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Residence Requirement

Students will conform to the residence requirement as stipulated in .

Transfer from the Master’s Program to the PhD Program

Proceeding to a PhD program without completing a master’s degree is discouraged. However, a student may be admitted when all of the following conditions have been met:

• The application for a transfer is submitted within the first six terms of the MASc program at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
• All the MASc coursework requirements have been completed with a CGPA of 3.67/4.33 or better.
• A recommendation by the senior supervisor indicates demonstrated potential for outstanding research
• The student's supervisory committee and the graduate program committee approve

Once tansferred into the Ph.D. program, the additional course requirements are as follows:

• MSE 801 (or ENSC 803)
• Two graduate MSE courses (at most one directed studies course can be taken during the combined Master's/Ph.D. period)

Course Requirements

The minimum course requirements are as follows:

• MSE 801 (or ENSC 803)
• Two graduate MSE courses (not directed studies)
• Two graduate technical courses (at most one course may be directed studies MSE 891/892)

Students may take additional courses to correct any deficiencies in their background upon approval of their senior supervisors.

Previous Credit

If the subject matter of a listed course has been previously completed with graduate credit, the course may not be completed again for credit.

Qualifying Examination

To qualify the student will submit a brief written research proposal and defend it orally to his/her supervisory committee within the first 24 months of admission. The proposal’s defence will be judged according to the feasibility and scientific merits of the proposed research, and demonstration of a sophisticated understanding of general material in the student’s major area of research. This level of understanding is associated with senior undergraduate and first year graduate course material.

The possible outcomes of the qualifying examination are ‘pass,’ ‘marginal’ and ‘fail.’ A student with ‘marginal’ will be required to re-submit the research proposal and defend it for the second and final time within six months and/or to complete more courses. A‘failing’ grade requires withdrawal.

Thesis

Students define and undertake original research, the results of which are reported in a thesis. An examining committee is formed as defined in . Students conform to residence requirements (see . The senior supervisor will be an engineering science faculty approved by the graduate program committee.

The student’s progress will be reviewed every 12 months by a supervisory committee of two or more faculty members. At each annual review, the student presents a summary of his/her work to date, with the first review being the research proposal defence described in the section for Qualifying Examination (see above). Students not making satisfactory progress in their research topics, or failing to demonstrate satisfactory knowledge and understanding of recent publications in their general area of research, or failing to have their revised research proposal approved by the supervisory committee within 24 months of admission, may be required to withdraw as per section 1.8.2 Review of Unsatisfactory Progress of the .

Academic Requirements within the Graduate General Regulations

All graduate students must satisfy the academic requirements that are specified in the , as well as the specific requirements for the program in which they are enrolled, as shown above.