thesis presentation aalto

• Publications and theses
• Web resources
• Contact information
• Mailing Lists
• Preparing a Bachelor's Thesis +
• Preparing a Master's Thesis −
• Supervisors
• Gradschool +

Preparing a Master's Thesis

Starting the thesis work:.

• Familiarize yourself with SCI's instructions and thesis process ; these instructions and process descriptions are valid with the exception that you do not have to give a presentation of your thesis
• Agree upon the thesis topic with your supervisor .
• Apply for the approval of the topic 

Preparing your thesis:

• Primary guidance comes from your advisor.
• Discuss the thesis structure with your supervisor already in the early phase of the process.
• Remember that all theses are public documents.
• The Systems Analysis Laboratory maintains an archive of all master's theses online. If you add the text below in Finnish or in English to the cover page of your thesis, your thesis can be made openly available in this archive: "Työn saa tallentaa ja julkistaa Aalto-yliopiston avoimilla verkkosivuilla. Muilta osin kaikki oikeudet pidätetään. " "The document can be stored and made available to the public on the open internet pages of Aalto University. All other rights are reserved. " If the text has not been added, the thesis will be password-protected but still available in the laboratory.

Finalizing the thesis:

• You will need to give a presentation of on your thesis (about 15 minutes). Unless you have agreed otherwise with your supervisor, you can give this presentation in the weekly seminar of the Systems Analysis Laboratory, held on Mondays at 15.15 in RIIHI (Y225a, Otakaari 1). Once your supervisor has agreed that you are ready to present your thesis in this seminar, please contact Leevi Olander to reserve a time. After giving the presentation, please fill in the thesis presentation form on your part and ask your supervisor to sign and submit it to the student services of the MSc programme . 
• Deliver the thesis to the supervisor for feedback and guidance. Note that the supervisor may need up to a month to read your thesis. You may also need time to edit and correct your thesis. 
• Once the thesis has been submitted, the supervisor typically contacts the advisor before preparing the assessment statement. 

Submitting the thesis:

• Follow the SCI-level instructions and links
• Email a pdf copy of the thesis to Minna Westerlund .  
• If you choose to have your thesis bound as a hard copy, it is common to give a bound copy to your advisor and supervisor.

Evaluation of the thesis:

• The supervisor proposes a grade for your thesis in the assessment statement. See evaluation principles .
• The Master's Programme Committee accepts all theses and decides on the grades.

Congratulations!

• You have graduated with valuable skills in Systems and Operations Research! 
• Keep in touch with us also in the future!

Aalto University

Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis

How to Find Us

Sign In for Personnel

Copyright © 2024 Systems Analysis Laboratory. All rights reserved.

Economics MSc Thesis Information

Department of economics - aalto university school of business, thesis topics and research questions.

Research is motivated by questions. Whether you are doing a literature review or producing original research, it is crucial to be clear about what the research question is. (Usually one is the right number of research questions in an MSc thesis). To determine whether a question is interesting, it is worth considering what would be the use of a credible and precise answer if you (or the literature that you review) obtained it? The hypothetical "user(s)" may be firms, governments, other organizations, or consumers.

The thesis must allow you to show learnedness in Economics . ("Opinnäyte" = "Demonstration of learnedness"). It is not meant to show your learnedness in all aspects and all fields of economics. In particular, there is no need to include both theory and empirical sections in every thesis. Original research and original literature reviews are equally meritorious. However, there needs to be some part in every thesis that addresses the main research question while going deeper into the subject from at least one angle in a way that requires MSc-level Economics.

It is valuable to pick a topic that you find interesting, so that working on the thesis feels less like work. However, not all interesting questions in economics make for good MSc thesis topics. It would be wise to discuss the topic with a faculty member before becoming invested in it.

Examples of thesis topics

List of examples of topic areas and specific thesis topics suggested by faculty.

If you are interested in working on a listed topic, contact the faculty member who suggested it. However, students may be reassigned between advisors in order to keep their numbers balanced across advisors, and also due to faculty leaves of absence.

The list contains also topic areas, which are broader than thesis topics and where you could discuss many types of potential research questions suited for various levels of ambition. It would result in a literature review or in original research in some subset of the topic area.

One purpose of the list is to help students formulate their own research questions by showing what is a proper depth and breadth of a thesis topic. If you have a potential topic, you can simply approach a faculty member with an email that includes an informal description (a couple of paragraphs). If you would like to get started on your thesis, but have no idea for a topic, you can simply ask a faculty member for a topic of their choice in some broad area of economic interest. If you don't know which faculty member to turn to, don't worry, the first one will forward you to a more appropriate one if necessary.

Resources for choosing a thesis topic

Enrolling in the 2023-24 seminars.

To enroll in the thesis seminar a student must have a topic accepted by a faculty member at the Department of Economics. The deadline for the Fall 2023 seminar is May 31st and November 15th for the Spring 2024 seminar. Adjusting the topic to be suitable for approval may require some back-and-forth between the student and the faculty, so students should make sure to begin the process several weeks before the deadline. The student must then notify Kristiina Huttunen (for participation in the Fall seminar) or Marko Terviö (Spring seminar) by email about the topic in the form of a provisional title for the thesis with the faculty member who approved it in cc. After that the student can enroll in the seminar just like in any other course (code 31E99905). The initial approved topic is not set in stone: it can be changed subject to the same approval procedure as the initial topic.

The purpose of the MSc thesis seminar is to learn to present, critique, and comment economic research. When the seminar begins the participants must therefore have already made some progress on their thesis, and need to be ready in the second week of the seminar to give their first presentation (in which the research question is introduced in the context of a broader topic). In the second seminar period students give their main presentation, accompanied by the main paper. These focus on communicating the results of economics research, either your own or the research that your review. The main paper is max 30 pages and the presentation 20-25 minutes. For more information, see the seminar page at MyCourses. The seminar is not meant to substitute for thesis supervision, for which purpose each thesis writer has an individual faculty advisor.

Further information

The seminar is organized by Kristiina Huttunen in Fall 2023 and Marko Terviö in Spring 2024. See the seminar page at MyCourses (search for "31E99905") for current information on seminar work. The official course descriptions for the new academic year won't be published in Oodi until August.

The working language of the seminar is English. The main paper can be written in either Finnish or English, but presentations and discussions in the seminar will be in English.

General advice for the Economics MSc Thesis Seminar -->

Helsinki GSE   |   Faculty Homepages  |  Department of Economics   |   School of Business   |   Aalto University

Computer science: Theses and dissertations

• Articles and databases
• Theses and dissertations
• Standards and patents
• Encyclopedias and dictionaries
• Can't find it?

Publishing of master's and bachelor's theses

The Master's and Bachelor’s theses are collected in Aaltodoc publication archive via MyCourses and the eAge electronic service delivery system.

Instructions:

• Instructions on submitting the Master's and Bachelor’s thesis, see your school's pages in Into
• Please note! Submit your thesis in PDF/A format. See instructions on converting a file to PDF/A format

Contact information:

• eAge-system: [email protected]
• Aaltodoc: [email protected]

Other theses and dissertations

Find master's theses, licentiate theses and bachelor's theses.

Electronic theses are stored in the Aaltodoc publication archive. Master's and licentiate theses are published online with a permission of the author.

• Aaltodoc publication archive

Bachelor's theses of the schools of technology have been archived only in electronic format from the beginning of 2008. In Inssi database and Aaltodoc it is possible to access the full-text versions only with a password. Please contact the Learning Centre staff in order to access the files.

Printed master's and licentiate theses are mainly situated in the archive of Learning Centre, from which they can be ordered for reading. Information on the printed and electronic theses can be searched via the Inssi database.

• Inssi database

Aalto user, report a problem with e-resources to the Learning Centre

Find doctoral dissertations

Printed doctoral dissertations are situated in the Learning Centre and other libraries at the Otaniemi Campus. Information on the doctoral dissertations can be searched via Aalto-Primo .

The majority of doctoral dissertations of the schools of technology have been published also in electronic format since 2000.

Electronic doctoral dissertations are available in the Aaltodoc publication archive.

Publishing of doctoral dissertations

Doctoral dissertations of the schools of technology are published mainly in the Aalto University DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS series. Publications are put together on the publication platform webservice , and the process is finished with placing an order to the printing house.

It is preferable to publish the electronic version of the dissertation in Aaltodoc  publication archive. The publication can be published in Aaltodoc only upon the permission of all the publication authors.

Further information:

• Publishing dissertations (Aalto.fi)
• Questions relating the use of the publication platform, the publishing process and the Aalto publication series: [email protected]
• Questions relating the Aaltodoc, the electronic publishing and the electronic archiving of theses: [email protected]
• Schedule an appointment for an instruction session on publication platform
• << Previous: Articles and databases
• Next: Standards and patents >>
• Last Updated: May 2, 2024 10:44 AM
• URL: https://libguides.aalto.fi/computer

Student Guide

Workshop on writing article thesis summary

Event language(s)

• Microsoft Outlook
• Web Outlook
• Google Calendar

The purpose is this workshop is to inspire you to complete your thesis! You can join one or more workshop sessions.

The Language Centre and Doctoral education services arrange the workshops in English once a month on Tuesdays over Teams.

More information about the workshops in Finnish (aalto.fi)

The workshops in English are held on Tuesdays 8:30-11:30:

Autumn 2024

13.8., 3.9., 8.10., 5.11., 3.12.

Spring 2025

7.1., 4.2., 4.3., 15.4.

The workshop centres on the key elements of a doctoral thesis and focuses on the structure of the integrative summary. We also examine academic style, citation strategies and individual choices regarding reporting voice.

The workshop concludes in a review session, which is a good opportunity to test your work-in-progress on a peer and get feedback on elements you're struggling with. The session is interactive so feel free to come with questions!

The workshop is facilitated by Dr Pia Lappalainen. Please register to her ( [email protected] ) to obtain the Teams link. Please use your Aalto email to sign up. Only doctoral students studying at Aalto are accepted to the workshops.

Doctoral thesis at Aalto University

Resources, guidelines and information on doctoral theses at Aalto University

Finalising your doctoral studies

Doctoral students at the end phases of studies: information on pre-examination, defence, publishing the thesis and graduation, etc.

Feedback about the page

• Published: 14.5.2024
• Updated: 14.5.2024

MyCourses out of service on today 2.5.2024 from 10:00 to 17:00 due to update. Please save your work before 10:00