MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY)/ (OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS) INGENIØRDOCENT HEAD OF PROGRAMS UNI VERSITy
WHO AM I? Henrik Karstoft (hka@eng.au.dk) Ingeniørdocent @ ASE/ENG, Signal Processing @ ASE/ENG Supervision 40+ Master Thesis student. 2
Master Thesis Contract Must be completed before the thesis work is started. (deadline 19/12/14). Henrik Karstoft must approve and sign together with supervisior. Note date for handing in the work, is the same for all IT and O&E students. Handing in thesis too late => FAILS together with new contract. 3
Regulations Load: 30 ECTS in 1 semester. Check date for handing in the thesis (Thesis homepage). Will be announced before the Kandidat samtaler. Thesis in English or Danish as you prefer. Supervisor from ENG, DAIMI or company (needs additional university supervisor). Individual work or in groups (2 or 3 students) For groups: must stress responsibility. 4
REGULATIONS Tekst from the studieordning : Under specialet arbejder den studerende selvstændigt med en faglig problemstilling og civilingeniøren kan ved specialets afslutning: på videnskabeligt grundlag identificere, afgrænse og formulere en faglig problemstilling, definere og opstille testbare hypotese inden for fagets emneområde, selvstændigt planlægge og under anvendelse af fagets videnskabelige metode gennemføre et større fagligt projekt, analysere, kritisk diskutere og perspektivere en faglig problemstilling, vurdere, kritisk analysere og sammenfatte den videnskabelige litteratur inden for et afgrænset emneområde, formidle videnskabelige resultater objektivt og koncist til et videnskabeligt forum 5
CHOOSING THE RIGHT PROJECT AND SUPERVISOR Consult potential supervisor for proposals Consult heads of R&D groups @ ENG http://kurser.iha.dk/ee-ict-master/tienprau/erdp_internalrdcontacts.htm Company (must be supplemented with main supervisor from university) The main supervisor is responsible for maintaining all rules and ensuring the quality of the work, and must participate in the final exam. A successful project is must often a combination of a good project proposal and good chemistry within the project group (student~student, student~supervisor). Be ready to start at time, 1 semester is not a lot of time! 6
PROJECT TYPES Implementation of a theoretical result New theoretical result Real-life problem Empirical investigation Survey 7
THESIS WORK Have a plan, keep it updated, discuss it with our supervisor Weekly meetings with your supervisor Literature for guides on writing process: "Den gode opgave, Lotte Rienecker og Peter Stray Jørgensen - med bidrag af Lis Hedelund, Signe Hegelund og Christan Kock, Samfundslitteratur, 3. udgave 2005, ISBN 87-593-1164-9. 8
THESIS EXAM Hand in your work on time. Exam Oral presentation of your work, based on question from your supervisor, Question handed out 1 week before the exam (30 min) Examination. Questions form the supervisor and the extern examiner (30 min) Grade on the 7-scale 9
Further Information Mail: Henrik Karstoft (hka@eng.au.dk), office Edison 214 Ingeniørdocent, Head of program in Information Technology (Teknisk IT) and Optics & Electronics Useful links: Course homepages: http://kurser.iha.dk/ee-ict-master/tispec/ http://kurser.iha.dk/ee-ict-master/tienprau/ http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~jab/mastersthesisadvice.pdf 10