Final project

For admission to the graduate examination, you must have completed all the credits required by the educational regulations of your degree program.

The dissertation examination consists of the discussion, before a committee, of a monograph paper carried out under the guidance of one or more lecturers.

The dissertation may be experimental or theoretical in nature and may be carried out at external, public or private companies or institutions.

You will have to demonstrate:

• mastering of the topics covered
• ability to deal with complex problems with a multidisciplinary approach.

The procedures for conducting the final examination can be found in this document.

The guidelines for writing and formatting the thesis can be found in this document.

The final grade results from the sum of three elements:

1. average curricular
2. evaluation of thecareer and the peculiarities of the thesis work
3. evaluation of the final test

In particular:

1. curricular average (expressed in hundredths) is made up of the CFU-weighted average of the grades reported for the educational activities included in your study plan and is forwarded to the committee by the student secretariats along with your career
2 points for the evaluation of your career and the peculiarities of the thesis work divided as follows:

• 1 point for any praise earned and study periods abroad
• 1 point regarding the work done for the thesis (for example: work already published, development of extensive experimental work, development of original computational models, etc.)

The final grade is derived from rounding off the score:

• by default, when decimals are less than or equal to 5
• by excess, when decimals are greater than 5

The final test is passed if you obtained a grade of not less than 66 points out of 110.

The committee allunanimously may award honors when:

• the score reaches (or exceeds) 112/110
• it has evaluated the thesis and the research activities carried out

Dignity of Press

Dignity of Press should be requested by the supervisor to the members of the Degree Committee by a letter at least 15 days before the graduation session, outlining the reasons for the request. The lattera must be accompanied by a summary of the thesis of about 10 pages, structured as a scientific article. Dignity in print is awarded by a unanimous vote of the committee.