Graduate Advising in Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering

Petition to the Graduate Faculty

Please use the online Graduate Student Petition Form to submit a petition to the Academic Dean. Be prepared to provide the reason(s) why you think that your petition should be granted, along with any supporting documents. If you seek an exemption to University policy, you must provide a justification for such an exemption. 

Once you submit your petition, you will receive a copy of that petition via email. Please keep it for your records. At the same time, your petition will be routed to the appropriate University faculty and staff for their consideration. The Academic Dean of your College/School will approve or deny your request. The decision of the Academic Dean is final. 

NOTE: Petitions requesting waiver of tuition, fees or parking tickets cannot be approved through the petition process. 

Graduating Master's/PhD Students

1. Verify your degree plan

If you are entering your last semester, you must verify your degree plan with your academic advisor and make sure your admission status is updated if you were admitted other than unconditionally. Once you have verified that you will be graduating, you must apply to graduate before the application to graduate deadline.

2. Check the Graduate School Website for your final semester checklist

• Checklist for Non-Thesis or Thesis-Substitute students
• Checklist for Thesis or Dissertation students 
  Note: Please bring your requests to the IE Department for submission to the Office of Graduate Studies

3. Submit a Degree Plan Worksheet 

4. Transfer Credits

If you still have credits you'd like to transfer, you must submit a Transfer of Credit Worksheet with your other document before the university deadlines. (You can only transfer 6 credits as a Graduate student in our department and 0 credits as a Doctorate student).

Submit with your Degree Plan Worksheet and Final Master's Examination Report Form to the IMSE Academic Advising Coordinator , Woolf Hall, Room 325 before the advisor's deadline.

5. Submit a Final Master's Examination Report form

Complete the Final Master's Examination Report form. Please fill out only the top (name, date, ID, program, and degree) and bottom (committee chair and members) portions. PhD students do not need to turn in this form. 

Submit with your Degree Plan Worksheet, and Transfer of Credit Worksheet to the IMSE Academic Advising Coordinator , Woolf Hall, Room 325 before the advisor's deadline.

6. Apply to Graduate

Apply to graduate through your MyMav student center by the university deadline and pay the applicable fees.  Late applications received after the university deadline will have a late fee applied. 

7. Register for Commencement

If you want to participate in the commencement ceremony, you can register for the ceremony on MyMav when you submit you Application to Graduate..

8. Take the Final Master's Exam (For Master's Students Only). 

• Date: TBA
• Time: TBA
• Location: Online
• Final Master's Exam: Graduates in all degree programs must take the Exam as part of their degree requirements. 
• Exit Interview:  An Exit Interview Questionnaire will be also be conducted.