The Master’s Thesis Studying Committee, Master’s Project Studying Committee, Qualifying Exam Committee amd Dissertation Studying Committee require Computer Engineering (CE) Department approval. Requirements for example current Computer Engineering policies across the committee membership. Diets are in addition for that Graduate Council needs described within the Graduate Guide .

Master’s Thesis Studying Committee

Individuals within the Master’s Thesis Studying Committee must would be the following:

1. A ladder rank CE faculty member.
2. A ladder rank UCSC School of Engineering (SOE) faculty (might be CE too).
3. A UCSC SOE faculty or even an recognized expert within the student’s research area as judged using the Graduate Committee.

Additional people may be incorporated for the committee. Students should consult their advisors regarding the membership in the committee.

Master’s Project Studying Committee

Individuals within the Master’s Project Studying Committee must would be the following:

1. A ladder rank CE faculty member.
2. A ladder rank UCSC School of Engineering (SOE) faculty (might be CE too).

Additional people may be incorporated for the committee. Students should consult their advisors regarding the membership in the committee.

Qualifying Exam Committee

Individuals within the qualifying exam committee must would be the following:

1. The chair within the committee needs to be a tenured ladder rank CE faculty member who isn’t the student’s consultant.
2. A ladder rank CE faculty member (could be the consultant).
3. A ladder rank SOE faculty member (could be the consultant) or even an recognized expert within the student’s research area from outdoors UCSC as judged using the Graduate Committee along with the Graduate Dean.
4. The outdoors member needs to be a tenured ladder rank faculty member within the department apart from CE at UCSC or even an recognized expert within the student’s research area from outdoors UCSC.
   • The outdoors member might not be the student’s consultant.
   • When the outdoors member isn’t from UCSC she/they must have credentials similar to a tenured faculty member as judged using the Graduate Committee along with the Graduate Dean. The outdoors member’s CV needs to be printed coupled with exam committee nomination form.

Additional people may be incorporated for the committee. Students should consult their advisors regarding the membership in the committee.

Dissertation Studying Committee

Individuals within the Dissertation Studying Committee must would be the following:

1. A CE faculty member (could be the consultant). This can be truly the chair within the committee.
2. A tenured ladder rank CE faculty member who isn’t the student’s consultant.
3. A ladder rank UCSC faculty (could be the consultant) or even an recognized expert within the student’s research area with credentials similar to a ladder rank UCSC faculty member as judged using the Graduate Committee.

For people who’ve two advisors you need to list both as co-chairs. Additional people may be incorporated for the committee. Students should consult their advisors regarding the membership in the committee. The Dissertation Studying Committee needs to be hired to be able to advance to candidacy.

Committee Selection Tips

If you’re inviting someone from outdoors for everyone within your committee which is not apparent whether their credentials will match the requirements for the outdoors member, you will want to list out them either because the third member or even another fifth area of the committee to prevent embarrassing them and delaying the appointment within the committee.

A ladder rank faculty (Academic Senate member) sports ths title of Assistant Professor, Affiliate Professor, or Professor. Affiliate Professors and Professors have tenure.

Dissertation Proposals and Examination

The aim of the dissertation proposal and examination is 2-fold: first, to discover the student is able to do attempt PhD-level research within the selected field second, to make certain students includes advisable for finishing the PhD, the committee (specifically the consultant) along with the student accept the scope money for hard times research.

The proposal includes the next sections:

• Background Understanding
  The issue statement must be understandable by faculty within the department that are not within the particular niche within the student along with the consultant. The thesis proposal must records references to existing literature within the field and could give a apparent explanation within the problems to obtain labored on. Typically, the setting description for almost any thesis proposal takes 5-10 pages, with fields obtaining a wealthy literature requiring greater than newer fields. Understand that this is often shorter in comparison with “prior work” chapter in the finished PhD thesis, but may be the nucleus for this sort of chapter.
• Proof of Preparation
  The proposal should advise you that the courses showed up at match the quantity needs have prepared students for research across the selected subject. The student’s transcript will most likely be accessible towards the committee inside the qualifying exam. Sometimes, students may have already labored around the handful of in the problems and have solved most of them. This proof of ability to function in the area is very persuasive, however is not a choice to citations for that literature. Results must just be summarized during this section publications or technical reports might be attached as appendices.
• Research Plan
  The study plan includes detailed descriptions in the products students offers to do (theorems to formulate and prove, systems to produce, experiments to accomplish, and so on). There needs to be specific milestones along with a period of time whenever students expects to satisfy each milestone. The study plan should schedule writing from leads to route, indicating possible conferences or journals the task must be printed. The study plan should describe not just the issues to obtain attacked, nonetheless the techniques to be used within attacking them. The facts needn’t be fully labored out (indeed, they should not be right now), but there has to be enough information for the committee to estimate the chance the approach works and to estimate the problem of finishing the thesis. The study plan must be five to twenty pages extended.

The entire dissertation proposal is roughly 20-50 pages with appropriate tradeoffs between what others did, what the student does, together with what students can perform.

Drafted by Kevin Karplus and Martine Schlag, March 2001, with minor revisions by Richard Hughey, September 2008.