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FEKT-BPC-PA1Acad. year: 2026/2027
WEEK 1: Introduction
PILLAR 1: Technical Description & Systems Analysis (WEEKS 2-5)
WEEKS 2-3: Technical Description & Material Analysis
Development Focus:
From basic description to precise engineering communication.
WEEK 4: Functional Systems & Limitations
From describing objects to analysing systems: functions and limitations.
WEEK 5: Human Augmentation & Future Engineering
From system analysis to evaluating the relationship between t-echnology and humanity.
PILLAR 2: Innovation (WEEKS 6-8)
WEEK 6: Biomimicry & Nature-Inspired Innovation
From technical description to explaining how innovation emerges from natural systems and mechanisms.
WEEK 7: Future Engineering & Emerging Technologies
From explaining existing innovation to speculating professionally about future technological development.
WEEK 8: Innovation Pitch & Engineering Vision
From speculation to presenting, defending, and promoting innovative engineering ideas professionally.
PILLAR 3: Risk, Ethics & Technological Consequences (WEEKS 9-11)
WEEK 9: Human Enhancement & Ethical Boundaries
From technological innovation toward evaluating ethical and social consequences of human enhancement.
WEEK 10: Surveillance, AI & Technological Power
From ethical evaluation toward negotiating conflicting technological, political, and social perspectives.
WEEK 11: Human Potential, Transhumanism & Future Humanity
From technological conflict toward synthesizing competing visions of human enhancement and future civilization.
WEEK 12: Integrated Communication Workshop
From isolated communication skills toward integrating technical, innovative, ethical, and societal perspectives into complex professional interaction and future-oriented discussion.
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Number of ECTS credits
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Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Classified Credit:
ROUNDTABLE: 30 p.
SUBTEST (English or Czenglish, Idioms): 15 p.
FINAL TEST: 55 p.
To pass the course, students must achieve a minimum of 50% of the total points across all assessment components.
If the scheduled subtest is not administered during the semester, its content will be included in the final test and the maximum score of the final test will be increased accordingly.
Aims
COURSE GOAL
Engineering Communication, Innovation & Technological Futures
The course progressively develops students’ ability to communicate about technology in a precise, analytical, and professionally persuasive way while critically evaluating the relationship between engineering, innovation, and human society.
Through three interconnected pillars, students learn to:
The course combines:
Students progressively develop communication skills moving from:
description → explanation → speculation → negotiation → synthesis and debate.
At the same time, the course develops cognitive progression from:
understanding technology → imagining innovation → evaluating technological consequences for humanity.
The overall aim is to help students become more confident and articulate participants in international engineering, research, innovation, and interdisciplinary professional environments.
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Basic literature
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Syllabus
Content of the teaching blocks:
1. Modal verbs
2. Present tenses
3. Parts of the human body
4. Comparative and superlative adjectives
5. Countable and uncountable nouns
6. Phrasal verbs
7. Adverbs
8. Description of the future
9. Description of the past
10. Adjectives
11. Gerund and infinitive
12. Collocations
Conversational topics:
1. Appearance and personal identity
2. Talent, learning, work
3. Typical behaviours and habits
4. Social roles
5. Travel and culture
6. Human thinking, psychology