Before pre-examination

When you are approaching pre-examination, please familiarize yourself with the materials below.

• Timeline from pre-examination to graduation, ELEC (pdf)
• Approaching pre-examination, ELEC instructions in a nutshell (pdf)
• Finalising the thesis

During pre-examination

While your manuscript is being pre-examined, familiarize yourself with the next steps and read at least the materials listed below. You can also prepare for media coverage for your thesis, and make a draft of your lectio praecursoria.

• Process for the permission for public defence at ELEC
• Decision types for permission for public defence, pdf
• Publishing thesis
• Public defence at Aalto University
• How to confirm the details for your defence, opponent(s) and custos

Before public defence

The instructions for final steps before the defence are listed below. Check also relevant parts of the instructions on the previous section (permissions for publishing given, etc.).

• Doctoral defence and post-doctoral party, ELEC
• Public defence announcement and public display of the thesis
• Distribution of thesis
• Requesting graduation

Other useful links

• Doctoral Programme Committee, meetings and deadlines, ELEC
• Published doctoral theses (aaltodoc.aalto.fi)
• Blanketter för doktorander
• Preparing for the Doctoral Defence (course)

FAQ

• Printing costs (cost calculator, cost centre codes)
• Sisu instructions for requesting graduation

For supervising professors

• Doctoral thesis, pre-examination and defence
• Proposing pre-examiners and opponents
• Instructions for pre-examiners (School of Electrical Engineering)
• Instructions for opponents (School of Electrical Engineering)