Some documents related to my earlier (mainly 2016) role as examiner (for the Programming Languages area) of MSc theses at the CSE department, Chalmers and GU.
- Find a project proposal: Look through the list and contact the suggested supervisor.
- I have some proposals I could supervise
- but I could also be examiner of many other related proposals within Functional Programming, Type Theory and neighbouring topics.
- My grading guidelines for project proposals
- Planning report (due two weeks after the project proposal has been accepted)
- The planning report can be seen as an extended version of the project proposal extended with a time plan.
- The formal start date is when the project proposal is accepted (but writing the proposal is also an important preparation for the MSc thesis work)
- Make sure to include a preliminary date for the half-time report/presentation.
- Half-time report/presentation
- When the planning report has been accepted, the next next step is to plan a concrete meeting slot for the half-time reporting. I suggest using a doodle to find a suitable date and time.
- Send me the draft report the day before the meeting. (Your supervisor should have read the draft before I get it as examiner.)
- The meeting should include a short (informal) presentation of the state of the MSc thesis work.
- There should also be time for discussing possible updates to the time plan. (A need to update the plan at this stage is the norm rather than the exception.)
- Optional: If you'd like the "status report" presentation to be seen by others than the examiner and supervisor then please arrange for booking a room + announcing it in the CSE Weekly News. But note that a half-time public presentation is not a requirement for the MSc thesis course. It could be a way to get feedback from interested researchers (and to be "seen" by potential PhD position recruiters at the department).
- Optional: Similarly, the half-time meeting could take place at an external site if the MSc thesis is done at a company.
- Final report: some notes for CSE-department theses
- (often forgotten) "Cover Page: Your report should have a common frontpage where both Chalmers and University of Gothenburg are stated, regardless of which university you are studying at."
- Please include an "Acknowledgements" page or similar so that it is clear who was supervisor, who was examiner and who else contributed. Examples: 1, 2, 3, 4
- Make sure to proof-read the thesis carefully and iterate it with your supervisor until it is well polished. Only then send it to the examiner.
- Reporing the result to LADOK
- Final warning about time out
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