2. Where to Find Us
801 22nd St NW Room 607
(202) 994-6083
When We Are There
Fall and Spring Semester
Office Hours: 9am-5pm
BME Department
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Dr. Jason Zara
Acting Chairman
3. Diane Hoover
801 22nd St NW Suite 608
(202) 994-5934
dghoover@gwu.edu
Graduate Coordinator
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4. Who Should I Contact About…?
Your Academic Advisor
•All academic advising
•Research interests
•Selection of courses
•Signature for paper
registrations and ISO
forms
•Transfer credits
Your Grad Coordinator
•All admissions
paperwork
•All registration forms
•All paperwork requiring
dept chair signature
•All other paperwork
signed by advisor
•OPT and CPT letters
•Everything else…
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5. Biomedicial Engineering (MS & PhD)
Medical Imaging
Medical Instrumentation
Find out more about related courses in Biomedical
Engineering
Fields of Study & Areas of Focus
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6. You must be registered for each semester (fall and spring) until the
semester you graduate.
See the Registrar’s website for policies on registration each
semester.
For Research Courses
You must complete
•A Registration Transaction Form (RTF, not the EZ) and
•A Research Course Request Form
These need to be signed by your advisor and the department
chairman.
Registration for Classes
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7. Colloquium/ Seminar Requirements
The Biomedical Engineering Department requires that you attend
5 colloquium/seminars during the course of your graduate
programs.
Graduate students only need to register once for BME
6065 and not every semester, and may attend any seminar
given by any department.
Ph.D. Students: Preliminary Exam & Dissertation Research
PhD students in the BME Department are required to take the
preliminary exam before they complete 18 credit hours of course
work and have a doctoral studies GPA of 3.4 or better.
After passing the exam, the student may then begin their
dissertation research.
BME Department Specific Information
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8. In the BME Department, you have two different options to obtain
your degree:
Thesis: this requires that a student take 24 credit hours of course
work and 2-3 credit hour sessions of thesis research for a total of
30 credit hours.
Non-thesis option: this requires that the student takes 10-3 credit
hour courses for a total of 30 credit hours.
Talk to your academic advisor about your choice.
More information about the Master’s Program degree
requirements
Two Options in the MS Program:
Thesis or Non-Thesis
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9. The BME Department requires the submission of a paper
to a refereed journal and its acceptance for publication
prior to the completion of degree requirements.
Credit must be given in the publication to the fact that the
material is abstracted, summarized, or developed from a
dissertation submitted to GWU in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the PhD degree.
For Ph.D. Students: BME
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10. Colloquium Attendance Form
• Students take to seminars/colloquium that are either here on campus or even at
their place of business.
• Attend any seminar that is presented by any GWU department not just BME.
• You must attend 5 seminars and have this sheet signed each time by the person
that organized the seminar (not the presenter)
• This form must be turned in before you can be cleared for graduation.
• You only register once for colloquium, not each semester.
Dissertation Journal Publication Certification Form
• Accompanies an article that a doctoral student has published in a referred
journal…and not a conference paper.
•This is a departmental requirement and if the doctoral student does not provide
this prior to graduation, he or she will not be cleared for graduation.
Department-Specific Forms:
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