1. Ph.D. Road Map Asst. Prof. Dr. Phayung Meesad
Associate Dean for Administration
Faculty of Information Technology
King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology North Bangkok

2. Ph.D. Road Map Apply to Ph.D. IT Program: Submit tentative
Proposal (contact
With an adviser)
GPA ≥ 3.00
Passed English
SEM I
Enroll coursework
6 credit hours;
Literature review;
Attend conference
SEM II
Enroll coursework
6 credit hours;
Literature review;
Conduct research;
Attend conference
SEM III
Dissertation
9 credit hours;
Literature review;
Conduct research;
Take Qualifying
Exam;
Attend conference
SEM IV
Dissertation
9 credit hours;
Literature review
Submit official
Proposal;
Conduct research;
Attend conference
SEM V
Enroll
Dissertation
9 credit hours;
Conduct research;
Progress Defense;
Submit paper to
Journal
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
SEM VI
Dissertation
9 credit hours;
Finalize thesis;
Final Defense;
Journal Excepted
Complete program
SEM VII
Maintain student
Status
If the requirements
are not met
SEM VIII
Maintain student
Status
If the requirements
are not met
SEM IX
Maintain student
Status
If the requirements
are not met
SEM X
Maintain student
Status
Last Semester
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5

3. Condition to Propose Thesis
Graduate College Requirements
Get GPA ≥ 3
Passed Qualifying Examination (within 2 years)
Passed English (officially)
Additional requirements (preferable)
Presented at least one paper at a conference or publish one paper in journal

4. Ph.D. Thesis Proposal Thesis Title Statement of the Problems
Objectives or Purposes of Research
Hypothesis (if any)
Scope of Research
Research Methodology
Gantt Chart
Conceptual Model/Framework/System/Algorithm proposed
Utilization of the Research
References

5. Do Weekly/Monthly Report
Every week students conducting research need to do literature review at least 7 papers
What are contributions in the papers? What are new?
What are the benefits/drawbacks for the papers?
What can be improved?
What are the methodologies/results of the researches?
Write up the conclusion for the reading and SEND the weekly or monthly report to the adviser.
DISCUSS with the adviser every week or at least every month.

6. Semester Progress
Every semester students, who enrolled thesis, must have some progress of his/her research work in order to get all enrolled credits.
The semester progress can be judged by conference or journal papers. Or at least have been conducting research; have been discussing with the adviser; and have been submitting weekly or monthly report to the adviser.
Students may get some partial credits if have little progress.
Students do not have any progress will get 0 out of enrolled credits.

7. Official Progress/Final Defense
After Thesis proposal have been approved for at least 183 days (6 months), students can take an official Progress Defense.
Preferably, students must have presented at least a paper at a conference or publish a paper in a journal.
After Thesis proposal have been approved for at least 365 days (1 year) and passed Progress Defense for at least 30 days (1 month), students can take official final defense.
To complete the Ph.D. program, the students MUST submit and have a research paper accepted to publish in an accredit peer-review research journal or transaction.
Both Progress and Final defenses need to write up Thesis 5 chapters:

8. Thesis Chapters Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Literature Reviews
Statement of the problems
Objectives
Hypothesis (if any)
Scope of the Thesis
Utilization of the research
Chapter 2 Literature Reviews
Review stat-of-the-art literatures
Review related work or theory
Conclusion of the existing problems for existing research
Thesis statement: what will be proposed and contributed in this research?

9. Thesis Chapters (cont.)
Chapter 3 Methodology
List the procedures need to conduct the research
Write up details of the proposed methodology/model/system/framework/algorithm/design
Give theory support each modules or subsystems
Give the details how to test the hypothesis or to measure to quality of the proposed model/system/framework/algorithm
Give details about the tools/samples/data used in the research

10. Thesis Chapters (cont.)
Chapter 4 Results and Discussion
Give details about the complete system/model/framework/algorithm developed
Give details about the experimental results about the system testing or evaluation or comparisons
Give details about testing hypothesis (if any)
Give deep discussion about the results
Chapter 5 Conclusion
Conclude the work
Give some comments on possible future work

11. Good Luck!