Departmental Thesis Requirements

Article-based theses.
Traditional long-format theses.
Standard written document produced using the graduate school thesis formats.

Each academic department submits the specific requirements that must be met for a successful Honors thesis in its respective major. If you are seeking more information on your department’s thesis requirements, please contact your Departmental Honors Liaison and/or the Honors Thesis Team in the Honors College.

Faculty Thesis Mentors

Generally speaking, tenure-track faculty pursuing research advise research thesis students whereas career-line faculty serving as instructors for clinic or capstone courses serve as advisors for clinic or capstone project thesis students. If a faculty mentor leaves the university, the Departmental Honors Liaison guarantees the successful conclusion of the thesis work.

Joint Thesis

The determination of allowing a student to produce a joint thesis would be made on a case by case basis.

How does the Honors Thesis relate to other aspects of the major, like a Capstone Project?

The basic idea is that students in EE or CE have just used their senior projects as the basis for their thesis, and they wrote a stand-alone version describing their work for Honors if they did a team project.  Most students, though, will do individual research projects.

Additional information for students

The DHL maintains a website that offers all the required information publicly here:
https://nanoptics.wordpress.com/honors-college-information/