Thesis Defence Committee Specification

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For DSAAI PhD students.

The Thesis Supervisor is responsible for CHOOSING and CONFIRMING the following committee members, including the Chair. The Supervisor submits this form.

Please note the following:

Instructors are generally not eligible to serve on a defence committee. If an instructor is selected, justification is required and must be emailed to DSAAI@carleton.ca.

A Chair cannot be from any of the participating DSAAI units. To receive a list of potential Chairs, please email DSAAI@carleton.ca.

This information must be provided at least six weeks before the proposed defence date.

For further details about the doctoral thesis, visit: Guidelines for Completion of a Doctoral Degree.

Disclaimer: If the Thesis Supervisor doesn’t receive an automated submission confirmation of this form, this form has NOT been submitted and must be submitted again.

Candidate's name:(Required)

First Last

Has the Candidate completed and passed their doctoral proposal defence?

Yes, the Candidate has completed and passed the doctoral proposal defence.

No, the Candidate has NOT completed and passed the doctoral proposal defence.

WARNING: The DSAAI doctoral proposal defence should be completed and passed before the student defends their thesis. Please contact DSAAI@carleton.ca immediately.

Supervisor's name:(Required)

First Last

Supervisor's email:(Required)

Is there a co-supervisor?(Required)

Yes, there is a co-supervisor

No, there is no co-supervisor

Co-Supervisor's name:(Required)

First Last

Co-Supervisor's email:(Required)

Committee Members

External Examiner:(Required)
An External Examiner must be someone outside of Carleton University who is a recognized authority in the subject of the thesis and has no conflict of interest with the candidate and the supervisor(s).

First name:
Last name:
Email:
University:
Department:

Internal Examiner:(Required)
An Internal Examiner is from Carleton University but from a different department than the candidate’s home unit, and who has been at arm’s length from the thesis research.

I.e., if the Candidate home’s unit is Computer Science, the internal member cannot be from Computer Science.

First name:
Last name:
Email:
Department:

DSAAI Faculty:(Required)
First name:
Last name:
Email:

Carleton Faculty:(Required)
First name:
Last name:
Email:
Department:

Chair of Defence:(Required)
Cannot be from any of the participating DSAAI units.

First name:
Last name:
Email:
Department:

Date of defence:(Required)
MM slash DD slash YYYY

Time of defence:(Required)

Hours

:

Minutes

AM/PM

Defence location:(Required)

In-Person

Virtual

Virtual (Zoom):(Required)

I will set up the Zoom session and share it with DSAAI@carleton.ca

I would like a Grad Advisor to set up the Zoom session

Once the Graduate Director approves this defence, a Grad Advisor will send a confirming email to the entire committee with the defence details.

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