The thesis templates have been created to make it easy to prepare your thesis using latex while adhering to the mit thesis specifications. We make every effort to keep these up to date, but you should always consult the mit libraries thesis specifications before submitting your thesis. If you notice something in the thesis specifications that does not match the templates, please let us know by e mailing us at thesis at mit dot edu. The thesis templates are highly customizable, and there are many options and macros available for your use. Most of these are documented in the comments in each file, especially main.tex. 166 kb include, but not limited to: chalmers title page lookalike stylish chapters and fancyhdr bibtex bibliography elsevier numerical style.bst included pdf hyperlinking . Tested and working on: pdflatex on miktex + texmaker windows 7 x64 although chalmers kindly provides opinions on how to write and how to design your thesis, they fail to provide templates to students in anything except microsoft word.

As of december 9, 2010, chalmers official webpage states that templates will not be provided in any other formats. Being a school of engineering and natural sciences this is of course ridiculous as the de facto standard of typesetting technical reports is latex. At the time of writing this i have to produce a report and the natural thing was to create this template.

The sharing is for the added cuddly feeling, as well as the opportunity to reproach chalmers a bit. My team of drunken finnish rats are now working on the latex command \generatereport to relieve us of actually writing the thesis content. If your examiner, supervisor or mother does not appreciate this template in spite of its awesomeness, there is nothing i can do nor be blamed for. Your master's thesis project can be carried out either in our department or at your home university. The majority of projects in the department are carried out in co operation with industry both in and outside sweden. We often receive project requests and ideas from industry, which we try to coordinate with the wishes of our students.

We recommend that you, at an early stage already around february/march , discuss possible thesis topics with teachers in the department. Please also feel free to contact potential industrial partners and suggest thesis topics of your own. Since the thesis is an important opportunity for you to apply and extend the knowledge gained during your studies, it is essential that you, already in an early planning stage, involve one of the teachers at the department. The advisors/examiners at the department are responsible for the thesis having the required quality. This means that it is the examiner who has final say on whether the project will be approved as a master's thesis project or not. The reason for this is to ensure that the project has a well defined topic that can be investigated properly within the given time usually 20 weeks and will result in a engineering report of good quality.

At registration there should be a clear description of the thesis topic, a work plan, a time schedule, as well as names and addresses of all those involved you and the supervisors. The time schedule should also include dates for both the half time presentation and the final presentation of your thesis. From chalmers' viewpoint your thesis is counted as a course and you will find the rules and regulations for this course at this web site: it is important that you read and follow the information available at that web site. You will also find the name of the person to contact, in case you are interested in one of the suggested topics. cochlear posted aug 15, 2011, by patrik andersson semcon posted may 9, 2011, by patrik andersson sound propagation outdoors posted march 12, 2009 auralizing road traffic events sound propagation outdoors posted march 12, 2009 the thesis layout and bibliographic information should have the format given in the templates that you will find below.

Numbers, names, titles, abstract, and keywords in exactly this format makes it easy for us to have a homogeneous entry of the reports in the library database. You also expect others to provide such information, so that you can do proper literature searches. Please also note that you should optimise your figures to ensure that they are clearly readable. If you use microsoft word, it is recommended that you use the built in spell and grammar checking functionality.

In order to make it behave the way you want you need to change the settings from normal document type to technical document type. In order to make your report readable you need to keep track of what tempus to use yourself. The general rule is that everything you read in other reports should be written i past tense cremer heckl 1 found that. All your own measurements should also be in past tense the sound level was measured in six positions and the average level was found to be 55db, as was expected. Your conclusions should be written in present tense judging by the results there seems to be a tendency that increased loudness causes increased annoyance. The official microsoft's word template for you to use in your report writing follows below. The zipped archive contains a template for the complete report as well as for the report and cover separately.

They are also available for the mac osx and microsoft windows operating systems, although the platform issue should not be a problem. It is best to enter the data on the cover page together with your thesis supervisor. The following latex version of the official template by joachim schlechter is also available: note that the thesis templates may cause some text on the cover and on the initial pages to appear in the courier or other font.

You should make your thesis available to your thesis advisor early, months before it is completed. Once you have finished writing, there may be little time left for necessary corrections, which will delay your thesis from being accepted. Your thesis will be printed max 50 copies, please take contact with gunilla and will be published electronically. You take care of th printing procss, but before taht, please discuss the process with your advisor.