wiley, Chichestr 1997[3] Olfert, K.: Kostenrechnung. Friedrich Kiehl Verlag GmbH, Ludwigshafen 2001

Brief characteristics:The course provides students with the fundamental knowledge of costing orientated towards industrial practice; it is based on costs as information sources for the control of production processes; production costs are calculated either by means of traditional methods or process methods; application of SAP to costing is discussed.

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