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After the doctoral examination, approval of the thesis by the first department conference after the doctoral examination.

Deposit copies must be submitted to the doctoral administration office ( HG FO 23.2 ) within 3 months after the department conference :

• Two bound copies of your thesis. One copy must be signed by the supervisor on the front page. The candidate must provide both the examiner and co-examiner(s) with a bound copy.
• Doctoral students are obliged to upload the corresponding electronic file of the approved doctoral thesis onto ETH Library’s institutional repository, i.e. publishing it via the Research Collection. If an electronic publication is not possible for copyright or patent-related reasons or due to ongoing applications at research funding institutions, the doctoral student can temporarily be released from the electronic publication obligation. More information: ETH Library

Important notes

• The doctoral degree (Dr. sc. ETH Zurich) may be officially used only after confirmation of the graduation by the rector of ETH after the delivery of the required copies.
• The tuition fee is CHF 1500 and is charged only after enrolling for the doctoral examination (see Financial Matters ).

If wished, printing of the thesis can be done through ETH Zurich Print + Publish .

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Master in Biotechnology

Master's thesis.

The master's degree programme concludes with a master's thesis of 35 weeks duration that includes a written report and oral presentation. The topic of the thesis can be chosen according to the student's interests in the field of biotechnology.

Important: the master's thesis needs to completed in a different group or company department - and supervised by a different professor - than the research project or industry internship!

• The name of the BSSE group you will be working in (for the group server access)
• The start and end date of your master's thesis

Remuneration

In general, students are not allowed to be paid for their master's thesis. Please refer to the respective Download ETH Directive (PDF, 23 KB) vertical_align_bottom

Though, students are allowed to accept payment if they have an internship contract for up to 80%. A full-time position remains forbidden.

The master's thesis is conducted in a research group at D-BSSE. Students are expected to contact the research group they are interested in directly. Usually, the contact person for research project/master thesis is a senior assistant or post-​doc in the group.

The master's thesis is a graded semester performance. A failed master's thesis can only be repeated once. If the master's thesis is repeated, a new research topic needs to be found. Students can choose the same supervisor again or a different supervisor. A passed master's thesis cannot be repeated.

Students need to fulfil the following prerequisites prior to starting their master's thesis:

• The BSc programme has been completed successfully
• Assigned additional requirements for the admission to the master's programme have been passed
• A minimum of 64 ECTS must have been acquired for the master's degree programme, including all credits in the core course category (22 ECTS)
• The research project or industry internship must have been completed and the credits acquired (16 ECTS)

The Director of Studies may allow exceptions with regard to the required 64 ECTS if cogent grounds are submitted at the proper time. Note that no exception can be made with regard to the completion of BSc programme and additional requirements.

Students need to register the master's thesis including all required information prior to the start.

The master's thesis needs to be registered in myStudies. A fter the initial registration, the request is forwarded to the supervising professor for confirmation - students are asked to inform their supervisor when they have registered the thesis.

• The title of the thesis can still be changed afterwards in myStudies.
• The submission deadline is automatically calculated and cannot be changed.

The registration must be done in the semester in which the thesis is started. Students starting in between semesters should register the thesis in the semester in which most of the work is completed.

In a subsequent semester, the thesis does not have to be registered for again, and students may request a leave of absence .

Students wishing to complete an external master's thesis must start the organisation process early to ensure that registration is completed prior to the start.

Completing the master's thesis outside D-BSSE requires approval of the Director of Studies.

Students who wish to complete the master's thesis outside D-BSSE need to submit the respective request form together with a one-page project description to the Student Administration.

The request must be submitted in a timely manner to ensure the assessment and approval as well as the subsequent registration can be completed before the start of the thesis.

All forms can be found under Documents & Templates

NDA / Agreement

A confidentiality agreement may be requested by the external institution. Any agreement is subject to negotiations between the student, the host institution and the supervising professor. Students must clarify NDA/agreement questions in advance and be aware that ETH professors may refuse to sign any agreement other than the standard ETH templates:

• Non-​​D​isclosure Agreement: Download (login required)
• Thesis Project Agreement Template: protected page Download lock (login required)

The master's thesis duration is 35 weeks full-time. Thereof, 3 weeks are reserved for writing the report and 2 weeks for compensation of public holidays, sick leave and other unplanned short term absences. In case of late submission, the master's thesis is failed.

For reasons of fairness and comparability it is not allowed to change the allotted duration. Students may voluntarily extend their stay in the research group or company after submission of the master's thesis. However, the master’s thesis work and report, and consequently the assessment must only refer to the official duration.

The Director of Studies may extend the deadline if cogent grounds are submitted at the proper time.

The master's thesis is supervised by a D-BSSE professor.

The supervising professor defines the task, start date and grading criteria and evaluates the thesis. The master's thesis must show a clear innovative character with regard to the technical and scientific approach.

Mind that the master's thesis needs to completed in a different group or company department - and supervised by a different professor - than the research project or industry internship!

The master's thesis is concluded with an oral presentation and a written report.

The master's thesis needs to adhere to common scientific and academic standards.

Details are to be discussed and agreed upon with the supervising professor. There are no department specific rules, criteria with regard to the written report. It is suggested to ask the supervising professor for a good sample report beforehand and afterwards for feedback to improve own writing skills for future reports/theses.

The oral presentation may be held within a reasonable timeframe after submission of the written report. The supervising professor and the student jointly agree on a date for the oral presentation. Note that feedback from the oral presentation may not be used or integrated in the written report.

Students submit the master's thesis to the supervising professor.

The D-BSSE does not receive copies of the master's thesis.

• A signed " Download Declaration of Originality (PDF, 183 KB) vertical_align_bottom " is a component of every research project/master's thesis, semester paper, or other qualifying paper written during the course of studies (including the electronic versions) and must be submitted with the thesis.
• The master's thesis can be published in the Research Collection of ETH Zürich.

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We are expecting eTheses to be unavailable on Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th March while ITServices carry out some essential maintenance on its hosting infrastructure. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Recent Changes

We have recently introduced some changes to Library thesis deposit, in summary:

• You are no longer required to submit a hard bound copy of your thesis to the Library, an electronic version is still required
• If your thesis should not be made immediately publicly accessible, you must upload a signed and approved restricted access form alongside your thesis deposit

To upload a research output to the repository, select the type of output from the dropdown menu and choose ‘Deposit’

It may take us up to 5 working days to confirm receipt of Theses deposits. If you require urgent acknowledgment that we have received your deposit, please Email Us once you have completed your deposit.

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Folders and files, repository files navigation, instance segmentation of geometrical shapes in aerial images.

This is my Master thesis project at ETH Zurich, which contains two parts:

• Buildings Segmentation (see buildings/Train.py ),
• Roads Segmentation (see road_polygon_new/Train.py ).

Data should be placed correctly (not in the folder data ). See Config.py file for more details. If you want the data please send me an request email.

• --city : the city name.
• --net : backbone of the net.
• --load : resume training or not.
• --vis : whether visualize the prediction or not.

To train the model just simply python3 Train.py --XXX YYY is fine. To run inference just python3 Evaluate.py --XXX YYY .

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A-Z Databases: EThOS: Welcome

Content, coverage & description.

EThOS is a UK wide repository of digitized doctoral theses. It provides full text access to 250,000 theses published in the UK as well as bibliographic records of non digitized theses. A quick and free  registration is required to access the full text content.  

• EThOS e-Theses Online Service This link opens in a new window The British Library digital repository for UK research theses offering a central access point to UK doctoral theses. The majority of universities in the UK are members. You can cross-search over 500,000 theses including those available for immediate download. more... less... Not Searchable via One Search. You must first register on an individual basis with Ethos in order to make requests through the Ethos website. The Ethos site provides further information.

When to use

EThOS is an excellent resource for finding highly specialised and original research. S tudents embarking on a doctoral programme may wish to see examples of successful theses in their own discipline and identify areas of research that have not already been covered.  

Video guide: Using Ethos to find UK theses

University of Kent (2019) Using Ethos to find UK theses.  28 August. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_c3ZRC5tG0 (Accessed: 13 July 2021).

Basic search

Keep search terms simple, e.g. 'organisational culture', 'business ethics' , ' eosinophilic inflammation', ' diabetes management'. 

Full text availability is indicated by a green open padlock symbol next to the search results.  You can restrict the search results to full text only by checking the box  ' limit search to items available for immediate download' below the search bar.

Search results are listed in order of relevance. You can change the order of results to A to Z by author or year (most recent to oldest and vice versa) by using the 'sort by" option above the search results. 

Click the relevant search result to view the abstract and download the thesis (if applicable). The full text can be accessed via the 'Immediate download'   link when this is available. You will be prompted for the username and password you chose when you registered with EThOS. 

Advanced Search

The advanced search tool enables you to search for a specific thesis by author and title. Use  the drop-down menus next to the search boxes to select your desired search criteria. 

You can also combine search terms using the Boolean operators 'AND', 'OR', 'NOT' (drop-down menu to the left of the search boxes). Example:

'higher education' (box one) AND  'social inequality' (box two)  will instruct  the database to look for theses which contain both search terms in the thesis abstracts or titles. 

'social inequality' (box one) OR  'poverty' (box two) will instruct the database to search for each search term separately. 

'higher education' (box one) AND  'social inequality' (box two) OR  'poverty' (box three) will instruct the database to search for articles which contain the first search term 'higher education' and either the second 'social inequality' or the third 'poverty'. 

Try to keep your search terms simple especially when combining search terms.  EThOS is a highly specialised database and over complicating searches may lead to a zero result outcome. 

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