Graduate Handbook
The Optics Graduate Handbook outlines all the requirements to complete each program, as well as other important information graduate students need to be successful. The handbook covers:
- Points of contact
- Address details for the Institute of Optics
- Important notice on policy
- Useful web and campus resources
- Graduate calendar
- Thesis advisors
- Requirements for the MS degree in optics
- Plan A: thesis route
- Standard Plan B
- Specialty areas
- MS essay
- MS essay guide
- Guidance for the HOME Program
- Changing MS track
- MS cooperative program
- Requirements for the PhD degree in optics
- PhD preliminary examination
- Thesis proposal and oral qualifying exam
- Annual progress reports
- Thesis Advisory Committee
- Requirements for formal progress review
- Preparation of the PhD thesis and the final oral examination
- Other Topics
- Foreign Language Requirement
- Compatibility of the MS and PHD degree requirements
- Time limitations on incompletes
- Internships
- In Absentia – absence from campus
- Petitions for exemptions from the rules
- Registration guidance
- Graduate course descriptions
- MS thesis titles
- MS essay titles
- PhD thesis titles