Acronyms
The Acronym for SBES stands for this.
What is the School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences?
School colors of Virginia Tech and Wake Forest University.
What is:
VT - Burnt Orange and Chicago Maroon
WF - Black and Old Gold
Minimum number of allowed months between a preliminary exam and a final PhD exam.
What is 9 months?
This person is basically your "boss".
Who is my advisor?
All PhD students must take this 3 week class in their 1st spring semester.
What is Clinical Rotation?
(MD and DVM students are exempt)
The Acronym for POS stands for this.
What is the Plan of Study?
The mascots of Virginia Tech and Wake Forest University.
What is the Hokie Bird and the Demon Deacon?
Minimum number of committee members for a thesis (MS) examination.
What is 3?
(The advisor plus 2 other faculty members with at least one being an engineer)
These two have the final say on SBES forms and policies.
Who are the graduate directors?
Yong Woo Lee (VT)
Manny Opara (WF)
This class must be taken 4-6 semesters.
What is Seminar?
MS students must take for 4 semesters and PhD students must take for 6 semesters.
The Acronym for GRA stands for this.
What is a Graduate Research Assistantship?
The 3 tear drops of the SBES logo stand for this.
What is Virginia Tech, Wake Forest University, and the Virginia-Maryland Veterinary School?
Minimum number of committee members on a dissertation (PhD) exam.
What is 5?
(The SBES advisor and 4 other faculty members with at least 2 from SBES and 3 must be engineers)
The person you should communicate with the most throughout the year. (other than your advisor)
Who is the Graduate Coordinator?
Students are required to maintain this GPA or better throughout the program.
What is 3.0?
The Acronym for STAR stands for this.
What is the Student Activity Report?
ACC schools Virginia Tech and Wake Forest University both belong to this football division.
What is the NCAA?
This absolutely must be done before you can schedule a MS or PhD final exam.
What is the plan of study?
(PhD students must also pass the Qualifying Exam)
This group organizes the annual SBES student symposium.
Who is the BMES Student Chapter?
(Held at VT and WF every other year)
This is the expected number of years it should take you to finish your degree.
What is 2-3 for MS and 4-6 for PhD?
The Acronym for BEAM stands for this.
What is Virginia Tech Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics?
This is the year SBES started.
What is 2003?
Number of attempts allowed on the Qualifying Exam.
What is 2?
This person organizes the annual BMES Conference for SBES.
Who is Jody Humphreys?
By default, the SBES Handbook grants this number of vacation days to graduate students.
What is 20?
Vacation day policies may vary by lab or campus, however; if an individual policy is not in place the default is 20 (including holidays specified by the home campus).