MS Non-Thesis for WE, final term
Master’s Examination
The Welding Engineering Master’s Non-Thesis Examination is taken after submitting the Application to Graduate form, during the student's final term.
The Master’s Examination for a student pursuing the non-thesis option includes a written portion (Final Report) and an oral presentation to the student's the Master’s Examination Committee.
Enrollment in final term for MS Non-Thesis
The Graduate School requires a student to register for at least 3 graduate credits in the term of graduation.
At least 1 of these credits, and as many as 3 or more credits if necessary, are to come from WELDENG 7193.01, Individual Study under his/her advisor. This enrollment provides the student with graduate credit for time spent developing the MS Non-Thesis Final Report and helps the student reach the 30 credits required for a Master’s degree.
The student's graduate enrollment in the final term must be 1) at least 3 graduate credits and 2) sufficient to assure that s/he reaches the 30-credit overall minimum required of a Master's degree at OSU. Please enroll appropriately.
Grade posting deadline: If degree completion is contingent upon satisfying any WELDENG 7193.01 requirement, your advisor must be able to post a grade (S/U) on or before the university's graduating student grade deadline for the term. Typically this date is the Wednesday or Thursday before Commencement.
Final Examination committee members
Listed on your Application to Graduate are to be your Final Examination committee members.
- You will need to know your committee members’ OSU dot numbers.
- When selecting a WE faculty member’s name from the drop down list, select the category P listing, if available.
- Your exam committee is to be made up of at least two WE faculty members, one of whom is your advisor.
- If you are co-advised by two WE faculty, a third WE faculty must be included.
- Along with these two WE faculty, your committee may include non-OSU members. In order to be voting members, you must file a “Committee and Examination Petition” through your GradForms.osu.edu account. You will be required to attach the external member’s resume/CV with your request. Make your request at least three weeks in advance of the exam to permit approval time at both the local and Graduate School levels.
- If there is any change in the committee's membership, you must file a “Committee and Examination Petition” via GradForms before the committee meets.
MS Non-Thesis Written Examination:
Final Report and Oral Presentation
Establish with your advisor at the start of the semester the due dates for both the Final Report and the Oral presentation.
Final Report
In the final term in which 7193.01 credits are to be completed, the student is to present a written Final Report to his/her advisor on a topic in welding engineering agreed upon with the student and approved by the advisor. The student’s Final Report will serve as the written portion of the MS Non-Thesis final examination.
The Final Report is limited to 20 pages. Any images are to be included within this 20 page limit; bibliography citations may extend beyond the 20 page limit. It is the student’s responsibility to provide the document to the committee with sufficient time for them to evaluate it and post a decision by the "Examinations and Reports" deadline found on the Graduate School Graduation Calendar. It is also the student's responsibility to adhere to the university's Academic Integrity principles.*
Presentation
In addition, the student must present an oral seminar on the topic of the report and the MS examination committee will evaluate both. The oral presentation, questions, and discussion may occur in person before the committee or via video conferencing, in line with Graduate School guidelines.
This presentation must occur on or before university deadlines, as mentioned above. Early in the term, establish with your advisor the deadlines for Final Report submission and when the presentation will be held.
Evaluation
Report on Final Examination
Your submission of the Application to Graduate form in GradForms.osu.edu will generate one on-line form, or “task”, for your committee members, the Report on Final Examination. Your committee members, and you, will have access to this on-line form by logging-in to GradForms.osu.edu.
Results of the exam, as indicated on the Report on Final Examination, must be posted by your committee to GradForms.osu.edu on or before the Graduate School Graduation Calendar deadlines for the term.
The student is permitted one opportunity per term to take the MS examination. The student is permitted two attempts, total, to pass the MS Examination while a student in the Welding Engineering graduate program (see section 6.3 in the Graduate School Handbook).
* Plagiarism
The Final Report is to be an original work developed by the student. As concerns plagiarism, the MSE department takes plagiarism very seriously and will forward cases to the OSU Committee on Academic Misconduct as necessary.
"Plagiarism is the representation of another's work or ideas as one's own; it includes the unacknowledged word-for-word use and/or paraphrasing of another person's work, and/or the inappropriate unacknowledged use of another person's ideas." OSU Code of Student Conduct (3335-23-04)
View Committee on Academic Misconduct site