MERE9452 Masters Project B
MERE9453 Masters Project C
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Research Thesis is a compulsory pathway in the Mining Engineering (Hons) degree and an optional pathway for high WAM students doing Petroluem Engineering. This thesis allows a student to work closely with a particular supervisor, learn particular skills – like programming or laboratory work, conduct research and write up their findings. To take this stream, you will need to first enrol in MERE4951 Research Thesis A.
MERE4951 Research Thesis A
In this course you will be required to find a supervisor and topic to work on. You can find a list of our research strengths here:
https://www.unsw.edu.au/engineering/minerals-and-energy-resources-engineering/research
You can also find an individual academic and ask them about topics that they work on. Academics from our school are available here:
https://www.unsw.edu.au/engineering/minerals-and-energy-resources-engineering/about-us/our-people
Once you enrol, make sure you have access to the Microsoft Team (the link is on the Moodle page), which is filled with information and has active forums for asking questions:
MERE4952 & MERE9453 Research Thesis B & C
These two units (4UoC each) can be taken in the same term or separately. Thesis B involves submitting a video/audio reflection of the work so far and an interim report. Thesis C involves writing your thesis and recording and submitting a scientific presentation of your results.
All Postgrad thesis students can find a list of thesis topics will be posted on the Thesis A Moodle site . The student key to access the site will be sent out by the thesis co-ordinator to all students who will be taking thesis the following term. You should review the list and discuss the topics with the relevant supervisor to get an idea of what it entails. Students must include in their email to the supervisor, their CV and a cover letter explaining their topic interests and relevant background.
Once both the supervisor and student have agreed on the topic, a Thesis Nomination Form should be completed. This is submitted to the Thesis Coordinator and uploaded to the SOLA9451 Moodle site prior to the student commencing work on their topic. All students must have chosen a supervisor by 9am Monday week 1 of term.
You can develop your own thesis topic, if you can find a supervisor from within the School. This will require you to attach a one page description of the thesis topic and signed by the supervisor to the Thesis Nomination Form.
The School also encourages students who wish to do an industry-led thesis topic. In this case the mentor from industry would be the student’s co-supervisor, however an academic staff member from the School must act as the supervisor of the thesis.
For an industry-led thesis, you must obtain approval from an academic of the School to supervise the topic. You should submit a signed letter from the industry representative and academic supervisor with a brief outline of the project with a Thesis Nomination Form.
All information needed for the deliverables of thesis A can be found in the course outline which is available on the SOLA9451 Moodle site.
Each supervisor has a prescribed limit for how many students they are accepting. A table will be posted noting how many students each supervisor will take and how many students they have so far. Once a supervisor reaches their limit please look for someone else. You are not guaranteed a project with a supervisor unless you have a signed form.
Depending on the thesis course you take, your topic may be provided to you or you will need to develop one.
If you need to develop one, most schools have a website that lists available topics and the staff willing to supervise those topics. You may wish to select a topic based on areas of engineering interest, extracurricular interests (such as the ChallENG Projects ), or preference for working with a particular academic in your field. You can even come up with your own in consultation with your thesis supervisor. Take a look!
The process is different for each school, so review the information above.
If you still have questions, contact your school’s Postgraduate Thesis Coordinator.
Projects based on current employment are highly encouraged. They must meet the requirements of advanced independent study and you must arrange a UNSW academic as (co-)supervisor. Finally, work-based projects must be approved by the Thesis Coordinator prior to enrolment.
Most schools have a Moodle, intranet, or web page with detailed information about their thesis program. That should be your next port of call – check your school’s section above for access instructions.
Schools often run information sessions during the year. These will be advertised via email, on social media and/or during class. Keep an eye out for these events.
The Undergraduate Thesis page has further answers to frequently asked thesis questions.
If you have questions related to enrolment or progression, contact the Nucleus.
Finally, each school has a Thesis Coordinator who can answer specific questions related to your personal circumstances.
The Graduate College offers a thesis/dissertation template that contains all required content and formatting. You can either write your document from within the template or apply the template’s formatting to your previously created work.
Need help working in the template? Schedule an appointment today.
The first time you download the template, save the template file to your computer before you begin work on your document. This is important if you are composing your thesis/dissertation within the template or if you are copying and pasting your content into the template. You may need the original template file in the future.
Please note: We offer the Google Doc template for initial drafts of your thesis/dissertation to share easily with your committee chair. We do not accept Google Documents as the final document of your thesis/dissertation. Google Docs does not have the functionality we require for our final theses/dissertations. Please use the Google Doc template while keeping in mind that you will need to convert your document to Microsoft Word later.
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Download instructions.
To work within the template, styles are applied throughout the document. These styles can be found by clicking the arrow in the lower right hand corner of the Styles section in the Home tab. To apply a style, simply highlight the text that you wish to format and click the appropriate name from the styles list.
When entering your own work into the template, be sure to apply the following styles to the appropriate parts of your document. Failure to do so will mean that your Table of Contents, List of Figures, and List of Tables will be incorrect.
When setting pages of your document to landscape orientation to accommodate large figures or tables, you must reformat their page numbers so that they will still be visible after binding.
Note: If your other pages’ pagination disappears after inserting landscape page numbers, you likely did not turn off Link to Previous. Undo your changes to the page numbers and restart the instructions.
After your writing and editing is complete, you will need to replace the Table of Contents, List of Figures, and List of Tables.
Note: All other lists (such as a List of Abbreviations or List of Graphs) are not updated automatically. Instead, the template includes examples of manually-created lists that can be altered to fit your needs.
Attaching the Template to a Preexisting Document. If your document is at or near completion, it may be easier for you to attach the template to your existing file than to paste your document into a new template.
Before attaching the Thesis/Dissertation template to your document, you must first apply the following styles to the appropriate sections of your work. It does not matter how these styles look – when you first apply them they will not look right – only that the names of the styles match those in the following list exactly. After you have applied all the styles and attach the template the document will be formatted correctly.
These styles can be found by clicking the arrow in the lower right hand corner of the Styles section in the Home tab. Leave this menu open while you work through the document. To apply a style, simply highlight the text that you wish to format and click the appropriate name from the styles list.
Note: If the style you are looking for is not included in the list you may need to create the style (see next).
Some required styles will not be listed in the premade styles, thus you will need to create them yourself.
Note: Remember, it does not matter how these styles look at this time, only that the style names match the names listed in the table above.
After applying styles to your document, you can attach the template, which will fix most of your document’s formatting issues.
Be careful that you set section breaks between front matter and body text and also between portrait and landscape-oriented pages (see Manually Formatting Your Document for instructions on setting page breaks). Each has a different way of formatting their pagination.
Finally, after your document’s content is complete, you will need to create the Table of Contents, List of Figures, and List of Tables.
Note: The template does not include macros for automatically generating other lists such as a List of Abbreviations or List of Graphs. However, it does include example lists that can be copied, pasted, and altered to meet your needs.
This LaTeX template is used by many universities as the basis for thesis and dissertation submissions, and is a great way to get started if you haven't been provided with a specific version from your department.
This version of the template is provided by Vel at LaTeXTemplates.com , and is already loaded in Overleaf so you can start writing immediately.
Checkout this short video to see how to easily create and edit new chapters as your thesis develops.
Please read the unofficial quick guide to the template; it contains some tips and suggestions on how to modify certain things.
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The LaTeX thesis template provided by the University of Minnesota, with various improvements.
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This repository contains an updated version of the UMN PhD Thesis Template.
Build locally.
To build the thesis locally, on Ubuntu 18.04, you will need to install:
You can then build the thesis with make :
This will produce a thesis.pdf in the root directory of your repository, along with all the intermediate build files. You can instead run:
To just produce the PDF.
The easiest way to build the PDF is to use Github Actions . This will build the thesis and produce a PDF all within Github. The repository already contains the correct configuration files, but you will need to enable actions in Github.
Once this is done, you can click on the "Actions" tab at the top of the repository on Github.
There you'll see a list of build jobs. The ones with green check marks have completed successfully. Clicking on one will bring you to the build page, where there will be a section titled Artifacts . Click on "Compiled Thesis" to download a zip file containing the PDF.
The thesis template comes with some useful additional packages. They are described below.
cleveref is a package designed to make cross referencing easier. Unlike \ref , \cref automatically adds the prefix required for the object being referenced. For example, \cref{fig:my_fig} will produce text like "figure 1" whereas \ref{fig:my_fig} would simply produce "1" and require you to fill in the "figure".
Additionally, cleveref can handle multiple references at once. \cref{fig:my_fig,fig:my_fig2} produces "figures 1 and 2".
In the main thesis file , the following is set:
This includes the serial comma in lists, so that \cref{fig:my_fig,fig:my_fig2,fig_other_fig} produces "figures 1, 2, and 3" instead of "figures 1, 2 and 3".
Additionally, the package is passed the option noabbrev which causes it to print the full prefix instead of an abbreviation ("figure" vs "fig.").
SIunitx formats SI units. It provides the \SI{} command, which is used as follows:
There are various abbreviations for units (such as \SI{8}{\TeV} ) and the formatting of the numbers can be controlled in detail. Additionally, it provides \SIrange{1}{5}{\meter} which produces "1m to 5m" and \SIlist{1;2;3}{\kelvin} which produces "1K, 2K, and 3K".
The package also provides \num{12345} which will format numbers (just like \SI ) but without adding units. The previous example produces "12,345" for instance.
In the main thesis file , the following default options are set:
group-separator makes the package separate groups of digits with commas (so 12,345.0), and list-final-separator uses the serial comma in lists ("1K, 2K, and 3K", not "1K, 2K and 3K").
The way in which units are displayed can also be redefined, as has been done \electronvolt in the macros file :
booktabs adds options to make nicer tables. It defines \toprule , \midrule , and \bottomrule which add rules of varying thickness and with additional vertical space.
An example table using these commands is shown below. The @{} removes extra space on the end of the tables (so that the rules start and end flush with the text instead of hanging over) and the \spacerows{1.2} command is defined in the macros file and adds extra space between the rows.
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UNSW School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering. If you are an 8338 postgraduate student, you can take either option for Thesis. Postgraduate students in 8621 are required to take Research Thesis part of their program of study. If taking a Practice Thesis (group project), you must enrol in Thesis A (MMAN9001) and Thesis B (MMAN9002).
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The first time you download the template, save the template file to your computer before you begin work on your document. This is important if you are composing your thesis/dissertation within the template or if you are copying and pasting your content into the template. You may need the original template file in the future.
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Abstract. This LaTeX template is used by many universities as the basis for thesis and dissertation submissions, and is a great way to get started if you haven't been provided with a specific version from your department. This version of the template is provided by Vel at LaTeXTemplates.com, and is already loaded in Overleaf so you can start ...
cleveref is a package designed to make cross referencing easier. Unlike \ref, \cref automatically adds the prefix required for the object being referenced. For example, \cref{fig:my_fig} will produce text like "figure 1" whereas \ref{fig:my_fig} would simply produce "1" and require you to fill in the "figure". Additionally, cleveref can handle multiple references at once.