IMPORTANT
Due to the current circumstances caused by COVID-19, Thesis presentations can be done online, using Google Meet. You will find the Thesis Defense Protocol HERE

SCHEDULE

TFM ENROLLED IN AUTUMN SEMESTER 2021/2022 (evaluation until February or extension until May)

(*) _{IMPORTANT: Outgoing students must also request for the ETSETB evaluation board and do the deposit of the thesis (previous two steps).}

_{If the defense is abroad (not traineeship), the ETSETB evaluation board will consider the mark given at the supervisor's assessment.}

TFM ENROLLED IN SPRING SEMESTER 2020/2021  (evaluation until july or extension until october)

Next presentations

You can see the theses that will be defended in the next few days at the following link: Theses that will be defended (link) 

INTRANET SITES and REGULATIONS

TFM's language: in ENGLISH exclusively

• The Master Thesis  must be written in English.
• The public presentation of the The Master Thesis  is conducted in English.

Intranet sites

The places of the Intranet you will have to use at the different parts of the process are the following:

Regulations

• Academic Regulations Master Degree Theses 

Associated Regulations ( in Catalan only)

•  (NAGRAMA) Normativa Acadèmica dels estudis de Grau i Màster de la UPC  (Punt 3.5. Publicació i accés als models d’exàmens i treballs acadèmics)
• Normativa de propietat intel·lectual de la UPC

1. Offer and allocation of thesis (Intranet ETSETB)

Regular students

 Offers Application. General information

1. The professor may choose the student directly when uploading the thesis at the offers application, if it has been previously agreed between them. So that the assignment is completed, the student must choose the “accept” option.
2. The professor may publish the offer and set a deadline for students to apply for it. In this case, the professor will select one of the candidates, who can accept or reject the thesis awarded. The assignment will not be completed until it has been accepted by the student selected.

• To upload the thesis on the offers application, the professor must meet the requirements to act as thesis advisor (Academic Regulations for Masters Degree Theses)
• To be assigned to a thesis, the student should not have more than 36 ECTS pending to overcome, apart from the thesis.

Incoming exchange students who come for only one semester

For incoming exchange students that come to the ETSETB only to do the Master Thesis, this step is not followed at the Intranet, since the student has no access to the Intranet before finding a Master Thesis. In this case, please read the section "Before enrollment" at: http://etsetb.upc.edu/ca/international/foreign-students/application-and-procedure#section-13.

Incoming exchange students who come for two semesters

If the incoming student performs the project after having studied courses one semester at ETSETB, the step can be followed through the Intranet like the regular students.

2. Thesis enrolment (e-secretaria)

If the assessment of the thesis does not occur in the same semester in which it is enrolled there may be an extension of its validity if the student pays the amount of the administrative services (arround 90 € for management of academic records, supporting learning and student insurance, if applicable). 
 
This extension, however, does not extend until the end of the semester. These deadlines are published in NAGRAMA; check dates in table below.

3. Assigning of Evaluation Board (request form issued through ETSETB Intranet)

Students that defend at UPC

OUTGOING students that defend abroad in a mobility program (not valid for traineeships) 

Students that defend abroad in a mobility program will also be assigned an evaluation board at ETSETB who will assess their thesis, according to the report uploaded by the student and the supervisor's assessment and the transcript of records (or the lecture certificate) that must be sent to students.mobility@etsetb.upc.edu from the host university.

These students will have to request for the evaluation board in the same way as the students who defend at UPC. At least one month before the deadline for defense at UPC. At the request, they should inform that they will not defend at UPC.

4. Documents to be uploaded. THESIS MUST BE IN ENGLISH.

5. Previous to defense (for students who defend at UPC)

The public presentation of the TFM is conducted in English.

Reservation of Classroom (Reservaespais Area)

Approval for reading (Intranet ETSETB)

ETSETB mobility outgoing students that defend and are assessed abroad (remember we will need the supevisor's assessment and the lecture certificate, as explained at the section "documents") may not defend at ETSETB, provided their stay is for studies (SMS), not for traineeship (SMT). The assessment process then will be the following:

1. After we receive the supervisor's assessment and the lecture certificate, we will notify the members of the evaluation board that they can meet to assess the student. Remember that before that, the student and the ETSETB supervisor must have requested for the evaluation board and must have completed the thesis deposit.
2. Once the evaluation board assesses the student through the ETSETB Intranet, the grade will be introduced into the student's records and he/she will be able to see it at prisma-nou.upc.edu/estudiants > expedient > documentació.