What is the standard research timetable?
You should decide who your advisor and reader will be by the end of March in your first year. Proposals are due two weeks before the last day of Spring seminar. Students wishing to extend this deadline must submit a petition clearly stating the reasons an extension is needed and providing an alternative deadline within two months of the original deadline. Students using their summer internship as a basis for their research must submit a proposal prior to or within one month of the start of the internship. Internships in which proprietary information cannot be disclosed or published do not qualify as a research project due to the publication requirements stipulated in the project guidelines. The project presentation must be completed three weeks before the last day of class in the graduating semester, and the final technical report must be submitted one week before the last day of class in the graduating semester. Students must petition for any extension of their graduation deadline. Th
