The Chemical Engineering Candidacy Examination Form must be completed and sent electronically to the graduate coordinator at least one week prior to the Candidacy Oral Exam, for approval by the graduate advisor. The form should then be printed and used as the signature page during the Oral Exam. Failure to turn this form in on time will result in the cancellation of the scheduled Oral Exam meeting.
If a committee member cannot sign the Candidacy Oral Examination Form in person, the supervisor can sign on their behalf, and the committee member can email the Graduate Coordinator and confirm that they “concur that [the student] has successfully completed his/her oral examination without conditions.”
Departmental forms can be found at: http://www.che.utexas.edu/current-students/graduate-students/forms/
Once students complete their oral exam and submit the signed form to the graduate coordinator, they can apply for doctoral candidacy online: https://gradschool.utexas.edu/academics/theses-and-dissertations/doctoral-candidacy
Candidacy applications will not be approved by the graduate advisor until the Candidacy Examination Form and an Annual Report have been received for the academic year. These are available on the Departmental forms page, above.
Once the candidacy application is approved by the Graduate School, the student will be admitted to candidacy. Students must take -99R for one semester and -99W every semester after that including the semester they graduate. Students can also take 3, 6, or 9hours depending on how many credit hours they need. Students do not need to take research credit hours once they are in candidacy.
If students are admitted to candidacy by the Graduate School before the mid-semester deadline (the graduate coordinator or the Graduate School can advise what the deadline is each semester) and plan to graduate within two semesters, then students can petition to add the -99R course that same semester. Otherwise, they should register for it in the next semester. In the event that a student completes and successfully defends their dissertation while registered in -99R, the student will be allowed to add -99W in order to graduate.