Grad Transp Sys Design

Students will be required to work in teams for certain parts of, and maybe complete studio design projects. This reflects the reality of professional life as a designer. It also enables the final outcomes of projects to have much greater significance, value and complexity. It also leverages the different strengths and backgrounds that each of our students brings to the program. As a student in our program, we are preparing you to also be natural leaders in your professional life - both as thought leaders and to enable you to seize opportunities that you spot, which benefit the projects, the departments or the enterprises that you will be working with. That said, working in teams or taking the lead can be challenging and not comfortable for many aspiring designers. While our faculty, experienced team-players and leaders, will always help students throughout their studio project work, this course will take the form of three workshops over the term where specific experts will help students learn foundational skills in creative leadership and teamwork.

This will be the final stage of the Thesis Project. To successfully complete this Studio course, students will be expected to demonstrably validate their Thesis Project through user-testing, external, expert feedback and a highly professional summary presentation of their project. Students will continue to work with their Thesis Advisors, meeting with them on a weekly basis.

This 14-week course, supports students as they approach the conclusion of their Thesis Project by ensuring that their attendant Thesis Report is developed to the required scholarly level, appropriate to an MS degree. Expert faculty will work with students individually to regularly review their progress and ensure that all required sections of the Thesis Report are developed. The aim of the course is to ensure that at the end of the term, when their Thesis Project is completed and that all curricular requirements are fulfilled, all students can complete any outstanding expert validation and Thesis Project reflections as part of the Thesis Report within a short period of time after graduating. Satisfactory submission of the a final Thesis Report triggers the official granting of the Masters of Science degree.

Thesis completion is the vehicle by which students who have completed all their required curricular courses but not completed their required Thesis Report, have access to faculty for guidance towards finalizing their Thesis Report. The submission of a final Thesis Report, which has been reviewed by the department head and Thesis Faculty Panel and deemed satisfactory according to the department guidelines, is a requirement for the official granting of the Master of Science Degree.

Thesis continuation is the vehicle by which students who have completed all their required curricular courses have access to program faculty for guidance towards finalizing their Thesis Report. The submission of a final Thesis Report, which has been reviewed by the department head and the Thesis Faculty Panel and deemed satisfactory according to the department guidelines, is a requirement for the granting of the Master of Science Degree.