Department Focus

Department of Information Technologies (DIT) has been involved in the field of teaching and scientific research, collaborates with businesses, governments, and domestic and foreign universities. It participates in many domestic and international projects and is part of international teams tackling applied research. Its focus puts DIT among the most prolific departments of Faculty of Economics and Management at Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. Activities of the Department are provided by 17 teachers, 7 technicians and an average of 9 PhD students.

Department Education

The Department guarantees the teaching of subjects from the area of information and communication technologies for FEM and other faculties at CULS Prague in bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Subjects of department are primarily focused on the use of ICT in business practice (algorithms and programming in selected environments, programming of mobile applications, operating systems, computer networks, web design, web applications, information systems in business practice and the public sphere, their security, computer graphics, e-learning, social networking, etc.). Within these subjects the department teaching staff shares with students their knowledge and experience obtained in research activities and industry practice. A number of external specialists is also involved in teaching at the department.

Research and Development

Teachers, technicians and PhD students specialize mainly on applied research, which is in line with university and faculty goals. Department research activities also often focus on applications in the agricultural, forestry and regional environments. The staff including PhD students present results of their research on a number of domestic and international conferences and are members of the national and international scientific organizations and companies. R&D results are published in prestigious scientific magazines and are used for obtaining financial resources from grant funds.

History

Department of Information Technology is among the founding departments of the faculty. The term "information" in its name first appeared in the 1970s when it was called the Department of Information Systems and the Use of Computers. It was specialized in programming, designing IS, data processing and accounting. At the beginning of 1990s it separated into the Department of Trade and Finance and Department of Computer Science. Due to the development of the ICT sector the Department split into two again in the second half of the 90s - the Department of Information Technology and the Department of Information Engineering.