• When: 3rd year students will take the Monday before Spring Semester starts.
• Duration:  PhD students present their research progress for 15 minutes. 5-10 minutes of questions from the Oral Research Qualifying Committee will follow.

The goal of the oral research qualifier is for doctoral students to demonstrate their research progress through the following steps:

• Ideation
• Execution
• Results

Please see examples of effective third year presentations by research area below. The presentation slides include more information on evaluation criteria.

Circuits and Computer Engineering example one from Professor Lei Gu’s lab

Information and Decision Systems example one from Professor Pratik Chaudhari’s lab

Information and Decision Systems example two from Professor Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti’s lab

Nanodevices and Nanosystems example one from Professor Troy Olsson’s lab