CME Master Thesis Preparation

The students will prepare their Master thesis by executing the following steps:

1. Formulate a rough research, development or design proposal in the field of your Construction Management and Engineering graduation domain* (max. 1 A4). This proposal may be based on a) the ideas of an involved company, b) university research, or c) personal ideas.

2. Submit your rough proposal to your graduation domain coordinator and get approval to continue the thesis preparation.

3. Find a main thesis supervisor in consultation with the graduation coordinator.

4. Establish a thesis committee in consultation with the main thesis supervisor, consisting of at least the main supervisor and a chairman, and, if desired and not already involved, find a company/organization to execute the Master thesis with.

5. If you choose to graduate at a company, arrange a graduation agreement in which all conditions for the graduation are stipulated and agreed upon by the company, the student and TU Delft. Note that the rough proposal from step 1 must be included in the graduation agreement. The standard TU Delft graduation agreement, the corresponding procedure and its conditions are available on the Faculty CEG student portal.

6. Finalize your thesis proposal, i.e. a full research, development or design proposal, including a) introduction of the thesis topic, b) problem description and definition, c) thesis objective, d) methodology and e) planning of the Master thesis project.

7. Defend your thesis proposal at the Master thesis kick-off meeting and get approval to start the CME Master Thesis.

*) The thesis topic must be chosen within the scope of your CME graduation domain, which is either Design en Integration (D&I), Projects en People (P&P) or Systems en Decision Support (SDS). Each graduation domain may have specific requirements regarding the thesis topic: please check the CME Brightspace community for the corresponding information.

The course CME5100 CME Master Thesis Preparation is concluded only when the following requirements are met:

1. The composition of the graduation supervision and assessment committee, in short the graduation committee, is approved in accordance with article 23 of the Rules and Guidelines Board of Examiners (R&G).

2. The graduation agreement, if relevant, is signed and agreed upon by the company, the student and TU Delft.

3. The thesis proposal is successfully defended, i.e. approved by the graduation committee, after assessment of the Master thesis proposal and the presentation of the thesis proposal at the Master thesis kick-off meeting.

Formal approval of the thesis proposal is provided through the relevant steps in the MyCase platform.

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