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Universiti Malaysia Sabah

Welcome to the Faculty of

Computing and Informatics

HuiKeng Lau

FKI Postgraduate Coordinator

03 March 2017

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http://www.ums.edu.my/fki/index.php/en/students/current-student/current-postgraduate

BRIEFING FOR POSTGRADUATE BY RESEARCH

INTAKE SEM2 2016/2017








The Faculty

• Two locations: KK & Labuan

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Main Contact

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PM DR. RAYNER ALFRED

DEPUTY DEAN

(RESEARCH & INNOVATION)

PM DR. AG. ASRI AG. IBRAHIM

DEAN FARIDAH ADAM

DEAN’S PA

IDA HASLINDA MULJANA

ADMIN. ASST.

DR. LAU HUI KENG

FKI POSTGRADUATE

COORDINATOR

(by RESEARCH)

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YOUR SUPERVISOR


Other FKI PG Committee Members

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HEAD OF PROGRAMMES

DR. CHIN KIM ON

HC00: SOFT. ENG.

DR. AZALI SAUDI

HC05: NET. ENG.

DR. CAROLYN SALIMUN

HC12: MULT. TECH.

SOFFRI YUSSOF

HC13: E-COMM.

WINNIE EDWARD

ASSIT. REGISTRAR


Academic Calendar

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Registration

• Every semester

• Completed online progress report LKPP

• Pay the fees(no outstanding) and register

within the period specified

• Late registration penalty RM200.00

• Not registered 1 sem -> suspension

• Not registered consecutive 2 sems -

>termination

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Other related info

• Deferment of study

– Prior to the start of a new semester

– Cannot defer 2 semesters consecutively

• Suspension of study

– counted as student’s candidature

– to activate, a letter to Dean of Centre of

Postgradate Studies, processing fees of RM300,

and the tuition fees for suspended semester

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Other related info

• Change of mode of registration – once

• Tranfer of faculty/centre/institute – before

3rd semester, once

• Change area of study - before 3rd semester,

once

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Supervision

• Categories of supervision

– Sole, co-supervision, committee

• Can change supervisor(s)

• Student’s progress

– May be terminated if progress is weak for two

consecutive semesters

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Milestones (MSc) SEM Msc Full time Msc Part time

1 Proposal Defence Proposal Defence

2 Progress presentation

1 Conference publication

Progress presentation

3 Thesis Seminar

1 refereed journal

Thesis submission


1 Conference publication

4 Viva & submit final copy Progress presentation

5 Thesis Seminar

1 refereed journal

Thesis submission

6 Viva & submit final copy

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Milestones (PhD) SEM PhD Full time PhD Part time

1 Proposal Defence Proposal Defence

2 Progress Presentation

1 Conference

Progress Presentation



1 Conference


1 refereed journal

Progress Presentation

5 Progress Presentation Progress Presentation

6 Thesis seminar

1 refereed journal (indexed)

Thesis submission


1 refereed journal

7 Viva & submit final copy Progress Presentation


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Thesis Seminar

1 refereed journal (indexed)

Thesis submission

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Presentations

• Proposal defence

– Sem 1

– Submit proposal

• Progress Presentation

– Every semester after proposal defence

– Submit technical report

– Did not present -> progress weak

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Thesis

• Writing follow Gaya UMS

– http://www.ums.edu.my/pascav2/index.php/e

n/downloads or

– http://www.ums.edu.my/fki/index.php/en/pos

tgraduate-related-forms

– Notice of thesis submission submission for

examination viva voce correction

submission for format checking final thesis

submission

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http://www.ums.edu.my/pascav2/index.php/en/downloads



http://www.ums.edu.my/fki/index.php/en/postgraduate-related-forms








Thesis

– Notice of thesis submission

• 3 months prior to submit, valid 9 months

– submission for examination

• Proof-read

• Msc 3 copies, PhD 4 copies

• Plagiarism report from Turnitin (http://turnitin.com/ ).

– correction submission for format checking

• submit to, and be checked by Centre of Postgraduate

Studies

• if fail submit correction within time -> fail

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http://turnitin.com/

http://turnitin.com/


– final thesis submission

• to Centre of Postgraduate Studies

• 1 copy bound thesis with hard cover

• 1 copy in compact disc

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Viva voce

• MSc

– 1 external and 1 internal examiner

– up to 30 minutes presentation

• PhD

– if UMS staff, 2 external and 1 internal

examiners

– else, 1 external and 2 internal examiners

– Up to 40 minutes presentation

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Viva voce

• Decision on thesis

– No correction;

– Minor correction within 3 months;

– Major correction within 6 months;

– Result deferred, resubmit within 12 months for

re-viva;

– Fail, no resubmission.

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Graduation

• Fulfilled

– all requirements by Centre of Postgraduate

Studies

– publication requirements

• MSc – 1 refereed article accepted for publication, 1

presentation in seminar/colloquium

• PhD – 2 refereed articles (1 must be indexed), 1

presentation in seminar/colloquium

– settled all debts and liabilities

– submitted hard bound thesis + CD within time.

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Join our FB pages

• FKI Alumni page

https://www.facebook.com/groups/13743963161

90445/

• FKI Postgraduate page

https://www.facebook.com/groups/14525379150

20145/

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Forms, Regulations & Guidelines

• http://www.ums.edu.my/pascav2/index.ph

p/en/downloads

• http://www.ums.edu.my/fki/index.php/en/

postgraduate-related-forms

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Thank you

Q&A

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