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On Friday April 5, I received an email saying that I have been officially registered in the DTU system for my thesis project. Not only that, I have been registered 1 month behind so the official date is actually March 1! I will be taking 32.5 ECTS so that means my thesis 'contract' deadline is Thursday August 15 2013. It was necessary to write out a problem statement outlying what I wanted to achieve, my learning objectives and a time line. According to friends, the problem statement can change up to a month after submission but for now the title is 'Thorny Devil lizard inspired cooling' and my supervisor is Prof. Torben Lenau.

The problem statement can be found here. It was tricky writing out the problem statement in order to get the scope correct, especially this early in the project. Defining the learning objectives needed wording like 'After the project the student is capable of …' so that the examiner can judge whether I have learned anything. My supervisor provided some useful information on how to complete a problem statement: Learning Objectives for Master's thesis at DTU Management Engineering. It was also advised to relate the statement to the competences listed in my MSc description.