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:
Beginning in fall 2021, faculty advisors will be asked to review and approve dissertations, theses, and reports in Digital Commons. This will replace the Approval form, and will allow faculty to see the work their student has submitted and be notified when it is published. This process is similar to reviewing a journal article.
When your student submits their work to Digital Commons, the Graduate School will assign the work to the primary advisor to review. This is a manual process that will generally be completed on business days from 8am-5pm. You will receive an email requesting you review the submission – click on the link in your email. The email will be from “Michigan Tech Graduate Publications” and “@dcmtu.bepress.com”.
Nominations are now open for the 2021 Council of Graduate Schools (CGS)/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award. Please submit nominations to the Graduate School no later than 4pm, October 8. 2020, following our online instructions. This year, nominations are being accepted from dissertations in the fields of:
Michigan Tech may nominate one student in each field. Master’s students who have completed all of their degree requirements between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2020, are eligible. The fields of competition for 2022 will be humanities and biological and life sciences.
Nominations must be delivered to Debra Charlesworth in the Graduate School no later than 4 p.m. on October 8. 2020; e-mail nominations to gradschool@mtu.edu are preferred. Contact Debra Charlesworth (gradschool@mtu.edu) if you have any questions about the competition.
The University license to Blackboard will expire at the end of this semester, so the Graduate School is switching this week to Canvas (http://mtu.instructure.com) for thesis, dissertation, and report submission. In support of this transition, the Graduate School will host a seminar on Thursday, March 15th at 2pm (rescheduled due to inclement weather on the original date). Please register to attend and receive confirmation of the location.
Note that this seminar will only cover the important changes with switching to Canvas. All graduate students will be loaded into Canvas this week. If you can’t make the seminar, slides will be available online, and a blog tutorial stepping you through the submission process is currently available online.
Additionally, the Degree completion form has been recently updated. Please discontinue using any old versions you may have previously saved. The form adds our new programs, and has changed the binding options for theses, dissertations, and reports.
Students who have started submitting documents in Blackboard should continue to do so if they plan to graduate this semester.
Questions? Please contact Debra Charlesworth.
Students planning on finishing a dissertation, thesis, or report in fall 2014 or spring 2015 are invited a seminar designed to help students understand the submission process and answer questions about it. Faculty and staff who assist students with submissions are also welcome to attend.
Once you register, you will receive a confirmation with the location and a reminder of the date and time, or information on how to join us online.
If you are unable to join us, this seminar will be taped and available online after the event.
Information on submitting, formatting, and more can be found online for dissertations and theses or reports.
His thesis, “Objective Metric for Assessing the Perceived Annoyance of Impulsive Sounds” developed a new method to objectively quantify the overall sound quality of electro-mechanical devices. This method could improve the design process for these devices by replacing current subjective sound evaluation methods, which are typically expensive, time-consuming, and difficult to quantify.
Students planning on finishing a thesis or dissertation spring or summer 2012 are invited a seminar designed to help students understand the submission process and answer questions about it.
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, a taped version of this seminar is available online from our May 19th presentation.
Students who are interested in learning more about the formatting requirements and resources available to assist them should visit our formatting web page and refer to our January 27, 2011 seminar.
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.
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.
Students who are scheduling a defense of a thesis or dissertation on or after January 10, 2011 will need to format and submit their document according to the new procedures.
The new procedures do not apply to students submitting a report, or to students who defend before January 10, 2011.
The Graduate School will give a presentation outlining the major changes in formatting and submission procedures on December 9th beginning at 4:05pm. This seminar at least once more in January, based on demand.
Please register online so we can plan for your attendance. After registration, you will receive e-mail reminders closer to the date, and the location of the seminar.
Please contact Debra Charlesworth with any questions.
Students planning on finishing a thesis or dissertation fall 2011 or spring 2012 are invited a seminar designed to help students understand the submission process and answer questions about it.
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, a taped version of this seminar is available online from our May 19th presentation.
Students who are interested in learning more about the formatting requirements and resources available to assist them should visit our formatting web page and refer to our January 27 seminar.