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Thesis & Project Guidelines
Supakorn Kungpisdan
supakorn@mut.ac.th
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Outline
Thesis and Project Requirements
Thesis and Project Guidelines
Thesis Structure
Schedule for Summer/2554
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Thesis Requirements
Research oriented
At least 1 publication from national or international
conference
Examined by a group of committees including at least
one external committee
High potential for PhD study
Need time to do research
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Thesis Guideline
Research a couple of broad interesting areas
Searching for a supervisor
Discuss the possibility
Conduct literature review: document every articles read
(selected topics will be included in chapter 2)
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What people have done, problems and limitations of existing
approaches, anything that must be done but haven’t been done
Examine possibilities to conduct research to solve such
problems
Looking for a possible conference
Write a paper
Submit the paper to a conference
Write thesis
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Possible National Conferences
The National Computer Science and Engineering Conference 2011
(NCSEC2011)
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November 2011
The Electrical Engineering Conference 2011
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December 2011
The 4th National Conference on Information Technology 2012
(NCIT2012)
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Hosted by MUT!!!
Around May 2012
The International Joint Conference on Computer Science and
Software Engineering 2012 (JCSSE2012)
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May 2012
The ECTI Conference on Application Research and Development
2012 (ECTI-CARD2012)
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May 2012
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Project Requirements
A practical work, an improvement, solving existing problems,
finding a new solution to tackle existing problems
Implementation or experiment of interesting research topic
A case study of a real-world application
No need to write a research paper, but get dirty with
technologies
Examined by internal committees
Demonstration required
A bit difficult for PhD study, different focus
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Project Areas
Start from scratch
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Combinations or Modifications of open-source tools
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Able to explain necessity of using open-source tools
Modifications and some customizations needed, not only install and go
A practical implementation is a MUST!!... Need to have a real system as a
case study
Document oriented
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Involve a great deal of research and programming works
A prototype with experimental results needed
Using off-the-shelf tools for experiment
A practical implementation is a MUST!!... Need to have a real system as a
case study
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Chapter 1: บทนำ Thesis/Project Overview
1.1 บทนำ Introduction
1.2 ปั ญหำและแรงจูงใจ Problems and Motivations
1.3 วัตถุประสงค์ Objectives
1.4 ขอบเขตของโครงงำน/วิทยำนิพนธ์ Scope of Project/Thesis
1.5 ประโยชน์ที่คำดว่ำจะได้ รับ Contributions
1.6 กำหนดกำร Thesis/Project Schedule
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Chapter 2: ทฤษฎีและพืน้ ฐำนทีเ่ กีย่ วข้อง Backgrounds
(Thesis)
2.1 พื ้นฐำน Overview
2.2 งำนวิจยั ที่เกี่ยวข้ อง Related works
2.3 ปั ญหำ/ข้ อจำกัดของงำนวิจยั ที่มอี ยู่ Problems of Existing Works
2.4 แนวทำงกำรแก้ ปัญหำ Possible Solutions
2.5 พื ้นฐำนที่จำเป็ น Necessary Backgrounds
2.6 สรุปท้ ำยบท Chapter Summary
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Chapter 2: ทฤษฎีและพืน้ ฐำนทีเ่ กีย่ วข้อง Backgrounds
(Project)
2.1 พื ้นฐำน/ระบบงำน Overview
2.2 ปั ญหำ/ข้ อจำกัดของงำนวิจยั ที่มอี ยู่ Problems of Existing Works
2.3 แนวทำงกำรแก้ ปัญหำ Possible Solutions
2.4 พื ้นฐำนที่จำเป็ น Necessary Backgrounds
2.5 สรุปท้ ำยบท Chapter Summary
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Chapter 3: วิธกี ำรทีน่ ำเสนอ Methodology
3.1 วิธีกำร/ระบบงำนที่นำเสนอ Proposed Method/Technique
3.2 รำยละเอียดของวิธีกำรที่นำเสอน Details of the Proposed Method
3.3 ผลที่คำดหวัง Expected Results
3.4 สรุปท้ ำยบท Chapter Summary
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Chapter 4: กำรพัฒนำ Implementation
4.1 บทนำ Chapter Introduction
4.2 โครงสร้ ำงของระบบ System Architecture
4.2.1 ฮำร์ ดแวร์ Hardware
4.2.2 ซอฟต์แวร์ Software
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4.3 รำยละเอียดของกำรพัฒนำ Implementation Details
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List only key implementation, more details in Appendix
4.4 ผลกำรทดลอง Implementation Results
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List only key results, more details in Appendix
4.5 วิเครำะห์และอภิปรำย Analysis and Discussion
4.6 สรุปท้ ำยบท Chapter Summary
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Chapter 5: Conclusion
5.1 Review of the Thesis/Project
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Achieve objectives?, any changes from existing design?,
satisfy with the results?, any problems during the
implementation?, need more time?
5.2 Discussion and Future Works
5.3 Chapter Summary and Discussion
Make a check list of the result comparing with
objectives in chapter 1
Need to achieve objectives, otherwise the
thesis/project is not completed
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เอกสำรอ้ำงอิง References
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Standard reference format
Must reference every quote in your thesis
Every reference must be found in the thesis
From best to worst reference sources:
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books (textbooks),
book chapters,
journals,
conference papers,
Theses,
Thai books (esp. written by the un-experience pretending to be an
expert),
websites (most unreliable sources to reference)
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ภำคผนวก Appendices
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Can have as many appendices as you want
Contains more details of your work and related
documents and standards, software installation details,
etc.
Appendices must be referred in chapters
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Schedule
Pre-project & thesis
Announcement
Thesis & Project Proposal
Submission
Progress Report Submission
5 March 2011
Thesis 1 and Project 1
Enrollment
29 May 2011
10 April 2011
29 May 2011
Students must have supervisor’s signature attached to the cover to
their progress report to be eligible for Thesis 1 and Project 1
enrollment in semester 1/2554
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Question?
supakorn@mut.ac.th
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