Student expectations
You are ultimately responsible for completing your degree plan. To assist you in tracking your progress toward degree requirements, an academic progress report is available on Workday. You should check your APR every semester to ensure that each course you have taken at ISU or transferred from elsewhere is applied to the correct curricular category or requirement. Your academic advisor can answer questions about your degree audit and, if necessary, submit requests for corrections.
Your academic advisor is here to assist you with the course registration process, consult with you on adding or dropping a course, answer your questions about university, college, and departmental policies and procedures, and guide you to campus resources. Email communication will be used by your academic advisor, and other CBE staff and faculty, to send notices about advising matters. For this reason it is important that you check your ISU email frequently.
Faculty mentoring
During the semester you are enrolled in ENGR 1010 (new from High School students) or CHE 2020 (new transfer students), you will be assigned to a faculty mentor. Your relationship with your faculty mentor is another important resource to help you reach your academic goals. Your faculty mentor will consult with you about selecting electives that support your career goals, answer your questions about the profession of chemical engineering, provide guidance about applying to graduate school, and discuss any other issue with you that requires faculty expertise. While the department has planned meetings between you and your mentor during the semesters that you are enrolled in ENGR 1010, CHE 2020 and CHE 3810, you are welcome to contact your mentor to arrange an appointment to discuss your professional and career goals at any time.
Contact information for faculty can be found here.
