Steps for advising and registration:
- Check your Registration Information Sheet (RIS) for your registration schedule and for any bars you might have.
- Pick up your advising card from the graduate coordinator during normal working hours. During work from home, please utilize the electronic advising form.
- Check the course schedule for courses offered in the upcoming semester. Approved MS&E program courses will be posted on the TMI website.
- Discuss appropriate courses with your research supervisor and get his/her approval (they must initial your Materials Science and Engineering Registration Approval Form next to the applicable semester or sign electronic advising form) BEFORE visiting with the graduate advisor.
- Visit the graduate advisor during preset advising hours. The times for advising hours will be emailed to students approximately two weeks before registration. If you miss the advising office hours, then you will need to drop by during regular office hours to discuss your courses. Please do not assume that you can just drop in or schedule hours for course registration advising outside of the scheduled office hours; there are simply too many students to make this practical. The graduate adviser must approve your proposed schedule before your advising bar can be cleared and you can register.
- After collecting initials (or signatures) from both your supervisor and the graduate advisor, make sure ALL PARTS of your advising card are updated and return it to the graduate coordinator to have your advising bar lifted.
Students who have advanced to candidacy AND passed the preliminary oral exam are not required to have their advising card initialed and can skip these steps. The graduate coordinator will “batch lift” these bars by a set date detailed in the registration email. If after this date your bar has not been lifted, contact the graduate coordinator.
