If you would like to do your depth oral colloquium (Schwerpunktkolloquium) with Klaus Wehrle, please read the following information carefully.
The depth oral colloquium should comprise at least three modules (12 - 18 credits). Two of them should be elective courses taught by COMSYS. The third module can be one more of these electives, or your seminar or lab topic (if you have done a seminar/lab with COMSYS).
In special cases, courses from other groups can also be accepted as part of the depth oral colloquium. Please contact Dirk Thißen to ask for feasability of course combinations.
Dates for oral exams are offered biweekly, every second Thursday. For reserving an exam slot, contact the COMSYS office (office(at)comsys.rwth-aachen.de) with mentioning your study program, the planned courses to be examined, and a preferred time interval in which you would like to do the depth oral colloquium. Please do so a few months in advance - availability of exam slots is not granted.
We will confirm the course combination subsequently and will offer you an exam slot. You have to confirm the exam slot latest four weeks ahead of your exam at the COMSYS office, otherwise your slot might be assigned to another student. In case a seminar or lab is part of your course combination, please hand in your seminar paper / lab report at this time.
If you plan to have an oral exam with two professors, please check first the availability of slots with the COMSYS office and then find a joint date with the other examiner. Then book the final date at the COMSYS office.
After reserving an exam slot, register at ZPA (Central Exam Registry, Zentrales Prüfungsamt) for the depth oral colloquium! A registration with ZPA is mandatory before the exam date. Note that for the depth oral colloquium you have to register personally in ZPA.
Please download our examination sheet, fill it in, and bring it with you to the exam. Note that on the examination sheet you have to sign that you are registered with ZPA.
Now you are on your own. We hope you are well prepared. Good luck. ;-)
Due to the current coronavirus pandemic, universities in NRW agreed to postpone all regular oral exams until after (at least) April 20. We thus temporarily offer to conduct our oral examinations remotely using the tool zoom. You do not need to register with the service for your examination, as one of our staff members will invite you to join a video conference hosted by COMSYS. Please find a very short tutorial on zoom below. Furthermore, if postponing the oral examination until after the current restraints is an option for you, we can reschedule your examination for the summer term. However, using the following rules, we can still ensure that you can get your examination if you prefer to get it over with.
To properly conduct remote examinations, we need to adapt some rules to ensure that you are attending the examination without any further aid, please bear with us. ;-)
We know that these requirements are rather excessive and may even seem ridiculous, but this way we ensure that the remote examination is on the same level with in-person examinations at our chair.
... please contact Dirk Thißen.