Guidelines on Seminar

Postgraduate (PG) Students of MIST will organize research seminars. The purpose of the
seminar is to provide an academic environment in which PG students can present their research
proposals, advancements, field results, key findings and benefit from peer constructive criticism.
The seminar is an opportunity to improve presentation skills, to get feedback from colleagues, to
strengthen the PG community, and to share the academic issues and questions in a
constructive and warming meeting.

Objectives:
i. To share the research work among a large group of audiences
ii. To further enrich the research work through feedback from experts
iii. To avoid duplicity of the research work

No of Seminars:
Postgraduate students of MIST are required to deliver following minimum number of seminars -
- PhD candidate: 02 (two)
- MSc Engg / MPhil candidate: 01 (one)

When to deliver:
Seminar should be delivered by a candidate before submission of application for forming the
‘Board of Examination’ for final defence.

Who should attend:

- Supervisor
- Co-supervisor (if any)
- Doctoral Committee members (for PhD candidates)
- Faculty members of the concerned dept
- Postgraduate students of the concerned dept (if possible)
- Interested faculty members and students of other depts.
- Director Academic, Director R&D and one representative of PG Wing
- Invited guests/ panel members/ subject experts from reputed universities/ organizations
(maximum 2 if deemed useful to be decided by the Head of the concerned dept) for
evaluation or feedback on the seminar (for PhD candidates). Remuneration of the invited
guests has been approved in the 33rd Governing Body meeting of MIST.

Circulation about Seminar:

Dept will inform HQ of MIST, concern persons, other depts. and the PG Wing about details of
the seminar (ie candidate name, title of the topic, venue and time) at least one week prior to the
seminar date.

Seminar Paper (for PhD candidates only):

A synopsis or summary on the seminar has to submit by the candidate to the members
attending the seminar presentation. The synopsis should include title, introduction (background
and justification of the study), research questions/objectives, methodology, findings etc.

Evaluation of Seminar:
Feedback (satisfactory/unsatisfactory) on the seminar has to be collected from the doctoral
committee and panel members (if present) for PhD candidates following the attached template.
Separate feedback forms need to be used for individual doctoral committee and panel
members. For MPhil/MSc candidates, Head of the concerned dept will take the decision on
evaluation. Collected feedbacks and attendance sheet have to be sent to the PG wing.
Feedback forms can be downloaded from the PG Portal.