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Using LaTeX for your writing
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LaTeX syntax cheat sheets:
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New Procedure for Thesis and Dissertation Format Checking
Beginning fall of 2024 the library's role in the thesis and dissertation process will be the same as with any other papers which you write during your time as a student here. we can help you find background research, develop your research question, organize your writing, and publish your completed work., all the specific requirements, deadlines, defense, and checks will be done within your department and/or the graduate studies office., introduction.
The first step to any research is to find out what questions remain to be answered.
We have all heard the quote from Isaac Newton about standing on the shoulders of giants. It really is true! This really is the goal of academic research. We want to be able to take in what has already happened and then go farther. To do that you have to find the existent research. Good research will always spark more questions and the process will start all over again.
Thesis or Dissertation writing can seem like a very daunting task but we are here to help.
Your librarian is available to help you find the background research needed to determine areas where you can contribute to your field. The questions you form while conducting background research on your topic can spark the curiosity that will carry you through your capstone and into your career as a researcher.
Your instructors and research committee will help you with the process of conducting your research and your defense but we will also help you to archive your thesis or dissertation and ensure that it is cataloged and deposited properly into Deep Blue Documents (our institutional repository.)
Please make use of the following resources to work on your formatting and please feel free to reach out to your departmental librarian for any further assistance you may need.
Using Microsoft Word to write your thesis or dissertation
For help with each step of your formatting visit this page created specifically for UM-Dearborn students by our format coordinator, Joel Seewald.
- Word for Theses
Dissertation Formatting Workshop Slides
The Master's Thesis Page from CECS - contains the policies, procedures, and formatting guidelines you will need to refer to based on your specific degree.
Before submitting your thesis for your format check you will need to have created your ORCID account. You will need to include this ID number on the copyright page of your work as well as on the submission form so that it can populate the metadata in our institutional repository Deep Blue , where your final approved document will be stored.
If you would like to request an embargo to delay the release of your thesis to public searching, you will need to indicate that on your submission form and also complete and attach the proper form. The form and other information can be found on the Thesis Release and Embargo Procedures page.
This link is for the Thesis Formatting Guidelines last updated in 2016. Check the Graduate Studies webpage to ensure you are using the most current guidelines.
This is the checklist we will use to review your thesis to ensure proper formatting before it is accepted for deposit in Deep Blue.
Dissertations
The Doctorial Dissertations Page from CECS - contains the policies, procedures, and formatting guidelines you will need to refer to based on your specific degree.
This is the link to the Dissertation Handbook . It includes a list of all the guidelines for formatting your dissertation near the end.
This is the checklist we will use to review your dissertation to ensure proper formatting before it is accepted for deposit in Deep Blue.
Deadlines for defense and submission of the written final draft can be found HERE .
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Doctoral Committee
Selection of a faculty advisor.
The student is normally assigned to a faculty advisor within two months of the beginning of the student’s first term in the department. Faculty make presentations on research topics during the early weeks of ChE 595. Each student is asked to meet personally with four faculty members and to rank-order preferences for available research projects.
Student/faculty assignments are made by the Graduate Program Chair taking into account both student preferences and faculty preferences and needs.
If your chair doesn’t have a ChE appointment
If the dissertation chair does not have an appointment in the Department of Chemical Engineering, the student is required to have a co-chair in Chemical Engineering on the dissertation committee. The ChE co-chair serves as the Doctoral Standards Committee Representative at the Thesis Proposal Exam, Data Meeting, and Defense and as one of the two required faculty members from ChE on the dissertation panel. The co-chair position does not imply co-advising (beyond the role of a thesis committee member) or a financial commitment, but rather the co-chair serves as the official ChE representative on the committee.
Approval of the Dissertation Topic
If the dissertation research differs from the previously passed Thesis Proposal Exam proposal and Project Summary page (formerly Preliminary Examination), that one-page summary should be re-submitted as the dissertation topic proposal.
Role of the Doctoral Committee
The Doctoral Committee consists of at least four graduate faculty members, at least two of whom are from the Chemical Engineering Department, (including the faculty advisor, who serves as Chair of the Committee), and at least one of whom must be from outside the department (designated the “Outside Member”). Formation of Doctoral Committee
Nominations for dissertation committee service are subject to Rackham Doctoral Degree guidelines .
The Committee’s role is principally to advise the student in the research activity and to uphold departmental and University standards for the conduct of doctoral research.
Each doctoral student should meet with his or her committee as a whole at least once per year, to insure that satisfactory progress is being made toward the PhD degree.
A PhD student who is near the completion of his/her PhD research and is ready to start writing should hold a data meeting with his/her dissertation committee. At this meeting, the dissertation committee is expected to approve the ending of research and recommend that the student begin writing the dissertation. This is typically done two to three months before the proposed dissertation defense date. The student is responsible for submitting the Data Meeting Form within one week after the data meeting to the ChE graduate program office.
In addition to the department data meeting, students are required to register online for a pre-defense review with the Rackham Graduate School Office of Records and Dissertations (OARD) at least three weeks prior to the oral defense.
PhD Dissertation and Oral Defense
The Doctoral Committee approves the student’s request to end the dissertation research effort and to write the dissertation describing the research results.
When the dissertation has been written and the format approved by the Rackham Graduate School, it is distributed to members of the Committee, who then conduct the final oral examination (typically ten days to two weeks later). Once the thesis is successfully defended and approved by the committee, the PhD degree is granted at the following commencement.
Help: Viewing Your Committee Information
Wolverine Access enables you to view committee and evaluations received information. Only doctoral students with an approved Committee tied to a Dissertation Milestone will have committee information to view.
Note: Committee members with an End Date do not display on the View My Committee and Evaluations Received Information page
View My Committee and Evaluations Received Information
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| Displays the committee members' names in LastName,FirstName format. | |
| Displays the committee member's role. | |
| Displays the committee member's start date. | |
| Displays the date the evaluation was received by the Central Office. |
Contact Information
Questions? Contact the appropriate office listed below.
Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies Please email Academic Records and Dissertations Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies Please email: [email protected]
College of Engineering Please email: [email protected]
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Dissertation Formatting
Have questions on how to format your thesis or dissertation?
We’ll help you align your document to fit Rackham Graduate School requirements.
Use our formatting guide
Our Guide to Microsoft Word for Dissertations includes a template you can modify, along with links to the Rackham Dissertation Handbook and formatting checklist. It also covers how to:
- Apply styles to maintain consistency
- Create a table of contents that keeps itself up to date
- Include properly formatted landscape pages
- Insert page numbers, footnotes, images, figures, and more
LaTeX guidance
Most of our support is based on using Microsoft Word. If you plan to use LaTeX for your thesis or dissertation we recommend starting with a LaTeX template designed to meet Rackham’s requirements.
We also have a workshop recording on using LaTeX to format your U-M dissertation .
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monét cooper is a 2024-2025 recipient of the AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research*
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has awarded monét cooper a 2024-2025 Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research . The selection committee was impressed by cooper’s scholarly achievements, the quality of her proposed research, and her potential to contribute to education research. Cooper’s dissertation is titled, “Between Freedom and Capture: Quare Youths’ Literacies of Everyday Aliveness in the Un/care of School.”
In a highly selective process, AERA’s Minority Dissertation Fellowship Program awards fellowships to members of racial and ethnic groups historically underrepresented in education research, and offers mentoring and guidance toward the completion of their doctoral studies. An important aim of the fellowship is to enhance the racial and ethnic diversity of faculty, scholars, and researchers across the education research field.
All new Minority Dissertation Fellows are in the final stages of their dissertation studies across a broad range of education research topics, such as LGBTQ issues in schools, pedagogy, and undocumented students in college. Many of these studies focus on minoritized racial and ethnic groups in education and schools. The awardees frame their research around a range of disciplines and subfields of education research, including higher education, psychometrics, and psychology.
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Graduate education at the University of Michigan is a shared enterprise. The Rackham Graduate School works together with faculty in the schools and colleges of the University to provide more than 180 graduate degree programs and to sustain a dynamic intellectual climate within which graduate students thrive. ... For dissertation committee ...
Graduate education at the University of Michigan is a shared enterprise. The Rackham Graduate School works together with faculty in the schools and colleges of the University to provide more than 180 graduate degree programs and to sustain a dynamic intellectual climate within which graduate students thrive. ... The dissertation committee chair ...
Dissertation Committee Formation At least one month before the thesis proposal, the student must have their Dissertation Committee approved by both the Robotics Grad Chair and Rackham. The completed Dissertation Committee Form should be sent by email to the Robotics Grad Coordinator. If requesting a committee member outside of U-M their CV as well as a short
Date. Dissertations and theses submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for master's or doctoral degrees at the University of Michigan. This collection also includes theses written by U-M faculty. Ph.D. dissertations at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor are awarded by the Rackham School of Graduate Studies.
The dissertation regulations are more broad and by following them you will be well on your way to meeting the thesis requirements. There is only one point where the guidelines are incompatible. The order of the committee members, as listed on the title page, is to be done differently for dissertations vs the way it is done for theses so please ...
The Doctoral Committee consists of at least four graduate faculty members, at least two of whom are from the Chemical Engineering Department, (including the faculty advisor, who serves as Chair of the Committee), and at least one of whom must be from outside the department (designated the "Outside Member"). Nominations for dissertation ...
review your committee and sign off. Committee member selections should follow the Rackham Dissertation Committee Formation guidelines, 4 members total, including one cognate member and at least two members from the Department of Pharmacology (this can include your chair/advisor). Name of Student (Please print):_
Students Beyond the Second Year. Annual Committee Meetings: Annual meetings of the thesis committee are mandatory for all doctoral students in their third year and beyond.At the meeting, the committee chair and/or co-chairs must summarize the student's progress on the Dissertation Committee Meeting Form (obtained prior to the meeting from the Graduate Coordinator) and the student must sign the ...
Overview. Wolverine Access enables you to view committee and evaluations received information. Only doctoral students with an approved Committee tied to a Dissertation Milestone will have committee information to view. Note: Committee members with an End Date do not display on the View My Committee and Evaluations Received Information page.
thesis is reviewed by the student's thesis committee and must meet that committee's standards of quality and quantity. Results of a thesis should be publishable in a peer-reviewed journal. Objectives of a Thesis A thesis gives students the opportunity to develop their creative abilities in one or more of the following activities:
Email: [email protected] Web: rackham.umich.edu 10.19 Page 1 Dissertation Committee Worksheet Complete this form and submit it to the program Graduate Coordinator with additional materials as necessary. Student Information Student Name: UMID: Student Email: Academic Program Code: Program Name: Proposed Committee Membership
Dissertation Committee Service) and qualified people from outside the University of Michigan who may or may not hold academic appointments and whose service on the Dissertation Committee would contribute significantly may be nominated for special membership by submitting a vita or resume of the nominee; a
In cases where the Chair is not employed by the University of Michigan, it is necessary to have a Co-Chair that is at University of Michigan. * Professors with less than a 50% appointment must have special approval from the Director of OARD or designee to serve as cognate. A committee must have a minimum of four members.
The committee must consist of four or more members; at least two of the members must be affiliated with the Robotics program. One of the Committee members must be designated as "cognate member." Cognate members must be a tenured-track faculty in a Rackham graduate program and be primarily engaged in a research area outside of the candidate's.
The Dissertation Evaluation. The dissertation evaluation enables the graduate school to: Alert the dissertation chair of potential problems before the defense. Assists committee members in recognizing common and diverging concerns in planning the defense. Serves as a record of the committee's evaluation. Because divergent evaluations ...
Student UM ID _____ Email _____ Program Name _____ ... the membership of the Committee simply by submitting a "Revised Dissertation Committee" form to the Office of Academic Programs. If, however, at any time in the dissertation process the candidate believes that arrangements with, or disagreements among, ...
Use our formatting guide. Our Guide to Microsoft Word for Dissertations includes a template you can modify, along with links to the Rackham Dissertation Handbook and formatting checklist. It also covers how to: Apply styles to maintain consistency. Create a table of contents that keeps itself up to date. Include properly formatted landscape pages.
Thesis and Dissertation Formatting Requirements and Policies. Thesis and dissertation guidelines vary by discipline. Be sure to follow the correct procedure and guidelines as outlined on the Office of Graduate Studies webpages: Master's Thesis. Doctoral Dissertation.
DISSERTATION COMMITTEE AND PROPOSAL - A request for approval The attached Dissertation Proposal for _____, which includes the information listed below,* has been approved by the proposed members of the Dissertation Committee. ... UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN . Author: Taylor, Jennifer Created Date: 10/11/2017 2:19:03 PM ...
Thesis Proposal Committee Please turn in to the Graduate Coordinators Office Name: (print) UMID: Email: Please consider the following for my Thesis Proposal Committee: NOTE: The TP committee must consist of 3 faculty (2 from ECE). If this is your defense committee, you need 4 faculty (2 from ECE). Chair/Co-Chairs:
E-mail: [email protected] www.rackham.umich.edu. DISSERTATION COMMITTEE FORM . Student Name: Program Name: Academic Program Number: Revise Committee Create Committee. Please refer to the Guidelines for Dissertation Committee Service. When revising a Dissertation Committee, list all other members of the committee as well as the revision(s ...
with the thesis committee members, are strongly encouraged to actively plan submissions of the student's research work during the Year 4 committee meeting if submission or publication of a fi. rst or co-first author manuscript is still pending. Students and mentors should plan to meet with the committee every 6 months following the first Year ...
Dissertation Committee Form Please submit to the Robotics Graduate Coordinator at [email protected] Name: (print) UMID: Email: Please consider the following for my dissertation committee: ... The committee must consist of four or more members; at least two of the members must be affiliated with the Robotics program.
I would also like to thank the members of my committee, who have all contributed to my growth beyond the actual dissertation process. Dr. Andre Boehman, thank you for all of your support in the medum-duty diesel test cell as well as general engine research techniques. Dr. Jeffrey Scruggs, thank you for being an excellent instructor (especially
Please submit to the Robotics Graduate Coordinator at [email protected]. Name: (print) UMID: Email: Please consider the following for my Thesis Proposal Committee: Chair/Co-Chairs: ... I will NOT use this committee as my Dissertation Committee (you must form your dissertation committee within 48 months of entering the Robotics PhD program) ...
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has awarded monét cooper a 2024-2025 Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research.The selection committee was impressed by cooper's scholarly achievements, the quality of her proposed research, and her potential to contribute to education research.
Other involvement: I attended these events that were relevant to my research interests & progress: • Moderator for PDW "Helping the Helpers: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Mental Health of Healthcare Workers" (upcoming Academy of Management Conference, August 2024 in Chicago, IL) • Attended Workplace Mental Health Conference (University of Michigan, August 2023, virtual)