2024-2025 Graduate Catalog | | Plan DescriptionThe objective of the interdisciplinary M.S.Biomedical Engineering degree program is to provide a graduate-level educational experience that will prepare individuals to undertake design and research in the area of biomedical engineering. The program is multidisciplinary and integrates knowledge from various disciplines that may include traditional engineering sciences, integrated health sciences, dental medicine, life sciences, and medicine. Specific goals of the program include development are to: - Demonstrate a thorough grounding in the biomedical field;
- Apply knowledge of engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors;
- Use engineering tools and approaches to solve biomedical related problems;
- Identify the problems of making and interpreting quantitative measurements of living systems;
- Use modeling techniques to understand biomedical phenomena and guide biomedical design; and
- Formulate and solve problems with medical relevance, including the design of devices, systems, and processes to improve human health.
For more information about your program, including your graduate program handbook and learning outcomes please visit the Degree Directory . Plan Admission RequirementsApplication deadlines Applications available on the UNLV Graduate College website . In addition to the general requirements for admission to the Graduate College , an applicant for the M.S. program must complete the following requirements: - Applicants must complete the on-line process in the Grad Rebel Gateway system;
- Applicants must provide two additional items while completing the process in the Grad Rebel Gateway system:
- A written statement of purpose indicating interests and objectives in working toward a M.S. For thesis track, applicants are strongly recommended to list three potential thesis advisors.
- Two letters of recommendation using the online recommendation system. There is no specified format. Each letter should detail the potential of the applicant for success in the Biomedical Engineering M.S. program.
- The applicant must have a regionally accredited bachelor’s degree in related STEM fields.
- The graduate program committee will examine the applicant’s academic record and will make the final determination of the applicant’s admissibility to the M.S. program. In general, a minimum post baccalaureate GPA of 3.00 on a 4.00 scale or equivalent is preferred for admission.
- All domestic and international applicants must review and follow the Graduate College Admission and Registration Requirements.
Students are accepted into a degree program as described in the Graduate Catalog. The faculty and corresponding sub-disciplines and sub-plans within the described programs are subject to change at any time. Plan RequirementsSee Subplan Requirements below: Subplan 1: Non-Thesis Subplan 2: Thesis Subplan 1 Requirements: Non-ThesisTotal Credits Required: 30 Course RequirementsRequired courses – credits: 6. Complete 6 credits by completing all of the following courses: - BMD 701 - Seminar in Biomedical Engineering
- BMD 702 - Seminar in Biomedical Engineering II
Elective Courses – Credits: 21Complete 21 credits of advisor-approved common foundational biomedical engineering and health science courses across units. Design Project – Credits: 3Degree Requirements- Requires 30 credits of approved graduate courses. At least 18 credits must be earned from 700-level courses.
- File an approved degree program before the completion of nine credits of coursework.
- Complete at least six credits of the approved program per calendar year.
- Maintain a grade point average (GPA) of 3.00 on a 4.00 scale with no grades below C. Grades of C- or below are not acceptable.
- Students must comply with Graduate College policy. If progress is not satisfactory, probation and separation may result, in accordance with the rules of the Graduate College.
- Courses numbered below 600 do not count toward the credits required for the M.S. degree.
Graduation RequirementsSuccessfully complete a design project. Students may apply for graduation up to two semesters prior to completing their degree requirements. All required forms must be submitted to the graduate college via the Grad Rebel Gateway . Subplan 2 Requirements: ThesisComplete 6 credits by completing all of the folowing courses: Elective Courses – Credits: 18Complete 18 credits of advisor-approved common foundational biomedical engineering and health science courses across units. Thesis – Credits: 6- BMD 797 - Thesis
- Requires 24 credits of approved graduate courses plus six credits of work associated with the master’s level thesis, for a total of 30 credits. At least 15 credits must be earned from 700-level courses. The final examination will include a defense of thesis.
- One Thesis Advisor;
- Two faculty members from the relevant research field;
- One Graduate College representative.
The student must submit and successfully defend their thesis by the posted deadline. The defense must be advertised and is open to the public. After the thesis defense, the student must electronically submit a properly formatted pdf copy of their thesis to the Graduate College for format check. Once the thesis format has been approved by the Graduate College, the student will submit the approved electronic version to ProQuest. Deadlines for thesis defenses, format check submissions, and the final ProQuest submission can be found here. Plan Graduation RequirementsRefer to your subplan for Graduation Requirements: Her master’s degree was on hold during WWII. She just received it at age 105.‘It was a wonderful surprise, even 83 years late,’ said Virginia Hislop of Yakima, Wash., who was honored at Stanford University this month In 1941, Virginia Hislop put plans to write her master’s degree thesis on hold after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and launched the United States into World War II. Love also had something to do with it. Her fiancé at Stanford University had been called to serve in the military, and Hislop said they decided to get married so she could move with him to Oklahoma. George Hislop had been assigned to a teaching team at Fort Sill Army Base . “I was just about to graduate, but all best-laid plans were put aside during the war,” said Hislop, now living in Yakima, Wash., where she is known to family and friends as Ginger. “I always thought I could pick things up again sometime along the way,” she said. Eighty-three years later at age 105, she finally got that chance . On June 16, Hislop returned to Stanford University to receive the Master of Arts degree in education that she had come close to finishing at age 22. When Dan Schwartz, the dean of Stanford’s graduate school of education, learned from Hislop’s son-in-law Doug Jensen that she had missed out on her dream eight decades ago, he decided that Stanford could help make up for lost time. Schwartz did some research and learned that a thesis was no longer required for the coursework Hislop had completed before the war. “The rules had changed since 1941 for her requirements, and she deserved a diploma,” he said. “I looked up her transcript and saw that she’d definitely earned it.” During his opening commencement speech, Schwartz called Hislop to the stage to get her diploma before anybody else. “I told everyone that usually you give a degree before someone starts their life, but now you get to see a degree awarded after their life has occurred,” he said. “Ginger is a very sharp woman, and to see the beauty of her accomplishment was a wonderful thing,” he added. “When I met her, my first thought was, ‘Hey, wait a minute — this is someone in her 80s.’” Jensen said he decided to contact Schwartz when he noticed that Hislop was feeling down after the death of his wife (and her daughter), Anne Jensen, last year. Anne was Hislop’s first child. She has also outlived her son William, who died in 2011, and her husband, who died in 1986. “She and Anne were really close, so I began going up to Yakima and spending time with Ginger,” said Jensen, 79, who lives in Oakland, Calif. He and Anne were both Stanford graduates. “Over the dinner table, Ginger began telling me stories, including how she’d gotten married before the war and wasn’t able to finish her thesis and get her master’s degree,” Jensen said. “Since all she was missing was a thesis, I thought maybe Stanford could give her an honorary degree.” When Schwartz told him the university could do better than that, Jensen phoned Hislop with the good news. “I thought he was kidding me,” Hislop said. “It was a wonderful surprise, even 83 years late.” After graduating from high school in Southern California in 1936, Hislop said, she had hoped to become a lawyer, but her strict father put his foot down. “It was a different time, and he didn’t think women should go to law school,” she said. Instead, Hislop earned a bachelor’s degree in education at Stanford, then she completed the required coursework for her master’s degree. After she met George Hislop at Stanford and they got married, she concentrated on raising their two children in Yakima, where they had moved to help George’s father run the family sheep ranch. She said she wasn’t bothered at putting off her thesis, because plenty of other lives were also uprooted during the war. “I spent five years as an Army wife, which I figure is the equivalent of a master’s degree,” Hislop said. Even without an official master’s diploma, she said, she put her Stanford education to good use by serving on the Yakima School District Board of Directors for 13 years. “I decided to run for the board when my daughter’s school told her she’d have to take home economics instead of advanced English,” she said. “I told them she could cook at home and that school was a place for academics.” Hislop was also a founding member of Yakima Community College’s board of directors, and for two decades she served on the board of directors of Heritage University , which is on the Yakama Indian Reservation in Toppenish, Wash. She said her emphasis was helping Native American women have more access to education. Although Hislop no longer serves on the board, she said she has remained healthy into her 100s by pulling weeds in her garden, attending educational lectures and symphony concerts, and doing her own grocery shopping. “I no longer drive, but I have friends who will take me where I need to go,” she said, noting that she has lived in the same house since 1959. Hislop’s advice to anyone hoping to reach her age is to “have some interests outside of what you’re going to have for breakfast.” “I would also say to treasure your health,” she said. “Things will be a lot better for you if you pay attention to your body and not stress out so much.” She said it was easy to relax at Stanford’s commencement ceremony because “everything moved along at a quick clip.” “I’m always afraid of things like that lasting too long,” she said. “I was very happy it was brief.” She still smiled, though, when she received a standing ovation after Schwartz awarded her with her master’s degree as four grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren looked on. “We’re incredibly proud of her and the legacy of education that she turned into a family value,” said grandson Michael Jensen, 49. He said that he and his cousins have always referred to Hislop as the “Evil Elf” because of her unfiltered comments at family gatherings over the holidays. “She has a wicked sense of humor, and we can always count on grandma to liven things up,” Jensen said. Hislop said they can also count on her to not display her new master’s degree in the living room. “It’s now hanging in my closet, where I plan to look at it from time to time and remind myself that I’m a pretty good scholar,” she said. |
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Choosing Between a Thesis or Non-thesis Master's Degree. As of 2015, approximately 25.4 million Americans held advanced degrees, with more citizens joining these ranks each year.As studies continue to show the career advancement and salary benefits of completing a master's degree, more and more students elect to pursue advanced educations.
Revised on April 16, 2024. A thesis is a type of research paper based on your original research. It is usually submitted as the final step of a master's program or a capstone to a bachelor's degree. Writing a thesis can be a daunting experience. Other than a dissertation, it is one of the longest pieces of writing students typically complete.
Overall, a master's thesis is designed to support a graduate student's academic and professional qualifications for a degree by presenting research findings. While it's important to note that some graduate programs offer non-thesis tracks for master's degrees, the thesis is the main capstone staple for many others.
Definition of Dissertation and Thesis. The dissertation or thesis is a scholarly treatise that substantiates a specific point of view as a result of original research that is conducted by students during their graduate study. At Cornell, the thesis is a requirement for the receipt of the M.A. and M.S. degrees and some professional master's ...
A bachelor's thesis is often 40-60 pages long, a diploma thesis and a master's thesis usually 60-100. The required submission for a doctorate is called a Dissertation or Doktorarbeit. The submission for a Habilitation, which is an academic qualification, not an academic degree, ...
Craft a convincing dissertation or thesis research proposal. Write a clear, compelling introduction chapter. Undertake a thorough review of the existing research and write up a literature review. Undertake your own research. Present and interpret your findings. Draw a conclusion and discuss the implications.
Writing a masters dissertation or thesis is a sizable task. It takes a considerable amount of research, studying and writing. Usually, students need to write around 10,000 to 15,000 words. It is completely normal to find the idea of writing a masters thesis or dissertation slightly daunting, even for students who have written one before at ...
That being said, if you get blindsided, don't refuse help. Seek it out, and take the time you need to recover. Your degree is supposed to help you become a stronger and smarter person, not break you. Part 6: Polish and Defend Your Master's Thesis How to Write a Master's Thesis: The Final Stages
A thesis could consist of an average of 70 to 100 pages, including a bibliography, citations, and various sections. It is written under the guidance of a faculty advisor and should be publishable as an article. Your master's thesis reflects the literature in your field, challenges, evidence, and arguments around your writing topics.
Thesis. Your thesis is the central claim in your essay—your main insight or idea about your source or topic. Your thesis should appear early in an academic essay, followed by a logically constructed argument that supports this central claim. A strong thesis is arguable, which means a thoughtful reader could disagree with it and therefore ...
A master's thesis is presented at the end of the master's program, which is about one or two years. The thesis is a critical part of completing the degree. A PhD dissertation takes a considerable amount of time, ranging from 4 to 7 years.
First, you need to find a topic (or "thesis question"), often with the help and/or approval of your faculty-led thesis committee. Next comes the process of research, which is often the most time-intensive. Then, you must take the time to analyze your research. Lastly, you outline and write the actual thesis. Thanks!
Prize-Winning Thesis and Dissertation Examples. Published on September 9, 2022 by Tegan George.Revised on July 18, 2023. It can be difficult to know where to start when writing your thesis or dissertation.One way to come up with some ideas or maybe even combat writer's block is to check out previous work done by other students on a similar thesis or dissertation topic to yours.
Tip #2: Begin Work on the Thesis Statement and Break Up the Thesis into Manageable Sections. After selecting an appropriate topic and developing a central research question for the thesis statement, it is then necessary to apply the research and writing skills you have learned throughout your degree program.
GUIDELINES FOR WRITING A MASTER'S THESIS FOR THE M.A. DEGREE Jeremy Bailey Susan Scarrow August 2010 What is a Master's Thesis? A master's thesis is a piece of original scholarship written under the direction of a faculty advisor. A master's thesis is similar to a doctoral dissertation, but it is generally shorter and more narrowly focused.
It is possible that some Honours/Masters thesis might even be more significant/higher quality than a PhD thesis. Unfortunately, this does not mean that the submission of the thesis will award the degree that they deserve. The university may have a policy to upgrade the student's enrolment if the supervisor senses that such progress is being made.
While the standard length of a master's thesis is around 100 pages, a doctoral dissertation can be upwards of 400-500 pages. While most students can finish their PhD dissertation or thesis in as little as 1-2 years, it can take as long as 7 years depending on the school, program, and dissertation topic. As doctoral programs have their own ...
Write your Master's thesis: the right structure. It's helpful to start here by going over the structure of a master's thesis. The precise way that different master's theses are structured is largely going to depend on the discipline area. But most of the time, empirical dissertations follow a format including: Abstract; Table of contents
A Master's degree requires a thesis, but so do most Bachelor's degrees. So the Master's thesis is the second thesis for a student, after the Bachelor's thesis. Neither degree is called a "diploma" in the US. The term "diploma" is a general one for a certificate (piece of paper) showing graduation.
Conclusion. Choosing between a thesis and a non-thesis Master's program ultimately depends on your career goals, research interests, and personal preferences. Thesis programs provide a robust foundation for research-oriented careers and advanced studies, while non-thesis programs offer practical skills tailored for immediate industry integration.
Dissertation & Thesis Outline | Example & Free Templates. Published on June 7, 2022 by Tegan George. Revised on November 21, 2023. A thesis or dissertation outline ... Tegan is an American based in Amsterdam, with master's degrees in political science and education administration. While she is definitely a political scientist at heart, her ...
Final Thoughts. "Master's Thesis" is an expression that means "the thesis of a master". Because of the strong sense of belonging it presents, it's important to use it with the correct possessive form, including an apostrophe. "Master's Thesis" is the correct form. "Master Thesis" is incorrect and should always be avoided.
I searched online and I understood that "master's degree" retains the apostrophe, while the relative thesis is commonly referred to as "master thesis". However, of the forms. Master thesis; Master's degree thesis; Master degree thesis; Which one is wrong, which is right and which should be preferable to use on a thesis cover?
Thesis vs. Dissertation: These terms often come up in discussions about graduate research requirements. A thesis is a research project required for a master's degree, involving original research on a specific topic and presenting the findings in a written document. A dissertation, however, is an extensive research project required for a doctoral degree, involving more comprehensive and in ...
Master's thesis: Students conduct independent psychological research in line with their own interests. Topics can range from fundamental to applied and frequently lead to publication in scientific peer-reviewed journals. ... hold a Bachelor or Master's degree in Psychology or in a related field of science and technology, possess a solid ...
The Master of Science in Nursing program (Education, Administration and FNP) is designed to build upon the BSN degree and is offered at the University of Houston at Katy and online. Students in this program are prepared to function at advanced levels with an expanded knowledge of theory, research and clinical application.
The thesis must be written in scholarly format, with the appropriate citation format and extensive references. The literature review developed for the thesis proposal should serve as the initial component of the thesis. Typical thesis length: 50 or more pages. Required Course Sequence for Thesis. LBST-D 601 Graduate Project Proposal Seminar; OR
Requires 24 credits of approved graduate courses plus six credits of work associated with the master's level thesis, for a total of 30 credits. At least 15 credits must be earned from 700-level courses. The final examination will include a defense of thesis. Students must make satisfactory progress toward degree completion as defined below:
Virginia "Ginger" Hislop, 105, recently walked the stage at Stanford University to receive her master's degree in education for the coursework she completed in 1941.
In 1941, Virginia Hislop put plans to write her master's degree thesis on hold after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and launched the United States into World War II. Love also had something to do ...