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MEng Graduate Academic & Career Advisor (All Locations)

Laura Villada
302B Whittemore
(540) 231-7494
vlaura@vt.edu

M.S., Direct Ph.D., Ph.D. Academic & Career Advisor (Blacksburg)

JoAnna Lewis
302C Whittemore
(540) 231-2771
jolewis@vt.edu

M.S., Direct Ph.D., Ph.D. Graduate Academic Advisor (Washington, D.C., metro area)

Roxanne Nersesian Paul
Northern Virginia Center
7054 Haycock Road, Room 312A
Falls Church, VA 22043
(703) 538-8370
roxpaul@vt.edu

ECE force-add requests will be accepted ONLY from students who are eligible to take ECE courses but are unable to request certain ECE course(s) during the Course Request period due to a prerequisite or class restriction. Incomplete or ineligible surveys will not be reviewed and will be deleted with no notification to the student.

Students with an approved force-add request will be added to the requested class based on availability and student’s schedule. Students will not be permitted to request specific CRNs as ECE does not add courses based on professor, time or location preference.

The force-add surveys for graduate courses will open each semester at Add/Drop and close at 5:00 pm on the Friday before the first day of classes. No force-add requests will be accepted after this date. All decisions will be made by the second day of classes. Students with approved force-adds will be notified no later than the second day of classes.

NOTE: the ECE department makes all force-add decisions. ECE faculty are not involved in the process.

If the timetable is showing a course as full, then it has reached capacity and we cannot add additional students. Note that class capacity does not always equal classroom capacity. Just because there may be empty seats, this does not mean that we can add additional students. Many factors go into determining class capacity.

ECE Force-Add Fall 2020 Survey

Independent Study Form must be submitted to the ECE Graduate Student Services Office, 302 Whittemore Hall, no later than the third day of the first week of class of the semester. Forms may be submitted by email or dropped off to advisor mailbox. Independent Study courses generally involve extensive reading and tutorial sessions with the faculty supervisor and also may involve written papers. The subject of Independent Study usually is a continuation in greater depth of a topic covered in a graduate course, allowing students to study topics of particular individual interest. See graduate forms.

Audit of ECE courses is by permission only. In order to audit an ECE course the Audit Request Form must be completed by the third day of the semester. Forms are submitted to the ECE Graduate Student Services Office.

Audits must fulfill all expectations agreed upon between the student and the instructor of the course. This may include attending classes, completing homework, projects, tests, etc. It is strictly up to the instructor of the course to determine what is required to obtain Audit credit for the course.

All graduate students must submit a plan of study. Plans are submitted directly to your ECE Program Advisor. Allow up to five (5) business days for department approval and processing. Graduate School processing typically takes 4-6 weeks. We recommend students plan accordingly and do not wait until the last minute to submit the plan. The Graduate School will not expedite approval of a plan due to lack of planning on the students part.

Note on Processing Time:
Plans of Study require a fair amount of processing for approval. From departmental review to graduate school review, the plan of study can take an average of 4-6 weeks to process. Do not expect immediate approval of the plan – it is a slow process.

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