ELEC-E0110 - Academic skills in master's studies, Lecture, 4.9.2023-21.4.2024
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25.02.2024 Master's thesis review assignment
Completion requirements
Student must submit this questionnaire to complete it
1. Search completed theses of your own field from the Aalto Doc archive: https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/3.
- You can eg. search by department or search theses supervised by a certain professor (enter professor name as a search term).
- As a reference to the assignment you can also have look at an example list of theses from from 2019-2023. You can also pick any other thesis from the archive.
2. Choose one thesis for the assignment. Based on the chosen thesis, answer the following questions
- What is the research problem and the goal of the thesis?
- What research methods have been used?
- Did the author find a solution? What is the solution or the main conclusion of the thesis?
- What was your general impression of the thesis you read? Was it clear and understandable? Was the text fluent to read?
3. After the Master's thesis info lecture and the review assignment, you should have a general understanding about the thesis process and about the requirements of a master's thesis. As a final part of this assignment, write down minimum 3 thoughts you now have about your own thesis process. You can think of questions like
- When are you going to start preparing for your master’s thesis?
- Do you have enough information on how to get started?
- What additional information would be needed?
- What kind of goals do you have for your thesis (just to get it done/stepping stone to industry/research ambitions etc)?
- What are your strengths and skills that would direct your topic search? What further skills would still be needed to pursue a topic of your interest?
If you want to discuss possible open questions, agree a meeting with your mentor. For general questions about the process, you can also contact the planning officer of your programme.
- Insert your answers by 25.2.2024 at 23.59.