Bachelor and Master Thesis

Pursuant to sec. 8 of the Regulation of the Dean concerning bachelor and follow up master study programs at the Czech Technical University in Prague – Faculty of Biomedical Engineering the students of the bachelor study program are obliged to select the theme of their bachelor thesis by the end of January because there is a requisite of continuity with the semestral project and thus it is postponed until the end of January.

Thus, for the academic year 2022/23, the assignment of the topic of the bachelor thesis has to be chosen by the student from 19. 9. 2022 to 31. 1. 2023!

Submission of the bachelor thesis (applies to the revised, supplemented or new BT due to failed FSE in the academic year 2021/2022): by 18. 5. 2023 electronic form in the Projects system by 12.00 and the student shall hand in two (2) copies of a printed and bound bachelor or master thesis on the day of the FSE directly to the secretary of the committee (sufficiently in advance before the defence itself). 

Submission of the revised bachelor thesis: (also applies to the revised, supplemented or new BT due to failed FSE in June 2023): by 17. 8. 2023 electronic form in the Projects system by 12.00 am and the student shall hand in two (2) copies of a printed and bound bachelor or master thesis on the day of the FSE directly to the secretary of the committee (sufficiently in advance before the defence itself). 

If the student fails to hand in a printed and bound bachelor or master thesis to the secretary of the committee before sitting the FSE, s/he will not receive a certificate of its successful passing after s/he has passed it. S/he will receive the certificate only after s/he hands in the thesis at the secretariat of the department, which supervises the relevant study branch. The secretary of the committee will ask the student to do so without undue delay and as soon as possible after the date of the FSE.

By 18. 4. 2023 at the latest, you can submit an Application form – Application to reschedule the FSE to the final state examinations to the Dean of the faculty with the opinion of the supervisor of the thesis, guarantor of the study branch (or his deputy) and the head of the supervising department stating a serious reason.

The student is obliged to submit a bachelor project by the deadlines given by the Schedule for the respective academic year of FBME. Should a student fail to submit the bachelor project or master’s thesis in the given period with no apology, or his/her apology will not be accepted, the student gets the grade F. The apology is submitted to the dean of the fakulty through the study department upon application (universal application form or possibly the form called Application to reschedule the FSE), which will request the opinion of the head of the department supervising the respective field of study or program, which is not divided into study fields and the final work supervisor.

A student enrols the bachelor thesis as a subject in a semester, in which he/she is supposed to graduate. An assessment for the bachelor thesis, which meets all the formal requirements, is granted by the supervisor of the thesis and in exceptional cases, (e.g. an absence due to an illness, business trip, and in case of external supervisors) by the guarantor of the study field, his deputy, head of the department supervising the study field, or his deputy). This assessment must be recorded in KOS and only then, the secretary of the relevant department can accept the bachelor thesis. The rule applies that in case of external supervisors the assessment has to be recorded in KOS by the secretary of the relevant department. In case of the absence of the supervisor (extern), or a failure to receive the opinion, the head of the relevant department or his deputy assess the formal requirements pursuant to which the assessment is granted or not granted. Simultaneously, there is a valid principle that the level of elaboration must not be conditioned by granting or non-granting of the assessment. The level of formal elaboration is assessed solely upon the opinions of the supervisor and the reviewer. A student, who was granted “F” in both opinions, can defend such a thesis.

Printed form: The thesis is submitted in two bound copies on the day of the FSE to the secretary of the FSE committee (well in advance of the actual defence of the thesis). Both copies contain the unsigned assignment, which the student downloads from the PROJECTS database in PDF format see. 

Electronic form: the students submit the bachelor theses in electronic form by 12.00 am of the day stated as the deadline for submission of these works in the Time schedule of the academic year of FBME in the PROJECTS system (http://projects.fbmi.cvut.cz). How to input here.

Until this date, it is possible to repeatedly upload the modified electronic version. The original file will only be overwritten. The electronic version must be an exact copy of a single page printed version submitted, and it also contains the unsigned BP assignment, which the student will download from the Projects database in the PDF format. The electronic version is submitted as a PDF file (possibly a ZIP file can be added in case of extensive appendices being part of the thesis). A standard limit of one file is up to 100 MB. In case of extensive appendices, it is necessary to contact the support service on the projects@fbmi.cvut.cz. 

While loading the bachelor thesis into the PROJECTS system it is mandatory to fill in:

• keywords in the language of the theses,
• keywords in English,
• abstract in the language of the theses,
• abstract of the thesis in English,
• language – selection.

Findings from the system THESES are published in the system PROJECTS together with the disclosure of the reviews (see the Dean´s directive n. 2/2013). The employee in charge determined by the department head supervising the branch or program, which is not divided into branches (see the web pages of the individual departments) shall assess the findings from the THESES system. The result will be stated together with the evaluations from the supervisor and the reviewer and it will serve as the basis for the final state examination committee negotiations.

A student writes the bachelor thesis in the Czech, Slovak, or English language. In case of writing it in the English language, the thesis contains the topic in Czech and English language. This does not concern students studying in the English language where the topic assignment and the language of the work will only be English, including the English abstract and keywords.

All bachelor’s and master’s theses are made public in printed form, including all appendices and reviews in the local library of CTU at FBME. The defended bachelor’s and master’s theses are freely accessible in electronic format in the CTU digital library (institutional repository, https://dspace.cvut.cz/?locale-attribute=en).

The student, considering a bachelor thesis topic, proposed by an external workplace, can be assigned a bachelor thesis supervisor from the academic staff of CTU FBME, and the extern will be a consultant. The head of the department supervising the relevant study branch can decide, in justified cases and in cooperation with the study branch supervisor, that an extern will be directly a supervisor.

The student must sign the receipt of the bachelor project´s topic assignment at the secretariat of the department supervising the field of study or program, which is not divided into fields of study on a prescribed form at the beginning of the semester at the latest (typically during the first week of the summer semester of the 3rd year), in which he/she registered the bachelor project as a course. The topic of the bachelor thesis signed by the student, department head and the dean will be passed to the study department by the individual departments to be filed in the student’s file. In the bachelor thesis´ assignment, there is a clause: “assignment valid until “according to the above-stated rules.

The validity of the topic is limited to three subsequent semesters.

• In case of a bachelor thesis in the English language, the thesis must contain English topic assignment. This does not concern students studying in the English language where the topic assignment and the language of the work will only be English.
• Each thesis must contain its goals in its introduction corresponding with the topic of the thesis.
• Each thesis must have all margins 25 mm + 1 cm at the spine of the thesis (left side).
• he length shall be at least 40 pages without enclosures.
• The samples of covers  (see design of the covers), other pages and statements (embossing of the text on the cover may be made in any font available at the copycenter).
• Only the official CTU logo must be used and according to the instructions on https://www.cvut.cz/en/ctu-logo.
• All pages must have one-sided print and be bound in hard cover.
• If the cover allows print on cover  the name, surname, month and year of submission of the thesis must be stated.

Template for writing bachelor's thesis:

Pursuant to sec. 8 of the Regulation of the Dean concerning bachelor and follow up master study programs at the Czech Technical University in Prague – Faculty of Biomedical Engineering the students of the follow – up master study program are obliged to select the theme of their master thesis within the tuition period of the winter semester of the 2nd year at the latest.

Thus, for the academic year 2022/2023, the assignment of the topic of the master thesis has to be chosen by the student from 19. 9. 2022 to 15. 1. 2023!

Submission of the master thesis (applies to the revised, supplemented or new MT due to failed FSE in the academic year 2021/2022): by 18. 5. 2023 electronic form in the Projects system by 12.00 am, and the student shall hand in two (2) copies of a printed and bound bachelor or master thesis on the day of the FSE directly to the secretary of the committee (sufficiently in advance before the defence itself). 

Submission of the revised master thesis: (also applies to the revised, supplemented or new MT due to failed FSE in June 2023):  by 17. 8. 2023 electronic form in the Projects system by 12.00 am, bound and the student shall hand in two (2) copies of a printed and bound bachelor or master thesis on the day of the FSE directly to the secretary of the committee (sufficiently in advance before the defence itself). 

If the student fails to hand in a printed and bound bachelor or master thesis to the secretary of the committee before sitting the FSE, s/he will not receive a certificate of its successful passing after s/he has passed it. S/he will receive the certificate only after s/he hands in the thesis at the secretariat of the department, which supervises the relevant study branch. The secretary of the committee will ask the student to do so without undue delay and as soon as possible after the date of the FSE.

By 18. 4. 2023 at the latest, you can submit an Application form – Application to reschedule the FSE to the final state examinations to the Dean of the faculty with the opinion of the supervisor of the thesis, guarantor of the study branch (or his deputy) and the head of the supervising department stating a serious reason.

The student is obliged to submit a master’s thesis by the deadlines given by the Schedule for the respective academic year of FBME. Should a student fail to submit the bachelor project or master’s thesis in the given period with no apology, or his/her apology will not be accepted, the student gets the grade F. The apology is submitted to the dean of the fakulty through the study department upon application (universal application form or possibly the form called Application to reschedule the FSE), which will request the opinion of the head of the department supervising the respective field of study or program, which is not divided into study fields and the final work supervisor.

A student enrols the master thesis as a subject in a semester, in which he/she is supposed to graduate. An assessment for the master thesis, which meets all the formal requirements, is granted by the supervisor of the thesis and in exceptional cases, (e.g. an absence due to an illness, business trip, and in case of external supervisors) by the guarantor of the study field or program, which is not divided into fields of study, or his deputy (or a deputy for the given specialisation if the study program is divided into specialisations) or by the head of the department supervising the field of study or program, which is not divided into fields of study, or his deputy.. This assessment must be recorded in KOS and only then, the secretary of the relevant department can accept the master thesis. The rule applies that in case of external supervisors the assessment has to be recorded in KOS by the secretary of the relevant department. In case of the absence of the supervisor (extern), or a failure to receive the opinion, the head of the relevant department or his deputy assess the formal requirements pursuant to which the assessment is granted or not granted. Simultaneously, there is a valid principle that the level of elaboration must not be conditioned by granting or non-granting of the assessment. The level of formal elaboration is assessed solely upon the opinions of the supervisor and the reviewer. A student, who was granted “F” in both opinions, can defend such a thesis.

Printed form: The thesis is submitted in two bound copies on the day of the FSE to the secretary of the FSE committee (well in advance of the actual defence of the thesis). Both copies contain the unsigned assignment, which the student downloads from the PROJECTS database in PDF format, see. 

Electronic form: the students submit the master theses in electronic form by 12.00 am of the day stated as the deadline for submission of these works in the Time schedule of the academic year of FBME in the PROJECTS system (http://projects.fbmi.cvut.cz). How to input here.

Until this date, it is possible to repeatedly upload the modified electronic version. The original file will only be overwritten. The electronic version must be an exact copy of a single page printed version submitted, and it also contains the unsigned MT assignment, which the student will download from the Projects database in the PDF format. The electronic version is submitted as a PDF file (possibly a ZIP file can be added in case of extensive appendices being part of the thesis). A standard limit of one file is up to 100 MB. In case of extensive appendices, it is necessary to contact the support service on the projects@fbmi.cvut.cz.

While loading the master thesis into the PROJECTS system it is mandatory to fill in:

• keywords in the language of the theses
• keywords in English,
• abstract in the language of the theses,
• abstract of the thesis in English,
• language – selection.

Findings from the system THESES is published in the system PROJECTS together with the disclosure of the reviews (see the Dean´s directive n. 2/2013). The employee in charge determined by the department head supervising the branch or program, which is not divided into branches (see the web pages of the individual departments) shall assess the findings from the THESES system. The result will be stated together with the evaluations from the supervisor and the reviewer and it will serve as the basis for the final state examination committee negotiations.

A student writes the master thesis in the Czech, Slovak, or English language. In case of writing in the English language, the thesis contains the topic in Czech and English language. This does not concern students studying in the English language where the topic assignment and the language of the work will only be English, including the English abstract and keywords.

All bachelor’s and master’s theses are made public in printed form, including all appendices and reviews in the local library of CTU at FBME. The defended bachelor’s and master’s theses are freely accessible in electronic format in the CTU digital library (institutional repository, https://dspace.cvut.cz/?locale-attribute=en).

The student, considering a master thesis topic, proposed by an external workplace, can be assigned a master thesis supervisor from the academic staff of CTU FBME, and the extern will be a consultant. The head of the department supervising the relevant study branch can decide, in justified cases and in cooperation with the study branch supervisor, that an extern will be directly a supervisor.

A student must sign the master’s thesis´ assignment on a prescribed form at the secretariat of the department supervising the field of study or program, which is not divided into fields of study at the beginning of the summer semester of the 2nd year (typically during the first week of the summer semester). The topics of the master thesis signed by the student, department head and the dean will be passed to the study department by the individual departments to be filed in the student’s file. Its validity is limited to 4 subsequent semesters.

• In case of master thesis in the English language, the thesis must contain English topic assignment. This does not concern students studying in the English language where the topic assignment and the language of the work will only be English.
• Each thesis must contain its goals in its introduction corresponding with the topic of the thesis.
• Each thesis must have all margins 25 mm + 1 cm at the spine of the thesis (left side).
• The length shall be at least 60 pages without enclosures.
• The samples of covers (see design of the covers), other pages and statements (embossing of the text on the cover may be made in any font available at the copycenter).
• Only the official CTU logo must be used and according to the instructions on https://www.cvut.cz/en/ctu-logo.
• All pages must have one-sided print and be bound in hard cover.
• If the cover allows print on cover the name, surname, month and year of submission of the thesis must be stated.

Templates for writing master's thesis:

Pursuant to article 7 of the Regulation of the Dean concerning bachelor and follow up master study programs at the Czech Technical University, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering (FBME) the final state examination (FSE) consists of the following: defence of the bachelor thesis in case of a bachelor study program or defence of a master thesis in case of a master study program. There is also the oral examination from the thematic areas of the theoretical background and the profile subjects of the branch studied.

The Dean of FBME declares the topics, based on the proposal of the head of the department supervising the given study branch, that will be published at by the end of the tutorial part of a semester preceding the FCEs the latest.

The student takes the examination from two, three, or four thematic areas, according to the studied branch (or rather specialisation or program, which is not divided into branches or specialisations). In case of the possibility to select the topics, the student is obliged to do so through KOS.

A student enrols for FSEs through KOS during the enrolment to the semester, in which the FSEs take place, (manual here) through KOS by 17. 2. 2023 at the latest – after this date the access to KOS will be automatically blocked. Only a student who enrolled a subject called Bachelor/Master thesis can apply for the FSE. Both the date of the FSE and the topics (if the field of study allows that – otherwise each line offers only one possibility) can be selected in the application form.

Some information about KOS:

• Open the folder „Final thesis“ →  „Final state exam“.
• Select your topics for the FSE (2, 3 or 4 according to the field of study).
• Select a date of the FSE and confirm it by „Enroll“ at the right end of the relevant line.

The condition for admission to the final state examination is that compulsory and prescribed optional subjects are passed according to the study plan of the relevant branch. The student must also gain at least

• 180 credits during the studies including the bachelor thesis and moreover completion of practice (internship) in the study branch Biomedical technician,
• 120 credits during the studies including the master thesis in case of a master study branch Biomedical Engineering.

You must close all study obligations in KOS. No result must be missing in KOS in order to close the studies. (8. 6. 2023).

A few comments to KOS:

Open the folder „Other" – „Inspection of the study plan”. Check of fulfilment of the study plan is run automatically. If the check runs smoothly, it is possible to close the plan and confirm it by the button „ Inspection of the study plan “. In case the check did not run successfully, the button does not even appear and it is possible to find the reason (usually missing grade from some subject). The check of the fulfilment of the study plan can be run at any time and for an unlimited number of times.
The student is summoned to the specific date of the final state examinations (date, room number and time) through the notice boards and web pages of the faculty https://www.fbmi.cvut.cz/en/students/thesis?section=final. These are arranged by the branch supervising departments at least 10 days prior to the final state examinations in the given branch (bachelor study program by 2. 6. 2023, master study programs by 9. 6. 2023).  The same applies to students studying in a foreign language. At least 5 days prior to the final state examinations student has the opportunity to acquaint oneself with the reviews of the reviewer and supervisor in order to prepare oneself - through the system PROJECTS.
A day before the final state examinations the student has to check the web or a notice board of the supervising department to see the updated schedule of the Final state examinations so that he/she knows exactly when his/her turn is. (There may be some last minute changes made for example if someone gets ill etc.)
You will assemble (of course in decent clothes) in a room designated by the supervising department in the schedule of the final state examinations where the secretary of your examination board will pick you up.
The secretary will check your identity in the similar way as for the exam (pursuant to SER Article .10): valid ID card, passport, driving licence, student card.
You all have to appear at least one and half-hour before your exam. The student who is the first at 8:00 can come only 45 minutes in advance. Student being the first after the lunch break must come at 10:30. You will get detailed information from the secretary of the relevant department.
The presentation and the defence of your bachelor/master thesis will be first and then there will be the oral exam from 2/3 thematic topics - chosen/prescribed.
The board will consult quickly and will inform you if you passed or failed the exam. They will inform you about the grades from the individual parts of the final state examination and you will sign a report that you were informed about the results.
For the academic year 2022/2023, the following applies: The Dean of FBME declares, based on proposal of the head of the department supervising the study branch or program, which is not divided into branches, oral examination topics that will be published at by the end of the tutorial part of a semester preceding the FSEs the latest and students have to apply for the final state examinations on the day of enrolment to the summer semester i.e. by 17. 2. 2023 at the latest!

A student enrols for FSEs through KOS during the enrolment to the semester, in which the FSEs take place. June dates are binding for all CTU FBME students. September dates are only substitute dates for very exceptional cases or rather resit dates. The standard substitute date is June of the following academic year. Any postponement or cancellation of the date is possible only based on an application (universal application form) to the Dean of the faculty with the opinion of the supervisor of the thesis (if it concerns a final work), supervisor of the study branch or program, which is not divided into branches (or his deputy or a deputy for the given specialisation if the program is divided into specialisations) and the head of the department supervising the study branch or program, which is not divided into branches stating a serious reason. The application form must be submitted to the Study department (in justified cases even later) 1 month prior to the submission of the bachelor or master thesis at the latest. Please submit it to the Study department (in justified cases even later) 1 month prior to the submission of the bachelor or master thesis by 18. 4. 2023 at the latest.
Submission of the Bachelor Thesis / Master Thesis: (also applies to the revised, supplemented or new BT/DT due to failed FSE in the academic year 2021/2022):    by 18. 5. 2023, electronic form in the Projects system by 12.00 am. The student shall hand in two (2) copies of a printed and bound bachelor or master thesis on the day of the FSE directly to the secretary of the committee (sufficiently in advance before the defence itself).

Topics for the academic year 2022/2023:

List of students to committee: