See the Graduate General Regulations in the SFU Calendar or at http://www.reg.sfu.ca/ for admission requirements for entry to the Ph.D. program.
Residence Requirement
Students will conform to the residence requirement as outlined in
section 1.7.3 of the
Graduate General Regulations
in the
SFU Calendar
or at http://www.reg.sfu.ca/.
Transfer from the Master's Program
The school does not encourage students to proceed to a Ph.D. without
first completing a Master's degree. However, a student may be
admitted after at least 12 months in the M.A.Sc. program if the
student has completed all the Master's course work requirements at a
GPA of 3.67 or better, has shown outstanding potential for research,
and has the approval of the student's Supervisory Committee, the
Graduate Program Committee and the Senate Graduate Studies Committee.
Degree Requirements
Course Work
The minimum course requirement is 18 semester hours of credit beyond
those taken for the Masters degree. Six of these hours will be for
prescribed courses in the option in which the student is enrolled;
alternatives can be substituted with the approval of the student's
supervisory committee. At most six credit hours can be for
senior-level undergraduate courses. At most six credit hours can be
for directed studies. At least six of the credit hours must be taken
within Engineering Science.
Qualifying Examination
The student will take an oral qualifying examination at a time
determined by his/her Supervisory Committee, normally between the 6th
and the 12th month from admission to the PhD program. The student
must demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of material in his/her
major area of research, at a level normally associated with
undergraduate and first year graduate studies. The possible outcomes
of the qualifying examination are pass; marginal (student may be
required to take more courses, and is permitted a second and final
opportunity to take the full qualifying exam within 12 months); fail
(the student withdraws from the PhD program).
Thesis
Students are to define and undertake a program of original research,
the results of which are reported in a thesis. The examining
committee will be formed as defined in section 1.9.3 of the Graduate
General Regulations. Students will conform to residence requirements
as outlined in section 1.7.3 of the Graduate General Regulations.
The senior supervisor shall be an Engineering Science faculty member
approved by the departmental graduate program committee. The
student's progress will be reviewed each 12 months by Supervisory
Committee of not fewer than three faculty members. At each annual
review, the student presents the summary of his/her work to date. At
the first such review, which takes place within 14 months of
admission, the student will present a thesis proposal defining the
intended research topic. Students not making satisfactory progress
on their research topic, or failing to demonstrate satisfactory
knowledge and understanding of recent publications in their general
area of research, or failing to have their revised thesis proposal
approved by the supervisory committee within 18 months of admission,
may be asked to withdraw, as per section 1.8.2 of the Graduate
General Regulations.
Research Seminar
A graduate student in the Ph.D. program is required to present at
least one research seminar per year as a part of regularly organized
departmental seminars, including some based on completed or nearly
completed thesis work. Students are expected to attend all the
research seminars of the school.
Application Procedures:
Application forms are avaliable either via the
Registrar's Office or
online in both postscript and pdf format.