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Departments & Divisions > Mechanical Engineering > Students > Current Graduate > Graduate Courses & Registration
Graduate Courses & Registration
The department offers graduate-level (800-numbered) courses primarily during Term 1 (September - December) and Term 2 (January - April). A few graduate courses may be offered during the Spring/Summer term (May - August). Graduate course descriptions can be found in the University Course Calendar. Not all courses listed in the Calendar are offered in a given academic year, and some graduate courses are only offered once every few years. Students can find the list of courses that will be offered each year on the course offerings portion of the University website. The department also emails this information to students and posts a copy on the graduate studies bulletin board outside of 2B39.
M.Sc. and M.Eng. students are also permitted to take senior undergraduate courses as part of their required coursework for their degrees. With permission of their Supervisor(s) and Advisory Committee, M.Sc. students may take one senior undergraduate course as part of their five required courses, while M.Eng. students may take up to two senior undergraduate courses as part of their eight required courses. Please see the department website for further information on senior undergraduate courses. Students should note that some of these courses may have specific prerequisites and registration limits.
To be given permission to register for courses, a student must obtain a Graduate Class Permission Form and have this form signed by both their course instructors and supervisor. For late registration or to register for an undergraduate course, the student must submit a Class Permit/Override Form. No approval is needed to register for ME 990, ME 992, ME 994, and ME 996.
Registration
The University’s Student and Enrolment Services Division are responsible for registration and fee assessment for graduate students, in partnership with the College of Graduate Studies and Research. All graduate students must register for courses through PAWS.
Graduate students who do not maintain their registration will be Required to Discontinue (RTD) from their program as per the policy of the College. A RTD is an academic penalty which is part of the permanent student record and appears on the official transcript.
Besides graduate courses taken for credit, graduate students must register for the graduate seminar course (ME 990) and a thesis or project course (ME 992 or ME 994 or ME 996). Please see the table below for more information as to which terms students must register for these courses.
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Auditing Classes
Auditing a class is only permitted in special circumstances and must be approved by a student's Advisory Committee. To be eligible to audit a class, the student must submit a Permission to Audit and/or Change of Audit/Credit Status Form; this form must be signed by the Instructor and the Graduate Chair.
ME 990 Graduate Seminar
All mechanical engineering graduate students in a degree program must register in the ME 990 Graduate Seminar course, and are required to attend and to participate in the discussions. M.Sc. students are required to give one ME 990 seminar during their program, while Ph.D. students are required to give two ME 990 seminars during their program. Ph.D. students may receive credit for one of their two ME 990 seminars by presenting a paper at an external research conference.
Information on the seminar program will be sent by email to graduate students at the beginning of the Fall and Winter terms. The Department of Mechanical Engineering presents annual Seminar Awards for the best graduate student seminars.
GSR 960, GSR 961, GSR 962
All graduate students are required to complete GSR 960. Students must also complete GSR 961 or GSR 962, if their thesis research involves human or animal subjects. More information about these courses can be found on the GSR Classes portion of the College of Graduate Studies and Research website.
