bme department orientation

School of Engineering and Applied

Science (SEAS)

2014-2015

Where to Find Us

801 22nd St NW Room 607

(202) 994-6083

When We Are There

Fall and Spring Semester

Office Hours: 9am-5pm

BME Department

Intro Contact Academics Forms Resources Quiz

Dr. Jason Zara

Acting Chairman

Diane Hoover

801 22nd St NW Suite 608

(202) 994-5934

[email protected]

Graduate Coordinator


Who Should I Contact About…?

Your Academic Advisor

•All academic advising

•Research interests

•Selection of courses

•Signature for paper

registrations and ISO

forms

•Transfer credits

Your Grad Coordinator

•All admissions

paperwork

•All registration forms

•All paperwork requiring

dept chair signature

•All other paperwork

signed by advisor

•OPT and CPT letters

•Everything else…


Biomedicial Engineering (MS & PhD)

Medical Imaging

Medical Instrumentation

Find out more about related courses in Biomedical

Engineering

Fields of Study & Areas of Focus


http://www.seas.gwu.edu/related-courses

You must be registered for each semester (fall and spring) until the semester you graduate.

See the Registrar’s website for policies on registration each semester.

For Research Courses

You must complete

•A Registration Transaction Form (RTF, not the EZ) and

•A Research Course Request Form

These need to be signed by your advisor and the department chairman.

Registration for Classes


http://registrar.gwu.edu/registration

Colloquium/ Seminar Requirements

The Biomedical Engineering Department requires that you attend 5 colloquium/seminars during the course of your graduate programs.

Graduate students only need to register once for BME 6065 and not every semester, and may attend any seminar given by any department.

Ph.D. Students: Preliminary Exam & Dissertation Research

PhD students in the BME Department are required to take the preliminary exam before they complete 18 credit hours of course work and have a doctoral studies GPA of 3.4 or better.

After passing the exam, the student may then begin their dissertation research.

BME Department Specific Information


In the BME Department, you have two different options to obtainyour degree:

Thesis: this requires that a student take 24 credit hours of course work and 2-3 credit hour sessions of thesis research for a total of 30 credit hours.

Non-thesis option: this requires that the student takes 10-3 credit hour courses for a total of 30 credit hours.

Talk to your academic advisor about your choice.

More information about the Master’s Program degree requirements

Two Options in the MS Program:

Thesis or Non-Thesis


https://www.ece.seas.gwu.edu/masters-program-degree-requirements

The BME Department requires the submission of a paper to a refereed journal and its acceptance for publication prior to the completion of degree requirements.

Credit must be given in the publication to the fact that the material is abstracted, summarized, or developed from a dissertation submitted to GWU in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the PhD degree.

For Ph.D. Students: BME

Department Specific Information


Colloquium Attendance Form• Students take to seminars/colloquium that are either here on campus or even at

their place of business.

• Attend any seminar that is presented by any GWU department not just BME.

• You must attend 5 seminars and have this sheet signed each time by the person

that organized the seminar (not the presenter)

• This form must be turned in before you can be cleared for graduation.

• You only register once for colloquium, not each semester.

Dissertation Journal Publication Certification Form

• Accompanies an article that a doctoral student has published in a referred

journal…and not a conference paper.

•This is a departmental requirement and if the doctoral student does not provide

this prior to graduation, he or she will not be cleared for graduation.

Department-Specific Forms:


Graduate Student Bulletin

Biomedical Engineering

Office of the Registrar

Resources for Students


http://bulletin.gwu.edu/engineering-applied-science/computer-engineering/#undergraduatetext

http://www.seas.gwu.edu/bme

http://registrar.gwu.edu/

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