Diploma thesis supervision
seminar
David Svoboda e-mail: svoboda@fi.muni.cz
Centre for Biomedical Image Analysis Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno
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Diploma thesis supervision
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Outline
Thesis - way of life
Q Preliminary description
Q The first appointment with student
Q Thesis supervision
Q Final description
Q Thesis submission
Q Writing the review
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Preliminary description
Předběžné zadání
• Initially, only the preliminary description is recommended.
• Description should be formulated:
• clearly
• shortly
• accurately
• The student should know what are the main goals of the thesis
• You (as a supervisor) should be experienced with time estimates. Namely bachelor students have troubles with scheduling. Initially, they are able to promise anything ... ©
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Diploma thesis supervision
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Preliminary description
Předběžné zadání
• Consider the suitability of the topic at this faculty
• Ask your supervisor or the head of department to check the topics you plan to publish.
• It is recommended to include the student into some working group/team.
• Master thesis - description [link]
• Bachelor thesis - description [link]
The first appointment with student
První setkání se studentem
• Make an appointment in time:
• autumn semester: September/October
• spring semestr: February/March
• Try to reveal student's pieces of knowledge and skills
• Ask the student to work out some homework - till the next appointment
(this way, the low-motivated students will be expelled)
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Diploma thesis supervision
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The first appointment with student
První setkání se studentem
• Settle some kind of communication
• regular (written) report
• regular meetings (in fortnight, monthly)
• when needed (!?)
• Do not believe all students' promises.
• Prepare some schedule - how much time the student and you can dedicate/sacrifice to the thesis.
• Accept/Support students willing of writing the thesis in English
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Thesis supervision
Vedení práce
• During the first semester, the student should analyze the task, find out similar problems and already existing solutions.
• You only supervise the thesis, you should not work out the thesis.
• The students are not silly, they only have less experience than you have.
9 Non-defensible thesis is usually product of bad supervision or poor description^.
o Supervisor is not obliged to answer student's queries immediately, o Offer your students training of oral presentations (internal seminars).
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Diploma thesis supervision
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Thesis supervision
Vedení práce
• At the end of each semester, supervisor gives credits provided the student did something.
• Offer your student some kind of draft defence (internal laboratory seminar) with proper feedback.
• Explain the students, how to present: their original work x work of another person (authorship should be apparent; namely when two or more students cooperate in one project).
9 Pay attention to the way of communication with the student you supervise: employer x employee
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Diploma thesis supervision
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Final description
Finální zadání
• You (as a supervisor) are responsible for the final description!!!
• Formulate the particular goals, in order the reviewer could decide if the task was completed:
• difficulty of the thesis
• expected level of programming
• expected level of theoretical aspects
• Ask the student for summary (state of the art) to avoid missing introduction in text of the thesis.
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Diploma thesis supervision
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Thesis submission
Odevzdání práce
• The student is not allowed the submit the thesis without obtaining the credits for the last semester.
• The thesis should be read by some uninitiated (relatives, girl/boy-friends, roommates, ...), namely for grammar and style.
• Each student has the opportunity to have the thesis corrected/validated by professional
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Diploma thesis supervision
10 / 15
Thesis submission
Odevzdání práce
• Help the student with proposal and writing the text part of the thesis.
• If student asks you for the revision of the text, require the delivery of the text in time - e.g. no later than one week before final submission.
• After the submission, you will be asked (by IS) to verify
• the originality of the thesis (anti-plagiarism)
• the presence of supplements (source codes, user guide, . ..)
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Diploma thesis supervision
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Writing the review
Psaní posudku
• The length of review is typically one (single-sided) A4 page
• The review should contain:
• summary (reviewer shows that he understands the work properly)
• classification of state-of-the-art
• classification of structure of the thesis
• information if the source codes (if included) are well documented and equipped with licence.
• ability of student to work with bibliography
• positive criticism - show the way how to improve the thesis
• verification, whether the goals were completed
• some questions for discussion after the presentation
• conclusion and decision
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Diploma thesis supervision
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Writing the review
Psaní posudku
• Do not miss the defence! You (and reviewer) are usually the only persons that understand the thesis.
• An example of positive review [link]
• An example of negative review [link]
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Closing the topic in IS
Uzavření/Zrušení tématu v ISu
• Keep the list of all available topics up to date!
• [link to IS]
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Thank you for your attention ...
... and good luck!
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Diploma thesis supervision
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