Students are admitted to candidacy for the Ph.D. upon acceptance by their advisory committee of the written thesis proposal and its successful oral defence. The thesis proposal is approximately 25 ...

The body of the thesis may then be relatively short, describing the overall motivation, hypotheses, tools, highlights of results (including any results not in the appendices), and conclusions.

The dissertation must be submitted to the thesis defense committee two weeks prior to the oral defense. The oral presentation involves a public 45-minute presentation by the candidate followed by an ...

The main purpose of the thesis proposal defence is to enable the Ph.D. student make a position statement with respect to the thesis problem, outline a hypothesis and present a timeline for completion ...

The study sample comprises post-secondary educators in world language programs from private higher education institutions in New England. Over a six-month period, I met individually with six sample ...

As PA is a non-contact and non-invasive procedure, it is more comfortable to use for a patient as well as to characterize heterogeneous samples such as tissues. This study proposes an optical fiber ...

Beyond this, some students may be motivated to write the MA thesis in order to produce a writing sample for PhD applications or because ... who elect to write a thesis may count the oral ...

A senior defense is an opportunity for you to share your thesis with your advisor, secondary advisor and reader(s). The purpose of a defense is to celebrate your work, reflect upon your creative and ...

We strongly recommend using the following Zoom meeting settings and in-meeting management strategies to ensure you have a secure and productive Dissertation Defense meeting, while also allowing for ...

It is similar to the depth-based Ph.D. comprehensive that is conducted in many universities. The Research Aptitude Defence is separate from the Thesis Proposal Defence Exam. Ph.D. students go through ...

each master of science and doctoral candidate must successfully defend the thesis or dissertation. The objectives of the defense examination are (1) to probe the validity and significance of the data ...