(http://www.mse.seas.upenn.edu/current-students/masters/procedures.php), minimum requirement for master degree is the completion of ten course units of graduate level. At least five courses must be courses in materials science and other five courses can be electives selected from departments in SEAS or the Physical Sciences.Advisor's email content has conflicted with the information posted on the official website for MSE master program and the graduation requirement from previous year.This late notice has caused issues that many master students' finished courses were disapproved and these students will have to change their education and career plans in the last semester, add more courses to their schedule, or, even worse, delay their graduation. Additionally, the definition of related courses is unclear and there is no specific list of related courses for reference.
Action petitioned for: We, class of 2015 MSE master students, urge our student representatives to act now to fix this problem with related stuff and withdraw unreasonable and delayed changes in graduation requirement.
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The students and adviser should stand in each others' shoes and solve this problem properly. Solving this problem does not only help Class of 2015 MSE master students graduate successfully, but also benefit the future MSE students with their career plans and the reduce problems from ambiguous guidelines for the MSE program.
Fight for our rights!
together we stand!
I believe the department should let us know the detailed regulation for our degrees earlier
Department should've made the rules documented, instead of dication.
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(http://www.mse.seas.upenn.edu/current-students/masters/procedures.php), minimum requirement for master degree is the completion of ten course units of graduate level. At least five courses must be courses in materials science and other five courses can be electives selected from departments in SEAS or the Physical Sciences.Advisor's email content has conflicted with the information posted on the official website for MSE master program and the graduation requirement from previous year.This late notice has caused issues that many master students' finished courses were disapproved and these students will have to change their education and career plans in the last semester, add more courses to their schedule, or, even worse, delay their graduation. Additionally, the definition of related courses is unclear and there is no specific list of related courses for reference.
Action petitioned for: We, class of 2015 MSE master students, urge our student representatives to act now to fix this problem with related stuff and withdraw unreasonable and delayed changes in graduation requirement.
6 Comments
Last year MSE students all graduated with 5 MSE or MSE related courses as the MSE website claims, and this year master students take that as a reference to register courses from SEAS. It is unfair to change the graduation requirement at the last moment when students have taken 9 courses.
The students and adviser should stand in each others' shoes and solve this problem properly. Solving this problem does not only help Class of 2015 MSE master students graduate successfully, but also benefit the future MSE students with their career plans and the reduce problems from ambiguous guidelines for the MSE program.
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together we stand!
I believe the department should let us know the detailed regulation for our degrees earlier
Department should've made the rules documented, instead of dication.
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Last year MSE students all graduated with 5 MSE or MSE related courses as the MSE website claims, and this year master students take that as a reference to register courses from SEAS. It is unfair to change the graduation requirement at the last moment when students have taken 9 courses.