ECE Graduate Handbook

Message from the Graduate Studies Office

The GSO’s mission is to assist, guide, and enable our graduate students and faculty by providing excellent customer service, being sympathetic, leading by example, and communicating resources effectively.  We seek to provide a positive experience by building a sense of community.

Greetings and welcome to the University of Maryland and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering!  We are excited for another successful year and look forward to assisting you in your academic career at the fastest rising ECE graduate program in the country.

The Graduate Studies Office (GSO) serves nearly 500 diverse full- and part-time graduate students and handles approximately 1,500 applications for admission each year.  We have many other constituents of the office including campus administrators, faculty, staff, and prospective students from all over the United States and abroad.   Come visit our office, and let us know how we can better serve you.

The GSO would like to emphasize several things that will help you progress through your graduate studies.  First, you should subscribe to the ece-gradstudents listserv.  To sign-up, send an email to listserv@listserv.umd.edu with the message “subscribe ece-gradstudents <Your Name>” in the body of the email.  

Next, you should read emails that you will regularly receive from us and talk one-on-one with our dedicated staff.  We are always looking for the most effective ways to communicate policies, information, and deadlines to you, so please take advantage of all forms of communication with us.  And, if at any point you have any questions, email us at

ecegradstudies@umd.edu

Also, our office aims to be a place that can help round out your academic experience here at Maryland.  Our office can provide information and direct you to resources on many aspects of graduate student life.  We want to help you feel that you are a part of the ECE community and that you are connected to the broader University and the greater D.C. area.

Lastly, the GSO encourages you to take responsibility for your own success.  One way to do this is to consult this Handbook as well as the Graduate Catalog for information on policies, procedures, and requirements.  Another way is for you to access and keep your student record updated through our on-line database, MEGS (Maryland Electronic Graduate System).  Visit all of these resources today on-line at:

https://apra.umd.edu (MEGS)
http://www.gradschool.umd.edu/catalog (The Graduate School’s Graduate Catalog)
http://www.ece.umd.edu/gradhandbook/index.php3 (ECE Graduate Handbook)

Good luck this year.  And go Terps!

Tracy Chung, Ph.D., Director of Graduate Academic and Student Affairs
Melanie Miller, Coordinator for Graduate Student Programs and Recruitment
Maria Hoo, Program Management Specialist
Vivian Lu, Payroll Coordinator

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