master kick off

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master kick off

• 2008/9 semester II
• jaap van der woude

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kick off goals

• Get acquainted
• Marked starting point
• Some advice
• Information exchange

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Educational directors
Jan Friso Groote CSE and ES
Ralph Otten ES
Sandro Etalle IST Wil van
der Aalst BIS
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Other people to contact

• Adjunct director Marloes van
  Lierop
• Student advisors Jaap van der Woude
• 
  Roel Bloo
• International coordinator Wil
  Linders

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Program CSE

• new
• 25 ects core courses 5 out of 8
• 5 ects seminar (preparation project)?
• 60 ects electives
• 30 ects master project
• old
• ca 40 ects mandatory courses (10)?
• ca 40 ects electives
• 40 ects master project

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Program IST

• Combined program of
• Radboud universiteit Nijmegen
• Universiteit Twente
• Technische universiteit Eindhoven
• 36 ects mandatory courses 2 courses on each
  university
• 18 ects restricted choice
• 36 ects electives
• 30 ects master project

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Program ES

• standard
• 45 ects compulsary courses (4,1,4)
• 11 or 12 ects homologation (2)?
• 33 or 34 ects electives
• 30 ects master project
• experiment
• 10 ects project preparation and planning
• old
• 40-40-40 / electro habits

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Program BIS

• 60 ects mandatory courses
• Computer science
• Technology management
• 30 ects electives
• Rather free
• But for the homologations
• 30 ects master project
• Within the IS groups of CS or TM
• But

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Homologation CSE/IST

• Zij-instromers may need extra training in
• Logic and set theory
• Automata and process theory
• Discrete structures (algebra)?
• Data modelling and data bases
• Data structures
• Software specification
• Give preference to homologation courses

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Homologation ES

• Computer Science BSc
• Signals
• Networks and electronics
• Electronics BSc
• Software specification
• Data structures
• Others (HBO, non-Dutch)?
• Automata and process theory
• Data structures (E) / networks (CS)?
• Software specification

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Homologation BIS

• Zij-instromers (non TUE BSc) may need extra
  training in basics
• 2II05 Business information systems
• modelling in terms of colored petrinets
• mastering CPNTools
• 2DD22 Stochastic operations research
• Give preference to homologation courses

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process

• protocol
• ?(study ? pass) ? project ? graduate
• ?(enjoywonder)?
• first-line-subprocesses are marked by events
• communications, registrations and forms
• events are subject to or governed by
• rules and regulations
• rules and regulations are to be known

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guarding the process (you)?

• Mature study attitude, you are in charge
• in case of
• threatening deadlock
• unstable protocol
• other peculiarities
• see the student advisor during office hours
  Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 17-18
• emergency mail, telephone, non-office hours

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guarding the process (we)?

• Exam committee
• Study program committee student members
• Inquiries digital, for all courses
• Sounding board group
• Student advisor

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study

• registration for courses sometimes via
  studyweb
• registration for (written) exams always exams
  are not graded without! Just 3
  possibilities, use them with care
• prepare, practice, be on level
• classroom ethics (e.g. participate, dont
  disturb, be there in time)?

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pass

• combination of exams and assignments
• registration for written exams
• written exams at least twice a year
• blocked after 3 failures
• no special treatments unless its the last one
  and only on request via student advisor
• plagiarism is not accepted

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program form

• contract of exam committee and student
• in general to be constructed, signed and
  submitted after a year, contains plans for
• mandatory and elective courses
• internship (only tue bachelors and rarities)?
• supervisor / area of expertise for project
• may be adapted later on
• approval (if at all) may take a month

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courses

• mandatories are mandatory
• seminar is to be done in project area
• electives on topic free, off topic needs
  consultation with student advisor
• look for interesting courses internally or on
  other institutes, here or abroad. In general,
  European master courses are accepted upto
  overlapBUT ask permission in advance

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internship

• only for tue bachelors (informatica)?
• external
• 20 ects (will be 15 in the future)?
• exceptions for skills that are indispensable
• not in combination with homologation courses
  (HBO)?
• (possible as an extra if supervised)?

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Project 0

• Project can be done in each of the 9 areas
• AIS business process management systems
• ALG advanced algorithms
• DH advanced databases
• FM formal methods
• OAS requirements analysis, design and
  verification
• SAN real-time architectures
• SEC (not yet)?
• SET generic language technology
• VIS visualization

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Project 0 extra

• IST
• Project with mathematics group
• ES
• Project with electronics
• BIS
• Project with technology management (IS)?

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project I

• find out what and who interest you most
• nose around in extra courses
• get informed about other universities
• follow electives in those directions
• talk to people in those fields in particular to
  the portal of the area of expertise
• follow the appropriate seminar
• upon making your choice fill out the program
  form and submit it

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project II

• projects may be theoretical, practical or even be
  designs
• performed in firms (grants!), at universities
• in the Netherlands, Europe and elsewhereonly in
  the Netherlands for zij-instromers
• The supervisor should be a staff member of the
  TUE Computer Science department

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project III

• the master project can only be started when
• the program is approved by the exam com
• all its courses are successfully
  followed(leniency for at most two courses)?
• graduation form is filled out and signed
• project description
• detailed project data

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project IV

• project can only finish if all courses are done
• completion thesis
• presentation
• defense of thesis
• independence, scientific attitude, initiative
• assessment committee (two months ahead)gets the
  thesis three weeks before defense,defense is at
  least two weeks before exam

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graduation

• regular meetings with supervisor(in firm
  abundant meetings with tutor)?
• one month schedule for project phasing
• midterm presentation after three months
• supervisor feeds back (? spell checker)and is
  responsible for the scientific level
• both supervisor and student are responsible for
  the progress

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inform yourself

• study guides (on paper or on screen)to be
  learned by heart
• www.win.tue.nl/japie/mc
• www.onderwijs.tue.nl
• course pages
• BIS pages via studyweb 2CP001
• student advisors only after you tried all of the
  above

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Its your party

• Enjoy your study
• Choose the courses you like
• Nose around(also on other depts and
  universities)?
• Find and focus your motivation
• Talk to people that do interesting things