Description of a Masters Degree Project

A degree project is an individual design task or study based on engineering science. The task should require the knowledge and skills the student has acquired in his education and be oriented toward the area in which the student has specialised. The project should have some news value and include literature studies, modelling, choice of method, own analysis and/or systematic problem solving.

The project also aims to teach the student to individually plan and work on a major task. Time and work scheduling is considered important and assumed to be followed.

The oral and written presentations of the results have central roles in the project and should be organised following the standards in the technical area.

The project is expected to take 20 weeks of full time work.

A supervisor should be assigned at the location of the project as well as at the responsible university department.

The project report will when it is approved become available to the public. Confidential information should therefore not be handed in to the examiner but be put in a separate internal document. Observe that only the “open” part of the report will be considered in the grading.

Other documentation and information that is passed on to the university department can, if the company so wishes, be treated confidentially.

A good advice is to, as early as possible, identify the parts of the project that are to stay confidential. These parts will then have to be taken out of the report and could for example be added to an appendix in the company’s internal version of the report. Note that the rest of the report cannot be dependent of this appendix. It is usual to study a “common case” in the report and have the specific analysis (parameters, data etc.) in the appendix.