Master’s Degree Completion Schedule
A Whiting School of Engineering master's students must complete the following steps for the degree to be conferred and to generate a diploma:
- an Application to Graduate must be submitted to the Office of the Registrar (Garland Hall);
- department-specific certification forms must be submitted to and approved by the department graduate coordinator, and then those forms must then be submitted to the WSE Office of Academic Affairs by the deadlines listed below;
- if a formal master's essay is used to complete degree requirements, the student must submit a properly-formatted essay to the MSE Library Commercial Binding Office by 4:00 p.m. on the date listed below; the submission receipt (generated by the library) must be included in paperwork forward to the WSE Office of Academic Affairs.
Below are the dates by which the department-specific certification forms must be forwarded from the student's department to the WSE Office of Academic Affairs as well as the dates by which essays must be received by the MSE Library Commercial Binding Office.
- Summer 2009 Deadline (certification form and essay) — August 28
- 1st 8 Weeks of Fall 2009 Deadline (certification form and essay) — October 30
- End of Fall 2009 Deadline (certification form and essay) — December 30
- Spring 2010 Deadline (certification form) — May 3
- Spring 2010 Deadline (essay) — May 14
James Wagner, ’78, Clinical Engineering, ’84, Materials Science and Engineering, President of Emory University
“Engineers are immersing themselves in society’s needs and goals more than ever,” says Emory University president, James Wagner, ’78, ’84. “They are going deeper and deeper into society and I think it’s a good thing.”
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