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These pages give you a brief overview of the length of a thesis conclusion and the type of information that is included. The examples are taken from a range of Schools in Engineering and Science, but should be used as a GUIDE ONLY.
Civil And Environmental Engineering
Thesis I: permeable treatment walls
Thesis II: local buckling of concrete-filled steel tubes
Thesis III: the courier industry
| Thesis | No. of pages |
| I | 2 ½ |
| II | 1 |
| III | 3 |
| thesis | type of information |
| I | summary of thesis focus; work in progress; evaluative statement of chosen technology; criticisms of other technologies; problems with chosen technology; advantages of chosen technology; problems with chosen technology; summary of methods; deficiencies of methods and warning; importance of specific results; practical applications of results; practical implications of results? |
| II | achievement of aims; limitations; further requirements; evaluative statements; future developments |
| III | summary of introduction; summary of methods; summary of key issues; summary of methods (II); summary of results; summary of evaluation of results; restatement of thesis objectives and achievement of these objectives |
Photovoltaic and Solar Energy
Thesis I: Evaluation of Boron Solid Source Diffusion for High-Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells
| Thesis | No. of pages |
| I | 2 |
| thesis | type of information |
| I | restatement of goal; summary of introduction; summary and explanation of results; evaluation of results; recommendations; future work (no future work). |
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Thesis I: Design Process within a Small Company Currently Developing a Highly Innovative Product
Thesis II: Exploring Creativity in Engineering and its Implications on Teaching Innovation
| Thesis | No. of pages |
| I | 1 |
| II | 17 |
Thesis |
type of information |
I |
restatement of aims; achievement of aims; summary of relevance of research; restatement of results and brief evaluation |
II |
summary of previous chapters; summary of findings and summary of conclusions; recommendations for future work, including limitations of current study; summary of thesis. |
Biotechnology And Biomolecular Science
Thesis I: Genetic Mechanisms and Dissemination of Antibiotic Resistance
Thesis II: Methods for Measuring Hepatitis C Viral Complexity
Thesis |
No. of pages |
Thesis I |
½ page |
Thesis II |
1 ½ pages |
| Thesis | Type of information |
| Thesis I | summary of importance of topic; explanation of results; restatement of proof of hypothesis |
| Thesis II | summary of proof of hypothesis; implications of proof of hypothesis; summary of evaluation of results; critique of alternative methodologies; future directions for work including limitations of current study |