Research Laboratories
The following laboratories and co-working centres are located at FBE MENDELU.
Head of the lab: Ing. David Procházka, Ph.D.
Currently, Spatial Hub is mainly used for teaching and solving projects in the field of image processing
(virtual and augmented reality, gesture detection, etc.) and mobile applications (location services, GIS).
You can find out more about the laboratory here.
Head of the lab: Ing. Robert Rouš
The Pneumatic Systems Laboratory is used for practical teaching of students in the Open Informatics programme,
subjects focused on industrial automation and pneumatics. One of these courses is Process Control, which is
part of the Embedded Systems specialization (bachelor's specialization). Students work with PLCs (programmable logic controllers),
with systems from B&R and Siemens, and use the Pneutrainer (automated assembly line) teaching system from SMC,
including a training station for pneumatic elements. These training sets (training stations) contain basic
pneumatic elements that simulate common applications in industrial automation in conjunction with PLC systems.
In the lab, students learn how to program PLCs and design simple automation tasks as part of their learning
experience. The lab instruction provides them with the basic practical skills needed to work with
technological processes in an industrial environment.
Head of the lab: Ing. Robert Rouš
The Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS) serves for theoretical and practical teaching
in the field of artificial intelligence, robotics, automation and control of technological processes.
You can find out more about the laboratory here.
Head of the lab: Ing. Jiří Balej
The computer networking laboratory is located in the basement of the Q building and is primarily
used for practical teaching of IT students. As part of the professionally oriented IS/ICT Administration course,
students here address advanced computer network architectures, wireless networks, IP telephony, and cyber security.
You can find out more about the laboratory here.
Head of the lab: doc. Ing. Ivana Rábová, Ph.D.
The laboratory equipped with high-performance computers is focused on teaching business information systems and modeling business processes and information flows in companies.
You can find out more about the laboratory here.
Head of the lab: doc. Dr. Ing. Jiří Rybička
The laboratory was established in 2015 in cooperation between FBE MENDELU and Railways Modeling Club Brno I.
This cooperation enables the university to use the extensive knowledge and results of the long-term technologies development of the Club.
The long-term intention of the Club’s activities is to model sections of real lines – buildings, signaling equipment, and station layouts, both current or historical.
You can find out more about the laboratory here.
Head of the lab: Ing. Stanislav Mokrý, Ph.D.
Laboratory of the Department of Marketing and Trade FBE Mendel University was established for the
purpose of research in marketing field using neuroscience technology. Currently we dispose the eye-tracking
and EEG technology and we are working with eye movement tracking and measuring the impact of visual stimuli
on behavior of individuals with an emphasis on marketing.
Within the ETLab we use the technology from SMI (SensoMotoric Instruments), SR-Research and Pupil Labs.
Also, our laboratory disposes with EEG from Brain Products. EEG Emotiv EPOC+ device is also available.
Other amenities include photographic equipment (full-frame camera, a light tent and studio lights)
for product photography and also shelf systems from EDEN company.
You can find out more about the laboratory here.
Head of the lab: prof. RNDr. Jan Hanousek, CSc., DSc. a Ing. Jolana Stejskalová, Ph.D.
Financial laboratory is part of the FinAct research team and focus primarily on four key
areas: a) Accounting & Corporate Finance, b) Behavioral Finance and Behavioral Economics, d) Asset Pricing and Portfolio Optimization, d) Banking, regulation, and policies.
You can find out more about the laboratoryhere.
The coworking learning centre is located in classroom Q13 and is used for start-ups ( CityMind, My MENDELU) and other student projects.
Head of the lab: Ing. Stanislav Mokrý, Ph.D.
The Multimedia Commercial Communication Laboratory is located in the studio space of classroom
Q04 and serves for the creation of visual materials that can be used by researchers in experiments
carried out in other facilities of the faculty. Equipment in the lab includes a set of infinity
screens, a table for product photography, studio lighting, tripods, and other photo equipment.
Graphics stations are also available to allow processing of captured materials.
Available statistical software
There are available various statistical software for students and employees of FBE MENDELU.
Information about selected software please find below.
FBE MENDELU has a network licence for 20 clients of programme Stata 17/SE.
In case of installation for an employee, please contact Ing. Hana Vránová, MBA.
Students can access the software via a remote connection, where they first need to connect to a VPN (instructions here) and then to a remote desktop (instructions for Windows here, for MacOS here).
STATA is available on computers with addresses
- vmkejchal02.mendelu.cz
- vmkejchal03.mendelu.cz
- vmkejchal04.mendelu.cz
STATA webinars - these webinars introduce you to powerful Stata features that can greatly improve your data analysis and interpretation work. Whether you're a beginner who wants to understand the basics or an experienced user who wants to discover advanced features, the webinars are suitable for everyone.
IBM SPSS Statistics is statistical analysis software that is widely used for reporting, analysis and direct decision support, business analytics,
both for strategic decisions and for operational management. It can be connected to any database and is used both in one-off analyzes and in
continuous process monitoring; serves to describe the situation and to support repeated or regular decision-making. Suitable for applications
in science, marketing, human resources and research, for processing laboratory measurements and summarizing data from large and small databases
of various types.
There are 20 concurrent licenses available at FBE, allowing 20 users to work with the software at the same time. The license server for IBM SPSS Statistics 30 is installed on the server mozart.mendelu.cz. The installation file can also be downloaded from mozart, the storage can be mounted via the Windows dialog box Mount Network Drive. The path to the shared disk is: \\mozart.mendelu.cz\amadeus, user name: wolfgang; password: on request from hana.vranova@mendelu.cz.
The installation is performed by running the .exe file in the archive named "IBM SPSS Statistics 30". When asked for the license type, select Concurrent user license. In the following steps, you will be prompted to enter the IP address of the server. In the field "License Manager name or Server IP Address" enter "mozart.mendelu.cz" and click on the Set button. Select other installer options as needed.
Employees of FBE MENDELU may install the programme IBM SPSS Statistics directly from Software Centre, if they have the access to it.
At Mendel University in Brno, a university-wide academic license of the MATLAB Campus-Wide Suite license is available.
Under this license, all MENDELU students and employees can install MATLAB software and almost all its libraries on their home computers.
The Campus-Wide Suite license includes MATLAB and practically all its libraries. Every employee and every student of the university can obtain their individual installation via the portal https://www.mathworks.com/academia/tah-portal/mendelu-31494269.html
The license allows academic use; it cannot be used for commercial purposes.
The licence also includes access to online courses for all MENDELU staff and students. The 16 courses currently on offer range from short introductory courses of approximately two hours to extensive specialist courses on topics such as machine learning, statistics and more. Each course ends with a certificate of completion.
The license also includes cloud services: MATLAB online - i.e. MATLAB in a web browser without the need for installation, MATLAB drive - a 5 GB disk space for each user, and MATLAB mobile - for using MATLAB via a mobile device.
Visit https://matlab.mendelu.cz and at the very bottom there are instructions for installing MATLAB in English.
Software MAXQDA software in version 2018 is available at FBE MENDELU
for employees and students of FBE MENDELU on the teacher's computer and another 14 computers in the classroom Q27 under the
Department of Marketing and Trade. Furthermore, it is also available on 5 computers in the computer study room in the Q building.
The software can be used for the processing of final theses or for your own research. Unfortunately, the installation
on your own computer is not possible.
Statistica is a computing system with a friendly environment suitable also for beginners.
The graphic design is related to MS Excel, the output can be implemented in the form of an MS Word document.
The program offers a clear menu of methods for data analysis, all basic univariate and multivariate statistics are included.
The output can be in the form of tables and graphs. A lot of information and practical tutorials are available at
www.statistica.com. The university license can be installed
on your own device for staff and students. Instructions [in Czech language] are available
zde.
Databases and Data Sources
FBE MENDELU also has various databases from various areas of economic research. An overview of the databases is given below. If you are interested in obtaining data from any of the available databases, it is necessary to contact the relevant person. The acquisition and use of data is subject to an agreement with the relevant contact person and the possibilities of dissemination and use of the data specified in the contract with the data provider.
Morningstar Direct is a comprehensive platform that contains a lot of historical data about, for example, US companies or ETF funds.
Fundamental analyzes for most American companies and basic indicators for some European companies are prepared here. The Morningstar
Direct database is available to FBE students and employees at the Department of Finance upon contacting Mrs. Irena Marečková
(irena.mareckova@mendelu.cz).
The Albertina database contains information on companies in the Czech republic and Slovakia. For employees and students of FBE is available
at the following links. It is possible to download the database in one comprehensive Excel workbook or for easier opening in several
separate workbooks of 200 thousand lines. The Link for download and the password for opening the archives will be
provided by Ing. Hana Vránová, MBA (hana.vranova@mendelu.cz).
CROWDSURFER is data platform for search and information about financial and investment opportunities.
Contact person: doc. Ing. Svatopluk Kapounek, Ph.D.(svatopluk.kapounek@mendelu.cz).
Orbis is the most powerful comparable data resource on private companies—and it covers listed companies too. Orbis database goes further than just providing
information, Orbis carefully captures a wide variety of data, then is treats, appends, and standardizes it to make it richer, more powerful, and easier to integrate.
Accesible for all students and employees of FBE MENDELU.
Contact person: Ing. Hana Vránová, MBA (hana.vranova@mendelu.cz)
You can use the User Guide while working with the database.
Share is a multidisciplinary international database containing microdata on health, socio-economic situation, social and
family networks of respondents older than 50 years. SHARE now covers the 27 countries of the European Union and Israel.
The Czech Republic has been participating in the survey regularly since the second wave of the survey since 2006. Full
access to the data can be obtained free of charge. Information on data access is described
here.
UK DATA Service provides access to the following data:
- UK census data (1971-2011)
- UK survey data
- Cross-national survey data
- International macro databanks
- Cohort and longitudinal studies
- Business microdata
- Qualitative and mixed methods data
Free access to the data can be obtained upon registration. The rules for using the database are available here.