| Advising Information for EE, CSE, & EPE Undergraduate & Graduate Students |
| Core Engineering |
| ECSE Undergraduate Advisor |
David Nichols
Location: JEC 6046
Phone: 276-2601
Office Hours
| Days | Monday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
| Hours | 9:00 -
5:00 |
9:00 -
5:00 |
9:00 -
1:00 |
So, your roommate claims that a friend said that it’s OK to take Digital Electronics during the same semester as Diff Eq, as long as you have a good grade in Physics II; but you’re a bit skeptical. Who do you call?
First, read the course descriptions and the curriculum checklists in the RPI catalog and also on the ECSE web site,. Second, send me an email or stop by for a visit, or both. I know the rules; I can get the answers. I can also assist you in several other ways by helping you:
I am also available if your regular faculty advisor is on sabbatical or is otherwise not available to you.
| Graduate Advising |
MS and/or PhD students in Electrical Engineering and Computer & Systems Engineering are not assigned to a particular faculty member and are encouraged to meet with faculty to choose an advisor for their thesis. An advisor must be selected within the first six weeks of the first semester of study. Students with Research Assistantships will automatically be advised by the professor providing the assistantship. If that professor is not in the ECSE department, the student must choose a co-advisor from ECSE, and it is the responsibility of the student to keep both faculty informed of research progress and course selection. MEng students in Electrical and Computer & Systems Engineering are typically advised by the Director of ECSE Masters Programs, although they are free to choose any ECSE faculty member as an advisor.
Students in the Electric Power Engineering department will be assigned a specific advisor upon entering the program. All students fill out a Plan of Study that must be approved by the advisor and either the Director of Masters Programs or Director of Doctoral Programs.
Plans of study must be updated whenever a change to the plan is made. Students are encouraged to maintain regular contact with their advisor to dicuss thesis and/or course progress.All full-time students are required to register for a minimum of 12 credits each semester they are in attendance. Students who have been awarded Teaching Assistantships may carry a minimum load of 9 credits per semester.
| Undergraduate Curriculum Checklists |
ECSE Course Description (Look under Course Descriptions in the Catalog)
Undergraduate Curriculum Check Lists
Undergraduate Graduation Eligibility Requirements in the Course Catalog (Look under Academic Information and Bachelor's Degree in the Catalog)
(All Classes of ECSE can pick up a hard copy of their Curriculum Checklists in JEC 6049)
| Do you need help making your Schedule? |
Do you feel stress during registration? Do you find that by the time you enter your classes into SIS system all the class sections that you wanted are filled up. The RPI Scheduler was designed to help students with the task of figuring out which classes can fit together with each other, and still result in a schedule that meets the students' needs. This feature allows students to limit the times during which they were willing to have class and also discard sections they did not want to register for. This Applet allows you to see all the possibilities when arranging your schedule. Many times students would overlook a combination of course timings that would be better than what they could come up with. The RPI Database is generated using data posted by the registrar on SIS .
| What are the Design Elective Options? |
Design Course Options for EE and CSE available each term will be posted on the class hour schedule.
| Additional H&SS Requirements |
| New Topic Courses |
New topics courses for each term will be posted on the main advising page when the schedule
for the coming term is finalized.
(Note that ECSE-6xxx courses can only be taken by grad students and eligible
undergraduates.)
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