Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University

Students

Procedure for Earning a Doctoral Degree

Dissertation Draft Preliminary Review

If you plan to submit a dissertation, you must give a research results presentation at your department before your dissertation submission.

* For information about dissertation review, please click here to see the Dissertation Review for Doctoral Degree Program Students.

1. Documents to be submitted

When you request a preliminary review for your dissertation draft, you must submit the following documents to your academic supervisor.

(1) Dissertation Draft Preliminary Review Request (Form 1) 1 copy

[WORD] [PDF]

(2) Dissertation Bibliography (Form 2) 1 copy

[WORD] [PDF] [Sample]

(3) Dissertaion Draft
(Drafts can be submitted by a softbound version.) 3 copies*

(4) Draft of Dissertation Abstract (Form 3) 3 copies*

[WORD] [PDF]

(5) Reference research papers, etc. **

* The “3 copies” are distributed to examiners of the Preliminary Review Committee. When there are more than three examiners, submit to your academic supervisor the number of copies equivalent to the number of examiners.

** You may submit a reference research paper which is complementary with the doctoral dissertation and indivisible to have your dissertation reviewed. (It is preferable to have your doctoral dissertation reviewed without such paper.)

2. Preliminary Review Committee

The Preliminary Review Committee (comprising your academic supervisor and two or more faculty members, who are commissioned by the supervisor, including at least two professors) determines whether or not you are qualified to be examined for a doctoral degree mainly based on the content of the submitted dissertation draft.

3. What to do after completion of Preliminary Review

After you are found qualified to be examined for a doctoral degree mainly based on the content of the submitted dissertation draft, submit your dissertation to the Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering according to the predetermined procedure.

For more details, please click here to see the Dissertation Review for Doctoral Degree Program Students.