Duration
600h Proj.
Number of credits
Lecturer
Collégialité, Mario Cools
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The final year thesis is a substantial piece of individual research, which may be carried out in collaboration with a ULiège research unit or a company in Belgium or abroad.
It generally represents the equivalent of 4 months of full-time work.
The subject must be proposed or approved by a supervisor, who must be a permanent academic or scientific staff member.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The end-of-studies project enables students to apply a scientific approach to a subject of their choice. It can also prepare students for their transition to the professional world.
Students must prove they can produce a substantial written work using the theoretical and practical knowledge and skills acquired throughout their studies.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Block 1 of the Master's program includes the Introduction to Scientific Research course (ref: ARCH3271-1), which introduces students to the scientific approach and encourages them to learn more about the subject they have chosen for their dissertation.
The Study Guidance Service and the French Department (ISLV) organise a seminar for 2nd cycle students who are preparing a dissertation or final year thesis. Information on this seminar can be found at the following address: https://www.student.uliege.be/cms/c_11173103/fr/student-presenter-son-memoire-travail-ecrit-et-defense-orale
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Blended learning
Additional information:
Professors propose subjects for final year work, which they agree to promote.
These subjects are designed by the promoter in areas close to their own research, or collected from companies, research centres and/or government departments. Students may also submit a proposal, but this must be approved by a promoter. The subject is ideally defined at the end of the previous academic year.
The promoter and the student agree on the composition of the jury.
The Study Board ensures that each student is allocated a subject and that the composition of the jury is correct. Students must keep their promoter informed of the progress of their work at appropriate intervals.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions ) AND oral exam
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Other : Public defence
Additional information:
The assessment is based firstly on the student's manuscript, the target length of which is around one hundred pages for the main body of the text, not including appendices.
The student will describe the context, the research question or the specifications of the problem posed, a state of the art or practices, the methodology and research protocol, with argumentation of the choices made, a discussion of the results and a conclusion (with contributions, limits and perspectives), possibly including appendices.
Barring exceptions (where the studies or results are confidential), the student's defence of the dissertation is public. It includes an oral presentation and a question-and-answer period followed by deliberation.
The final mark considers the quality of the work submitted, the manuscript and the oral presentation, and the relevance of the answers to the questions.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
See the TFE (master thesis) regulations on the Faculty of Applied Sciences website and the supplementary regulations for the architectural engineering programme.
Contacts
Chairman of the master thesis jury: Prof. Mario Cools
mario.cools@uliege.be