MOSES Examination Regulations

§ 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,