Thesis
Types
Type A
Theses completed, submitted and defended at the ETSEIB under the supervision of an academic staff member assigned by the School.
Type B
Theses carried out in collaborating entities (companies and institutions) must be developed:
Within the framework of an external internship covered by an educational cooperation agreement.
Through an employment contract or as a self-employed worker with the corresponding documentation.
There must be a faculty member (PDI) assigned to ETSEIB who acts as the supervisor. The presentation and defense will take place at ETSEIB.
Type C
Theses carried out at other universities within the framework of a mobility program. The presentation and defense will take place at the host university.
Type D
Theses carried out in companies within the framework of a mobility program, or at a foreign university through an international internship (catalan). The presentation and defense will take place at ETSEIB.
Process steps
The completion of master's theses is regulated by legislation in force and by the academic regulations of the UPC and the ETSEIB. Each academic year, the School publishes a master's thesis calendar with the deadlines for each step in the procedure.
1 Thesis Topic and Offers
You can search for your Final Degree Project (TFE) topic:
By consulting the TFE offers in the TFE Board on the Final Degree Projects Intranet of ETSEIB and agreeing in advance with a faculty member from ETSEIB to supervise the TFE.
By proposing the topic yourself and contacting a faculty member from ETSEIB to supervise your TFE. If the TFE is carried out in a company under Type B, it must be agreed upon with a faculty member from ETSEIB who will act as the supervisor.
Students enrolled in a double master's degree at the School may complete either a single thesis or one for each degree, following what is established in the Double Master's Degree Memorandum (Link) for each specific dual-degree pathway. In the case of a single thesis, it must cover the competencies and workload requirements of both degrees.
2 Registration
Registration Type A
Once the TFE topic and supervisor have been agreed upon, you must register it through the e-Secretaria. You can register when you have 90 or fewer ECTS remaining to complete your studies (including pending credits). Registration is mandatory to enrol in the TFE and must be completed at least 5 days before the enrolment date. Please consult the Final Degree Project Calendar .
Double master’s students must complete two registrations, one for each degree program, even if doing a single thesis (TFM).
In the registration, you must indicate the TFE title, a brief description, and the name of the thesis supervisor.
You can track the status of your registration in your e-Secretaria and make changes until the supervisor validates the proposal. Any changes after validation must be communicated by the supervisor to the SIAE via the “Demana ETSEIB" . platform.
Once the TFE status is “Registered and Accepted” ("Inscrit i Acceptat" in catalan) you will be able to enrol.
IMPORTANT! Registration is NOT enrolment. Enrolment is mandatory to defend the TFE.
Registration is done when formalizing the educational cooperation agreement under the "Curricular + TFE" or "Final Degree Project" modality, specifying the TFE title in the agreement.
Please consult the information on external internships .
Any post-validation changes must be reported by the TFE supervisor to the SIAE via the “Demana ETSEIB" platform.
With an Employment Contract
If you plan to undertake your Final Degree Project (TFE) through an employment contract with a company, submit a request via the “Demana ETSEIB” platform. Include:
A declaration stating your intention to carry out a TFE under Type B
Your employment contract
Social Security employment history report.
Contact details of the company supervisor (name, ID/passport, nationality, email, postal address, and phone number)
Once approved, the registration option will be activated in the "Project" section of your e-Secretaria. Proceed to register the TFE, specifying the title, a brief description, and the name of your academic supervisor.
Track the status of your registration in e-Secretaria and make modifications until your supervisor validates it. Any changes afterwards must be reported by the TFE supervisor to the SIAE via the “Demana ETSEIB" platform.
Once the status is "Registered and Accepted” ("Inscrit i Acceptat" in catalan) you can proceed with the enrolment.
IMPORTANT! Registration is NOT enrolment. Enrolment is mandatory to defend the TFE.
Registration Type C
Once the mobility stay has been created, the ETSEIB International Relations Office will register the project under a "Provisional" title, which must be updated later with the final title.
Please consult the information in the mobility section.
Registration Type D
Once the mobility stay has been created, the ETSEIB International Relations Office will register the project under a "Provisional" title, which you must update once you have the final title.
Please consult the information in the international internships section.
Ordinary enrolment
You can enrol in the Final Degree Project (TFE) once its status is "Registered and Accepted" in your e-secretaria.
For bachelor's degrees, the Final Degree Project (TFG) is the final academic activity, and can only be enrolled in if you have 60 or fewer ECTS credits remaining to complete your studies. For master's and double master's degrees, you may enrol when you have completed 50% or more of the program’s total credits.
Double master's degree students must enrol in two TFMs, one for each degree.
If you have already enroled in other subjects, request the addition of the TFE via e-secretaria.
IMPORTANT! For Type B with an Educational Cooperation Agreement, refer to the External Internships enrolment section
Additional enrolment
If you do not submit or defend your TFE during the ordinary call, you may request an additional enrolment. You will only pay administrative fees (academic record management, learning support, insurance, if applicable).
This additional enrolment extends the submission/defense deadline. See the TFE calendar.
IMPORTANT! If you do not request the additional enrolment, the Final Degree Project (TFE) will be graded as "NP" (Not Presented), and you will have to re-enrol the next semester with a surcharge.
If you undertake a new Final Degree Project (TFE), you must complete a new registration and a new ordinary enrolment.
Request the additional enrolment through the “ Demana" platform within the deadlines established in the TFE calendar. The SIAE will process it, and you will be able to make the payment for the administrative fees, if applicable, via e-secretaria.
Partial Evaluation of Bachelor's Theses
Midway through the semester, if the thesis is to be presented in the ordinary call, the supervisor must evaluate the work completed so far in Atenea TFE (Link).
Refer to the calendar for the partial evaluation in the TFE calendar (Link).
4 Deposit and approval
Submit the final documentation digitally via Atenea TFE (Link) within the established deadline TFG/TFM calendar.
The supervisor or advisor will review the documentation and validate the deposit/submission. If it does not meet the requirements, you will be asked to revise and resubmit within the deadline.
Confidentiality
According to Article 3.5 of the Academic Regulations for Bachelor's and Master's Studies (NAGRAMA),, UPCommons is the UPC's open knowledge portal:
All Theses (TFEs) are deposited and archived in UPCommons, the institutional repository of the UPC, to facilitate access, reproduction, consultation, and lending for research and preservation purposes. TFEs are deposited in UPCommons under open access. Publishing TFEs in open access on UPCommons does not imply any transfer of exploitation rights of the TFE to the UPC.
If your thesis contains confidential information or documentation, or aspects that affect the protection of intellectual and/or industrial property rights, you must inform the examination panel before the public defense of the thesis takes place, so that appropriate measures can be established to ensure the confidentiality of these aspects.
You can request the confidentiality of your thesis at the time of submission in Atenea TFE. To do so, you must complete the confidentiality declaration form, have it signed by your thesis supervisor or advisor, and sign it yourself. This document must be attached in Atenea TFE along with the thesis documentation. The request must include an end date (generally with a maximum period of 5 years) and supporting documentation, such as a confidentiality agreement between the company and the UPC.
A 25-minute oral presentation, in which the student summarizes the content of the thesis.
A defense, during which the student responds to questions the panel deems pertinent regarding the content and development of the thesis.
The total duration of both phases should not exceed one hour.
IMPORTANT! For Type TFEs, the defense will be taken at the host university, following its specific regulations regarding supervision and presentation.
6 Thesis Evaluation Process
After the presentation and defense, the examination panel deliberates in a closed session and announces the grade publicly. Each member evaluates the thesis, presentation, and defense based on the official evaluation criteria specified in the Thesis Evaluation Guidelines. The panel may reach a decision either unanimously or by calculating the arithmetic mean of the individual scores from its members.
Regarding grades, please note the provisions established in the Academic Regulations for Bachelor's and Master's Studies (NAGRAMA) of the UPC concerning honours distinctions:
The examination panel proposes the award of the honour’s distinction. Following this proposal, the academic centre determines the method for allocating the final honours distinctions, ensuring that they do not exceed 5% of the enrolled students and that objective criteria are applied in all cases.
If the maximum 5% of honours distinctions have already been awarded to students who enrolled during the ordinary enrolment period, no additional honours distinctions can be granted to students who enrolled in any additional enrolment period for the thesis.
The academic record will be closed once the thesis has been evaluated and the minutes have been signed by all three members of the examination panel, provided these are the final credits pending approval. Once the academic record status is "closed – graduated," you may apply for the corresponding degree certificate. Please refer to the procedure for the issuance of the Degree Certificate and the European Diploma Supplement (EDS) .
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