Workshop on Monitoring PhD Student Progress 

PhD Programme on Information and Communications Technology (Doc_TIC)

University of Vigo

Date: June 22-23, 2017

Place: “Salón de Grados” – EE de Telecomunicación

Procedure of evaluation

Calendar

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Program

Thursday, June, 22, 2017

Friday, June, 23, 2017

List of students unable to attend

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Invited Speakers 

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Session 1 : June 22, 9:45-11:15

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Session 2: June 22, 12:15 -13:45

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Session 3 : June 23, 9:30-11:00

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Session 4 : June 23, 12:00 -13:30

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List of students unable to attend (Interview by Skpe)

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Procedure for the Evaluation of the RESEARCH PLAN or ANNUAL DEFENCE

PhD Program on Information and Communications Technology of the University of Vigo

Academic year 2016-2017

Approved by the Academic Committee (CAPD)

General Considerations:

1. This activity is compulsory for all the students enrolled in the academic year 2015-2016.
2. The working language is English.
3. A rubric for evaluation is approved by the Academic Committee of the PhD program (CAPD). This rubric will be used for all students. Nevertheless, evaluation committees will take into consideration the actual dedication of the students: Full- time students, Part-time students, etc. This rubric is in Annex 1.
4. This rubric will be completed by the Evaluation Committee, and by the advisor(s) of the thesis. In case of more than one advisor, all advisors must agree on a single rubric.
5. The Evaluation Committee will propose a Score to the Academic Committee of the PhD Program. CAPD will be in charge of delivering the final score.
6. There will be four  Evaluation Committees:

Committee no 1

• Antonio Pena Giménez
• Rebeca Díaz Redondo
• Manuel Caeiro Rodríguez

Committee no 2

• Edita de Lorenzo Rodríguez
• Carlos Mosquera Nartallo
• Juan Carlos Burguillo Rial

Committe no3

• Pedro S. Rodríguez Hernández
• Inés García-Tuñón Blanca
• Manuel Ramos Cabrer

Committe no4

• Cristina López Bravo
• María Soledad Torres
• Manuel Fernández Veiga

7. Each student will be assigned to one of the evaluation committees. This assignment is made by the CAPD.

This year there will be two preparatory sessions in April and May respectively. 

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Evaluation procedure and calendar:

1. All students must prepare a poster. The pdf file of the poster must be uploaded to the faitic server by 14:00 (CET) of Moday, June 5, 2017. DocTIC will be in charge of the printing of the poster for those students who will attend the session.
2. Those students unable to attend the workshop will contact the DocTIC coordinator (doc_tic@uvigo.es) by Friday, May 5, 2017 explaining the reason for his/her absence. Upon acceptance, one member of the corresponding evaluation committee will contact the student in order to set up an appointment by Skype. The students will receive the instructions about how the evaluation will be conducted. These students do not have to send the slide.
3. The advisors must upload one rubric by Moday, June 5, 2017 to the faitic server.
4. Students attending the evaluation day must send one slide of the poster presentation (just 1 page in landscape orientation) by 14:00 (CET) of Thursday, June 15, 2017
5. The evaluation by the committees will take place during the poster sessions of the workshop (Thursday, June 22 and Friday, June 23).
6. The evaluation committees will deliver the score by Friday, June 30, 2017. Those students who fail will be granted with a two-week period to correct the observed deficiencies. Final scores will be delivered to the CAPD by Monday July 17, 2017.
7. There will be 1 Best Poster Award that will be selected based on student voting.

Instructions for the preparation of the material

POSTER LAYOUT

• Poster orientation should be portrait (vertical).
• Poster size should be A0 (841 mm x 1189 mm).
• The title should be ideally in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, 72 pt. font. Author, Thesis Advisor(s) and affiliation  should be in 42 pt. font
• Use colour for highlighting and to make your poster attractive.
• Use pictures, diagrams, figures, etc., rather than only text wherever possible.
• Minimum font size for all text: 24 pt.
• Sections to be included:
  
  • Motivation of the work
  • Thesis Objectives
  • Research Plan
  • Results & Discussions (if available yet)
  • Next Year Planning
  • References

POSTER SPOTLIGHT PRESENTATION

At the beginning of each Poster session, the students will have the opportunity to show 1 (ONE) slide in landscape orientation MAXIMUM to focus attention on the topic of their poster.  Please note that this slide is not meant to cover the whole research, BUT ONLY HIGHLIGHT THE MAJOR GOALS OF THE THESIS WORK.

This slide (in a pdf file) must be uploaded to the faitic server.