Creating Electronic Documents

Course guarantor:

Aleš Materna

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Andrej Gvozdic, Kateřina Jiroušková, Aleš Materna

Supervisor:

Department of Materials

Synopsis:

Basic skills for creating and presenting student theses. Individual exercises focus on creating and formatting texts, equations, charts, tables, presentations and entire documents in an office suite.

Requirements:

Credit Requirements

1. Active participation in seminars (up to 3 absences per semester are tolerated).

2. Upload of working files at the end of each seminar to the Moodle server under the relevant section.

3. Completion of the final homework assignment creation of a document according to the instructions and upload to the Moodle server.

Syllabus of lectures:

Syllabus of tutorials:

1.Introduction, information resources available to students (scientific literature and databases, software), structure of a scientific thesis.

2.Word processor I (basics of Word, text insertion and formatting principles, font types, typographic rules, automatic spell checkers).

3.Word processor II (creating equations, tables, figures and placing them in text).

4.Word processor III (advanced formatting and styles, table of contents creation, references, automatic numbering and links).

5.Document encryption, electronic signature.

6.Spreadsheet I (Excel basics - book, sheet, cells and addressing, cell contents, formulas and functions, inserting and importing data, filtering and sorting data).

7.Spreadsheet II (creating scientific graphs - basic types and formatting).

8.Spreadsheet III (statistical tools).

9.Spreadsheet IV (advanced functions).

10.Creating a scientific document (creating an outline, inserting individual parts and elements, possibilities of collaboration on the document with the supervisor).

11.Presentation of results of scientific work (creation of PowerPoint presentation, pdf document, poster).

12.Alternatives to MS Office (LibreOffice, LaTeX - Overleaf).

Study Objective:

Study materials:

Key references:

[1] Creating electronic documents internal course materials on the server https://moodle-vyuka.cvut.cz/

Recommended references:

[2] WALKER, Eric. Microsoft Office 365 for Beginners: The Ultimate Guide to Using Office Like a Pro. 2023. ISBN 979-8373142496.

[3] ALEXANDER, Michael and Dick KUSLEIKA. Excel 365 Bible. Indianapolis: John Wiley, 2022. ISBN 978-1-119-83510-3.

[4] Learn LaTeX in 30 minutes. Dostupné z: https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Learn_LaTeX_in_30_minutes

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2025/2026:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2025/2026:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Physical Engineering - Computational physics (elective course)
• Quantum Technologies (elective course)
• Mathematical Engineering - Mathematical Physics (elective course)
• Mathematical Engineering - Mathematical Modelling (elective course)
• Physical Engineering - Laser Technology and Photonics (elective course)