Defense Procedures
M.Sc. Defense Procedures for students and supervisors
1. When your thesis is complete and ready for defense your supervisor must form an MSc defense committee consisting of
supervisor
internal examiner (from CISC)
external examiner (from outside of CISC)
After approval of the committee by the Graduate Coordinator the supervisor will schedule an examination date and time with the committee. The supervisor must tell Debby of this 15 working days before the scheduled date. Upon approval from the graduate coordinator, Debby will find a Chair.
2. At this time hard copies of the thesis are to be distributed by you to the committee and one to Debby for the chair, or the defense will not proceed. (Please note that copying and binding are the responsibility of the student)
3. Confirmation email will be sent once a chair is found. At this time the students, supervisors and Director’s signature is required on the exam form to verify all conditions have been meant.
4. On the link below you a will find the UMI form, National Library Form and co-author form. Fill them out *before* the exam. These forms are to be given to the chair at the exam.
http://www.queensu.ca/sgs/forstudents/completion/finalsubmission.html
Please note that requirements are considered complete when one electronic copy of the thesis, in PDF format revised as recommended by the Thesis Examining Committee and finally approved by the supervisor/committee, is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies through the E-Thesis Submission process in QSPACE.
Please also review the information on the Graduate School web site
Ph.D. Defense Procedures for students and supervisors
Step 1. When a student is ready to submit his or her thesis, the supervisor will propose an examining committee, consisting of internal, internal external, and external external. The supervisor then sends the names of the proposed committee, along with the thesis title, to the graduate coordinator for approval.
Step 2. When the final draft of the thesis is ready, 1 copy is delivered to me for the chair and the other copies are delivered to the committee members by the student.
Step 3. Once I have the chair's copy a Head's Rep will be found and scheduling of the defense will begin. The FIRST available date on which all members of the committee are free will be chosen. This date will NOT be earlier than 30 working days from the time I receive the chair's copy of the thesis.
Step 4. I will then fill out the defense form and have it signed by your supervisor, Head's Rep and yourself.
Step 5. The thesis is then submitted to Graduate School. This date must be no less than 25 PhD working days before the defense date
Please note that requirements are considered complete when one electronic copy of the thesis, in PDF format revised as recommended by the Thesis Examining Committee and finally approved by the supervisor/committee, is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies through the E-Thesis Submission process in QSPACE.
Please also review the information on the Graduate School web site