DESIGN OF MSc THESIS PROJECTS FOR NON-SPECIALISTS

In this paper we address the problem of defining a MSc Thesis for students who do not belong to the area of expertise of their advisors. This problem arises at many Universities due to the large number of students enrolled for courses and the small number of advisors available which lead to a high student/advisor ratio. This fact usually forces advisors to supervise students which either belong to a broad variety of different degrees or possess a different background knowledge. Thus, a general procedure to design projects is presented proposing some guidelines to handle this situation. Finally, the general procedure is applied to the case when the advisor belongs to the Control Theory field whereas students might belong to a broad variety of technical studies not directly concerned with Automation/Control Theory.