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Qualifying exams consist of two parts: The first part is a written four week take home exam and the second part is an oral defense based on the written exam. Refer to the STEM ED Qualifying Examination page for all the details of the process.
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3. Upon passing your qualifying exam, settle on dissertation topic (if you have not already); confer with your dissertation committee chair/supervisor regarding the scope of your dissertation, and the appropriate additional faculty to ask to serve on your committee (requires 4 individuals with chair/supervisor who is GSC memberthe supervisor and at least two other committee members must be members of your program's Graduate Studies Committee (GSC). At least one committee member must be from outside your GSC.)
4. Complete the POW (Program of Work – aka 60-line proposal) and start the approval process. Please refer to the Approval Process Flowchart (separate document).
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11. Hold oral defense of the dissertation with all members of dissertation committee. Request for Final Oral form must be printed on pink paper. See the Form Submission via DocuSign page for more instructions on how to receive signatutres form your committee and the Graduate Adviser.
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