AEM Graduate Program Handbook

Colloquium Attendance Policy

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Graduate students are expected to attend the departmental colloquia on a regular basis as long as they are pursuing any graduate degree in residence.

To ensure attendance, specific minimum requirements have been set:

A student must demonstrate regular attendance for one year (or two semesters) for a Master's degree and a total of two years (four semesters) for a Doctoral degree.
In general, a student should NOT register for official graduate school credit for the colloquium. A student who needs the additional official credit for a degree program must consult with the DGS before the first scheduled colloquium of the semester concerning the procedure for earning that credit.
To demonstrate regular attendance a student must attend all but two of the colloquia offered to fulfill the requirement for any particular semester. Attendance at each colloquium lecture must be documented by signing the sheet circulated during the lecture.
A student who misses more than two AEM colloquium may substitute a scheduled colloquium or seminar in some other IT department. Such substitutions are limited to two, in meeting a single semesters requirement, or a maximum of four, in meeting an academic year's requirement.
The student must document the substitution with a brief statement giving the department, date, speaker's name and affiliation, title and summary of the lecture. This statement/summary must be given to the Office Staff in the main office within one week of the substitute lecture.
A student with a class schedule that conflicts with regular colloquium attendance must present an acceptable option for meeting the requirement. Possible options might include post-ponement to a later semester, regular attendance at a national meeting of professional engineering society, alternative involvement with out-of-town colloquia speakers, and/or other acitivities which will broaden the student's awareness both technically and geographically.
Any such option for a single semester must be prepared in consultation with the student's advisor, approved in written form by the advisor, and presented to the DGS no later than the second week of the semester. The DGS may approve the option as is, approve it with modification, or reject it.
Options for more than one semester per year will only be approved under most unusual circumstances.

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