Category: Office Hours

If you are looking for the flowchart or other advising handouts, these are available on the Degree Requirements and Advising PDFs webpages.

If you are having problems registering for courses that are not chemical engineering courses, contact the Registrar’s Office.

Also check out our FAQ’s on the right hand side of the page for answers to many common questions.

Virtual Advising Meetings

If you have questions regarding registration or your classes this semester, then please send an email to cmadvise@mtu.edu or set up a virtual meeting with me.

Virtual advising meetings are 20 minute meetings over Google Hangouts or the phone.  Go to my Google calendar’s appointment page to reserve an appointment time.

See also:  How does a virtual advising meeting work?

Schedule a meeting with me using your Google calendar.

At your designated time, open your Google Calendar in a browser window.

• Click on the meeting/appointment.
• Click on Join Hangouts Meet.
• Allow access to your microphone and camera. These are typically built into a laptop.
• Click on Join Now.
• If you do not have a computer or a microphone on your computer then you will need to email me your phone number.

I will join the meeting as soon as I am done with my previous meeting. If you have difficulty send me an email.

During the summer, priority is given to issues in need of immediate attention because there are only limited advising hours.  If you have a pressing issue during the summer, email cmadvise@mtu.edu.  Regular advising hours will start two weeks before falls semester starts.

During the school year, if you need help with schedule planning, minors, co-ops, study abroad, changing majors, or degree audits then you will need to schedule an appointment with Katie Torrey (Chem Sci room 202M) using your Michigan Tech Google calendar.  Advising appointments are usually 30 minutes long.  Appointments will not be available during busy times; instead, there are scheduled walk-in office hours during busy weeks, and no appointment is necessary.

Please come prepared to your appointment.

Directions for using your Google calendar to find an available time and scheduling a meeting are below:

1. Login to your Michigan Tech Google account.
2. In the list of Google Apps, click on Calendar.
3. Create a new event by clicking on your calendar.
4. Enter a title for your meeting.
5. IMPORTANT – Find an available appointment time.
   1. Click on “Edit event”.
   2. Click on the “Find a time” tab.
   3. Add a guest to your appointment.
      1. Located on the far right hand side of the page.
      2. For an appointment with Katie, enter kt@mtu.edu.
      3. The calendar for your guests will appear with busy and free (blank) times indicated.
   4. Modify event date and time to a time when you are both available.
      1. Event date and time are located at the top of the page.
      2. If you do not see any available times, try another day.
      3. Most advising appointments are a half hour long.
      4. The proposed appointment time will show up on the calendars as a box with moving dashed lines.
6. Click Save.
7. You will be asked if you want to send your guests an invitation.  Say “yes”.
8. The appointment will show up on your calendar.  Check that it is at the day and time you intended.
9. The person that you’ve invited will receive notification of a meeting request.  You will receive notification if they can or cannot attend.

In order to keep your department fees at a minimum, the advising office is not staffed in the summer and only limited academic advising services are offered.  If you have an issue that needs immediate attention during summer months, please call the Chemical Engineering Department office at 906-487-3132 or the Registrar’s Office at 906-487-2319.

Many Frequently Asked Questions about the Chemical Engineering Program are answered on our Advising FAQs pages.  Use the search box there to find academic plans, advice about minors, information about graduate school, and help on many other topics.

Regular academic advising services resume on August 19th, two weeks before fall semester starts.  All new summer and fall incoming transfer students are required to meet with a department academic advisor during fall Orientation.

Go to the our FAQ page for more information on fall advising office hours.

Yes.  Please be prepared.  Before your appointment, take a look at your transcript on Banweb.  It is important that you know exactly what classes are on it.

Bring the following with you to your appointment:

1. The flowchart with classes crossed off that you’ve already completed and are currently taking.
2. A list of any classes on your transcript that you don’t know where they belong on the flowchart.
3. A list of classes that you plan to take next semester and beyond, even if it is a rough draft.  The semester planning worksheet will help with this.
4. Anything we worked on during previous appointments.
5. The folder containing advising handouts that you got during orientation or when you changed majors.

Copies of the advising handouts are also available on the department’s Advising Handouts webpage.  Appointments with an advisor may be made using the University email system.

There are many handouts that are helpful for planning your academic career in chemical engineering at Michigan Tech.  Printouts are available at the Advising Center on the second floor of Chem Sci (across from the elevator).  All  handouts are also available on the web in PDF form on the Advising Handouts page.

Yes!  We strongly encourage all incoming transfer students to meet with an advisor. We use this time to review transfer credit and to develop an expected graduation date based on remaining degree requirements, scheduling and prerequisite constraints, and your individual goals.

Walk-in office hours for new transfer students are scheduled during the fall transfer student orientation, which is held the Friday before fall classes start.  The transfer student orientation is highly recommended.  If you are not able to attend during this time or are transferring in during the spring or summer semesters, email cmadvise@mtu.edu to schedule an in-person or phone appointment with an advisor.

In order to keep your department fees at a minimum the advising office is not open in the summer (May through mid-August).  The advising office reopens two weeks before fall classes start. If you have an issue that needs immediate attention during summer months please call the Department of Chemical Engineering office at 906-487-3132.

The chemical engineering advising office is located in the Chemical Sciences Building (building 19) on the second floor, room 202M.  The advising office is open during the school year from mid-August through April.

See also :What are your current office hours?

The chemical engineering advisors are Ms. Katie Torrey (main advisor) and Dr. Faith Morrison (career advisor).  We may be reached by emailing cmadvise@mtu.edu.  Please send all your advising questions to cmadvise@mtu.edu.