MOSES Examination Regulations

Examination Regulations
University of Siegen
D-57068 Siegen, Germany
Tel.: +49 271 740 34 00
Fax: +49 271 740 40 18
Email: moses@zess.uni-siegen.de
Research School on Multi Modal Sensor Systems for Environmental
Exploration and Safety, herein after termed MOSES
§ 1 Purpose and Subject of the Research School
The Research School on Multi Modal Sensor Systems for Environmental
Exploration and Safety, herein after termed MOSES is a project and research
oriented postgraduate education programme that qualifies for independent scientific
working and professional acting in the field of research as well as similar working
fields. The intention is to support the new generation of scientific academics. The
professional degree to be obtained is Dr.-Ing. or Dr. rer.nat.. The general background
for the programme is mechanical and electrical engineering and computer science.
§ 2 Admission Requirements
Basic requirements for admission to MOSES are:
1. Excellent Master or Diploma degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering,
Computational Engineering, Computer Engineering, or
2. Excellent Master or Diploma degrees in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry
(election depending on study focus and individual educational background
of applicant), or
3. Excellent Bachelor degree (election depending on quality of degree,
educational background and study focus, and additional qualifications are
required which can be acquired in parallel by attending additional courses
and passing the corresponding examinations), and
4. Excellent English language proficiency (proven by, e.g., TOEFL or IELTS
scores)
The successful conclusion of the preliminary procedure is required, such as
detailed by:
a) the doctoral regulations of the faculty of mechanical engineering as per § 2
are fulfilled, in case the doctoral subject will mainly be mechanical
engineering.
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b) the doctoral regulations of the faculty of electrical engineering/computer
science, as per § 2 are fulfilled, in case the doctoral subject will mainly be
electrical engineering/computer science.
§ 3 Application Procedure
1. Application to MOSES is fully Web based and handled by the MOSES
application web site as specified on the general MOSES web site
http://www.moses-research.de. The completed application must show the
applicants ability and motivation, scientific interests and ideas regarding
professional aims. The application consists of:
a) Filling out the application and personal profile form,
b) A description of the applicant’s personal affinity to the programme,
c) Uploading the application documents:
• Copy of a valid passport,
• Curriculum vitae (CV),
• Copy of secondary school leaving certificate (e.g. high school
graduation),
• Copies of all University degrees held (Diploma, M.Sc., B. Sc., etc.),
• For each University degree held: Copies of transcripts of records,
• Abstract/Summary of M.Sc. (Diploma) thesis, B.Sc. thesis,
• Two letters of reference (in the form given by the template that can be
downloaded) from recent professors/lecturers.
d) An applicant´s self evaluation test (performed as a web based test),
e) Individual aptitude tests (performed as a web based test).
2. Based on the application and test results, high potential candidates may be
invited to an academic interview.
3. Decision about preliminary admission will be made by the Recruitment and
Personal Affairs Committee (RPAC) of the Research School. Criteria of
selected candidates are:
a) The fulfilment of the prerequisites of item 1,
b) The applicant’s willingness and competence to deal with complex and
general theoretical and methodological problems,
c) Academic qualification, referee’s evaluation, interviews and linguistic
proficiency.
4. Final Admission to the Research School is subject to and based on:
a) Fulfilment of the last preceding paragraph,
b) Statements of two scientific supervisors for the thesis, indicating the
research project, confirmation of the scientific supervision, confirmation
about the place of work, information how the research work will be
financed,
c) A description of the doctoral research project including the main aspects of
the actual state of research and (preliminary) working schedule of the
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5. Male and female applicants should generally not surpass the age of 28. Wellfounded
exceptions are possible,
6. Decision about admission will be made by RPAC.
§ 4 Admission to Intermediate Exam
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Admission is granted if the graduate student,
a) has submitted all necessary records concerning obligatory and optional
courses of MOSES, agreed with the supervisors of the thesis,
b) has handed over all necessary participation certificates of the optional
courses of the individual research programme, and a proof issued by the
supervisor about successful research work concerning the thesis topic.
§ 5 Intermediate Exam
In the intermediate exam the graduate student shall demonstrate the following
issues:
• Necessary scientific prerequisites to complete the doctoral work,
• Awareness of scientific, technological and technical state of the art,
methods and methodologies for the doctoral work,
• Scientific novelty of the approach(es), pursued in the doctoral work,
• Scientific capabilities in presentation, reasoning and defending the
doctoral work.
The intermediate exam is held as oral colleague exam and is evaluated by
DEDC and the scientific supervisors of the doctoral work.
Evaluation of the intermediate exam is made as per the following marks:
1 = very good the performance is excellent
2 = good the performance significantly exceeds medium standards
3 = satisfactory the performance corresponds to medium standards
4 = sufficient the performance fulfils, despite deficiencies, the standards
5 = not sufficient the performance does, due to significant deficiencies, not
fulfil the standards
If the intermediate exam has not been passed, it can be repeated once during
a period of 3 to 6 months. Should the performance repeatedly be not sufficient,
the intermediate exam will be finally not passed and the graduate student will
not longer be a researcher in MOSES.
The doctoral student will obtain within 4 weeks a certificate, which indicates
the result of the exam and the name of the examiners.

§ 6 Qualification for Admission to Doctorate Degree
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For admission to the doctorate degree examination the following is to be
proven:
1. Regular and successful participation in courses and seminars, furthermore the
participation in MOSES’ regular assessments (annual spring and annual fall
presentations),
2. Successful completion of intermediate examination,
3. That a scientific thesis in German or English language about the doctoral
research work has been submitted to the supervisor. The thesis must present
a significant scientific contribution to the chosen topic of the research project.
The supervisor shall use his influence to get the thesis or excerpts of it
published in international scientific papers with an expert review system (peer
review).
§ 7 Evaluation of the Thesis
To evaluate the thesis, DEDC shall obtain at least one external referee report,
which is passed on to the doctoral committees of the faculties for means of
consideration. Should the committee come to a negative result, the doctoral
procedure cannot be initiated, the exam will finally not have been passed and
if this is the case, the graduate student will be taken off the MOSES register.
The graduate student will get within a period of two weeks a written
confirmation that the thesis has been accepted as the written thesis or
rejected.
§ 8 Application for Doctoral Promotion
The application for doctoral promotion is sent to the dean of the faculty coming
into question and follows the doctoral regulations of the faculties of mechanical
and electrical engineering/computer science, respectively, available as
separate documents.
The doctoral student has to submit the application for the doctorate degree to
the deans of the faculties as per
- § 5 of doctoral regulations of the faculty of mechanical engineering (Dr. Ing.), if
the l subject and background is mainly mechanical engineering,
- § 5 of doctoral regulations of the faculty of electrical engineering/computer
science (Dr. Ing., Dr. rer. nat), if the doctoral subject and background is mainly
electrical engineering/computer science. The final decision which doctoral
degree is to be awarded is subject to the doctoral commission of the
corresponding departments,
- The final decision which faculty will be responsible for the implementation of
the doctoral promotion is made by DEDC upon applicant’s suggestion,

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DEDC is responsible for the fulfilment of the doctoral regulations and verifies
this fulfilment by a certificate which must be included in the applicant’s
application.
The graduate student has to submit, apart from the documentation mentioned
in the study regulations, the following documents:
1. certificate about the successful exam,
2. the written confirmation about the positive evaluation of DEDC that the
thesis has been accepted by the Research School.
Siegen, September 2008
Research School
on
Multi Modal Sensor Systems for Environmental Exploration and Safety (MOSES)