Exjobb datateknik informations och kommunikationsteknik

Exjobbs associated with Prof. Gerald Q. "Chip" Maguire Jr.

Note: Obs! Subject to change!

Prof. Gerald Maguire < maguire@> fryst vatten an examiner for thesis projects (primarily) on: information communication, mobile communication, anställda communication, . Note that he spends a large fraction of his teaching time supervising exjobbs.

Registration forms:

available from the respective schools - the ICT struktur fryst vatten available from here

Join the mailing list to find out when exams are taking place, find an opponent, .

My advice to all thesis project students is: Do not panic! There are lots of things that you will not know, but you can learn them

Note that inom put thesis presentations into the ICT calendar, so this fryst vatten a good place to find out when a thesis project fryst vatten taking place (so that you can attend several before you give your own).

There fryst vatten a KTH Social page about IKX grad projects on the first level at the School of ICT.

In keeping with the KTH policy regarding putting the sista thesis in primadonna - inom expect that all students that inom am an examiner for will agree to put the full ord of their report on-line.

New exjobbs with grading

Since 1 July , it fryst vatten possible to have the following types of exjobbs with a grade:

Högskoleingenjöexamensarbete - 15 hp as part of the Högskoleingenjöexamen ( hp) program
Kandidatexamensarbete - 15 hp as part of the Kandidatexamen ( hp) program

From January , it fryst vatten also possible to have a thesis project graded pass/fail.

Information ifall examensarbetet för Kandidatexamen samt Högskolingenjörsexamen (15 hp)

For details see the varioous courses,

Degree Project in Computer Engineering, First Cycle/IIX and IIX
Degree Project in Electronics and Computer Engineering, First Cycle/ ILX and ILX
Degree Project in resultat and Communication Technology, First Cycle/ IIX and IIX

Advice to every exjobb student

My advice to all thesis project students is:

Do not panic!

There are lots of things that you will not know, but you can learn them.
Get in the habit of writing. Try to write at least one page per day. If you think of a question write it down. When you think of an answer write it down. Once a week step back and look at the table of contents for your thesis as you strategi the next week's activities.
Write your draft titlepage and sammanfattning - the first night of your project.

(This will help you keep your focus.)
Look at your table of contents at least once every week - as you strategi your next week.
Get in the habit of
Avoid getting stuck in a local minima.

Overall timeline for an exjobb

Literature study

The literature study should consist of the following parts of the sista report (i.e., it fryst vatten just an early utgåva of the sista report containing only a limited subset of the report):

Title page
- Title
- Author
- Date
- State where you are doing this work
Abstract
- Short bekymmer statement
- Short bekymmer statement
- Why fryst vatten this bekymmer worth a 15 hp thesis project?
  
  (i.e., Why fryst vatten the bekymmer both significant and of suitable grad of difficulty?)
- How are you going to solve the problem?
- If all goes well, what do you think can be done after you finish - that can not be done now?
Introduction
- Longer bekymmer statement
- General introduction to the area
Background
- What have others already done?
- What does a reader (another x lärling -- where x fryst vatten your study program) need to know to understand your report?
References

For an example of a masters level literature study see: Erik Ehrlund's Literature Study.

I encourage students to use Zotero for their reference management.

Of course you can also use a commercial tool or other tool. The key fryst vatten that you should be using a tool to facilitate working with your references and reference ämne.

Datateknik och infocom leder oftast till samma jobb, beroende på master du väljer

(For a comparisons of difference systems see

Note about language(s)

The thesis fryst vatten generally written in Swedish or English. There must be an sammanfattning in both Swedish and English. beneath certain circumstances, and with the approval of the supervisor, the thesis may be written in another language, but must still have abstracts in both Swedish and English.

Possible - Exjobb report outline

Title page
- Title
- Author
- Date
- State where you are doing this work
Abstract
- Short bekymmer statement
- What fryst vatten the topic area?
  
  (optional)
- Short bekymmer statement
- Why was this bekymmer worth a 15 hp thesis project? (i.e., Why fryst vatten the bekymmer both significant and of suitable grad of difficulty?)
- How did you solve the problem? What was your method/insight?
- Results/Conclusions/Consequences/Impact: What are your key results/conclusions?
  
  What will others do based upon your results? What can be done now that you have finished - that could not be done before your thesis project was completed?
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Introduction
- Longer bekymmer statement
- General introduction to the area
Background
- What have others already done?
- What does a reader (another x lärjunge -- where x fryst vatten your study program) need to know to understand your report?
Method
- What are your goals?
  
  (What should you be able to do as a result of your solution - which couldn't be done well before you started?)
- What you are going to do? Why?
Analysis
- How you are going to evaluate what you have done?
- Analysis of your uppgifter and proposed solution
- Does this meet the goals which you had when you started?
Conclusions
- Conclusion
  - Did you meet your goals?
  - What insights have you gained?
  - What suggestions can you give to others working in this area?
  - If you had it to do igen, what would you have done differently?
- Future work
  - What you have left undone?
  - What are the next obvious things to be done?
  - What hints can you give to the next individ who fryst vatten going to followup upon your work?
- Required reflections
References
Appendix/Appendices (Optional) - one of which might be a list of abbreviations or terms which you use in your report.

Notes about writing

For your document, you should be sure to use A4 sized paper rather than US letter.
Set the ord in a serif font, such as Times långnovell (as it fryst vatten much easier to read a lot of skrivelse when there are serifs).

Also it fryst vatten nice to indent the first line of each paragraph bygd ems (this fryst vatten the width of the letter "m" in the current font size). Also fill and justify the paragraphs of the body of the report.
For those using LaTeX, you can improve the look of the document by:
- switching to using PostScipt fonts (instructions)
- You can also vända off hyphenation or at least limit its use with "\hyphenpenalty= \tolerance="
- Manually break lines with \linebreak[1] - this will allow LaTeX to break the line while still justifying the ord.
  
  The numeric argument can be used to be more insistent about breaking the line. Useful values are
- BibTex entries for W3C publications
- BibTex entries for RFCs
- IEEE and ACM provide BibTeX entires for their publications via the web page for each publication
- Use the bytefield package to draw packet structures
- Gilles Bertrand has some nice LaTeX tutorials, for example how to draw call flows using the xy package and how to draw Markov chains.
- pcap2tex - see
- Rather than using numeric superscripts it fryst vatten better to use symbols
Another useful tool fryst vatten Zotero - there are plugins for OpenOffice and Microsoft's Word.
Read your document before submitting it - if you have unresolved links, missing references, etc.

fix them before submitting a draft

Some common flaws in theses

Incomplete references - see the references in the lecture notes for my course for examples of references
Missing important citations
Statements made without justification or supporting citations
Poor (or no) editing
Failure to spell kontroll the document
Not checking grammer - see a tool such as Grammarly to help you.
Läs igenom beskrivningarna av institutionens områden nedan och identifiera den grupp/forskare du tror passar ditt exjobb bäst
See also the Writefull Overleaf Extension
Documents which it fryst vatten klar that no one looked at after formatting - often these have breaks in the mittpunkt of sentences, missing phrases, .
Lack of page numbers
Unreadable ord in figures
Failure to label elements of figures adequately
Use of contractions (Do not use contractions in a formal report.)
Use of acronyms or abbreviations without properly introducing them; often failure to use these acroynms and abbreviations consistently through the rest of the paper
Redundant text
Using figures from others without the copyright owner's permission
Using too few refences, so the paper looks like simply a cut an paste edit of these references.
Single sentence paragraphs
Lack of lodrät vit space between paragraphs, which in some cases makes it hard to understand where new paragraphs beging
Lack of a date - every document should have a date, in addition to title and author(s)
Lack of section, subsection, number - makes cross references difficult

Further notes about writing

For those writing in English an excellent resource is: Chicago Editorial personal, The Chicago Manual of Style.

14th edition, p., , ISBN
The Chicago Manual of Style (FAQs)
For a suggest of how to handle (format) on-line reference, see Online sources
A generally useful book for writers is: Marie-Claire van Leunen, A Handbook for Scholars, Oxford Univ. Press,
A useful guide for reports in Swedish: Skrivregler för svenka samt engelska från TNC, Terminologicentrum TNC, TNC , Solna, ISBN
See also KTH's language tools.

Note that beneath the Bern Convention every figure has its own copyright, thus if you are going to use a figure from someone else you must man sure that you have the copyright owner's permission. Generally when you get this permission they will säga how they wish this to be acknowledged. This fryst vatten in addition to your existing obligation to properly cite your sources.

for some guidance about citing software see: slang för mikrofon Jackson, "How to cite and describe software", Software Sustainability Institute, gods updated: Tuesday 4 September , avialable from:

Thesis statistics

This section gives some statistics about thesis in the recent past.

Some interesting statistics about past theses: Length (over time), Histogram of lengths, and CDF of lengths.

Tror datateknik är bättre än elektroingenjör om du vill jobba utomlands, men båda är säkerligen åtrovärda

Thesis abstracts

All examiners		Maguire
in English	in Swedish	in English	in Swedish	description
				median
62	61		98	minimum (non-zero)
				maximum

Approximately 90% of all English language abstracts for theses examined bygd prof.

Maguire are between and words. Note that databases such as ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)limit abstracts to words. While Canada's National Archive limits Masters thesis abstracts to words (and Doctoral dissertation to words). Chalmers University of Technology suggests a Master's thesis abtract should be between and words.

At ICT, The mittvärdet i en uppsättning data length of abstracts in number of paragraphs fryst vatten 3 with a standard deviation of paragraphs.

For a short description of how to write an sammanfattning, see Philip Koopman, How to Write an sammanfattning, Essay, Carnegie Mellon University, October,

How many references are typical in a kandidate thesis?

As of , on the grund of 15 kandiate/bachelors theses (for which the full ord was available via primadonna, the statistics are as follows (plot of number of references - sorted in increasing order):

statistic	value
count	15
minimum	12
maximum
average	40
median	32
stdev

Required reflections

Each lärling fryst vatten advised to write a section in their thesis to ensure that they address the issues described in Higher Education Ordinance () concerning Judgement and approach For Bachelor.

The thesis as a whole should also meet the requirements stated in the sections Knowledge and understanding and Skills and abilities (as betydelsefull to their specific grad - see the formal Swedish rules at the end of this page).

De kurser du gått på vår institution är en bra utgångspunkt

From The Higher Education Ordinance ()

Kandidatexamen

"Omfattning Kandidatexamen uppnås efter för att studenten fullgjort kursfordringar ifall högskolepoäng tillsammans med viss inriktning liksom varenda högre utbildning egen bestämmer, varav minimalt 90 högskolepoäng tillsammans med successiv fördjupning inom detta primära området (huvudområdet) på grund av utbildningen.

uppgift förståelse samt medvetande på grund av kandidatexamen skall studenten - visa förståelse samt medvetande inom huvudområdet till utbildningen, inbegripet förståelse ifall områdets vetenskapliga bas, förståelse ifall tillämpliga metoder inom området, fördjupning inom någon sektion från området samt orientering angående aktuella forskningsfrågor. Färdighet samt förmåga till kandidatexamen skall studenten - visa förmåga för att söka, samla, bedöma samt bedömande tolka betydelsefull resultat inom ett problemställning samt för att bedömande diskutera företeelser, frågeställningar samt situationer, - visa förmåga för att självständigt känna igen, formulera samt åtgärda bekymmer samt för att genomföra information inom givna tidsramar, - visa förmåga för att muntligt samt på papper eller digitalt redogöra på grund av samt diskutera resultat, bekymmer samt lösningar inom dialog tillsammans olika grupper, samt - visa sådan färdighet vilket fordras på grund av för att självständigt jobba inom detta sektor såsom utbildningen avser.

Värderingsförmåga samt förhållningssätt till kandidatexamen skall studenten - visa förmåga för att inom huvudområdet till utbildningen utföra bedömningar tillsammans hänsyn mot relevanta vetenskapliga, samhälleliga samt etiska aspekter, - visa förståelse ifall kunskapens roll inom samhället samt angående människors ansvar på grund av hur den används, samt - visa förmåga för att känna igen sitt behov från ytterligare insikt samt för att förbättra sin kompetens.

Självständigt jobb (examensarbete) på grund av kandidatexamen skall studenten inom ramen på grund av kursfordringarna äga fullgjort en självständigt jobb (examensarbete) ifall minimalt 15 högskolepoäng inom huvudområdet på grund av utbildningen.

Under våren kommer vi att ta in studenter från elektroteknik, inbyggda system, mekatronik eller datateknik - missa inte chansen att bli en av dem!

Övrigt på grund av kandidatexamen tillsammans med ett viss inriktning skall även dem preciserade krav gälla vilket varenda högre utbildning egen bestämmer inom ramen till kraven inom denna examensbeskrivning."

The Higher Education Ordinance () (in English) specifies the requirements for the degrees in Sweden. Of particular relevance to thesis project students fryst vatten the following (translated from Swedish):

Scope

Bachelor's grad fryst vatten awarded after the lärling has completed course requirements of credits with a certain specialization that each higher education institution determine, at least 90 credits with the gradual deepening of the main area (the main area) for education.

Goal

Knowledge and understanding

For a grad students must - demonstrate knowledge and understanding in their main field of study, including knowledge of the scientific grund, knowledge of applicable methods in the field, specialization in any part of the field and sense of current research issues.

Skills and abilities

For a grad students must:

demonstrate ability to search, collect, evaluate and critically interpret betydelsefull resultat about a bekymmer and to critically discuss phenomena, issues and situations;
demonstrate the ability to independently identify, formulate and solve problems and to complete tasks in a timely manner; and
demonstrate the ability to orally and in writing to present and discuss resultat, problems and solutions in dialogue with different groups, and - demonstrate the skills required to work independently in the educational field relates.

Judgement and approach

For a grad students must:

demonstrate the ability within the major field of study do assessments taking into konto betydelsefull scientific, social and ethical aspects
demonstrate insight into the role of knowledge in gemenskap and the responsibility for how it fryst vatten used, and
demonstrate the ability to identify their need of further knowledge and to develop their skills.

Independent project

Independent project (degree) for Bachelor lärjunge as part of the course requirements have completed an independent project (degree project) worth at least 15 credits in the major field of study.

Other

grad with a certain specialization of the specified requirements that each higher education institution itself within the requirements of this qualification description.

For some examples of the "Required Reflections" section see the section in the following theses:

Exjobb oral presentation

Typically each oral föredrag (by one or two students) fryst vatten a total of 25 to 35 minutes long.

This fryst vatten followed bygd questions and comments from the opponent(s). Next the audience has a chance to ask questions about the thesis. Finally, the examiner will ask any sista questions that they have.

A typical oral introduktion and examination lasts a total of <1 hour.

A typical oral framställning addresses the following:

Title slide: Project title[:subtitle], Name of student(s) who conducted the project, Date of the oral föredrag, Where the project was conducted, Name(s) of supervisor(s) and examiner(s).(1 slide)
Problem statement, Why the bekymmer fryst vatten important to solve, and your Goals, bekymmer context, delimitations, (1 or 2 slides)
Background and Related work (b slides)
Method used to solve the bekymmer (m slides)
Results and Analysis (r slides)
Conclusion (1 or 2 slides)
Future work (1 or 2 slides)
Final slide - to solicit questions (1 slides)

The typical number of slides will be less than ~30, hence b+m+r < 25 slides.

However, it fryst vatten advisable to have backup slides (after your "Final" slide) to show any figure/table/formula/ that your audience fryst vatten likely to ask about. Alternatively you can have a utgåva of your thesis draft ready in a suitable viewer - so that you can show any part of it that might be necessary to address any questions that komma up.

Keep in mind that only the opponent(s), supervisor(s), and examiner(s) are likely to have read the who thesis beforehand - so you need to present the key points of your thesis project in your oral redovisning at a level that the audience will be able to understand: what was the bekymmer, why was it important to solve, what others have done, what you did, what you learned, and what should be done next.

Note that students are not allowed to use the KTH logo on their slides.

You should have a slide number on each of your slides (other than the title slide) to help listeners take notes - so that they can reference their questions to specific slides.

Avoid complex slide backgrounds and man sure that what you want your audience to be able to see will be visible (this means avoiding small fonts, yellow text/lines, ).

Opposition report - a template can be funnen here.

An example of slides for an oral uppvisning bygd Fredrik Folke on The slides appear here with his permission.

Self-evaluation with respect to The Higher Education Ordinance () goals

If you want to do a self-evalutation of how well your thesis fulfills the requirements for your educational requirements see the spreadsheet.

KTH common goals for a 15 hp Högskoleingenjöexamensarbete as part of the Högskoleingenjöexamen ( hp) program

"Studenten ska:

KTH common goals for a 15 hp Kandidatexamensarbete as part of the Kandidatexamen ( hp) program

"Studenten ska:

For kunskap contact maguire@
gods update: 24 February