10
- Clear formulation of the boundaries, delimitations, accuracy of the work with respect to today and the future;
- The work actively addresses its own possible shortcomings;
- The work should provide an own vision on the past, present and the future of the field;
- the work should motivate why the proposed solution is possible now and not have been already proposed before by others;
- The choices and steps in the work are robust and inspire!
- The achieved results are argued to exceed the SOTA in multiple aspects and motivation is given why;
- Conciseness is excellent.
9
- The design choices and the interpretation of the results should be objective;
- Critical considerations should be extended not only to own work but also to the problem definition/application, research question/project goals, the used literature and alternative approaches;
- the shortcomings and limitations of the work are clearly and explicitly communicated;
- The achieved results should be scrutinized, e.g. critical analysis, worst case considerations, advocate of the devil approach.
- the student actively elaborates on the downsides of the work;
- The choices and steps in the work introduce novel aspects to the established SOTA and SOP practices;
- The achieved results are argued to exceed the SOTA at least in one aspect;
- Conciseness is very good.
8
- Good critical considerations with explicit reflection on all phases and parts of the project;
- The achieved results should be validated, e.g. triangulated via analysis, simulations, measurements, expectations from the relevant literature.
- The work should be clear on what is relevant and what not (e.g. results rounded to their relevant and reliable significant digits, filtered out, analyzed and interpreted);
- the work should elaborate on its own downsides;
- The work should make links between own research/design and other fields;
- The choices and steps in the work are clear, argued and logical according to the best established SOTA and SOP levels;
- The achieved results are argued to be comparable with the SOTA;
- Conciseness is good.
7
- There are basic critical considerations, questioning of results and the advices from supervisors or literature guidelines;
- The work properly elaborates on the advises of the supervisor and experts;
- The work generally follows healthy guidelines and trends from the SOTA literature;
- The work is based on an educated and motivated selection of the best practices in SOTA and SOP;
- The achieved results are compared with the SOTA;
- There are signs of conciseness.
6
- The critical considerations may be soft or implicit in the project;
- The work is based on sufficiently well followed instructions and trust in the advises of the supervisors and experts in the field;