I never had a dissertation defense. My department had abolished them sometime before I arrived as a graduate student, and I considered myself lucky compared with friends at other universities who had ...

A senior defense is an opportunity for you to share your thesis with your advisor, secondary advisor and reader(s). The purpose of a defense is to celebrate your work, reflect upon your creative and ...

“Can you move the computer closer?” asks a disembodied voice. “Because we see a lot of roof.” “Ah, I think it looks much better,” another invisible person says a few minutes later, following ...

After completing the research proposal successfully, the PhD in Computer Science candidate must conduct the necessary research and publish the results in a PhD dissertation. The dissertation must be ...

Everyone’s Zoom box looks to be on mute. All eyes in the virtual space are focused attentively on the student presenter. The last five years of coursework and long nights writing have come down to ...

We strongly recommend using the following Zoom meeting settings and in-meeting management strategies to ensure you have a secure and productive Dissertation Defense meeting, while also allowing for ...

If you find yourself on the difficult mission of defending a thesis, then you have come to the right place. I am not going to lie to you, support or argue a thesis is a real challenge, mainly to our ...

Depending on the campus mode of operations at the time of their defense, students may need to defend via Zoom or some other remote technology. In that case, defense committees will not be able to fill ...

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Kshitij Jerath(advisor), Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell Cindy Chen, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell Tingjian Ge, Computer Science ...