Advising
Professor Strasilla is Major Advisor covering students from L to M. For Pre-Registration & Major Form Advising please see him during his Office Hours .
If your last name is not from L to M, then check the Advisor List to find your advisor. To maintain advising continuity from semester to semester and to avoid any conflicts, Strasilla will not give any formal advise to other students.
For both types of advising you must fill out and bring the Advising Aid Form. If you have difficulties obtaining this form on the web, then you may fill it out during the advising session on one of the PC's in the EE124 Lab (E258), right across from Strasilla's office (E259). For Pre-Registration Advising you must also bring the filled out Pre-Registration Advising Form. For major form advising you must obtain the major form packet from the EE Office, you must fill out all the forms as directed, and bring these including a soft copy of your major form and a copy of the signed transfer advising form.
Disclaimer: Keep in mind that the Advising Aid Form is an attempt to reflect the published official blue BSEE Program form. Its purpose is mainly to aid the student in his/her course planning and to make the advising task easier to the advisor, because he can see the status of the advisee with one glance by looking at the filled out form. The final authority on the BSEE program is the latest issue of the blue form available in the EE Dept. Office (E349) and/or posted information on the EE Website.
| Features of the Advising Form: | |
| a) | The advise form shows the sequence of all required and elective BSEE courses in our Undergraduate program. |
| b) | It also shows the prerequisite courses needed before being allowed to enter our BSEE program. |
| c) | The units for general education and physical education may also be entered. |
| d) | The form lets you sign up only for those courses for which you fulfilled all the prerequisites. |
| e) | The form keeps track of the count of all the units taken in various categories. |
| f) | The form keeps track of the count of units in various categories which are required to satisfy the BSEE program. |
| g) | The form keeps track of the total units taken, as well as the total units required for graduation. |
| h) | You may use this form for strategic planning: you may optimize your course sequence. |
| g) | When filling out your major form, you may verify whether your anticipated graduation date is realistic. |
| How to Use this Advising Form: | |
| a) | After clicking Advising Aid the form will be made accessible. |
| b) | You may either download it to your PC or work it off the web. |
| c) | The form consists of a LabView panel showing buttons for all courses (required & elective) in our BSEE program. |
| d) | You may wish to get a printout of this panel, since it shows the proper sequence of all BSEE courses on one page. |
| e) | In the "Student (last, first)" blank type in your name. |
| f) | To activate the form you must then click an arrow pointing to the right in the upper left corner of the screen. |
| g) | A help menu will appear. However, if you have read the instructions here, you may simply click the OK-button. |
| h) | As the help-menu disappears, many of the connections and course buttons on the panel will disintegrate. |
| i) | Only those course buttons will remain which are the prerequisites for our BSEE program. |
| j) | A student entering our program needs to first take the courses associated with the buttons shown. |
| k) | In the lower left corner fill in the number of General Education & Physical Education units which you have taken & passed. |
| l) | In the same corner also click all the courses which you have taken already, for example Math 30 etc. |
| m) | On the buttons in the lower left corner you must click to the right of the course description otherwise the button will not respond. |
| n) | When buttons are clicked they will change color, indicating to you and the advisor that this course was taken & passed. |
| o) | Only the Phys 70,71,72 series is shown (12 unit credits). Click the equivalent if you take the Phys 50,51,52,53 series. |
| p) | In the left column the gateway courses to the BSEE program are shown: Chem1A,Phys72,Math133A,EE98,Eng1A. |
| q) | Only when one or more of those gateway courses are taken (clicked) other courses in our program will be accessible. |
| r) | As you advance in the program more and more courses will open up for you, including elective courses (smaller buttons). |
| s) | At any time you will know exactly which courses you are allowed to take. |
| t) | If you will find that you cannot take a full load (16 units) consisting of major courses, this would be the time to fill in GE courses. |
| u) | Prior to seeing your advisor click all courses you have taken & passed, and obtain preferably a color printout. |
| v) | Present this to you advisor. This way you will have a productive meeting, concentrating on real advising issues. |
| w) | If you are lucky enough to reach/exceed the 135 required units, you may graduate. |
| x) | At that time a beeping sound or humming might occur. If this is too annoying unclick a required course. |
| y) | You may exit the program by hitting the stop sign and then closing the program. |
| z) | Good luck! |