Dissertations

The Master's Thesis (TFM) represents 22 of the total 60 credits that must be overcome to get the title, and is a fundamental part of the master. To achieve the TFM, the student will carry out an original research work on some of the issues associated with research areas of the Master. In this web page you can find more detailed information about the important issues that students have to know in order to have accomplishment of TFM such as the type of research work to be done, the subject, its scheduling, the dates for the defence, and so on. Also you have access to the information of TFMs successfully defended in previous years

Selection of a research line and supervisor

Students must select a supervisor(s) of this work at the beginning of the course, in one of these research lines:

Software development and Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics
Integration of Information
Concurrent Systems
Dialogue Systems Based on Multimodal Speech Processing

Topics of work for the Master's Thesis can be found at the following links:

Registration

After agreeing the realization of a TFM with a supervisor, the student must register its work by sending the fully registration form to the master’s coordinator. The registration form can be obtained here:

TFM work must be registered before December 15 in order to start works as soon as possible. Otherwise contact the Coordinator. Any change from the Master's Thesis in terms of subject and supervisor should contact the Coordinator.

Development

The TFM work is done mainly through interviews between the student and supervisor tutor and the work done by the student individually. Students will develop an original research work whose results will be written in a memory. The works can be focused on a literature review, proposal, development and / or testing of new concepts or solutions, improvement or extension of known techniques, etc ...

Evaluation

Students must expose its TFM work at an Evaluation Commission composed by three members (president, secretary, vocal). They have two possible calls for the defence of such works in July or in September.

Presentation and Defence

Students must notify the intention to make the presentation and defence of a TFM after talking with their supervisors and before the deadline indicated by the Academic Committee of the Master. Supervisors are responsible for notifying the coordinator of the master the reading and defence of the Master's Thesis for which they:

Specify the date chosen for the defence between the dates set by the Academic Committee of the Master, in order to organize and publicize the celebration of this event with enough time.
Deliver the memory to each member of the evaluation committee and a pdf copy to the coordinator for the corresponding registration.
Complete a report by the responsible supervisor of the work using the model format Word, OpenOffice or PDF.

In defense of the Master's Thesis students will do an oral presentation of the objectives, methodology, content and conclusions of the work performed individually in. Then the student will answer questions and clarifications raised by members of the Evaluation Commission.

Documentation required

Although the format of the Master's Thesis regarding the content of the memory is free, the format of the front / back cover is fixed and has to follow a model according to the following template:

TFM template in docx (word)
TFM Template in odt (OpenOffice)
TFM Template in PDF
TFM template in latex

It must also be submitted a summary of the memory for registration in html format. On the following link you can download a file with an HTML document that you must complete and send to the coordination including a significant graphic file or resource of the work.

TFM summary in HTML

If there is more than one file they are grouped in a rar or zip compressed file.

Ended TFMS

In the following list, the TFMs completed (and successfully defended) are organized by academic courses (in Spanish):