• Thesis orals should be scheduled only during academic periods -- not during holidays, weekends, etc., and should be scheduled in normal business hours. Exceptions must be approved by the Co-Directors.
  
  
• The student should coordinate the date with the committee members and finalize the date at least one month in advance to allow time for travel arrangements, final review and comments by the committee. Be sure to check with Diane Stidle before finalizing the date, to make sure there are no other orals scheduled at the chosen time. Thesis orals or proposals will not be scheduled to overlap.

Send to Graduate Program Administrator:

• Information Needed for Posting Notice
  • Date
  • Time
  • Place
  • Title
  • Current list of the thesis committee members, including external member/affiliation.
• Thesis Abstract - Less than 350 words describing the thesis. Send link (optional) to the draft document.
• If the talk will be remote complete the livestreat consent form:
  https://www.cmu.edu/es/docs/livestream-consent.pdf

Make sure all of your committee members are in attendance before you start the talk.

After your talk, your committee will discuss and inform you of their decision. Please ask your advisor to send the Program Administrator and email confirming that you have passed your defense.

• Check for research credits that should be listed on your final thesis with Russ O'Lare (rdo@cs)
• Request a Technical Report number from Graduate Program Administrator
  • Your thesis will be made into a ML Technical Report and posted on-line with the other Machine Learning Technical Reports.
• Check for proper title page format
• Once formatted and approved by your thesis committee, send your Graduate Program Administrator the final .pdf document to publish.
  
• Graduate Programs Administrator will bind one copy of the final document for you. If you wish to have additional copies bound, please let your Administrator know how many. 
• Please fill out the Survey of Earned Doctorates

• Needed for Hunt Library to publish your thesis (don't do Proquest portion of form):

  https://www.library.cmu.edu/sites/drupal-live.library.cmu.edu/files/ETD_SubmissionChecklist_Form_2019.pdf

• I will not certify your degree until you send me the thesis document and Dissertation Checklist!

• Also fill out this form:
  https://sed-ncses.org/login.aspx

• To transition your SCS account to CMU Alumni account:
  https://computing.cs.cmu.edu/accounts-access/transition-student-services.html