Guidelines for project defense – PPGCTA

According to the Internal Regulations of the PPGCTA, master’s students must defend their research project by the end of the second academic semester, and doctoral students must do so by the end of the third academic semester.

Suggested template for preparing the research project:
⇒ Thesis/Dissertation Template (PPG)

How to schedule and conduct the project defense?

Before scheduling the defense date, the student must send a digital version of the research project to PPGCTA (tca@ufv.br) so that the President of the DTA Research Committee can appoint a reviewer (who must be external to the student’s advisory committee).

Note: The student’s advisor may suggest a name for the project reviewer, and the President of the Research Committee may accept this suggestion or appoint another researcher as reviewer.

Once the reviewer has been appointed, the student must schedule the defense date with the PPGCTA office and the examination committee.
It is the student’s responsibility to send the project to all committee members.

Examination Committee

The examination committee for the research project defense is composed of the advisor, co-advisors (if any), and the reviewer appointed by the President of the DTA Research Committee. The presence of all members is mandatory during the project defense.

Research Project Registration

The registration of the final version of the project (including any revisions made after the defense) must be initiated by the advisor, who is responsible for submitting it to the Research and Graduate System (SisPPG).

After the advisor’s submission, the project must go through the following approval steps:

• Recommendation by the DTA Research Committee
• Recommendation by the DTA department head
• Recommendation by the Center Director (CCE)
• Approval by the Office of Research and Graduate Studies

Only then is the project officially registered.
The registration of the research project is mandatory for the thesis/dissertation defense to take place. Without the registered project, it is not possible to register the thesis/dissertation defense committee in the AcademicoPG System.