Anticipated questions

Planned

Every question below has a written answer and a link to the evidence that backs it. A question with no evidence link is an open risk, and open risks are worked down before the defense is scheduled, not during it.

Questions are graded by how much damage an unprepared answer would do.

Tier 1: fatal if unanswered

#	Question	Answer status
1	Why is this a contribution rather than an engineering exercise?	not-started
2	What would falsify your central claim?	not-started
3	Why this method rather than the obvious alternative?	not-started

Tier 2: damaging

#	Question	Answer status	Evidence
4	How do your results generalise beyond the conditions you tested?	not-started
5	Why should the committee trust these measurements?	not-started

Tier 3: expected, answerable

#	Question	Answer status	Evidence
6	What would you do differently with another year?	not-started

Questions actually asked

Filled in after each examination. The questions a committee really asks are the best possible input to the next rehearsal, and they are forgotten within a day if they are not written down immediately.

Date	Examination	Question	How it went
Not set