Graduation project

The 45 credits graduation project offers you the opportunity to apply your acquired knowledge, competences, and skills. If the student chooses to do the internship in the Netherlands, the student has to carry out at least 15 credits of the graduation research abroad.

Information about studying in times of COVID-19 can be found here.

Students who started the degree program before September 1, 2020 may start the graduation project when:

• The summaries of three ‘competence development interviews’ have been submitted to the program administration.
• Your study program must have been approved by the Examination Committee (Study Program Committee).
• The student has successfully completed all compulsory courses and the internship.
• The student has no more than 10 study credits on elective courses open.

Students who started the degree program from September 1, 2020 onwards may start the graduation project when:

• The summaries of three ‘competence development interviews’ have been submitted to the program administration.
• Your study program must have been approved by the Examination Committee (Study Program Committee).
• The mandatory core study components (20 credits) is completed successfully, and
• The track elective study components (20 credits) is completed successfully, and
• Within the student’s total Master’s program not more than 10 credits of (track) electives are still open.

You should discuss your desired graduation project together with your graduation supervisor. With your graduation supervisor you should also discuss the schedule of your project. In case you want to conduct your graduation project abroad within an external research institute, company or university, an external supervisor should be involved in defining the planning and the project phases.

Registration takes place via the Graduation project registration form.

Please check the CANVAS Module 'Graduation Project' and consult the Regulations of the Examination Committee a for more information regarding the organization of the graduation project and follow all steps carefully.  

After the research is concluded, you have to hand in your graduation report describing the project and its results at your supervisor (including the Signed form Code of Scientific Conduct for the Master’s thesis), and give a presentation at TU/e. Immediately after the presentation, the defense takes place. When the assessment form is handed in at CSA-AP by your responsible supervisor, your grade will be processed.