chalmers master thesis planning report

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Thesis and report writing.

This section offers information, tips and advice on writing a report / thesis, in particular, a Master’s thesis.

If you are at the start of your writing project, click on ”Before you start writing” to get an overview. Otherwise, under ”Thesis and report writing” you can find advice on the different sections in the thesis with examples.

Guidelines for assessing the Master thesis can be found at  rules for Master thesis work.

Your studies

E-publication and printing.

There is still a lot you need to think about after you have finished your degree project. Here, you will find everything you need to know about rules for e-publication and how to order printing if needed.

Degree projects published electronically are freely available and searchable

Degree projects are registered and published in the Chalmers ODR Student Theses service. As an author, you can decline electronic publication, but registration (searchable post without full text) is mandatory. For electronic publication of the full text, all the authors must have approved the publication contract on the work card by means of their signatures.

Both registration and e-publication are carried out by staff at the department. The degree project must be presented in accordance with specified templates and delivered in PDF format. 

Chalmers’ libraries do not accept printed degree projects, with the exception of the Architecture and Civil Engineering Library, which does accept printed copies from the architecture programmes.

  Via the link below, you can search and read published student theses. Chalmers Open Digital Repository (ODR) Student Theses

Contact:  [email protected]

If your degree project will be printed, your department will order the printing. If you order printing, you must submit a request with the camera-ready copy (print-ready files). The request must be signed by the Head of Department or equivalent, including their email address, the name of your supervisor(s), the title of the report/degree project and the author(s) (including their extension number and email). The request must also state the paying department or equivalent, the cost centre, reference code, project number, and the activity number if applicable. Submit the request with the camera-ready copy (print-ready files).

Please note that images must have a resolution of at least 300 dpi. Black-and-white images must be in grey scale. RGB is for images displayed on screen, not for printing.

Deliver as a PDF

If your work will be printed, it must be presented according to specified templates (see the design of degree projects) and delivered as a PDF file.

[email protected] Visiting address: Betongvägen 9 Opening hours: 08.00-16.00

Contacts regarding printing:

• [email protected]
• +46 31 772 80 11

Opening hours 08:00–16:00

Visiting address Betongvägen 9

Master Thesis CSE

You are here, the work card.

• Posted on: 25 November 2015
• By: almstroj
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Your activities during the thesis work are documented on the master’s thesis work card. It can be downloaded from the forms and templates section

The work card will follow you through the project, and you need to get it signed as you finish the required tasks:

• You have an approved planning report for your master’s thesis — signed by examiner.
• You have attended the mandatory lectures — signed by lecturer.
• Your midterm report has been approved — signed by examiner.
• You have listened to at least two master thesis presentations — signed by examiner present at the presentation.
• You have acted as the opponent to someone else’s master thesis — signed by examiner present at the presentation.
• You have made your own oral presentation — signed by examiner.
• The written report has passed through the plagiarism tool Urkund — signed by examiner.
• The written report has been approved by the examiner — signed by examiner.
• You get a final signature from the examiner when all is done — signed by examiner.

Print the work card and bring it to the presentations and other activities where it is to be signed.

Note:  Failing to fulfill the checklist above and have it documented on the work card can have as a result that the examiner terminates your work and you will have to restart with a new project on a new topic.