Thesis proposal

Structure and items to include

Petri Helo
1 min readMar 12, 2014

Heading

- Working title of the thesis
- Contact names: * Your name, email, phone * Company contact person name, email, phone * Supervisor name, email, phone
- Date and version numer of the document

Purpose

- Introduce the purpose of the thesis work and give some background for the work. Justify why it is important.

Scope

- Narrow down the scope, what you are going to do and what parts you exclude from the thesis document.

Objectives

- List 5-8 tasks that you are going to do during the thesis work and what you are going to deliver.

Schedule

- Start date, planned finish date
- Any other important milestones

Funding

- Are you working daily in a company and write your thesis evening time and weekends? Just shortly what you have agreed with your company.

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Petri Helo

Professor of Industrial Management, Logistics Systems at University of Vaasa, Finland. #SupplyChain