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Deliverables Required of Graduate
Students
Before you turn in any
written materials, including proposals, theses, practica, or journal article
drafts, you must read the following documents:
Print the first page of each
of the three checklists, check the appropriate boxes, and turn them in with the
work you are submitting. Please do not
print out the entire document – only the first page! If the person reviewing the work determines
that you have checked an item without following the associated instruction, the
work will be returned to you without comment and will not be reviewed until all
of the instructions have been followed.
Masters students are required
to produce the following documents.
This
form identifies the people who will serve on your graduate committee. A Masters committee consists of 3 faculty
members, one of whom will be the advisor.
A Ph.D. committee consists of 5 faculty members, one of whom will be the
advisor.
This
document identifies the courses that the student will take in fulfillment of
course requirements. It must be approved
by all of the student’s committee members.
This
document will generally be 10 to 20 pages and will detail the research plan
that the student will carry out in fulfillment of the thesis requirements. It should follow the guidelines for a thesis proposal
(Downloadable
MS Word File) as elaborated by the biomedical engineering program.
Failure
to submit any of the above documents before the end of the required quarter
will cause a hold to be placed on the students registration, preventing him or
her from registering for the following quarter.
Ph.D.
students are required to produce items 1-3 above. In addition, they must take a comprehensive
examination at the end of their coursework, and they will turn in a
dissertation instead of a thesis.
The
thesis/dissertation documents the research work that the student has
performed. There are strict formatting
guidelines for your thesis/dissertation, which can be found here: Format for the
thesis/dissertation. A
description of the content of a dissertation, practicum, thesis, or other
research publication can be found at: Content of a thesis/dissertation
(Download MS Word File).
In
addition, the appropriate approval form must be signed by your advisory
committee prior to graduation:
Thesis approval form (MS students)
Dissertation approval form (Ph.D. students)
A complete list of important deadlines for
completion of the thesis is provided here:
Timetable
for completion of the thesis/dissertation
Because
the thesis/dissertation must also be accepted by the library before you can
graduate, you must also fulfill the following requirements:
Requirements for
acceptance of the thesis by the library.
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