Master Thesis and Defense

First Steps

• Identification of topic and your two supervisors 
• Registration of thesis at Examination Office: the submission date will be communicated to you after you registered your thesis. OME theses must be submitted within 22 weeks after registration. 
  Registration Form 

Writing Your Thesis

• Template: please discuss with your supervisors as this is highly dependent on them and their institutes

Extension

• The OME Examination Board may grant an extension of up to 8 weeks upon application. You must apply for an extension PRIOR to your fixed submission date. 
• Should you fall ill during your writing period, please present a doctor's certificate to your supervisors and the Examination Office 
• Extension of the deadline for the final thesis

Submitting Your Thesis

• Your thesis (PDF file) must be e-mailed to your reviewers by the set deadline. Please cc the Examination Office  and include this document (submission of the academic dissertation)

• The following documentation needs to be submitted by post (snail mail) to:
  Technische Universität Dresden
  Studienbüro Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften
  Prüfungsamt Physik / OME Examination Office
  01062 Dresden
  or dropped directly in the letter box of TUD using the address above (https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/kontakte-services/anschrift)

  • 2 hardcopies (professionally bound at a copy shop),
  • signed Statement of Authorship,
  • 1 digital copy on CD,
  • form for submitting the thesis (submission of the academic dissertation)

Defense

• After submitting your thesis, you must arrange a date/time/location for your defense in agreement with your supervisors.
• The defense will last approx. 45min. 
• OME master defenses are public, i.e., your fellow students should be invited to attend. 
• Please inform the Examination Office and  about the defense date by mail (the office needs to know this date to issue the exam protocol; OME would like to know the date to invite your fellow students).

Request for master certificate & transcript 

• Application for certificate: https://tu-dresden.de/mn/studium/formulare-studiendokumente/zeugnisdokumente

• Rejection of exam results: https://tu-dresden.de/mn/ressourcen/dateien/studium/formulare/mn_ablehnung_na.pdf?lang=de
• Current address where the final documents can be sent by post.

All relevant forms can be found here.

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