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)
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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
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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.