Registration... Utter Chaos? Or Controlled Madness??

With Fall registration upon us, it appears that we continue to answer some of the same questions constantly, so we thought it best to write an article concerning some of the more popular ones.  Hopefully we can answer most of your questions here, but as always let us know if you have more!

OVERLOADS
We just don't do them.  There's really no need to ask. What we do instead is constantly monitor the number of seats in all of our CHBE core courses throughout registration.  We have to incrementally increase seats in each of our sections to keep them as even as possible. We cannot promise you that you will be able to get a certain section at a certain time.  We can tell you however, that if you need a core course to move on, 99.99% of the time there will eventually be an open seat.  This is true for every course except....

CHBE 4200 and 4400  (U.O. and Process Control)  Unit Ops and Process control is a whole other story.  The seats in these courses are very limited and we have to carefully monitor these courses to make sure that those students who need these classes and are graduating this, their last semester, get a seat.  Be on the lookout for an email from Dr. Agrawal during registration.  He will make a call for anyone who absolutely needs the course to respond to the email to let us know.  We then review the transcripts of all  those who responded and do what we can to find seats for those who absolutely need it.  

PERMITS
The only classes that ask for permits in CHBE are research,  CHBE 2100 and  CHBE 4763 and 4764.

Research
You must have a form signed by the professor you are currently doing research for.  You can obtain this from  the front desk in the main CHBE office on the first floor atrium of FORD ES&T. Once the form is signed, you return the permit to the advising office and a permit is entered. You will then sign up for the course in OSCAR BUT BE CAREFUL!! The number of hours defaults to 1, and you must change this when signing up for the course.  (Typically you will change this to 3)

CHBE 2100
There is never any reason for a CHBE student to use this. This is for non CHBE majors wanting to take the course. As long as you have the pre-reqs you are good to go.

CHBE 4763 and 4764
You must ask for a permit through OSCAR to take this course.  You must have a minimum 2.8 GPA cumulative to take the course.  Priority is given to CHBE students during Phase I.  Remember that just because you receive the permit,  it does not guarantee you a seat!!