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Thesis Procedure

A short guide on how to write your bachelor or master thesis at the Laboratory of Process Automation Systems. 

Cover page of the thesis template.

Preparations

  1. Find a topic for your thesis at PAS:
    • Apply to our thesis offers.
    • Reach out to us with an unsolicited application.
  2. Discuss scope and title with your advisor (typically a PhD student from PAS).

Registration

  1. Read examination regulations and information from the faculty about registering your thesis.
  2. Fill out the registration form from the examination office.
  3. Forward (e-mail) the document to your advisor.
  4. Receive the signed document from your first examiner (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sergio Lucia).
  5. In case it is a master thesis, you are required to have a second examiner. Therefore, reach out to a second examiner. We can suggest suitable candidates. Then, ask for his/her agreement to be your second examiner and send the registration form to be signed (please have both your advisor and first examiner in CC).
  6. Send the form back to examination office.

Ongoing

  1. We typically offer a weekly meeting (approx. 1h) with your advisor either in person or online.
  2. You will have one intermediate presentation in case of a bachelor thesis and two intermediate presentations in case of a master thesis, in front of your advisor and first examiner.
  3. Students should use our provided LaTex Thesis template.
  4. We suggest students start writing approx. 4 weeks prior to the submission deadline in case of a bachelor thesis, and 6 weeks prior to the submission deadline in case of a master thesis.

FAQ

You should write your thesis in English.

Students writing their thesis directly with us should use LaTex to write their thesis. For external supervisions and co-operations we strongly suggest using LaTex. LaTex has the advantage of being able to properly typeset complex equations with advanced cross referencing and proper inline equations. We provide an excellent template which should get you started immediately with LaTex.

Please contact your supervisor.

We encourage students who have completed courses from our course catalogue with good or excellent grades to apply for a thesis with us. You should have a background and interest in control, optimization and/or machine learning.

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Location & approach

The campus of TU Dort­mund University is located close to interstate junction Dort­mund West, where the Sauerlandlinie A 45 (Frankfurt-Dort­mund) crosses the Ruhrschnellweg B 1 / A 40. The best interstate exit to take from A 45 is “Dort­mund-Eichlinghofen” (closer to South Campus), and from B 1 / A 40 “Dort­mund-Dorstfeld” (closer to North Campus). Signs for the uni­ver­si­ty are located at both exits. Also, there is a new exit before you pass over the B 1-bridge leading into Dort­mund.

To get from North Campus to South Campus by car, there is the connection via Vogelpothsweg/Baroper Straße. We recommend you leave your car on one of the parking lots at North Campus and use the H-Bahn (suspended monorail system), which conveniently connects the two campuses.

The Laboratory of Process Automation Systems is located at Building G2 on the North Campus. Find more information here.

TU Dort­mund University has its own train station (“Dort­mund Uni­ver­si­tät”). From there, suburban trains (S-Bahn) leave for Dort­mund main station (“Dort­mund Hauptbahnhof”) and Düsseldorf main station via the “Düsseldorf Airport Train Station” (take S-Bahn number 1, which leaves every 15 or 30 minutes). The uni­ver­si­ty is easily reached from Bochum, Essen, Mülheim an der Ruhr and Duisburg.

You can also take the bus or subway train from Dort­mund city to the uni­ver­si­ty: From Dort­mund main station, you can take any train bound for the Station “Stadtgarten”, usually lines U41, U45, U 47 and U49. At “Stadtgarten” you switch trains and get on line U42 towards “Hombruch”. Look out for the Station “An der Palmweide”. From the bus stop just across the road, busses bound for TU Dort­mund University leave every ten minutes (445, 447 and 462). Another option is to take the subway routes U41, U45, U47 and U49 from Dort­mund main station to the stop “Dort­mund Kampstraße”. From there, take U43 or U44 to the stop “Dort­mund Wittener Straße”. Switch to bus line 447 and get off at “Dort­mund Uni­ver­si­tät S”.

The Laboratory of Process Automation Systems is located at Building G2 on the North Campus. Find more information here.

The H-Bahn is one of the hallmarks of TU Dort­mund University. There are two stations on North Campus. One (“Dort­mund Uni­ver­si­tät S”) is directly located at the suburban train stop, which connects the uni­ver­si­ty directly with the city of Dort­mund and the rest of the Ruhr Area. Also from this station, there are connections to the “Technologiepark” and (via South Campus) Eichlinghofen. The other station is located at the dining hall at North Campus and offers a direct connection to South Campus every five minutes.

The Laboratory of Process Automation Systems is located at Building G2 on the North Campus. Find more information here. The building is within 5min walking distance of the H-Bahn Station "Dining Hall at North Campus".

The facilities of TU Dortmund University are spread over two campuses, the larger Campus North and the smaller Campus South. Additionally, some areas of the university are located in the adjacent “Technologiepark”.

Site Map of TU Dortmund University (Second Page in English).

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The facilities of TU Dortmund University are spread over two campuses, the larger Campus North and the smaller Campus South. Additionally, some areas of the university are located in the adjacent "Technologiepark".

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