Course Catalog 2006-2007

TLT-1756 COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING THESIS SEMINAR, 1 cr
Communications Engineering Thesis Seminar

Courses persons responsible
Markku Renfors

Implementations
  Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Period 5 Summer
Seminar 2 h/week 2 h/week 2 h/week - - -
Exam  

  Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Period 5 Summer
Seminar - - 2 h/week 2 h/week 2 h/week -
Exam  
(Timetable for academic year 2006-2007)

Objectives
The course introduces the process of master's thesis writing with the aims that the student understands how the process works, what is the scope of a thesis and what kinds of topics can be possible for a Master's thesis.

Content
Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Learning the process of preparing a Master's Thesis. Understanding the Scope of the thesis.  Good practises of the writing process and the arrangements relating to the Master's Thesis.  Familiarisation of a number of other Master's Theses in the same major subject area as the student. The theses often discuss the state-of-the-art technology of their field. 

Requirements for completing the course
Attending the seminar six times or passing an oral exam of a handbook of technical writing.

Evaluation criteria for the course

  • Attendance in the seminars is recorded and a sufficient amount of times attended is required to pass the course. An alternative to this is the oral exam of the course book of which the first 100 pages and pages 121-126 are relevant. The oral exam controls that the student has read the book and understands the steps and some details about preparing a major technical document

  • Used assessment scale is passed / failed

    • Study material
    Type Name Auhor ISBN URL Edition, availability... Exam material Language
    Book "Handbook for Technical Writing" James H. Shelton     NTC Business Books Yes  English 

    Prerequisites
    Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

    Additional information about prerequisites
    The course should be taken at a time when most of the courses for the major have been completed or are under study.

    Remarks

    Passing an oral exam of the book is an alternative to attending the seminars.

  • Partial passing of course must be in connection with the same round of implementation.

    • Distance learning

  • ITC utilized during the course

    • - In information distribution via homepage, newsgroups or mailing lists, e.g. current issues, timetables

  • Estimate as a percentage of the implementation of the course

    • - Contact teaching: 95 %
    - Distance learning: 5 %
    - Proportion of a student's independent study: 0 %

    Scaling
    Methods of instructionHours
    Lectures 12
    Information and communication technology 1
    Total sum 13

    Principles and starting points related to the instruction and learning of the course

  • The principle in the seminars is to learn the process from other students, however under the guidance of the teacher.

    • Additional information related to course
    The seminar is attended also by the international students of the Institute of Digital and Computer Systems and the Institute of Telecommunications.
    The student should begin to attend the seminars early enough in his/her studies so that there is sufficient time to listen to the seminars given in English before the student wants to graduate.

    Correspondence of content
    83902 Telecommunications Thesis Seminar A

    Course homepage

    Last modified 25.04.2006
    Modified byMarkku Renfors