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Students planning on finishing a thesis or dissertation spring or summer 2013 are invited a seminar designed to help students understand the submission process and answer questions about it.

• When: May 21, 2013 at 3:05pm
• Who: Students defending in the summer or fall; faculty and staff who assist students with submission
• Where: Please register online for the event and receive the location. The seminar will be available online as well as on campus.

Once you register, you will receive a confirmation with the location and a reminder of the date and time.

If you are unable to join us, this seminar will be taped and available online.

Significant changes were introduced in the fall based on revisions approved by the University Senate.  Join us to learn about the changes and have your questions answered.

Evan Anderson, Michigan Tech's MAGS nominee

Three other graduate students were also nominated for consideration.  Jean DeClerck was nominated by her advisors, Dr. M. Ann Brady and Dr. Wendy Anderson of Humanities, and committee member Dr. Victoria Bergvall of Humanities.  Nathan Kelley-Hoskins was nominated by his advisor, Dr. Petra Hüntemeyer of Physics.  Andrew Orthober was nominated by his advisor, Dr. Carol MacLennan of Social Sciences.  All of the nominations were noteworthy for their scholarship, and the evaluation panel had a difficult task in selecting one nominee to represent Michigan Tech.

The Dean’s Advisory Panel, representing each college or school at Michigan Tech, evaluated the nominees.  The faculty on this panel represent a broad range of graduate programs:  J. Gierke (Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences), S. Martin (Social Sciences), D. Flaspohler (School of Forestry Resources & Environmental Science), X. Wang (School of Technology) and G. Campbell (School of Business and Economics).  Next year’s competition will consider applicants who have completed their degrees between October 1, 2012 and September 30, 2013.  An application consists of an abstract of the thesis, recommendation letter from the advisor, and an electronic copy of the thesis.  Please consider nominating your master’s students next year.

The Graduate School is pleased to announce new dissertations are now available in the J.R. van Pelt and Opie Library from the following programs:

• Civil Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Forest Ecology and Management
• Forest Science
• Forestry
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Mathematical Sciences
• Mechanical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics

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The Graduate School is pleased to announce new dissertations are now available in the J.R. van Pelt and Opie Library from the following programs:

• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Forest Science
• Geology
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
• Physics

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The Graduate School is pleased to announce new theses are now available in the J.R. van Pelt and Opie Library from the following programs:

• Biological Sciences
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Environmental Policy
• Geology
• Industrial Archaeology
• Mathematical Sciences
• Mechanical Engineering
• Rhetoric and Technical Communication

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The Graduate School is pleased to announce new theses are now available in the J.R. van Pelt and Opie Library from the following programs:

• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry
• Computer Science
• Electrical Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Mathematical Sciences
• Rhetoric and Technical Communication

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The Graduate School is pleased to announce new theses are now available in the J.R. van Pelt and Opie Library from the following programs:

• Biological Sciences
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Environmental Engineering Science
• Forestry
• Geological Engineering
• Geology
• Geophysics
• Industrial Archaeology
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Physics

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Students planning on finishing a thesis or dissertation spring or summer 2013 are invited a seminar designed to help students understand the submission process and answer questions about it.

• When: January 30th at 4:05pm
• Who: Students defending in the spring or summer; faculty and staff who assist students with submission
• Where: Please register online for the event and receive the location. The seminar will be available online as well as on campus.

Once you register, you will receive a confirmation with the location and a reminder of the date and time.

If you are unable to join us, this seminar will be taped and available online.

Significant changes were introduced in the fall based on revisions approved by the University Senate.  Join us to learn about the changes and have your questions answered.

The Graduate Student Government, Graduate Faculty Council, University Senate, and administration have approved the new “Guide to Completing a Graduate Degree and Preparing and Submitting a Dissertation, Thesis, or Report at Michigan Technological University.”

Because this Guide makes the submission process similar for all documents, and the formatting requirements are much simpler, the new requirements will be applied retroactively to all pending submissions and to all new submissions.

The web site has been updated to reflect changes for dissertations, theses, and reports.  Highlights are below:

New Deadlines

• Deadlines to complete a degree have changed. The deadline to submit a final dissertation, thesis, or report to complete a degree in fall 2012 is December 17, 2012.
  • Students defending in fall 2012 may request an extension of this deadline in writing to Dr. Debra Charlesworth (dissertations or theses) or Ms. Nancy Byers Sprague (reports). Requests must be made prior to December 17, 2012.
  • There is no deadline to conduct a final oral examination (defense). Students are recommended to defend well in advance of the deadline to submit a final document to allow sufficient time to incorporate the technical changes required by their committee.

New Formatting Requirements

• Formatting requirements are much simpler with the new Guide.
• A new template for formatting title and approval pages is available.
• The changes are summarized in the sample Review of a Dissertation, Thesis, or Report form.

New Forms

New forms have been released, and only the new versions will be accepted.  A summary of the important changes is below:

• Pre-defense form
  • This form now only asks for the defense time & date along with committee information.
  • Students who have already submitted a Pre-defense form do not need to re-submit this form.
  • Beginning immediately, if an old Pre-defense form is submitted, the Publishing agreement that was in this form will be discarded.
• Report on final oral examination form
  • New form for students completing a dissertation, thesis, or report.
  • Students who have already submitted a Verification of final degree requirements form do not need to submit this form.
  • Contains check-boxes for each member of the committee to provide examination results to the Graduate School.
• Verification of final degree requirements form
  • This form will now only be required for coursework Master’s students and Master of Engineering students.
• Approval of a final dissertation, thesis, or report
  • New form for students completing a dissertation, thesis, or report.m
  • Replaces the “signature page” in the dissertation, thesis, or report
  • Due before the final document is submitted to Canvas, but may not arrive earlier than one week before the final submission.
  • As the Graduate School works toward automating processes, this form will be replaced by an electronic approval process.
• Degree completion form
  • It updates the required number of bound copies for the Library (1 for dissertations, none for Master’s students)
  • Contains the Publishing agreement which was previously part of the Pre-defense form

The Graduate School is pleased to announce new theses are now available in the J.R. van Pelt and Opie Library from the following programs:

• Applied Natural Resource Economics
• Biological Sciences
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Environmental Policy
• Forest Ecology and Management
• Forestry
• Mechanical Engineering

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