New students' initial advisor is the grad director.

Students may select a new advisor at any time by consent of the student and the advisor (M2-GSO form).

Minimum registration:

A graduate student is considered full time during the academic year for all support, visa and financial aid purposes if s/he is enrolled for 9 or more credits.

A graduate student is considered half-time if s/he is enrolled for 5-8 credits.

A student may only drop a course that will cause them to go below that level with permission from the grad director and advisor.

Students on a Graduate Student Assistantship are required to be enrolled for a minimum of 9 credits.

Continuous enrollment:

Students must be continuously enrolled, except during summer.

Students must be enrolled in the term they graduate.

Dropping courses:

A student may not drop a course without consent of their advisor and the grad director.

If dropping a course affects a previously filed M4, it must be refiled.

When to fill out forms: These forms are the student's responsibility!

Patent Form - Due immediately when you arrive.

M2-GSO - Recommended Advisory/Advisory Committee - Due second semester.

M3 - Preliminary Degree Schedules - Due end of 1st year, preferably the end of the 1st semester.

M4 - Degree Schedule - Due beginning of the second year or semester prior to completion (Note: this is earlier than required by the Graduate School.)

M5 - Report of Oral Examination - Due in the graduate school office two weeks prior to the event.

CS/M5 - Proposed Schedule of Final Oral Examination - Due in Computer Science Department two weeks prior to the event. Please see Sandy for a copy of this form.

M6 - Verification of Completion - Due two weeks after completion of all degree requirement

Life After Tech (LAM form) - Due within two weeks of final oral exam.

Questionaire for Exiting Students - Due within two weeks of final oral exam. Diploma will be held if you do not turn this form into the Graduate School.

Invoice for Thesis/Dissertation/Electronic Project Report Processing Form - Due within two weeks of final oral exam.

Thesis Dissertation Bindery Form - Due within two weeks of final oral exam.

All Graduate School forms are available at http://www.admin.mtu.edu/rgs/graduate/trackingforms.html

Grades of BC or below:

If a grade of BC or below is received in the course, it is as if the course was not taken. In particular, if the BC was in CS 5311 or CS 5321, that course must be retaken.

Courses outside of department:

Science, engineering, mathematics, etc.: By approval of advisor.

Unrelated to subject area (Physical Education, etc.): Only if beyond minimum registration requirement

3000-level courses

No 3000-level courses count for graduate credit.

4000-level CS courses that count for graduate credit:

4121, 4131, 4311, 4321, 4411, 4421, 4431, 4441, 4451, 4461, 4611, 4711, 4712, 4811

No more than 12 credits of 4000-level courses may be applied to degree.

5000-level CS courses that count for graduate credit:

All CS 5000 courses can be applied.

6000-level CS courses that count for graduate credit:

All CS 6000 courses can be applied.

Assistantship

If you accept an assistantship offer, you are obliged to fulfill your obligations. Please see statement from the Graduate Council group @ http://gsc.students.mtu.edu. You are also required to attend all scheduled computer science graduate student seminars. Graduate seminar announcements will be emailed to you by the presenter and also can be found at cs.mtu.edu/seminars.html/.

Supported students must meet all full-time student requirements.

Committee:

Entire committee (3 departmental faculty and one outside member) must be selected and confirmed approximately two weeks prior to the proposal. (Form M2-GSO)

Entire committee must be kept up to date on progress of research.

Distribution of proposals, theses and project reports:

Provide copies of proposals to all committee members one week before proposal presentation. Please consult your Advior.

Provide copies of thesis/report to committee members two weeks before final oral presentation. Please consult your Advisor.

Make available an additional copy of your final version for interested faculty and grad students. You may give it to Sandy for distribution.

Finishing "early"

Some students supported by the department might be able to complete their degree requirements one or two terms earlier than usual (i.e., before two academic years have passed). If the student and advisor desire, support may be continued to the end of the second academic year to enable the student to continue work on their thesis or project. This work will be done as CS 5990.

However, under no circumstances should a student be coerced to continue work after their degree requirements are complete, nor may the student's committee delay its review of the student's work in order to extend the student's stay.


If you have have any additional questions please feel free to email Sandy @ sjkalcic@mtu.edu.