POLICIES & PROCEDURES

• Engineering Lab Procedures: Information about working in Keller, Kennedy, and IDC labs.
• Graduate School Procedures: Information for all graduate students. 
• MSE Policies and Procedures:
  • Course Remediation Policy
  • Undergraduates taking Graduate classes
  • EGR 699 Independent Study
  • Culminating Experiences and Policies
  • EGR 685 Graduate Practicum

 

FORMS & TEMPLATES

• Commonly Used Forms
  • Course Add/Drop Form
  • Incomplete Grade Form
  • Policy Exception Form
  • Dual Level Request Form (UG students taking EGR 5xx/6xx)
  • Thesis/Project Committee Formation Form
• Template
  • Thesis title page template (.doc)
  • Project title page template (.doc)
  • Thesis approval page template
  • Project approval page template

UNIVERSITY RESOURCES

• Graduate Student Association
• Academic Conference Fund: apply for conference travel support.
• PACES
• Student Employment
• Career Services

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MSE Policies and Procedures (In Progress)

Culminating Experience Policies

The culminating experience requires one of three routes:

• A culminating design project for 3 academic credits, EGR 686.
• A culminating M.S.E. project for 6 academic credits, EGR 693.
• A culminating M.S.E. thesis for 6 academic credits, EGR 695.

The culminating experience route for each student should be discussed with the GPD prior to registration. From among the three routes, students typically select either the M.S.E. project or the M.S.E. thesis, which are equivalent culminating experiences. Students will select the master's project route if they work on proprietary industry projects; they will select the master's thesis route if they work on nonproprietary projects. Students continuously register for either EGR 693 - Master's Project or EGR 695 - Master's Thesis for a total of six credits. If, after completing these six credits, students need additional time to finish their culminating work, they must continuously register for a continuation course, EGR 696, of which the credits, following university policies, do not count toward the required minimum of 33 M.S.E. credits.

• The Thesis/Project Committee Formation form must be completed and approved in the Graduate Committee by the end of the first semester that the student takes EGR 693 or EGR 695 credits.
• All committee members on a project committee must have a master’s degree in engineering or higher.
• Any number of credits of a thesis or experiential learning counts as 40 hours a week of work and is considered full-time.
• To sign up for EGR 693/695 credits, discuss the appropriate number of credits to take with your thesis or project advisor and then send an email to the GPD copying your thesis or project advisor requesting a section of EGR 693/695 be opened up for that number of credits. 

Course Policies

• Undergraduate students may sign up for a graduate level EGR class using the Dual Level Request Form, if they have completed at least 85 credits and have at least a 3.0 GPA  OR be admitted to the MSE program.
• Undergraduate students can take an EGR 6xx class with permission from their undergraduate advisor, the course instructor, and the GPD. Furthermore, they will have to decide whether the course will be used for undergraduate credit or towards a future grad degree.
• Undergraduate students cannot take an EGR 5xx course and have it count towards their undergraduate degree only unless they have already applied to the Combined BSE/MSE program. In this case two EGR 5xx courses will be counted towards their BSE and MSE degrees.  

Independent Study: EGR 699

• No EGR 699 will be allowed in areas where courses exist and are taught at least once per year.
• Only graduate degree or certificate-seeking students who have completed the core requirements may take EGR 699. All independent study topics and the amount of credit to be earned must be approved by the faculty member who agrees to supervise the project. A student may take multiple EGR 699 courses but no more than 3 credits in total will apply to their MSE degree.
• The conditions, meeting times, workload, and subject matter concerned with the project are mutually agreed to by the initiating student and the assenting faculty member and are consistent with standards of quality education.
• Every EGR 699 course MUST have an approved syllabus before it can be added to the schedule and students can sign up. The syllabus for EGR 699 must be approved, in order, by the curriculum committee (if applicable), and then the graduate committee. Any interdisciplinary syllabi will be approved by the graduate committee who will seek out input from subject matter experts as appropriate. Further, EGR 699s to be offered in the Winter semester must be approved in the preceding Fall, and those to be offered in either the Spring/Summer or Fall semesters must be approved in the preceding Winter semester. 1-credit EGR 699s may be offered in 6-week blocks during the semester.
• In the academic transcript the course will be displayed as EGR 699 Ind. Study in [17 char].

Remediation Policy

There is no separate Remediation Policy for engineering classes since all skills and competencies are assessed in the grade for that course. Currently, there are no assessments that do not contribute to the grade.

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