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Engineering Advising serves the academic needs of many undergraduate students:
- Engineering students who have been officially admitted into the college
- University students (exploratory) who have been officially admitted or readmitted to the university, but who have neither declared a major nor been accepted into a college (a student must be accepted by a college in order to declare a major and subsequently be awarded a degree).
- Transfer students who have completed work at another institution of higher education or another college at UT, but not yet admitted into an engineering program
- Reentry and nontraditional students
- International students
Services offered in Engineering Advising:
- Serves as coordinating unit for advising that focuses on retention and success of Engineering students
- Serves as academic advisors to all undergraduate students in the college
- Provides consultation in General Education and Volunteer Core Requirements and all undergraduate engineering majors and minors
- Conducts orientation advising for all new undergraduate students (first-year and transfer)
- Conducts academic probation advising with engineering students
- Offers consultation concerning the Degree Audit Reporting System (DARS)
- Assists students and faculty members with writing petitions
- Provides assistance with the registration process (MyUTK)
- Assists with and supports recruiting and retention efforts
- Distributes academic information such as changes in university policy or new course offerings to all engineering departments
- Answers questions regarding university policies
- Maintains records on engineering students advised