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Your candidacy and PhD dissertation will be overseen by the same committee of faculty members. This committee will consist of five or six members, including your supervisor(s). At least three members Your supervisor must be on a member of the ECE GSC, and ECE must be the home department of at least two of the three . If a student is co-supervised, at least one of the students co-supervisors must be a member of the ECE GSC. The majority of committee members must be ECE GSC members. At least one member of your committee must be external, and not a member of the ECE GSC. The external committee member may not act as supervisor or co-supervisor. The process of forming this committee and approval of the committee is comprised of several steps listed below, and can often take more than a month to complete.
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