\u2028At least one week before the defense:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Book a room: Students are responsible for booking a room for the defense. Rooms should hold at least 20 people. <\/p>\n Arrange for equipment: projector or screen, adaptors, cables, remote, laser pointer, etc.\u2028\u00a0<\/p>\n Day of the defense:<\/strong> Masters thesis or PhD dissertation\u00a0oral\u00a0defense \u2028At least one week before the defense:\u00a0\u00a0 At minimum, the student will announce their defense on the MAFGRAD listserve and hang hard copy announcements in the CIK. The announcement should include: research project title, student name, location, day\/time, and short abstract,\u00a0names of chair and committee members (including department and role […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1962,"featured_media":0,"parent":6775,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-9044","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9047,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9044\/revisions\/9047"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAt minimum, the student will announce their defense on the MAFGRAD listserve and hang hard copy announcements in the CIK. The announcement should include: research project title, student name, location, day\/time, and short abstract,\u00a0names of chair and committee members (including department and role on the committee) and\u00a0photo\/image.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n1. The defense chair welcomes all to the defense and introduces\u00a0the committee, the\u00a0student and research title.\u00a0 Defense chair turns it over to the major advisor who asks the first question:\u00a0 Can you (defending student) give us a brief overview of your research? (~20 minute presentation)\u2028
\n2.\u00a0After the student presentation, there is a brief pause for audience members to leave if they would like (before the Committee questions). \u00a0\u00a0
\n3. Each committee member generally gets\u00a010 minutes to ask questions in the first round.\u00a0 There is another round or two of questions, depending on time.\u00a0 The defense chair moderates this discussion and can ask questions if desired.\u2028\u00a0\u2028
\n4. Once the committee is done asking questions, the defense chair asks if anyone in the audience has questions.
\n5. The audience and the student are asked to leave so the committee can deliberate for 10-15 minutes.
\n6. The student is invited back to the room for discussion and to hear\u00a0the results of the deliberation.\u2028
\n7. Student\u00a0is responsible for taking all signed forms over to the Graduate School (204 Quinn Hall).\u2028\u00a0\u2028Total time of defense–including deliberations–lasts no more than 2 hours per Graduate School policy. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"