Near the middle of each semester, the Office of Admissions and Registration will notify the department of the time and procedure for online registration. By that time, students must have prepared a program of study with the counsel of their research advisor. At online registration, students will be required to list their next semester's courses on the computer course program card provided by the Registrar's Office. To ensure proper processing of course registration, each student's schedule must be approved by the student's major advisor and recorded with the graduate program secretary prior to online registration. Finally, each student enters the courses that he or she intends to take by accepting the online registration program.
Further instructions are available from the faculty advisor or the program secretary.
The University sets upper limits on the number of credits graduate students may earn in a given semester, as specified in the Graduate School Procedures and Regulations. All requests for permission to exceed these limits must be approved by the dean of the Graduate School and the chair of the Ceramic and Materials Engineering Department. Minimum enrollment in the summer sessions is 3 hours per session irrespective of the degree objective as long as the student is in good academic standing, i.e., not on probation. The CME department awards financial support in a form of graduate assistantships based on academic merit, as well as on the subject option selected by the student. In general they will receive a stipend in a yearly amount paid in 26 equal biweekly checks.