Full-time Dissertation Students

*** This message is for Full-time students who are currently working on their MSc Dissertation.

All full-time students must submit their dissertation on Monday 6th January 2014 before 1pm. 

No extensions to this date and time are possible.

See my previous post titled January Dissertation Submissions, for details

January Dissertation Submissions

*** This message is of those students who commenced their MSc Dissertation Project last September.***

The first possible submission date for dissertations is Monday 6th January, 2014 before 1pm
No extensions are possible to this date and time.

If I do not receive a dissertation submission before 1pm I will assume you will be submitting on 24th March.

If you intend to submit your dissertation on 6th January you should discuss this with your supervisor.

Submitting your Dissertation
Submit your dissertation in PDF format via email to Brendan Tierney.  Make sure that the document conforms with the dissertation template, formatting and page lengths.  All of this information is available on the Dissertation webpage.
http://www.comp.dit.ie/btierney/MScDissertations/index.html

You do not need to submit a printed dissertation document on the 6th January.

Presentations
The presentation of your dissertations will be during week of 20th January.  I will be posting a provisional presentation schedule on the 6th January.

You will have a maximum of 30 minutes for your presentation and discussions. This will consist of maximum of 15 minutes for your presentation and will be followed by 10 minutes for discussion.

You should bring your presentation of a USB key.

Research Writing and Scientific Literature Class Saturday November 16th

Class on Saturday will start @ 9.30

The morning session will cover module material (not directly related to your assignment but relevant for future work)

The afternoon session will be a practical session where people will work in groups to achieve some writing tasks which will be applicable to your work on the assignment.

Option modules update

The list of option modules for full-time students has been updated. Spatial Databases has been added as an option.

Problem Solving Sat 9th November (F.A.O Part-time students)

Hi,

please note the previous post also.

For Problem Solving class, if you have any coloured pens,
markers or crayons, please bring them in.

Damian

Research Writing/Problem Solving Sat 9th November (F.A.O Part-time students)

There will be a Research Writing and Scientific Literature class on Saturday 9th Nov starting @ 9.00

There will also be a Problem Solving class on Saturday 9th Nov starting @ 13.00


The final class for Research Writing and Scientific Literature will be on Saturday 16th Nov starting @ 9.00

Option Modules

Hi all,

A list of possible option modules for this year are in the following document - Option Modules 2014.
Please note that some require provide good programming experience and one of the modules is a 10 ECTS credit module.

Regards,
Andrea

DT228B: Research Methods and Proposal Writing Saturday 2/11/2013

Hi all,

Research Methods starts at 9:30am tomorrow, I have a guest lecturer coming in, so please try to make it in on time.

We will be focusing on the Proposal this weekend so if you want to read ahead here are the slides.

Proposal - Overview (.ppt)

Proposal in Detail - Part 1 (.ppt)
Proposal in Detail - Part 2 (.ppt) 
Proposal in Detail - Part 3 (.ppt)

Sample Proposal (.docx)

By the end of class tomorrow we should have the majority of sections completed in the proposal barring the literature section.

best,

Damian