Graduation project

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 and OSIRIS.

Please check the study guide and consult the Regulations of the Examination Committee a for more information regarding the organization of the graduation project and follow all steps carefully.  

Before starting your graduation project, you must fill in the registration form graduation contract. Do not sign your contract until it has been checked.

• If you use a standard TU/e agreement (e.g. the work place agreement), CSA AP will have your contract signed by the managing director. (So, your responsible Applied Physics supervisor should not sign contracts)
• If you use a non-standard TU/e agreement (e.g. research institute, company or university contract) or if modifications have been made to the standard agreement, CSA AP will forward your contract to the education lawyers for a legal check. Then, the education lawyer will make sure you receive the final version of your contract that you can sign.

Please be aware that the process of reviewing, changing and signing a contract can easily take one month. Therefore, fill in the form as soon as possible.

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.

You must use for your report the NF format or AP-NF format (if you are doing a double diploma) for the title page graduation project.

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.