buckeyedm/ohio-state-coe-dissertation-template

LaTeX template for help with writing CSE dissertation at Ohio State University

Ohio State College of Engineering MS/PhD Dissertation Template

This an unofficial LaTeX template for help with writing MS theses and PhD dissertations at The Ohio State University. This template derives follows the rules prescribed by the Graduate School and College of Engineering. More importantly, this template extends the template available from [Ted Pavlic's blog] (http://phaseportrait.blogspot.com/2011/02/updated-latex-document-class-for-ohio.html).

This template is neither officially supported nor provided by The Ohio State University.

I have used this template for both my candidacy proposal and my dissertation, and it is up to date with the graduate school requirements as of August 2016. I am sharing this template since it might help other students, since no LaTeX template is available from the graduate school web pages as of August 2016.

Directory structure

The following structure is suggested.

• figs -- Place your figures here.
• misc -- Miscellaneous.
• src -- LaTeX files.
• bib -- Bibliography files.
• tmp -- You can redirect your output (*.aux, *.lot) to this directory.

Building the project

I have tested with TexLive distribution 2011 onward with

• latexmk
• pdflatex

To include references, create a symlink to the bib files under tmp:

ln -s bib/ref.bib tmp/ref.bib

You might need to change or pass the location of the bibliography file based on your environment and build system. So far, I have not been able to provide the bib path to latexmk more efficiently.

Notes

Adding figures

You can use the following template which shows how your figs directory structure is already setup.

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics{chap1/xx}
  \caption{YY}
  \label{fig:zz}
\end{figure}