Finding ATopic

Thesis

A thesis projects starts with finding a topic to do research on. Along with the topic you will have to find a lecturer to supervise your research project. Often topic and supervisor depend on each other; a researcher will want to supervise projects that are in his research area and that fit within the ongoing research project. Also the topic you will research needs to be approved by the thesis exam committee.

So to find a suitable topic you will have to do some research to answer the following questions:

What aspects of software technology do I find interesting?

Where do I want to go after I graduate, industry or research?

What are the ongoing research projects?

Which companies provide interesting research opportunities?

To find the answers to these questions you should talk

to you mentor about your talents and ambitions
to lecturers of courses you found interesting about their research projects
to fellow and former students

and you should read

web sites about research projects
papers published in those projects
master's theses
leading/recent articles in the research area

You can use the LiteratureStudy? credits to do some reading.

Milestone

The result of this phase is that you have found a supervisor and a topic.

The next step is writing a thesis proposal to make the topic into a project.