The deadline for milestone has been extended to 15 February. Please note that the deadlines for the remainder of the milestones will remain as published.

By now, all of you have been assigned a dissertation topic. In order to help you to work towards completing your dissertation this year, the following milestones and deadlines are provided below:

Milestone 1: Please upload a one page document wherein you provide your details (student number, name, surname), your dissertation title, and the name of  your supervisor(s). In this document, please confirm that you have met with your supervisor(s) and that they have agreed to supervise you. Please sign this document and please ask your supervisor(s) to also sign it. Upload this via the assignment submission system no later than 31 January. Please do NOT miss this deadline, and please do not send this to us via email. Please submit a pdf document.

Milestone 2.1: Updated research proposal. Please upload your updated research proposal, signed by yourself and your supervisor(s) before 28 February.

Milestone 2.2: Please complete the ethical clearance application form that will be provided on this website at a later stage. Upload the completed and signed form before 28 February.

Milestone 3: Progress report 1. Please upload your first progress report wherein you describe the progress made against the objectives and plan provided in your research proposal. Please sign the report and also ask your supervisor(s) to sign it. Also state clearly the next steps. Deadline: 31 March

Milestone 4: Progress report 2. Upload before 30 June.

Milestone 5: Progress report 3. Upload before 20 September

Milestone 6: Dissertation submission for examination. Please upload your final dissertation, as approved by your supervisor, before 1 November. Also upload the form wherein your supervisor(s) approved that you may submit your dissertation for examination.

Notes:
1. All documents uploaded must be in pdf.
2. No late submissions.
3. No submissions via email.
4. All the documents (excluding the dissertation) must have your signature and that of your supervisor(s).
5. The dissertation submission approval form will be made available on this website at a later stage.
6. To help your supervisor(s), before you submit your chapters/dissertation to them to be read, get the help of a professional English language editor to make sure that the language is acceptable.

Take note that there is a cluster available for MIT C students registered for MIT807.

Even if you applied to use the cluster before, please fill in the new form at:
https://goo.gl/forms/TMtFBIMarFQjhliw2

Take note that all applications to use the cluster should be submitted using the link above by 15 August 2018.

The cluster will be available to students until 31 October 2018.

Take note that the updated research proposal does not have any prescribed format or length. The only requirement is that your supervisor(s) is happy with the proposal and that you and your supervisor(s) agree on the content of the proposal. 

The proposal will not be marked, but is there to guide your research and to ensure that you and your supervisor(s) agree on the direction/scope of your research.

Take note that the research proposal that you will submit for MIT807 will not be the same research proposal that you are submitting for MIT809.

The research proposal that you will submit for MIT807 will be an updated version of your MIT809 research proposal, that both you and supervisor agree on, and that will guide you for the MIT807 deliverable, i.e. your mini dissertation.

Please include in your updated research proposal a paragraph "Intellectual Property". In this paragraph, please state if the owner of the topic (e.g. a company) wants to retain IP, in which case discussions about IP need to be initiated. If no IP discussions are needed, please state this in the paragraph.