The Progress Review is an oral examination performed before your PhD Dissertation Committee as a whole. At this juncture in your graduate doctoral studies, your committee has been announced to the ECE GSC and been approved, you have completed the Candidacy Evaluation process in a prior semester, you have advanced to doctoral candidacy officially (your application has the approval of the Dean in Graduate School), and you have registered or have been registering for the Dissertation course. You are ready for your committee to conduct a rigorous review, and to evaluate and sign off on your research and plan after conducting a rigorous review. The result will be a de-facto contract between you and your committee to ensure the PhD-worthiness of your topic, projects, research, and research dissertation if completed as planned.
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