Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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4313136 Modelling for Science and Engineering | OB | 0 | 2 |
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The objective of the Master’s Thesis is to prepare students for future work, a doctoral thesis or a project in a company. The ultimate goal is to have a public presentation and defense of the written report (Master Thesis) in some topic depending on the specialization of each one of the students: Complex Systems, Data Science, Mathematical Modelling or Modelling for Engineering, under the appropriate guidance by an expert in the field.
There are not theoretical contents for this module.
-Methodology: At the end of October or in November each student will meet with the Master’s Coordinator in order to talk about the topic of the Thesis and also about the place to do the Internship in Companies and Institutions. At that moment it will be decided if the student wishes to follow a research program (and look for a Research Center) and/or to do a more applied project in a company (and look for the appropriate company). After, the student and the Master’s Coordinator will meet again and then, they will decide the topic and the advisor of the Master Thesis. Once the student has been assigned his advisor, they will meet regularly.
Concerning the report and the dissertation of the Master Thesis.
General guidelines: the report should be between 35 and 70 pages long and should contain:
- A first page with the title, author's name, director's name, date.
- Abstract
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures, Tables, (if necessary)
- Introduction chapter
- Other chapters.
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
We recall that any paragraph taken from the Internet or from existing books must be written between quotation marks " " and carefully referencing the source.
Each student will have between 25 and 30 minutes to focus the question, lay the objectives, explain and put the results in context, and present the conclusions. Afterwords the jury will have a maximum of 30 minutes to ask questions and discuss with the student.
Calendar
The main period for thepresentation is from the 07th to the 12th of July.
During the first days of June each student must inform to the Master's Coordinator the title, the advisor and the abstract of the Master's Degree.
Delivering the Master Thesis.
The commettee members shall have received a copy of the master Thesis at least 7 days before the scheduled reading. Each one of the students has to ask to the members of the Committee if they want a written copy or if the electronic format is enough. A copy must also be sent to the Master’s Coordinator before the presentation.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Supervised | |||
Regular meetings with the supervisor | 25 | 1 | 11, 10, 5, 9, 15, 13 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Elaboration of the report | 275 | 11 | 1, 2, 11, 3, 8, 6, 7, 4, 14 |
The Master’s Thesis will be evaluated by a committee of three persons created especially for each presentation. The advisor of the thesis or a member of his team, could be part of the court but should not chair it. At least one member of the board should be from UAB. Once the members have accepted to be part of the board, it is arranged the date and time of the reading, adapting it to the proposed period.
The grade will be divided as follows: 30% for the written report, 20% for the oral dissertation and 50% for the work itself.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Contents of the work | 50% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 12, 11, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 15, 14 |
Oral dissertation | 20% | 0 | 0 | 11, 10, 8, 9, 4, 13 |
Written report | 30% | 0 | 0 | 1, 11, 5, 7, 4 |
There are no specific references.
There is no specific software.