DOCTORAL DEGREE IN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND ENGINEERING
DOCTORAL COMMITTEES
Every Ph.D. student is assigned an Academic Advisor, who is assigned by the department head upon admission. Any member of the civil engineering faculty can be an academic advisor to a graduate student. In cases where a student is being supported on a research contract, the principal investigator of the contract would normally be appointed as the academic advisor for the student. Where a student has a particular research interest and is working with a particular faculty member, the student may request that the faculty member be appointed as his/her academic advisor. In rare cases where a Ph.D. student enters the program without a prior selection of a major area of study, the initial academic advisor will be the Graduate Coordinator of the transportation program.
In the course of fulfilling their academic requirements, Ph.D. candidates, they will deal with two advisory committees:
Academic Advisory Committee: The student’s Academic Advisor works out an appropriate program of courses to fulfill major and minor requirements for the Ph.D. The Academic Advisory Committee generally will consist of the Academic Advisor and one faculty member for each minor area of study. The Academic Advisory Committee guides the Ph.D. student’s work through the successful completion of a qualifying examination. A letter signed by the academic advisor and approved by the department head is placed in the student’s file indicating the composition of the Academic Advisory Committee.
Dissertation Committee: The Dissertation Committee is formed immediately after the student passes the qualifying examination. It consists of a major advisor, a dissertation advisor, and a minor advisor for each minor the student has pursued. Additional faculty members may also be on the Dissertation Committee. The dissertation committee may be the same as the Academic Advisory Committee, or may be different. The Dissertation Committee guides the student’s course and research work after the student has passed the qualifying examination. The Dissertation Committee must be formally assigned with the approval of the department head and is filed with the Office of Graduate Studies.
The major advisor must be a full-time faculty member of the Department of Civil Engineering. The major and dissertation advisors may be the same individual where appropriate.
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Doctoral Committees
