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You are required to undertake and complete a large piece of work for the Dissertation component within the maximum candidature allowed; two years for full-time students and four years for part-time students.The Dissertation component of the MSc degree provides you with the opportunity to tackle a difficult problem and demonstrate an advanced grasp of difficult concepts and a good understanding of the issues associated with the project domain. It advocates the use of established engineering principles and adoption of a methodical approach to projects through application of a systematic lifecycle. This project may be orientated towards research or towards production of a useful artefact of software, hardware, management process, etc. Projects should be to a standard that would merit publishing the work.

Please click here to access previous students' dissertation projects.

A. General Information

To find out more about the dissertation project, you may like to click on the following links:

• Workshop (Date to be announced)
  
  • The workshop/Briefing provides information about CI/Dissertation Topics and administration procedure. Some information is updated regularly and can be found under H6699, K6299, and CI 6199 link at http://dis.sci.ntu.edu.sg
  
  
• Dissertation Guide
  
  • University Statutes and Regulations
  • Style and Structure
  • Order of Presentation
  • Other Important Advice
    
• Final Submissions Instructions for:
  
  • Hardcopy and Softcopy
  • Electronic copy via DR-NTU
    
• Reading List

B. Forms and Templates
Please ensure that you use the appropriate forms and templates:

• Project Registration Form
• Change of Title Form
• Change of Supervisor
• Dissertation Submission Form
• Sample of Dissertation Front Cover and Spine of Bound Dissertation
• Supervisor-Group Meeting/Feedback Log
  
  

C. Useful Materials

• Dissertation Proposal

  - How to Write a Research Proposal

  - How to Write a Dissertation

• Other Useful Sites

  - http://www.uow.edu.au/student/services/

• Materials that might be useful :

  - Quantitative Research Methodology

  - Qualitative Research Methodology

  - Informations Systems Development Research Methodology

  - APA Style
  

D. Staff Information and Research Interests
The following provides links to staff information and research interests. If your topic comes under the areas listed, please contact the staff concerned and make an appointment to see him/her to discuss further the topic with them. Please note that if a staff has exceeded the maximum number of students and is not able to take on any more students, you should proceed to talk to other staff.

Full-Time Faculty Members

• Professor Schubert Foo
• Associate Professor Abdus S. Chaudhry
• Asssociate Professor Christopher Khoo
• Associate Professor M. Shaheen Majid
• Associate Professor Margaret Tan
• Associate Professor Ravi S. Sharma
• Senior Fellow Paul Wu
• Associate Professor Dion Goh
• Assistant Professor Na Jin Cheon
• Associate Professor Theng Yin Leng
• Assistant Professor Alton Chua
• Assistant Professor Chang Yun-Ke
• Assistant Professor Brendan Luyt
• Assistant Professor Lee Chei Sian
• Mr. Lee Chu Keong

Adjunct Faculty Members

• Assistant Professor Kan Siew Ning

Part-Time Faculty Members

• Mr. Idris Rashid
• Dr. Sasikala Sivakumar

E. Contact Details

Should you have any other queries regarding your dissertation, you could contact the following :

• MSc (Information Studies) Co-ordinator, Ms Norsila Bte Salaman

  Contact no : 6790-5962; Email :TNorsila@ntu.edu.sg.

• MSc (Knowledge Management) Co-ordinator, Ms Dawn Tan Yang Ping

  Contact no : 6790-4621; Email : yptan@ntu.edu.sg.

Alternatively, Dr. Chang Yun-Ke could be reached by phone at 6790-6866 or email at ykchang@ntu.edu.sg.

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