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A student stands and speaks to two seated assessors seen from behind, a small copper rig on the table between them

Begin with a question worth staying with.

Reproduce a result, challenge an assumption and pursue a focused investigation with a named supervisor. Eighty research professors at maturity, eight per center.

Concept image. No student has yet stood here.

Five candidate programs.

Candidates, not claims about recruited scholars or established laboratories. The actual portfolio follows the strengths of appointed faculty.

Reliable approximation, proof and the limits of a modelMathematics and formal reasoning. Student work: a justified numerical method, a counterexample or a reproducible comparison.
Trustworthy scientific software and intelligent systemsComputing. Student work: a tested implementation, a failure analysis or a verifiable computation.
Measurement, model identification and controlPhysical systems. Student work: a calibrated experiment, uncertainty analysis or validated system model.
How technologies alter institutions and human judgmentHumanities and public reasoning. Student work: a critical reading, an archival inquiry or a reasoned institutional proposal.
How people learn, collaborate and transfer knowledgeIntegrative inquiry. Student work: a carefully designed study, independently assessed work and reproducible analysis.

Four modules. One defensible contribution. Each step is checked by someone who did not do the work.

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of 576 hoursQuestion and Evidence

  1. Semester 7. I401

    Before it starts

    Two qualified faculty approve scope, apparatus, data, supervision and the individual evidence plan.

    Leaves behindA proposal, a literature review and a plan for analysis or validation.

  2. Semester 7. I402

    Midway

    An intermediate development review. Individual contributions and permitted tests go on the record.

    Leaves behindA tested intermediate product, and a record of your contribution.

  3. Semester 8. I403

    Someone else tries it

    An independent reviewer attempts a key reproduction or verification step.

    Leaves behindResults another person can reproduce, with their significance and limits.

  4. Semester 8. I404

    The defense

    Two qualified assessors. A condition changes, and you reason from your own work.

    Leaves behindA final portfolio, a technical product and a public explanation.

The scene is convincing. The calculation still has to be correct.

Scientific values come from a checked model, not the renderer. Inputs, versions and bounds are retained with the work.

How the laboratory keeps evidence
Specified, with its page in the design Illustrated Not decided