• DEFENSE AND JURY
The jury is made up of one external expert (http://daawww.epfl.chldaalsadpdflexpdir.pdf) and of the EPFL professor.
The jury will assess the
student's written report as well as his/her presentation. If the report is not
confidential, the presentation will not be confidential either. In the
exceptional cases where the report is confidential, the company contact person
will inform the EPFL professor at the beginning of the master thesis. A
solution will be found between the EPFL professor and the company.
The jury will consider the following elements:
1. The undertaking of the project, Le. the way the student defined his/her
subject, how he/she analyzed the different stages, how he/she evaluated his/her
work at regular intervals (particularly by communicating regularly with his/her
professor) and how he/she managed unexpected incidents (changes in the subject,
deadlines, etc)
2. The content of the academic part of the master thesis, Le. analytical, formal
and bibliographical approach to the subject
3. The quality of the written report (presentation of the report, clarity,
precision, references, language)
4. The quality of the oral defense (quality of the
slides, ability to synthesize, elocution, pertinence of the possible
demonstrations)
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EXTENSION
If the
written report is judged as being insufficient, the EPFL professor can request
the student to make it up within the two weeks that follow the oral defense. The EPFL professor will immediately inform the
section of this decision.
• WITHDRAWAL
A master thesis project can not
be abandoned during the project, except for exceptional reasons and with the
approval of the EPFL professor and/or the company contact person. The section
must be informed immediately.
A withdrawal is considered as a failure. In case of
failure, a second master thesis project can be presented. A second failure is
disqualifying.