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TMM4960

Engineering Design and Materials, Master's Thesis

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Credits 30
Level Second degree level
Course start Spring 2025
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Master thesis

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About the course

Course content

Academic content must be agreed with assigned supervisor within the field.

Learning outcome

Students are expected to produce a master thesis within their field of study. In general a master thesis shall show that the author has solved an industrial and / or a scientific problem independently, preferably giving some original contribution to the field. The contents of the thesis will be compared to common standards for scientific publications as far as this is relevant. Students will complete a master thesis within the field. Knowledge: Use scientific methods in the implementation of a selvstandig work in the field. Skills: Students will be able to prepare a project plan with milestones, reporting partial results and write a thesis in accordance with established standards. General competence: Documented scientific qualifications through completion of a master thesis in the field.

Learning methods and activities

Independent thesis work under supervision. The thesis may wholly or partly be completed at an external company, in agreement with the academic supervisor.

Further on evaluation

Information about writing and submitting your masters thesis is found in Academic writing. Especially note the information given under Writing and submitting your master's thesis. Your area of study is Engineering/Technology. If the project is performed as group work, the students and supervisor shall make an agreement (preferably at start-up) about individual or joint assessment of the final project report. The masters thesis has to be submitted in NTNU's examination system Inspera Assessment. The deadline for submitting the masters thesis is 20 weeks from the starting date (the students have additional 6 weeks if they are writing a master thesis abroad.) + 7 days for Easter/Christmas holidays. Applications for an extended deadline must be submitted to the Faculty of Engineering. Students who fail the masters thesis, can submit a new or revised thesis once. It is not possible to improve an awarded grade by submitting a new thesis. The deadline for the assessment of the masters thesis is 3 months.

Course materials

To be developed together with the supervisor as a part of the thesis work.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
TMM4900 30 sp Autumn 2016
TMM4901 30 sp Autumn 2016
TMM4905 30 sp Autumn 2016
TMM4910 30 sp Autumn 2016
TMM4911 30 sp Autumn 2016
TMM4925 30 sp Autumn 2016
TMM4930 30 sp Autumn 2016
This course has academic overlap with the courses in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.