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The Master's Thesis Project is an individual in-depth research or expert design assignment in the specific field of expertise chosen by the student. The nominal duration of a thesis project is approximately 30 weeks (42 ECTS). For students the master programme in September 2022, the Thesis will have nominal study duration of 45 ECTS.

The thesis can roughly be divided into 5 phases. Below, you can find an overview of these phases with a short description. For a more detailed overview what all the phases are about, please refer to the ‘Master Thesis Aerospace Engineering’ Brightspace page. For track related specifications, please contact the Track Coordinator. 

• Orientation

Together with staff and fellow students, discuss thesis possibilities and pick a supervisor.

• Kick-off meeting

Discuss your thesis subject and your approach with your supervisor and get your subject formally approved.

• Midterm meeting

Here the thesis progress is discussed and the research goals re-evaluated.

• Green-light review

The Green-light meeting is deciding whether you are ready for graduating or not. Here your draft thesis should be ready and checked for plagiarism. 

• Graduation Day (Defence, Assessment and Graduation ceremony)

Your last day of studying will consist of a presentation for friends, family etc. and afterwards a defence with just the committee. After you defence, the committee shall determine the assessment. When they are ready, you will officially graduate your MSc degree and receive your diploma.

Note: a student is expected to have finished all the MSc courses. A student may not start the final graduation phase (thesis project) before having successfully completed the BSc programme and the first year of the MSc programme. Deviation from the second requirement is possible, but only if approved by the thesis supervisor (article 10.2 Implementation Regulations).

Combining the Literature Study with the course Research Methodologies is essential (time-wise and contents-wise), as the course helps you to set-up a good thesis proposal. As of September 2022, the Literature Study is incorporated into the Thesis and is the course Research Methodologies no longer mandatory.

It is possible to do your thesis at a company. There are guidelines applicable which can be found on Brightspace. Here you can also find more information on confidentiality regulations, as some companies may request this. 

Thesis Opportunities

Thesis procedure (for students starting 2021 and before), thesis procedure (students starting 2022 and after), rubrics for students starting 2021 and before, rubrics for students starting 2022 and after..

For more information about the Master Thesis and Thesis Opportunities please refer to Brightspace → Master Thesis Aerospace Engineering.

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Rethinking the Library Repository

Posted on August 16, 2021 by Alastair Dunning

One of the key parts of the Digital Service Programme is to update the strategic direction and technical infrastructure of the TU Delft Library Repository.

The current repository infrastructure serves many functions. Based on Islandora, along with various other components, it acts a mechanism for searching and downloading Green Open Access research articles , doctoral theses , conference papers , and various other research outputs. Different instances of the repository also deliver Masters’ Theses and parts of TU Delft’s heritage collection .

As highlighted in the CNI report on institutional repositories (pdf), new demands from academic staff, the continual arrival of new services from third-party providers and changing institutional requirements mean many libraries are rethinking the role of their repository.

Below are some of the questions that these questions raise:

– Since the TU Delft repository was established, the Research Portal (based on the Pure system for recording research outputs) has also been launched. Is it necessary to have run both systems? Where should TU Delft present a record of its staff’s scholarly output?

– Can a library offer more engaging ways to publish longer forms of academic output (books and theses, for example)? Rather than simply downloading a pdf, can theses and book use protocols such as IIIF to make reading and using such documents a more satisfying experience?

– There is growing demand for university staff to publish and manage many other assets (images, lecture notes and videos, grey literature, events, policy documents). How can a new form of repository allow this freedom? What would that mean for library staff managing the documents and related metadata?

– TU Delft Library also runs its own publishing platform (based on the entirely separate Open Journals Systems software) and a separate instance of Figshare to manage its research data and software (as part of the federation of Dutch technical universities). There is also a platform for delivering open educational courses . Can all the formats these platforms deliver be combined under one infrastructure?

– The same goes for TU Delft’s heritage collection (s). While such digitised collections will always require a dedicated interface, can they make use of a shared underlying infrastructure?

– And a more practical question: which current infrastructure(s) is the most suitable to deliver on all these questions? Open source solutions like DSpace, Islandora, Dataverse, Samvera, VIVO, OJS or InvenioRDM. Managed solutions like Tind. Or commercial offerings such as Figshare?

There are some other resource available to help with these questions. The Next Generation Repositories report by the Coalition of Open Access Repositories lays down some important principles that can provide a foundation for answering the questions above.

But the largely technical principles in this report should not disguise the fact that the strategic direction needs to be worked out first. What does the library (and by extension the university) want from its repository?

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Research output : Chapter in Book/Conference proceedings/Edited volume › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

29.2 A Cryo-CMOS Controller with Class-DE Driver and DC Magnetic-Field Tuning for Color-Center-Based Quantum Computers

29.3 a cryo-cmos receiver with 15k noise temperature achieving 9.8db snr in 10μs integration time for spin qubit readout, 2d and 3d modelling strategies to reproduce the response of historical masonry buildings subjected to settlements.

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2D Ge 2 Se 2 P 4 Monolayer: A Versatile Photocatalyst for Sustainable Water Splitting

3d hall-effect magnetometer using a single inverted pyramid structure, 3-d induction log modelling with integral equation method and domain decomposition pre-conditioning, 3d macro-element for innovative plug-and-play joints, 3d magnetic seed localization for augmented reality in surgery, 3d printer-driven design of a non-assembly titanium surgical instrument using compliant lattice flexures, 3d-printing allows for fluid-controlled linear actuators with unconventional shapes, 4d neutron imaging of solute transport and fluid flow in sandstone before and after mineral precipitation, 4d printed shape-shifting biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications.

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4D-STEM Nanoscale Strain Analysis in van der Waals Materials: Advancing beyond Planar Configurations

A 0d model for the comparative analysis of hydrogen carriers in ship’s integrated energy systems, a 120-mhz bw, 122-dbfs sfdr ct δσ adc with a multi-path multi-frequency chopping scheme, a 125 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="latex">$\mu$</tex-math> </inline-formula>m-pitch-matched transceiver asic with micro-beamforming adc and multi-level signaling for 3-d transfontanelle ultrasonography, a 1-dimensional-two-layer transient drift-flux model for hydraulic transport pipelines: modelling and experiments of bed layer erosion and density wave amplification, a 3d time-dependent backward erosion piping model, a 72-channel resistive-and-capacitive sensor-interface chip with noise-orthogonalizing and pad-sharing techniques, a bayesian defect-based physics-guided neural network model for probabilistic fatigue endurance limit evaluation, aberration-driven tilted emission in degenerate cavities, abidin kusno, jakarta: the city of a thousand dimensions.

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A bi-level framework for heterogeneous fleet sizing of ride-hailing services considering an approximated mixed equilibrium between automated and non-automated traffic

Accelerating large-scale graph processing with fpgas: lesson learned and future directions, accounting for uncertainties in forecasting tropical-cyclone-induced compound flooding, accumulation of defense systems in phage-resistant strains of pseudomonas aeruginosa, accumulation of floating particles at hydraulic structures.

Research output : Contribution to conference › Abstract › Scientific

Accuracy Assessment of Numerical Morphological Models Based on Reduced Saint-Venant Equations

Accuracy of numerical morphological models based on simplified hydrodynamics, achieving privacy through ux design in instant messaging apps.

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A collaborative hybridity design approach: Enhancing urban water resilience and spatial legibility

A column-generation matheuristic approach for optimizing first-mile ridesharing services with publicly- and privately-owned autonomous vehicles, a combined experimental and computational approach to unravel degradation mechanisms in electrochemical wastewater treatment, a comparison of smooth basis constructions for isogeometric analysis, a comprehensive thermal analysis of icemaking process inside a domestic freezer: theoretical, numerical and experimental analyses, a computational framework for pharmaco-mechanical interactions in arterial walls using parallel monolithic domain decomposition methods, a conceptual design of two-stream alkali-activated materials, a constellation design for orbiting solar reflectors to enhance terrestrial solar energy, a copula-based model to describe the uncertainty of overtopping variables on mound breakwaters, acoustic streaming-based calibration of ultrasound transducers, acousto-optical tuneable filter design for efficient diffraction of unpolarised light, a cpt-based multi-spring model for lateral monopile analysis under sls conditions in sand, a critical assessment and summary on the low carbon energy pile technologies based on the life-cycle perspective: challenges and prospects, a cryo-cmos dac-based 40-gb/s pam4 wireline transmitter for quantum computing, activating business models for condominium renovations: identification of viable business models for integrated home renovation services for condominiums in the netherlands and flanders d2.2.

Research output : Book/Report › Report › Scientific

Active Acoustic Metamaterial Based on Helmholtz Resonators to Absorb Broadband Low-Frequency Noise

A curved compliant differential mechanism with neutral stability, adaptation of the recreovía during covid-19 lockdowns: making physical activity accessible to older adults in bogotá, colombia, adapting a systems perspective for sectoral coordination: approaching flood resilience in houston and accra.

Master thesis projects

Finding a thesis project.

For students participating in the TU Delft computer science and embedded systems master’s programs we have several openings for research thesis projects. Usually these topics can also be adjusted to fit in the scope of a BSc research project.

All MSc projects are aligned with our research. They often are connected to one of our ongoing research projects , but we also frequently use MSc projects to explore new research directions. Projects can be conducted at:

• TU Delft in our own research labs, in close collaboration with our postdocs and PhD students
• Industry (as part of an internship), usually with companies (in The Netherlands or abroad) with which we have an ongoing research collaboration (e.g. ING, SIG, Adyen, ATOS, XWiki, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Infotron, JetBrains, …)
• Other (international) universities – we have a rich network of academic friends around the world.

If you study at a different university and you would like to write a research master thesis in the context of one of the SERG projects, you should ask your own university supervisor to contact us. We have limited places available, but are always interested in new research opportunities.

SERG Supervisors

You can make an appointment with one of the SERG group members to see what projects are currently open, or you can propose your own project, provided there is a clear connection with the research we conduct at our labs. You can contact the following persons for more information:

Composing your Study Program

If you plan to conduct your MSc project at SERG, you will need to include at least two of the CS MSc courses SERG teaches in your IEP (Individual Exam Program). We strongly recommend you to follow our software architecture, software analytics, or software testing and reverse engineering courses. Besides our own software engineering related courses, when choosing the electives in your program you can consider including courses in such areas as machine learning, computational intelligence, data science, compiler construction, distributed systems, or security.

Optionally, you can start your research with a 7-8 week literature survey (IN4306, 10EC). This assignment is concluded with a report containing an overview of the state-of-the-art in a particular branch of research.

Proposing your Own Project

Under certain conditions it can also be possible to propose your own project. In those cases it is important to

• Study a number of existing MSc theses .
• Identify an ongoing research project to which your proposal is connected.

In particular you need to carefully think about the research component of your proposal, and have a clear idea on why your proposal is novel – it should advance the world’s knowledge in software engineering. If you wish to pursue this route it is advisable to select and contact a possible supervisor as early as possible.

Writing your Thesis

Once you’ve found your project and your supervisor, we recommend that you start writing as soon as possible: Devise a table of content, and fill in details as you go.

To write your thesis you need to make use of our MSc Thesis Template .

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