Re: Guidelines for a PhD

Hi Vimal,

allnor@tele.ntnu.no (Rune Allnor) wrote in message news:<f56893ae.0308282308.6ebb491c@posting.google.com>...
> vimal_bhatia2@yahoo.com (Vimal) wrote in message news:<b6fc6dda.0308280957.62444eaa@posting.google.com>...
> > Rune, I have found a course on Financial Topics in Product Design
> > (talks about profit/loss/cash-flow/budget etc) in my department.
> > Sounds good, however I may not get paper for doing taking up this
> > course!!
> Over here, students that are presently enrolled at the university 
> are admitted to take any course offered by the university, and to take 
> an exam. Which means that you basically can take any number of courses 
> you want, in addition to those you have signed up for as part of your 
> degree, as long as you keep up with the regular program. 
Go for it if your scholarship allows you to do so.  Double-check the
fine prints to see if the scholarship has some strings attached. 
University regulations are usually much more flexible. They will let
you enrol the paper as long as you talk to the right person...

I am in the final year of my EE PhD.  Since I migrates from ChemEng to
EE (thru control/signal proc), I really think I should take some extra
papers.  I almost lost my scholarship by trying to do that.  The govt
funding agent that funds my research is adamant that all the funded
researcher (ie, me) must be 100% full time. No TA/RA work or extra
course is possible....  Watch out!