Gaining a degree
Gaining a degree is hard work and an overwhelming task at the beginning. The following information should help you to get a successful graduation of your study.
General advice
- Show your ability to work independently and scientifically.
- Don't be scared to ask. Make appointments with your advisor and/or assessor if necessary.
- Negative findings are not bad while giving reasons.
- Give reasons for everything and compare different solutions.
- Make notes and summaries for papers/books which your read.
Course of action
- Find a topic which you really like to work on.
- Get to know your topic and all related work.
- Define your research question. Which problem do you like to solve?
- Define your challenges and requirements. (Needed to evaluate your solutions)
- Create a project plan with milestones.
- Think about different solutions for your problem.
- Evaluate your solutions.
- Implement your solution as part of your Master/Bachelor Project.
- Write a short (10-20 pages) project report.
- Present your project to the working group. (15-30 minutes)
- Evaluate and analyse your solution. Compare it to existing or similar solutions.
- Remove implementation details from your project report and add the evaluation of your solution. Extend your report if necessary. This will be your Bachelor/Master Thesis. Consider the Writing a thesis guide.
- Discuss your draft with your advisor.
- Submit your thesis and make an appointment for your colloquium. Announce the date to the working group.
- Create a 30 min presentation considering our Holding a presentation guide.
- Make an appointment for a trial session and invite the working group.
- Final colloquium and party ;-).
Grading
- Which contributions are made?
- Which contributions are missing? What should have logically been part of the thesis but wasn't?
- Did the student find new concepts?
- Which concepts were missing? What should obviously have been done but wasn't?
- How good is the implementation?
- What can you learn from the work?
- What conclusions or recommendations can be gained from the work?
- How is the paper/thesis structured? Is it readable?
- Is the motivation/problem clear?
- Are the important points clearly visible and easily understandable?
- Is there a common thread running through the entire project/report/paper?
- Is the student able to work independently and scientifically?