Dear Professors,
To further standardize the graduation project (thesis) work of our university, and in accordance with the Regulations on Undergraduate Graduation Procedures of Beijing University of Chemical Technology (Document No. 48 [2014] of BUCT), the Academic Affairs Office has made the following arrangements for the 2024 undergraduate graduation project (thesis) topic selection and proposal work.
I. Topic Selection Principles
1. Principles for Topic Selection
(1) Topics should meet the needs of social development, economic construction, and scientific and technological progress, with an increased proportion of engineering design topics (all excellent engineer programs and programs preparing for engineering professional accreditation should increase the proportion of engineering design topics according to the Ministry of Education’s engineering accreditation standards).
(2) Topics should align with the professional training goals, meet the basic teaching requirements, and comply with the requirement for topic renewal rates.
(3) Topics should enable students to comprehensively apply their learned knowledge and receive relatively comprehensive training. It is permissible to use teachers’ research topics as student topics.
(4) The difficulty and depth of the topics should be appropriate. They should allow most students to complete the required graduation project (thesis) tasks within the stipulated time, while also providing better training and practice for a few outstanding students.
(5) Topics should have clear tasks, specific requirements, and a certain degree of novelty, advancement, and pioneering nature. Teachers are encouraged to include related extension projects from discipline competitions and university innovation and entrepreneurship training programs as graduation project (thesis) topics.
(6) In principle, each student should have an independent topic to complete. For topics that require multiple students to complete, the specific tasks for each student should be clearly defined, and each student should experience the entire process of the topic. The design (thesis) topics for each student should be separately titled according to their content.
2. The following topics are not suitable for graduation projects or theses:
(1) Topics that do not align with the training goals of the major.
(2) Topics that are too narrow or too single in content, failing to achieve comprehensive training goals.
(3) Topics that are on cutting-edge technology or too macro for undergraduate students to handle.
(4) Topics that cannot be completed on time or fail to yield phased results.
(5) Topics that are similar to previous graduation projects or theses.
II. Topic Selection Arrangement
1. Schedule
(1) Professor online topic submission period: October 13, 2023, to October 22, 2023, 24:00.
(2) Approval period by undergraduate major directors: October 13, 2023, to October 22, 2023, 24:00.
(3) Student online topic selection period: October 23, 2023, 8:00, to October 30, 2023, 24:00;
(4) Teacher online confirmation of student reception period: October 23, 2023, 8:00, to October 30, 2023, 24:00.;
(5) Proposal period: November 1, 2023, to November 30, 2023.
2. Operational Procedures
(1) Professors from each college should log into the academic management system (URL: http://jwglxt.buct.edu.cn) within the specified dates of this notice, fill in the topics in the “Graduation Design (Thesis)” menu, and complete the submission according to the path given by the Academic Affairs Office. The submission should include target college, target major, graduation design (thesis) topic name, topic type, topic nature, topic source, and teacher personal information.
(2) After topic submission, the undergraduate major directors will review and approve them. Topics that are aimed at cross-college professional objects must be approved by the student’s college and the undergraduate major directors.
(3) Students should fill in their topic intentions and participate in the professor-student dual selection based on the graduation design (thesis) topics published online by the professors, combined with their major direction and interests. Each student can choose one preference. The number of students each professor supervises should comply with relevant college regulations.
(4) After completing the topic selection, each college should organize professors and students to complete the proposal within the stipulated time.
3. Other Precautions
(1) Interdisciplinary integration is encouraged. Students in interdisciplinary classes should choose topics from professors in interdisciplinary classes.
(2) After the topic is submitted online, the Academic Affairs Office will open the system in stages to provide opportunities to modify the topics. In principle, the topics can be modified online after the student selects the topic, before the mid-term check of the graduation design (thesis), and before the graduation defense.
