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You must wait for approval and for email instructions from the Graduate Advising Team before applying online for admission to doctoral candidacy. 
If you receive notification that your ECE Candidacy Form has been signed and completed, but you do not receive instructions within a week, please email the Graduate Advising Team.  Request instructions for applying online for admission to doctoral candidacy, and attach a copy of the completed and signed ECE Candidacy Form you received.

Once you receive the instructions from the Graduate Advising Team, apply as instructed within two weeks of receiving the instructions. 

Your application will be reviewed and approved electronically by your supervisor(s), the ECE Graduate Advisor, the chair of the ECE GSC (Graduate Studies Committee), a Doctoral Degree Evaluator in the Graduate School, and a Dean in the Graduate School. This process can take time, so be prepared to be patient.  Once the Dean approves your application, you are an official doctoral candidate. If the Dean has approved your application for doctoral candidacy, and:
(1a) You are enrolled in ECE x97C, Research Problems, for 3, 6, or 9 credit hours in fall or spring, and (1b) 3 or more weeks remain before the last class day; or
(2a) You are enrolled in ECE w397C, Research Problems, for 3 credit hours in summer for the whole term, and (2b) it is no later than the third week in June; then
(3) contact the ECE Graduate Advising Team to ask for the Graduate Add/Drop Form and the instructions for getting dropped from Research Problems and added to Dissertation for the equivalent number of credit hours. You and your supervisor(s) sign the form (which will include the signature of the overall ECE Graduate Advisor already), and you return it to the ECE Graduate Advising Team. The Graduate Advising Team will send the form to the Graduate School for approval, and for subsequent processing by the Registrar's Office.

f you get admitted to candidacy after the 12^th class day in fall or spring (or 4^th day in summer), but it is still within the first half of the semester, you may be able to get added to Dissertation W even though the 12^th class day (4^th day in summer) has passed.  You need to already be registered for Research Problems for 3, 6 or 9 hours before the 12^th class day (4^th day in summer) in order to do this late drop/add.  Please check with us to see if you qualify for the late drop/add.