Students wishing to be admitted to the Graduate Program in Geological Engineering must satisfy the admission requirements of the U.W. Graduate School and the College of Engineering. After admission and acceptance in the Geological Engineering Program, each student will have a three-person Mentor and Evaluation Committee assigned to them. This committee will be appointed by the chair of the Program such that the student's technical areas of interest are best represented. The purpose of this committee is to determine if any deficiencies in the student's undergraduate background must be rectified, establish course and/or thesis-independent study requirements for the degree being sought as described below, and to determine if these requirements have been satisfactorily met. To help ensure that the student's course of study has appropriate breadth, the Mentor and Evaluation Committee will include at least one member from the College of Engineering, and at least one member from the Dept. of Geology and Geophysics.

For a student to be admitted to the program without deficiencies, it is expected that he or she have an undergraduate-level of expertise in several, but not all, of the areas of study associated with an undergraduate degree in Geological Engineering, consisting of mathematics, geology and engineering science. Students who are deemed by their Mentor and Evaluation Committee to be deficient in background will be required to take one or more specific "remedial" courses that are selected to remove the deficiencies. Normally, the credits associated with such courses will be in addition to those required for the degree, but at the discretion of the Mentor and Evaluation Committee, some of the remedial course credits may be counted towards those required for the degree.

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