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Graduate Student Handbook The purpose of this handbook is to acquaint you with the rules and requirements that must be followed in order for you to obtain a graduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kentucky. Students are solely responsible for familiarizing themselves with all regulations and requirements contained within this Handbook and the University of Kentucky Graduate School Bulletin. Much of this Handbook was derived from the latter publication, a copy of which may be obtained at UK Graduate School Bulletin. In no case will a regulation be waived or an exception granted because a student pleads ignorance. Additional information or further clarification on either departmental or university policies may be obtained by consulting the ECE Director of Graduate Studies. Program of Study The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering offers advanced studies leading to either a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering or a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering. For those seeking the MSEE degree, both the thesis and non-thesis options are available. The thesis option, Plan A, requires 24 hours of acceptable graduate-level work, including fulfilling department core course requirements, plus conducting a research project appropriate for writing an acceptable graduate thesis. The non-thesis option, Plan B, requires 30 hours of acceptable graduate work plus an additional three credit hour special problems project. This project is research-oriented in nature and may or may not be as in-depth as a thesis. The scope of Plan B special projects is determined by the student's graduate advisor and approved by the Director of Graduate Studies. How to Apply Domestic Applications U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents must complete the following admission requirements.
NOTE: Obtaining
the minimum GPA requirements does not guarantee admission to either
the MSEE or Ph.D. program will be granted. Acceptance is based upon
a competitive evaluation and International Student Application Non-U.S. citizens must satisfy
the same admission requirements as domestic applicants. In addition,
those students whose most recent degree is from a college/university
from outside the U.S. NOTE:
Obtaining the minimum GPA requirements does not guarantee admission
to either the MSEE or Ph.D. program will be granted. Acceptance is based
upon a For further information: Graduate Admission Inquiries to Admission Status Inquiries as to an applicant's
admission status can be found at the UK Graduate School web site
http://www.rgs.uky.edu/gs/
or by writing from the Graduate School. Financial Assistance Teaching and Research Assistance Limited financial assistance is available to qualified applicants in the form of graduate teaching and research assistantships. Stipends vary depending upon the student's program level and type of support. U.S. citizens in good academic standing are given first priority on all assistantships awarded by the ECE Department. Applications must be submitted to the Director of Graduate Studies by March 1 for consideration for the next academic year. A committee composed of ECE faculty representatives determines teaching assistantship recipients for each academic year. Individual faculty members with extramural funding select research assistants on individual basis. Ordinarily, applicants are notified by May 31 as to the decision on their application. Because of the enormous demand
for financial support, normally, international students whose most recent
degree is from a college/university outside the U.S. must enroll In addition to the monthly monetary stipend for services performed, graduate assistants are nominated for tuition scholarships awarded by the UK Graduate School for all or part of their tuition. The Director of Graduate Studies nominates assistantship recipients for tuition scholarships. The type and amount of the student's assistantship is used by the Graduate School in determining the tuition scholarship to be awarded. All graduate assistants are responsible for paying mandatory university fees over and above basic tuition charges for each semester. Conditions of Appointment for All Electrical & Computer Engineering Graduate Assistants
Fellowships A variety of university-sponsored fellowships are available for qualified students. These fellowships generally pay tuition and a monthly stipend during the academic year. Students interested in consideration for a university fellowship must show a scholastically superior academic record and must be nominated by the ECE Director of Graduate Studies. In addition, academic transcripts, GRE scores (different fellowship requirements range from 81-90 percentile average on verbal, quantitative and analytical portions of the GRE) and three letters of recommendation from current or former professors are required. A maximum of four semesters of university-sponsored fellowship support is allowed during a student's UK graduate career. Persons whose most recent degree is from a college/university outside the U.S. are not eligible for consideration for a university-sponsored fellowship. Cost of Study Tuition for full-time study
for the 2004-2005 academic year is $2827 per semester for residents
of Kentucky and $6547 per semester for non-residents. Tuition for part-time
Campus Housing The UK Apartment Housing Office operates apartments for single graduate students and student families. The apartments are rented on a 12-month lease agreement basis. For more information, contact UK Graduate and Family Housing, 700 Woodland Ave., Lexington, KY 40508; (859) 257-3721; e-mail apthousing@uky.edu; or see University Graduate Housing.
About the Area The University is located
in the heart of the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky, an area of gently
rolling land of unexcelled beauty with more than 300 horse farms. Known
as Graduate School and ECE Program Degree Requirements The Academic Advisor The ECE Director of Graduate Studies serves as a student's initial academic advisor upon admission into the ECE graduate program. All full-time graduate students, by the end of their first semester of graduate work in the UK Electrical & Computer Engineering program, must choose a regular academic advisor. Part-time students should comply with this requirement after completing nine credit hours of graduate course work. In conjunction with the academic advisor, the student must formulate a program of study. This plan will list the graduate courses to be taken in order for him/her to obtain his/her degree. A research topic for the thesis/project/dissertation must be included. The Director of Graduate Studies through the use of the Graduate Program Planning Approval Sheet must then approve this plan of study and research topic. A copy of this plan containing the signatures of both the student's academic advisor and the Director of Graduate Studies is to be filed in the student's academic folder. Students not complying with this requirement may be denied future registrations. Significant changes to a student's graduate program plan, particularly the changing of advisors, must be approved by the ECE Director of Graduate Studies with a copy of the change to be included in the student's academic folder. The
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dr. Jimmie J. Cathey
- Professor, received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. Research
Areas: Electric Machine Design and Analysis, Control of Electric
Machines, Solid State Power Conditioning, and Electric Drive Applied
to Vehicles. Dr. Zhi Chen
- Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. Research Areas: Microelectronic
Fabrication, Novel Semiconductor Devices and Materials, CMOS Transistor
Reliability and Microsensors. Dr. Sen-ching Cheung
- Assistant Professor, received his Ph.D. from the University
of California, Berkeley. Research Areas: Content -based
Information Retrieval, Video and Iimage Compression, Scientific Data
mining, Multimedia Systems, Machine Learning, Randomized Algorithms. Dr. William (Bill) Dieter - Assistant Professor, received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. Research Areas: Checkpointing, Fault-tolerance, Distributed Computing, Embedded Systems, High-Performance Computing. Dr. Henry (Hank) Dietz - Professor, received his Ph.D. from Polytechnic University of New York. Research Areas: Parallel Processing, Compilers, Hardware Architectures and Networking, Operating Systems, Digital Imaging. Dr. Dietz has been named the James F. Hardymon Chair in Networking.
Dr. Kevin D. Donohue
- Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies; received
his Ph.D. degree from Illinois Institute of Technology. Research
Areas: digital signal processing and communications systems.
Dr. Donohue is the Databeam Professor for Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Stephen D. Gedney
- Professor, received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. Research areas: computational
electromagnetics, microwave circuit device modeling, VLSI package interconnect
modeling, electromagnetic scattering, and parallel computational methods.
Dr. Gedney has been named the Reece Terry Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering. Dr. Laurence G. Hassebrook
- Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. degree from Carnegie-Mellon
University. Research Areas: include pattern recognition,
N-D signal processing, automatic target recognition and 3-D data acquisition. Dr. J. Todd Hastings,
Assistant Professor, received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. Research Areas: Nano-fabrication, optical
and electronic materials and devices. Dr. J. Robert Heath - Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. from Auburn University. Research Areas: design and development of application specific computer systems; design and development of reconfigurable adaptive dynamic computer systems architectures; static and dynamic run-time load balancing in multiprocessor systems; design and development of interconnect networks; VLSI systems design.
Dr. Lawrence Holloway
- Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
for Computer Engineering, received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.
Research Areas: discrete-event control synthesis, automated
fault monitoring of manufacturing systems and active sensing policies
for uncertain systems. Dr. Holloway is the Kentucky Utilities Professor
in Electrical Engineering.
Dr. Daniel Lau
- Assistant Professor, received his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware.
Research Areas: Image Processing, Digital Communications,
and Computer Engineering. Dr. Jingshan Li - Assistant Professor, received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Research Areas: system and control theory with applications to manufacturing system modeling and analysis, production control, lean manufacturing systems, and supply chain management. Dr. Caicheng Lu
- Assistant Professor, received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. Research Areas: electromagnetic
wave propagation and scattering, inverse scattering, microwave imaging,
fast numerical algorithms for computational electromagnetics, antenna
analysis and design. Dr. James E. Lumpp - Associate Professor, received his Ph.D from the University of Iowa. Research Areas: high performance computing, particularly parallel processing and distribution processing on high performance networks, parallel architectures, operating systems and parallel languages.
Dr. Janet K. Lumpp
- Associate Professor, received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.
Research Areas: materials, lasers and microelectronics.
Dr. Vijay P. Singh
- Professor and Chair, received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota
at Minneapolis. Research Areas: Electronic devices
and materials, microelectronics, thin-film technology, flat panel displays,
and solar cells. Dr Singh also holds the Earl Parker Robinson Chair
in Engineering. Dr. William T. Smith - Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, received his Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Research Areas: electromagnetic compatibility. Dr. Ingrid St. Omer, Assistant Professor, received her Ph.D from the University of Missouri - Columbia. Research Areas: Electronic materials and devices, semiconductor device fabrication and characterization. Dr. Bruce Walcott
- Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. from Purdue University. Research
Areas: adaptive control, fuzzy logic controllers, genetic algorithms
and vibration control. Dr. YuMing Zhang
- Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, received his Ph.D. from
Harbin Institute of Technology in China. He directs the Welding Research
Laboratory and the Applied Sensing and Control Laboratory in the UK
Center for Manufacturing. Research Areas: Applied machine
vision and control systems with applications to manufacturing processes
and robotic welding. Dr. Zhang has been named the James R. Boyd Professor
in Electrical Engineering. Graduate
Course Requirements In order to assure a minimum breadth and level of understanding at the graduate level the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering requires that students take certain prescribed courses representing the major areas of electrical engineering. This requirement must be fulfilled by all students regardless of their graduate program status (MSEE or Ph.D.). Students must take three of the five possible courses. These are: EE 611 Deterministic Systems
Graduate students are considered an integral part of the university community. As such, it is important that you participate in scholarly activities outside the classroom and research laboratory. Graduate students are expected to attend all ECE Department sponsored seminars. Their attendance is required as part of their work assignment. Academic Load The normal load of a full-time graduate student is 9 credit hours. Under no circumstances may a student's academic load exceed 15 credit hours in any one semester. During the summer sessions, the maximum load for the four-week session is 4 credit hours and for the eight-week summer session 9 credit hours or a total load for both session of 12 credit hours. For the student who is a full-time teaching assistant or whose University service requires approximately 20 hours per week maximum, the academic load may not exceed 10 credit hours per semester. Exceptions to this rule may be made upon the recommendation of the Director of Graduate Studies and with the approval of the Graduate School Dean. Graduate Courses All courses numbered 500-799 may be counted for credit toward a graduate degree. Additionally, those courses numbered 400G - 499G outside of Electrical Engineering may be taken, upon approval of the Director of Graduate Studies, for graduate credit. Additionally, new graduate course offerings of current interest are offered under the course number EE 699 - Topics in Electrical Engineering and include the appropriate course sub title. Students may enroll in independent problem/research courses (EE 595 or EE 783) under the supervision of a graduate faculty member. Such work may not duplicate these/project work or work from previous courses. A form, available in the ECE office, must be signed by the faculty member responsible for supervising the student's work at the time of his/her registration. This form will include a synopsis of the work to be completed in order to receive credit for the course. It is to be kept on file in the ECE office. For those students pursuing the MSEE degree, at least two thirds of the courses must be from within the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. At least one half of all MSEE credit requirements must be at the 600 or 700 level. Grades - Grade Point Average Grading in graduate courses is done according to the following scale: A = High Achievement 4 grade points per credit D grades are not awarded to graduate students. Graduate courses (400G - 799) may not be take pass/fail. A grade of "I" (incomplete) may be assigned to a graduate student if part of the assigned work for the course remains unfinished. All incomplete grades must be removed from a student's record unless approved by the Graduate School Dean. An overall grade point average of 3.0 on all graduate work must be attained before an advanced degree may be awarded. Transfer Credit A student may request that up to nine hours of graduate work taken while enrolled as (1) a post-baccalaureate student; (2) a graduate student in another UK department; (3) a graduate student at another university, be transferred to his/her MSEE academic record. The Director of Graduate Studies should be consulted for the initiation of such a request. A grade of "B" or better is required in order for a course to be considered for transfer. Transfer credit may not duplicate course work taken at the University of Kentucky. Decisions on transfer request are at the discretion of the Director of Graduate Studies and the UK Graduate School. Foreign Language Requirement There is no foreign language requirement for those pursuing the MSEE degree or the PhD degree. All doctoral students must demonstrate a reading knowledge of one modern foreign language. The languages normally acceptable for fulfilling the requirement are French, German and Russian. However, any modern foreign language appropriate to the student's field of study may be selected based upon the recommendation of the Director of Graduate Studies and with the approval of the Graduate School Dean. A student may fulfill the foreign language requirement in several ways. Commonly, the student enrolls in a course specifically for reading knowledge of the language as part of his/her normal graduate course load. A grade of "B" must be attained in this course for the requirement to be satisfied. Other options are explained in the Graduate School Bulletin. The language requirement must be fulfilled before the Qualifying Examination may be scheduled. Technical Writing Requirement The ECE department requires PhD students to take ENG 204 Technical Writing prior to taking the qualifying examination. Application for Degree An Application for Degree must be filed with the Graduate School approximately thirty days (fifteen days in the Summer Session) after the beginning of the semester in which the student intends to complete his/her degree requirements and graduate. This requirement is applicable to both MSEE and Ph.D. degree candidates. The exact deadline date is printed in the Official University Calendar each semester. Students failing to file a degree application will have their actual graduation date delayed, regardless of whether or not all other requirements have been met. The ECE Director of Graduate Studies must sign the application. Time Limit for Degrees Students pursuing the MSEE degree have a maximum of eight years from the semester in which graduate work is first begun to complete all graduate degree requirements. Effective for those students admitted to the doctoral program for the 1992 4-week Summer Session and all subsequent semesters, doctoral candidates who have not requirements within five years (beginning with the next full-time semester, Fall or Spring) following the original successful completion of the Qualifying Exams, must repeat successfully the entire Qualifying Examination process, both written and oral, before the ECE Director of Graduate Studies may recommend an extension of time to the Graduate Council. The Qualifying reexamination must be on the basis of the current qualifying examination process, not those in place at the time of the candidate's original successful qualifying exams. These reexaminations must be scheduled through the ECE Director of Graduate Studies and the UK Graduate School. The reexamination may occur one time only. If the candidate fails the reexamination, a second reexamination is not permitted and candidacy is terminated. The UK Graduate School sets these time limits forth. Repeat Option A student may repeat one graduate course and count only the second grade as part of the graduate grade point average. Such action may be taken only once in a particular degree program and must be initiated by petition of the ECE Director of Graduate Studies and the Graduate School Dean. This petition must be initiated and received by the Graduate School Dean no later than the last day of scheduled classes in the semester in which the repeat option is exercised. Scholastic Probation Any student completing 12 or more semester hours of graduate credit with a grade point average of 3.0 or less will be placed on scholastic probation and is subject to dismissal form the ECE Graduate Program. Students on scholastic probation will have one full-time semester or the equivalent (9 credit hours) to remove the probation by raising their overall GGPA to 3.0. If probation is not removed, the student will be dismissed from the Graduate School. Students on scholastic probation are not eligible for assistantships, fellowships, or tuition scholarships. Termination from the ECE Graduate Program In addition to the policies set forth by the UK Graduate School regarding dismissal from the University, the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering has established an additional reason for which a student may be terminated from either the MSEE or Ph.D. programs. Any student who obtains a GGPA of 2.0 or less after the completion of his/her first nine credit hours of graduate course work is automatically terminated for the ECE Graduate Program. Information for ECE Department Records So that accurate demographic information can be kept on ECE graduate students, all students are required to complete the Graduate Student Information Sheet at the beginning of the Fall Semester each academic year. The information collected by this form allows the ECE Department to contact students either by regular, email or phone should the need arise and to generate accurate statistics for reporting purposes. The MSEE Degree MSEE - Thesis Option A student wishing to pursue the MSEE degree has a choice of two plans of study. Plan A, or the thesis option, requires that the student complete twenty-four hours of graduate credit, conduct a research project, and write a thesis. All Theses must be submitted to the UK Graduate School. The thesis must be typed according to the format specified in the Graduate School handout "Instructions for the Preparation of Theses and Dissertations." A copy of this handout may be obtained from the UK Graduate School. A thesis binding fee must be paid to the Office of Billings and Collections at the time the thesis is submitted to the Graduate School. This fee must be paid in order for the student's degree to be officially certified and the diploma issued. MSEE - Non-Thesis Option In addition to the MSEE thesis option, students may choose to pursue their MSEE degree by Plan B, or the non-thesis option. Plan B requires that the student complete 30 hours of acceptable graduate course work plus three credit hours of EE 784 - Research Project in Electrical Engineering. The EE 784 research project may or may not be as extensive as a thesis. The scope of work of the MSEE project and its content is left to the discretion of the student's academic advisor and advisory committee. The project must be typed and bound but need not be typed in the specific Graduate School format required of a thesis. A bound copy of the project is to be submitted to the ECE Office before approval of the final examination is given. Students Who Have Completed Course Requirements Those students, Plan A or Plan B, who have completed all course requirements for their degree but who have not completed thesis or project research must enroll in EE 748 - Master's Thesis Research for zero credit hours. Prerequisite Course Requirements for Those Without a BSEE Degree Those students who do not hold an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering or whose BSEE degree is from a non-ABET accredited Electrical Engineering program must develop competence and demonstrate ability in the fundamentals of Electrical Engineering. Such students must either take (or have taken the equivalent of) a set of prescribed Electrical Engineering remedial courses as determined necessary the ECE Director of Graduate Studies before regular graduate program admission is granted. A minimum grade of C (2.0/4.0) is required in each of the required remedial courses. Students may register either as an undergraduate non-degree student or as a post-baccalaureate graduate student while completing these required courses. Specific requirements will be set forth on an individual basis in a formal agreement signed by the Director of Graduate Studies. This agreement will also contain the signature of the student indicating his/her concurrence with the prescribed remedial courses. Copies of this signed agreement will be placed in the student's academic folder in both the ECE offices and at the UK Graduate School. All regular requirements for obtaining the student's particular graduate degree are in addition to this remedial work. Time limits applicable for satisfactory progress towards a degree begin at the time remedial work is completed and full graduate standing is granted. Final Examinations for MSEE Degree Candidates A final examination is administered to all MSEE candidates. This examination may be oral, written, or both as determined by the student's academic advisory committee. The examining committee shall consist of the student's academic advisor, one other qualified member of the UK Graduate Faculty plus a third qualified committee member. Membership on the UK Graduate Faculty is preferred but is not required of the third committee member. At least one of the student's examining committee must hold full membership on the UK Graduate Faculty. The Director of Graduate Studies and the UK Graduate School must obtain approval of the student's examining committee. The examination must be scheduled at least two weeks prior to the examination date and is scheduled by the notification of the Graduate School Dean through the Final Examination Form. Students must satisfy all course requirements and remove any incomplete grades before the scheduling of the examination is approved. Those students completing a thesis must, at the same time, submit a completed Thesis Approval Sheet indicating the thesis has been reviewed by his/her examining committee and is in a form acceptable for the administering the final examination. Students must sit for the final examination no later than eight days before the end of classes during the semester in which the student is a candidate for the degree. Should the student fail the final examination, the examining committee must recommend to the Graduate Council the conditions under which a second examination may be administered. A majority opinion rules in all decisions. A split decision results in the student's failure. A third final examination is prohibited. The Doctor of Philosophy Degree Persons wishing to obtain a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering must demonstrate original scholarship and research in the overall field. Although no formal course requirements exist for the Ph.D. program, students must satisfy the previously mentioned ECE core course requirements in addition to all other course work determined necessary and appropriate by the student's Advisory Committee. Each student must satisfy the residency requirement set forth in the Graduate School Bulletin and elsewhere in this Handbook. The student must also select an academic advisor and formulate a graduate plan of study requiring the approval of the ECE Director of Graduate Studies. The Graduate Program Planning Approval Sheet is used for this purpose. Major Professor and Advisory Committee Doctoral students should choose a major professor during the first semester of their doctoral studies. The Director of Graduate Studies may initially serve as a student's academic advisor but by the end of the first semester, he/she must choose a major professor. The student's full advisory committee is to be chosen no later than one year prior to the taking of the Qualifying Examination. This committee, along with the major professor whose serves as the Chair of the committee, guides the student, determines his/her doctoral course work, and sets specific requirements to be followed in order for the student to obtain his/her degree. The student's major professor as well as two other members of his/her advisory committee must be faculty members in Electrical & Computer Engineering. The major professor as well as two additional committee members must be full members of the Graduate Faculty. One committee member must be from outside the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department. All members of the student's advisory committee must be members of the Graduate Faculty. The Advisory Committee is to remain in tact for the duration of the student's graduate career. If for any reason a committee member cannot continue to serve on the panel, a suitable replacement is to be recommended by the major professor for approval by the ECE Director of Graduate Studies and the UK Graduate School. The Director of Graduate Studies must approve all advisory committees and shall inform the Graduate School of the formation of the student's committee through the Advisory Committee Request form. Residence Requirements for Doctoral Students The University of Kentucky requires that all doctoral students have sufficient contact with the UK academic community to ensure that the student becomes involved in all aspects of scholarly activity. For this reason, specific graduate residency requirements must be satisfied. A minimum total of three years of residency must be satisfied and can be achieved by selecting one of the following two models: Residence
Requirements Model I
Residence Requirements Model II
Referring to Item 3 of either of the above two models, the semester during which the student takes and successfully passes the Qualifying Examination may be counted for residence credit only if the date of the exam is within six weeks (three weeks during the eight-week summer session) of the first day of classes. If the summer sessions are used to fulfill part of this residence requirement, three hours must be taken in the 4-week session and six hours must be taken in the 8-week summer session for a total of nine hours over the entire summer. The student need not be physically present on campus while enrolled for Residence Credit after the Qualifying Examination. Students who have completed two full-time semesters of EE 769 who have not yet completed degree requirements and yet are actively working on their dissertations are required to enroll in EE 749 for zero hours every semester, up to a maximum of six semesters, until they have completed their degree. The Qualifying Examination All doctoral students are required to successfully pass a qualifying examination before being admitted to doctoral candidacy. The purpose of the qualifying examination is to ascertain whether or not the student has sufficient depth and breadth of understanding and competence in the field of Electrical Engineering to become a candidate for the doctoral degree. The exam, which is administered by the student's advisory committee, will consist of both written and orals sections. Majority approval of the advisory committee is necessary for the student to pass the examination. The examination must be scheduled through the Director of Graduate Studies and the UK Graduate School. A recommendation for Qualifying Examination must be filed two weeks before the scheduled examination date. Should the student fail the examination, the second examination may be scheduled no sooner than four months but no longer than one year after the first examination was administered. A third examination is prohibited. The results of any qualifying examination must be reported to the Graduate School no later than ten days after its conclusion. The Dissertation All doctoral candidates are to conduct a major research project, the result of which culminates in written form as a dissertation. This dissertation must be a well-reasoned, original contribution to the knowledge and field of Electrical Engineering and must show evidence of scholarly attainment in the student's particular area within the general discipline. Throughout the research and dissertation preparation process, the major professor serves as the student's primary source of guidance. Other members of the advisory committee may also become involved in this process as required. All members of the student's advisory committee are to be furnished a copy of the dissertation. Each must make a decision as to whether or not the dissertation is of sufficient quality and form to allow the final examination to be scheduled. A majority of the student's advisory committee must indicate their approval in writing as to this fact on the Dissertation Approval Sheet which is submitted to the UK Graduate School. Suggestions for major revisions to the dissertations must be made and corrections incorporated into the work before the Approval Sheet is to be signed and submitted to the Graduate School. The dissertation must be typed according to the format specified in the handout "Instructions for the Preparation of Theses and Dissertations" available from the UK Graduate School. A binding fee of $52.00 is required at the time of the dissertation's submission for final approval to the UK Graduate School. This fee is to be made payable to the Office of Student Billings and Collections. A $20.00 fee is required if the student wishes the dissertation to be copyrighted. Final Examination for Doctoral Candidates No later than four weeks prior to the intended date of the final examination, a Notification of the Intent to Schedule a Final Examination form must be submitted to the Graduate School. Upon receipt of this form, the Graduate Dean will appoint an outside examiner as a core member of the advisory committee. A request for Final Examination form should be submitted to the Graduate Dean along with the signed Dissertation Approval sheet no later than two weeks prior to the scheduled final exam. A complete, typed copy of the dissertation must be submitted along with these two forms. A complete copy of the dissertation includes a title page, abstract, all figures, tables, appendices, references, etc. The final examination is a public event. Any member of the university community may attend. The final examination includes a defense of the dissertation but may also include questions about the student's doctoral course work or electrical engineering in general. The content of the final examination is left to the discretion of the advisory committee. A majority opinion of the advisory committee prevails in all final examination decisions. If the committee is split evenly, the candidate conditions under which a second examination may be administered. A third examination is prohibited. After the final examination is successfully passed, the final copy of the dissertation is prepared. It is then submitted to the Graduate School and must contain the signatures of the student's major professor, advisory committee, and the ECE Director of Graduate Studies. The dissertation must be received by the UK Graduate School no later than 60 days after the final examination is passed. |
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