Faculty, administrators, and professional staff on our campus consider advising both a responsibility and an opportunity for enriching and enhancing each student’s pattern of learning and personal development. Central to the mission of academic advising at the university is teaching students to understand the purpose of the curriculum and fostering their intellectual and personal development toward academic success and lifelong learning. Through individual, collaborative relationships with academic advisors, students are best able to define and implement sound educational plans that are consistent with their personal values, goals, and career plans.

Students are encouraged to reach out to their ISE advisor Rachel Duncan at any time with questions about the curriculum, course planning, adding a minor or concentration, and petitioning courses. She can connect students to faculty mentors and help navigate students to campus resources and offices while assisting with career and graduate school planning and preparation.

Advising Policy

All engineering students are required to be advised by the Office of Engineering Advising every semester until they have earned thirty credits.

After earning thirty credits, industrial engineering students in good standing are required to meet yearly with their ISE advisor, Rachel Duncan. Students are to be advised in either the fall or spring semesters, depending on their student ID number. Even ID numbers are advised in the fall, before spring registration, and odd ID numbers are advised in the spring, before summer or fall registration. It is the responsibility of the student to schedule these meetings, when prompted by e-mail from the advisor.

Instructions for Advising Appointments

• Select and follow the curriculum plan based on your catalog year. Curriculum plans can be found by visiting the college’s Curricula website and navigating to the Industrial Engineering section.
• Use the information from your DARS Report and write required courses on the Academic Plan Sheet for the next two semesters. Indicate any classes which you received a grade of C- or lower.
• Make an appointment with your advisor through Vol Academic Connect (Navigate), available by logging into your MyUTK account. Bring your academic plan and curriculum plan with you to the meeting.

If no appointments are available, please call Rachel Duncan at 865-974-7651 or send an email to rdunca16@utk.edu. If you leave a voicemail, be sure to leave your name, student ID, phone number, email, and your reason for calling.

Additionally, you can reach the main Engineering Advising Office by calling 865-974-4008 or by email at engradvising@utk.edu.

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