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Welcome to the ETD Submission System

Welcome to Georgia Tech's system for submitting your graduate thesis or dissertation. Undergraduate Research Option Theses are submitted here as well.

Once you have passed the final defense and satisfied the requirements of the committee, you are ready to submit your manuscript to the Thesis Office for review. This submission process is fully electronic, and is made through an online application developed and maintained by the Texas Digital Library, in conjunction with the Texas A&M, MIT, and UIUC.

To get started with your submission, click the link below. You will be asked to authenticate using your GT Account:

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Your feedback is very important to us; it allows us to continue to improve the system. Please feel free to notify us directly at [email protected] if you have any suggestions to increase the usability or effectiveness of this application. You can talk to the your Thesis Office regarding any issues that may arise during the submission process.

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Below are all of the forms machine learning Ph.D. students need to accurately plan their course load, take the qualifying exam, and set-up a defense. For more information about the machine learning Ph.D. program, visit the ML@GT Ph.D. website .

Machine Learning Ph.D. Handbook (Current)

Machine Learning Ph.D. Handbook (202005-202302)

Machine Learning Ph.D. Handbook (2017-202002)

See above ML Handbook for details and procedures regarding forms. Note it is highly recommended to sign all forms requiring signatures through GT Docusign.  If you need a word.doc version of a form, please contact the ML Academic Advisor.

Coursework Forms

• 202305 PhD Coursework Form (DOC - 2 minor courses)
• 202005 PhD Coursework Form (DOC - 3 minor courses)
• 2017-202002 PhD Coursework Form (DOC)

Doctoral Minor Forms

Both must be submitted after quals and before thesis proposal and require thesis advisor approval.

•   ML Request for Approval of Doctoral Minor (DOC)
•   Institute Doctoral Minor Form (DocuSign)

Qualifying Exam Forms

Details available for students enrolled in the CS 7999 Canvas site.

• ML  Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Committee  (DOC)

Thesis Proposal Forms

Please review ML Handbook for full procedures and requirements.

• ML Ph.D. Proposal Request (DOC)
• Ph.D. Admission to Candidacy Form  (DocuSign) – Use ML Academic Advisor for the Graduate Coordinator fields. Make sure to note program as "ML - ECE" or "ML - IC" 

Thesis Defense Forms and Institute Resources

• ML  Final Defense Memo (DOC)
• ML  Reading Committee Report  (DOC)
• Graduate Eduation Thesis Deadlines
• Graduate Education Thesis Checklist
• Graduate Education Thesis Manual 

Certificate of Thesis Approval  (DocuSign - Institute form) - Use the Ph.D. Advisor in the “Chair, Thesis Reading Committee” field, and ML Academic Advisor  for the Graduate Coordinator field. Make sure to note program as "ML - ECE" or "ML - IC" 

Enrollment Waiver  (DocuSign - Institute form)

Graduating ML Student Exit Survey  (Qualtrics)

If you need additional information, contact Stephanie Niebuhr (ML Academic Advisor) at [email protected] .

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College of sciences, search form, senior thesis.

Doing a senior thesis is the ideal way to put your course work to use, but it is up to the student to find a faculty member to supervise his or her thesis. Some theses are based on hypotheses that undergraduates develop from course work or other readings but more often they are based on other research taking place in a faculty member's lab. Because research is time consuming, students should plan on thesis research and writing taking at least 2 semesters.

A faculty member nominates a student to do a senior thesis by filling out the Senior Thesis Nomination form (download for fillable form) and turning it in to the Undergraduate Coordinator. This does not preclude a student from initiating this process by approaching a faculty member and asking the faculty member if he or she is willing to supervise a thesis. The nomination form must be signed by the nominator – who presumably will be the supervisor of the thesis – as well as a second reader. The nomination should take place the semester before the student would take Psyc 4601 (Senior Thesis).

A faculty member can withdraw his or her nomination prior to the semester in which Psyc 4601 would begin if the nominator believes the student is not prepared to carry out the thesis. A student may also elect to drop Psyc 4601.

Readers of Senior Thesis

There must be two readers of a senior thesis; the first reader must be the supervisor of the thesis. The supervisor and second reader must be regular or adjunct faculty in the School of Psychology. The grade for Psyc 4601 is determined by the supervisor of the thesis as long as the second reader agrees that the thesis deserves at least a "D."

The second reader must be given the thesis document at least two weeks prior to the end of the term (in which the student is taking Psyc 4601) to read the thesis and provide feedback for possible revisions that would need to be completed before the end of the term.

Credit Hours for Senior Thesis

Students are advised to make their senior thesis a two-semester sequence.

For the first (typically, Fall) semester, the student would register for 3 hours of Psyc 4600 (Senior Thesis). The product of Psyc 4600 is a research proposal for the work to be completed in Psyc 4601 (Senior Thesis II).

For the second (typically, Spring) semester, the student would register for 4 hours of Psyc 4601 (Senior Thesis).

This approach would recognize the reality of the time involved in preparing and carrying out a senior thesis. It would also allow for the possibility that a student might be assigned an incomplete or a failing grade for Psyc 4601 (for example, for not completing the thesis) while still receiving credit that recognizes the preparatory work (by presumably receiving a passing grade in Psyc 4600).

Thesis Content and Format

A senior thesis will ordinarily be an empirical study although in certain cases it can be an integrative review paper. Theses must be written in APA format.

Collecting Senior Theses

A PDF copy of the thesis must be given (e.g., via e-mail) to the Undergraduate Coordinator. The PDF copy will be uploaded to the School of Psychology web page and will become part of the repository of senior theses that can be accessed by interested people – especially psychology majors and their advisors – who wish to get a sense of what might constitute a reasonable senior thesis.

Certificate of Approval

A Certificate of Senior Thesis Approval  form must be completed by the student and signed by the two readers of the thesis and the Undergraduate Coordinator.

The readers will not sign the form until both are satisfied with the thesis document. The Undergraduate Coordinator will sign the form after the form has been signed by the readers and the Undergraduate Coordinator has received a PDF copy of the final version of the thesis. The original signed form is kept by the supervisor of the thesis and a copy is kept by the Undergraduate Coordinator.

A grade will be turned in for Psyc 4601 (by the supervisor of the thesis) when the approval form has been signed by both readers and the Undergraduate Coordinator.

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Below is a Checklist of actions needed for the Ph.D. degree.  You are responsible to complete all necessary forms which must be submitted and approved by the stated deadlines.

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See EXACTLY What Your Marker Wants…

If you’re working on your dissertation or thesis, this checklist is the single most important tool you’ll have at your disposal. Simply put, this checklist shows you exactly what markers will look for when assessing your document.

Based on years of experience working with students and supervisors, this checklist gives you the insider’s perspective to help you develop the best dissertation or thesis possible. Tick the boxes as you go and submit your project with confidence.

The dissertation writing checklist covers the following core sections:

• The title page/cover page
• Abstract (sometimes also called the executive summary)
• Section 1: Introduction 
• Section 2: Literature review 
• Section 3: Methodology
• Section 4: Findings /results
• Section 5: Discussion
• Section 6: Conclusion
• Reference list

Each section includes a list of essential to-do items, along with links to additional free resources to help you fast-track your project. In a nutshell, it’s the one document you’ll keep coming back to throughout your writing journey. 

The cleanly formatted Google Doc can be downloaded as a fully editable MS Word Document (DOCX format), so you can use it as-is or edit it to suit your university’s specific requirements.

PS – You can also download our free dissertation template below 🙂

Graduate Education

Office of graduate and postdoctoral education, thesis deadlines.

All dates subject to change * Applies only to students who want to submit a thesis and enrollment waiver at the same time.

Tips on Submitting Theses or Dissertations

Please note that thesis deadlines are firm, and if you don't submit yours by the deadline, your graduation may be delayed. Here are a few things to keep in mind when it comes to submitting theses or dissertations:

• Ensure that your document conforms to the requirements set forth in the Thesis Manual (PDF) . See forms that must be submitted with your thesis/dissertation.
• Check your department's deadlines, as they are sometimes earlier than the deadlines listed above.
• Submit your dissertation oral exam announcements to your school/department at least 10 working days prior to the presentation date.
• Email a PDF of your thesis or dissertation to [email protected] to have the format checked. You can also have your format checked by visiting Graduate Education. (Only final copies of documents should be submitted to the electronic thesis and dissertations website.)
• Request for Admission to Ph.D. Candidacy (submit upon completion of departmental requirement)
• Request for Approval of Minor
• Request for Approval of Master's Thesis Topic

For more information, send an email to [email protected] or call 404.894.1610 .

Check our frequently asked questions (FAQ) to see if your question has already been answered. Else, contact Graduate Education at [email protected] .

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Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering

College of engineering, master's thesis proposal: brendan mindiak.

Master's Thesis Proposal

Brendan Mindiak

(Advisor: Prof. Ahuja and Prof. Whorton)

"Improving the Efficiency and Accuracy of Landing Site Error Calculations for Re-Entry Vehicles"

Monday, April 29

Montgomery Knight 325

Upon entering Earth’s atmosphere, a re-entry body is subjected to a series of largely unpredictable conditions. These may include: entry trajectory, entry mass, vehicle drag, sensor error, atmospheric and weather conditions, unexpected perturbations, and any other unforeseen circumstance. These conditions make the modeling and tracking of the re-entry body’s trajectory a highly uncertain process. The cumulative effect of this uncertainty produces an area of possible landing locations, which often takes on the shape of an ellipse. It is often desirable to reduce the size of the landing ellipse or change the ellipse’s location so that the potential landing sites are restricted to a smaller or unpopulated area, increasing the mission safety and the recoverability of the spacecraft. To change the size or location of a landing ellipse, either the re-entry conditions can be altered or a flight control system, such as the system utilized by the space shuttle, can be implemented.

The current process of analyzing landing site error for re-entry missions is highly inefficient. Landing site error is most often determined by stochastically modeling the re-entry trajectory hundreds or thousands of times to observe the statistical distribution of landing sites, known as a Monte-Carlo simulation. In order to achieve an acceptable landing site and error, a Monte-Carlo simulation is performed, then a re-entry condition is changed based on engineering intuition and the process is repeated until the landing conditions satisfy the mission requirements. Attempts to improve the efficiency of this process focus on reducing the computational cost of the Monte-Carlo simulation, either by making edge-case assumptions for the dynamics or by using optimization techniques which struggle to achieve convergence on a solution.

The current study seeks to improve both the efficiency and accuracy of uncertainty modeling. By combining the accuracy of Monte-Carlo simulations with the efficiency of a reference table, a re-entry body’s landing ellipse location and size can be readily determined using only basic information about the atmospheric re-entry conditions and without the need to produce a full trajectory simulation. In this study, the re-entry conditions that define a landing ellipse are reduced to: the velocity magnitude, the flight path angle, the ballistic coefficient, the heading angle, and the latitude of re-entry. This table will be produced for both uncontrolled bodies and bodies with a propulsive flight control system.

The results produced from these five re-entry conditions represent the first method of determining landing site uncertainty that does not require any modeling of the system dynamics. Overall, the current study can be used to explore a wide range of trajectories to fully understand the envelope of hyper-sonic flight conditions and how they apply to different re-entry vehicles, even being able to scale down to extremely small sizes.

· Prof. Krish Ahuja – GTRI and School of Aerospace Engineering (advisor)

· Prof. Mark Whorton – GTRI and School of Aerospace Engineering (co-advisor)

· Prof. John Dec – School of Aerospace Engineering