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Graduate Student Resources

ECE Graduate Student Services Office

  • ECE Grad Student Services Office Hours

    Grad Advising held by Zoom or In-Person

    Mario Castro: For MS advising

    • Spring 2024: In-person Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday; Remote on other weekdays

    Paul Talavera: For Ph.D. advising

    • Spring 2024: In-person Monday, Wednesday & Friday; Remote on other weekdays

       Appointments: Go to Grad Student Advising

    Continuing ECE Grad Students should check their email for the link and invite to the Zoom advising sessions. 

     

    Campus Holiday closures (2023-2024):

    September 4

    November 10

    November 23 - November 24

    December 25 - January 1

    January 15

    February 19

    March 29

    May 27

    June 19

     

     

Guides

  • How to change the # of units in an EE 297/299
  • CPT and OPT

    Graduate students are expected to first discuss with the International Students Office (ISS) email: internationalstudents@ucr.edu before filing a CPT or OPT form.

    Employment Options for F-1 Students: CPT, OPT, H-1B
    OPT form
    CPT form for graduate students

    TEMPORARY CPT instructions during the 2020 campus closure:

    After you discuss your CPT options with the ISS office, you should email Kim Underhill  kim@engr.ucr.edu.edu all of the following:

    • A completed CPT form.
    • Your internship offer letter.
    • PhD students: An email approval from your faculty research advisor. Tip: you may want to start this process early by emailing your faculty advisor to get her/his approval in advance so you'll have it ready when you submit the form.

    Notes:

    • If you are receiving financial support including fellowship fees or TA/GSR fee remissions, then it's important that the start/end dates on your CPT form are between June 13th (last day of SP20 is 6/12) to Sept, 27th (first day of F20 is 9/28). If your internship dates on your CPT form fall within the dates of the regular quarter (spring, fall, winter) then Grad Division may reverse your fee payment and you'll be personally charged the fees.
    • International students must enroll in 1 unit of EE 298i under their faculty research advisor during the summer.
  • Travel

    **Travel must be approved by your Faculty Research Advisor (“PI”) for both the trip reason and the amount of money they are willing to reimburse. We will need an email from your PI specifying which of their funds to charge.**

     

    As conferences and travel have opened up we are seeing a lot of issues with travel reimbursements that are being turned in. These issues can cause you to NOT be reimbursed. There are federal and UC guidelines we have to follow. Please refer to this when you will be planning travel. 

     

    • If you need to rent a car DO NOT purchase extra insurance. UC already has agreements with various rental car companies for insurance for employees renting for business and will not reimburse the insurance if you pay for it out-of-pocket. Please see information here about booking: https://accounting.ucr.edu/travel-entertainment/uc-car-rental-agreements
    • Do not pay for someone else’s travel/conference fees, or have someone else pay for you unless you have received written approval from us before paying. There are some situations where Group travel is allowed and one person pays for the whole group but it will not be reimbursed unless it is approved before the payments are made.
    • We cannot reimburse for travel before it has occurred, including conference fees, including virtual conferences. We have to wait until the event has passed to finalize the reimbursement. 
    • Bundling is not allowed: Airfare, lodging, Car Rental must be purchased individually or Accounting will reject request. Accounting needs to see itemization of these charges. It is best to book through UC’s approved Connexxus site, see below.
    • Flight or travel insurance, and extra charges to choose seats will not be reimbursed. If you need a specific seat due to a medical condition a doctor’s note would be required, and it is also not guaranteed to be reimbursed.
    • When the entire length of a trip is less than 24 hours, M&IE (meals and incidentals) shall not be reimbursed unless the travel includes an “overnight stay” as supported by a lodging receipt.

    Best Practices: 

     

    *When in doubt please reach out for any questions!

    Evangeline Barriga

    ECEPurchasing@ece.ucr.edu

     

    Important for International Students: Prior to traveling, international students are individually responsible to check directly with the International Students Office to ensure they won’t encounter any issues.

Preliminary and Comprehensive Exam

  • PhD Preliminary Exam Schedule

    Ph.D. preliminary examination is combined with the M.S. Comprehensive Exam. A Ph.D. candidate is required to pass the exam at the Ph.D. level. To do this, a student must typically get a higher score than what is necessary to pass at the M.S. level. To take the exam, the students must register by notifying the Graduate Student Services Advisor at least one month prior to the exam date.

    The follow dates are for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. Preliminary Exams:

    • June 23, 2021
    • December, 2021
  • EE 260 Seminar Courses offered 2018-2019 for the Comprehensive/Preliminary Exams

    These EE 260 Seminar Courses offered during the 2018-19 academic year have been approved as advanced for the Comprehensive/Preliminary Exams.

    VLSI Circuits and Systems (was Computer Engineering)

    F18

    EE 260 001

    Computer Architecture Security

    Abu-Ghazaleh

     W19

    EE 260 004

    Signal Processing: Sparsity, Structure and Interference

    Asif

    EE 260 001

    Advanced VLSI Design

    Tan

    SP19

    EE 260 002

    Big Data Analytics in Smart Grid

    Nanpeng Yu

    EE 260 003

    Distributed Control

    W. Ren

    EE 260 001

    Seminar in Electrical Engineering

    Mihri Ozkan

    EE 260 004

    Seminar in Electrical Engineering

    Cheng

     

    Nano-materials and Devices

     W19

    EE 260 001

    Advanced VLSI Design

    Tan

    SP19

    EE 260 004

    Seminar in Electrical Engineering

    Cheng

     

    Signals, Systems, and Machine Intelligence

     W19

    EE 260 004

    Signal Processing: Sparsity, Structure and Interference

    Asif

    SP19

    EE 260 002

    Big Data Analytics in Smart Grid

    Nanpeng Yu

    EE 260 003

    Distributed Control

    W. Ren

  • MS Comprehensive Exam (CEP) Form
  • PhD Preliminary Exam Registration Form

Thesis and Dissertation Defense and Submission

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