How Do You Get Your Green Sheet

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How Do You GetYour Green Sheet

• John Falby
• Senior Lecturer
• MV3923
• Spring AY2007

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The GoalObtain the Green Sheet

• Means that your thesis is completed and accepted
  by the thesis processor for publication
• Means that you will get your MS degree
• Assuming you have met the course, GPA and MOVES
  requirements
• Program Officer Academic Associate track this

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MOVES Requirements

• Approved Matrix in Python
• By end of 3rd quarter
• Signed Thesis Proposal
• By end of 4th quarter
• Thesis presentation in graduating quarter
• Normally given to Focus Group or Brown Bag
• Signed thesis

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MOVES Requirements

• Maintain up-to-date "MOVES MS Degree Tracking
  Form"
• Program Officer Academic Associate use to help
  track your progress in degree program
• Other requirements may be promulgated, and may
  include
• Provide presentation materials
• Provide a copy of software you developed

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Other NPS Requirement

• Did your thesis involve human subjects?
• Ensure all required documentation has been
  completed BEFORE EACH human subject/volunteer
  participates
• Participant Consent Forms
• Minimal Risk Consent Statements
• Privacy Act Statements
• The above must be turned in before you leave NPS
• Penalties for not following can be severe,
  including you not getting your degree

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Can I Finish My ThesisAfter I Leave NPS?

• Yes, but
• Majority of those who leave without a completed
  thesis NEVER finish it
• This means they do not get the MS degree
• OK, what about an extension?
• Yes, you can get up to three one-year extensions
  from your original graduation date
• However, if you get an extension and dont finish
  your degree in the approved extension period, you
  can never get a degree from NPS
• So have a plan to enable you to finish your
  thesis before graduation

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Your Time At NPSYear One

• Get the basics
• Learn about
• MOVES as a discipline
• Enabling technologies
• Areas of research
• Develop your course matrix
• Complete a thesis proposal

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Your Time At NPSYear Two

• Upper division courses
• Interact with faculty, students, staff
• In a Focus area (even if not related to thesis)
• In MOVES at large
• Brief your thesis plan
• Do your thesis research
• Write your thesis
• Brief results of your thesis research

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Quarter One Attend MV-2921

• Introduction to MOVES
• Survey of the major areas in MOVES
• Answers the question What is this thing called
  MOVES anyway?
• Presentations, one on each of the MOVES
  Curriculum Blocks
• Why is the area important to MOVES?
• Courses in the block

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End of Quarter One

• Turn in short paper describing
• One or more possible thesis topics/areas you
  would choose if you had to pick a topic today
• What three blocks interest you and why
• Do not have to take those blocks nor do a thesis
  in those area(s)
• We want to get you thinking
• We want to see what areas are currently of
  interest
• We expect that things are likely to change

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Quarter Two Attend MV-3922

• Introduction to Virtual Environment Technology
• An introduction to the technology used in virtual
  environments and discusses applications which use
  Virtual Environments
• An introduction to the items likely to be used in
  the MOVES masters degree program

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Quarter Three Attend MV-3923

• Faculty and staff present
• Current research
• Possible thesis topics
• Exposes you to
• What is being done in MOVES today
• Some of the people who are in MOVES and what they
  are doing
• Possible topics for your thesis
• Possible assets to tap later

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By End of Quarter Three

• Pick three Curriculum Blocks
• See MOVES web page for your Masters Program found
  off page http//www.movesinstitute.org/Plone/educa
  tion
• Complete course matrix through quarter eight
• Do not sign up for a course in a quarter it is
  not being offered
• See MOVES web page for your Masters Program for
  the listing of when MV courses are planned to be
  offered
• MOVES course offerings listed out at least one
  year into the future
• For other courses, see in Python when they have
  been historically offered
• Program Officer and Academic Associate approve it
• See them if you have questions or need help
  constructing your matrix
• Sometimes courses are canceled (e.g. low
  enrollment), so you may need to update your
  matrix later, and they can help then as well

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By End of Quarter Four

• Submit a Thesis Proposal
• Approval required by
• Primary Advisor
• MOVES Academic Associate
• MOVES Program Chair
• MOVES Program Officer
• Maintained by the Program Officer's office
• Goal be able to give at least one full year to
  thesis research and writing your thesis

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Deliverable for MV3923

• A copy of your thesis proposal (not the original)
• Do not need all signatures, but must have the
  following signatures
• You, and if a joint thesis, the other student(s)
• Your co-advisor (if none, then the second reader)
• Your primary advisor
• Majority of students get an Incomplete - this is
  OK, but
• Turn in by end of 4th quarter - instructor
  requests grade be changed to Pass - no negative
  impact on your transcript
• Do not turn in by end of 4th quarter - Registrar
  changes grade to Fail

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Advisor, Co-Advisor, andSecond Reader

• Must have a (primary) advisor
• MOVES faculty member with Ph.D.
• Must have co-advisor or second reader
• Must be a faculty member, whether in MOVES or
  not, and need not be on tenure track
• What is difference between them?
• Exceptions
• If primary advisor does not have a Ph.D., must
  have a co-advisor with a Ph.D.
• If primary advisor not in MOVES, then co-advisor
  must be in MOVES

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Quarter Four Attend MV-4924Focus Group

• Currently have three
• Agents Combat Modeling
• Human Factors and Training
• Web-based simulation (SAVAGE)
• Interact with a subset of MOVES sharing common
  interests
• Does not have to be a focus area of your thesis
  research

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Quarters One through Four

• Get out and see what is going on in MOVES outside
  of classes
• Brown bag and focus groups
• Labs
• Scheduled demos
• OR Research Seminar
• Web pages

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Visit Labs

• Talk to students ahead of you
• Visit during scheduled demos
• Find out
• Whats going on
• What resources are available
• Be a subject in an experiment

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Year Two

• Conduct Thesis research
• Attend Brown Bag and Focus Group each quarter
• Complete upper level courses
• Write thesis
• Get thesis signed
• Get thesis approved by Thesis Processor
• Get your Green Sheet
• Get ready to move

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All Quarters Attend MV-4924Brown Bag Seminar

• Presentations from faculty, research staff ,
  students and invited speakers
• Interact with MOVES at large

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Quarter Five Read, Read, Read

• Background/Literature Search
• Advisors give pointers to literature
• Dudley Knox Library 2004 Federal Library/
  Information Center of the Year - Use it!
• Workshops, research assistance, subject
  specialists, real-time "Ask a Librarian", etc.
• CiteSeer at citeseer.ist.psu.edu
• Things you read may reference other material you
  want to read
• Keep notes, copies in a notebook

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Quarter Five Get Involved

• Arrange to give a presentation of your Thesis
  plan to your Focus Group
• Get some constructive feedback EARLY
• Learn from other people's experiences
• Establish times/days for periodic meetings with
  thesis advisor(s)
• As able, do demos, attend demos, be in
  experiments, help run experiments

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Quarter FiveThesis Process Familiarization

• NPS Research Thesis Process
• http//www.nps.edu/research/research1.html
• General Workshop on thesis process
• Students must attend in graduating quarter
• Consider attending earlier
• Reviews the overall process
• Lets you know what to expect
• Template Workshop
• Attend early so can be using the template
  throughout

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Quarter FiveWrite Draft of First Part of Thesis

• Cover through Chapter 2 plus references
• Format see NPS Research site, Typing Your Thesis
• Have one of the Thesis Processors check it for
  format
• See Outlook Address Book for email, phone, and
  location
• Have advisor read it

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Quarter FiveWhy Start Writing So Early?

• Correct format problems early
• Chapter One
• Includes one or more of Introduction, Overview,
  Motivation, Purpose, Goals
• Includes Organization of Thesis (Chapter Summary)
• This is your contract with thesis advisor(s)
• Chapter Two, Background And Problem Statement,
  shows you have
• The background required to do the thesis research
• A clear direction
• Keep on top of thesis vice under it

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Quarter Five through EightDo the Research

• When possible, leverage papers and projects for
  classes to support thesis
• May be able to
• Have student(s) youre following as resource
• Recruit student(s) to follow you
• Get a demo of your work as soon as possible and
  show it off often
• No such thing as bad feedback

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Quarter Five through EightDo the Research

• If experiment involved in your thesis
• Don't short-change any step (design, development,
  pilot study, feedback, redesign)
• Get going earlier than later
• If involves human subjects, your advisor must
  submit request to NPS Institutional Review Board
  (IRB) - See Bill Becker
• Approval process takes some time
• Advisor, not you, will be the one making IRB
  request
• Write chapters of thesis as you go
• Advisor can review as you go
• Get feedback earlier rather than later

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Quarter EightFinish The Thesis

• Attend the General Workshop if have not done so
  previously
• Plan to finish writing early
• Avoid the bow wave for
• You
• You will have other things going on
• Advisor(s), second reader
• Travel, leave, research, other students, class
• Thesis Processor
• Only so many hours in a day, so many appointments
• Time to adjust to bumps

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Quarter EightFinish The Thesis

• Complete all thesis and submission requirements
• NPS requirements
• On Research web site
• Reviewed in General Workshop
• MOVES requirements
• http//www.movesinstitute.org/Plone/intranet/acade
  mic-procedures/check-out-procedures-for-graduates
• Brief results of thesis research to Focus Group
  or Brown Bag

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Resources

• MOVES Curriculum
• Program office signs you up for required courses
• See http//www.movesinstitute.org/ under
  Education
• NPS Library off main NPS page
• BOSUN
• Electronic journals
• Visit the library
• They are very helpful
• Have classes to help you make use of library
  resources
• CiteSeer
• http//citeseer.ist.psu.edu/

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Resources

• Dean of Research
• Thesis workshops beginning of every quarter
• Research -gt Research and Sponsored Programs
  Office -gt Thesis Process
• Slaying the Dragon
• www.cs.nps.navy.mil/people/masters/thesis.htm
• Old link, may break anytime

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The World Is A Better PlaceAfter You Have Your
Green Sheet
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Questions