6. You should take into account that if you "fully register" (i.e., if you pay your tuition fees) for the MSc Thesis during this academic year 2009-10, then you should defend your project this academic year (i.e., in June, July or September 2010). Otherwise, you would loose the money you paid as tuition fees (next academic year you would have to pay them again). Thus, it is better to fully register (with payment of the tuition fees) for the project only when you are sure that you are going to finish it during this academic year.
7. In any case, you should fully register (and pay tuition fees) ten or more days before the defence date, at ETSETB secretaria. (For that, the professors of the master should have sent the student´s marks to ETSETB secretaria before that date).
8. For your full-registration process at ETSETB secretaria, you will have to bring the TFM application document, duly filled in and signed by you and your master´s project supervisor. Note that, if your supervisor wants the project to be confidential, he/she will have to write a report justifying it and establishing the period of time of confidentiality. Thus, if necessary, please discuss this point with the supervisor of your master thesis work.
You must also to deliver a signed Agreement for the dissemination of the Master thesis Memory through the ETSETB and UPC libraries (as it is pointed out below, one copy of your project memory will be deposited in a UPC library). On the other hand, it will not be necessary for you to bring a copy of your master thesis Memory for your full-registration process.
Instructions for your MSc Thesis Memory:
9. Independently from the full-registration process, you will have to send your master thesis Memory, in the appropriate format (see point 10 below), when ready, to Ms. Araceli Ortiz [araceli.ortiz (at) upc.edu], and she will forward it to the members of the Jury. Please also send a copy to Drs. David Artigas [david (at) tsc.upc.edu] and Ramon Vilaseca [ramon.vilaseca (at) upc.edu]. You should send it well in advance to the oral-presentation date to give time to the jury´s members to read it (one or two weeks before).
10. The MSc Thesis Memory or report that you will write and submit MUST FOLLOW A DEFINITE FORMAT, which is described in the file Thesis formatting instructions. Such format is similar to that of scientific or technological publications, with a length limited to 10 pages. We encourage you to make an effort of synthesis to describe your work and results in a succint and clear way.
Final delivery must be made in .pdf format. At the beginning of the document YOU MUST ADD A ONE-PAGE "CARATULA" (front page). Such "caratula" should be incorporated into the final .pdf file to be sent to us (thus the final .pdf file may have up to 11 pages).
Please feel free to take a look to the MsC reports from course 2008-09 and MsC reports from course 2007-08.
11. The ETSETB requires that one copy of the Master Thesis memory is deposited at a UPC library in a CD, with a special format which is prepared by the CPET (Centre de Publicacions d´Enginyeria de Telecomuncacions). You can do this when you want (for instance, immediately after the oral defence of your MSc thesis work, or another day, later). Please request further details to the Secretaria of ETSETB, to Ms. Araceli Ortiz, or to the professors pointed out above.
This step is the last step necessary for you have right to be awarded the official Master Degree, and in particular for you to request the MSC Degree Diploma!. Such request must be made at ETSETB Secretaria, and you will have to pay the corresponding taxes established by the Spanish and Catalan governments (by an expected total amount around 200 €).
12. Your are kindly invited to send your manuscripts to Optica Pura y Aplicada, a peer-reviewed free-access Spanish journal, which is referenced in several databases such as Scopus and INSPEC. The journal accepts papers both in Spanish and English. Accepted manuscripts will appear in a special section on Master Thesis reports. Please include in the letter to the Editor the title of the Master, the participating Universities and ResearchCenters and contact information.
