DEPARTMENT REGULATIONS
The following regulations, adopted to define the policy of the faculty, are
published for the information and guidance of the students:
1. Practice-courses as well as lecture-courses must be conducted under the
Honor System. The student who submits any work to be graded is considered to
submit it under pledge.
2. When the lecture-course and the associated practice-course are given in
the same term of the same year, no student will be admitted to examination on
the lecture-course until he has completed at least three-fourths of the practice-course.
3. No student will be admitted to any practice-course unless he is at the
same time pursuing the associated lecture-course, or has already received credit
for the same.
4. No student will be admitted to the graduating examination on a lecture-course
unless he has been present at more than half the lectures in that course.
5. In the technical courses in Engineering (i. e., courses not given in the
College) term-grades shall not be averaged; except that the term-grades for
Freshmen Applied Mathematics may be averaged for the first-year men only,
provided no mark is below 65, and term-grades in Freshman English, Freshman
Mathematics, Sophomore Mathematics, and Sophomore Physics may be averaged,
provided a grade of 75 or higher be made in the third term of the course with
no grade below 65 in the first and second terms of the course.
6. The pass-mark in every course is 75. Class standing and written examination
are combined for the term-grade in such proportions as the several professors
may determine.
7. No student who fails to make 75 on term-grade shall be granted another
examination on the course until he has again attended lectures on that course.
8. A student who fails a second time on any course will be allowed to attempt
the course for a third time only by special permission of the faculty; a
third failure in a course will prevent such student from acceptance as a degree
candidate here in engineering.
9. Special examinations are not given except by reason of sickness on the
day of examination, attested by the written certificate of a reputable physician, or
for other like providential causes. In every case they must be validated by special
vote of the faculty.
10. Any engineering student who fails to attain a passing grade of 75 on at
least 9 term-hours will be placed on probation for the following term, probation
to continue until at least 9 term-hours are passed in one term. No engineering
student shall remain on probation for more than three terms, whether consecutive
or not, in his entire engineering course. If probation is imposed a fourth
time the student shall be suspended.
11. Any engineering student on probation who fails to attain a passing
grade of 75 on at least 6 term-hours and whose average grade on all courses
taken is less than 65 will be suspended. Any engineering student who passes less
than 6 term-hours and whose average grade on all courses taken is less than 65
will be suspended. Suspension during a session continues for the remainder of
the regular session. Suspension imposed at the end of a session holds for the
whole of a subsequent session, except that such suspension may be absolved by
the successful completion of prescribed work in the Summer Quarter. No engineering
student suspended for a second time shall re-enter the department.
12. The Dean's List.—A student, who in any successive three terms, passes
on all courses taken, aggregating not less than 18 session-hours, with an average
grade on all courses of not less than 82 per cent, will be placed on the Dean's
list. A student, who, in any successive three terms, passes on all courses taken
aggregating not less than 18 session-hours, but who does not average 82 per cent,
and who, in any subsequent term, passes on all courses taken, aggregating not
less than 18 term-hours, with an average grade on all 18 term-hours of not less
than 82 per cent will be placed on the Dean's List. A student will be automatically
dropped from the Dean's List, if, in any term, he does not pass on all
courses taken, aggregating not less than 18 term-hours, with an average grade on
all courses of not less than 82 per cent. A student dropped from the Dean's List
will be again placed on it if he meets the above mentioned standard for a term.
A student on the Dean's List is not subject to the regulations limiting the issuance
of leaves of absence from the University, nor does absence from any class
entail on such student any penalty, affecting class standing, imposed for absence
alone. Students on the Dean's List must attend all laboratory classes and must
perform all written problem work and take all written quizzes under the same
conditions as all other students.
