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Terminated in academic year 2019/2020

Forensic engineering

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 030-0084/01
Abbreviation SI
Course title Forensic engineering
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Fire Protection
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Šárka Kročová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction, terms, terminology, and their explanation, history of forensic engineering, current expert activities in the Czech Republic.
2. Regulations concerning expert activities in the Czech Republic, www.justice.cz, fields of expert activities and expert appointment.
3. Legal regulations – laws on expert activities from the end of World War II up to now and follow-up regulations.
4. Current versions of acts and regulations concerning expert activities, bill on experts and interpreters, work according to law.
5. Designation of an expert for opinion submission, completeness of documentation for expert opinion submission, technical acceptability of documentation. Term “evidence” and general principles for its securing,
6. Measurement, protocol, film documentation and video-record, sampling, survey, essentials of expert opinion, finding, expert opinion and its concept.
7. Scientific methods in forensic engineering, system approach and logical matrices in forensic engineering. Probability calculus and theory of errors.
8. Probability in expert assessment, presentation of calculations in the expert opinion, application of computer programs.
9. Forensic engineering comparison, time-space analysis of events.
10. Method of retrospective unfolding of events, damage correspondence, method of narrowing of limits.
11. Risk analysis. Determination of building construction damage and defects.
13. Determination of amount of damage caused by fire and natural disaster.
14. Concluding lecture – discussion.

Literature

Kenneth L. Carper (ed.): Forensic Engineering, Second Edition; Taylor & Francis Group, ISBN-13: 978-0849374845 

Advised literature

Raddall K. Noon: Forensic Engineering Investigation, ISBN-13: 978-0849309113