GRADUATE CATALOG - The Petroleum Institute

Graduate Catalog | Academic Year 2013 – 2014Three outcomes are possible: the student may pass the oral defense; the student may fail the defense; or theCommittee may vote to adjourn the defense to allow the student more time to address and remove weaknessesor inadequacies in the thesis or underlying research. Two negative votes will constitute a failure regardless ofthe number of committee members present at the thesis defense. In the event of either failure or adjournment,the coordinator will prepare a written statement indicating the reasons for this action and will distribute copiesto the student, the GAC, the student’s Department Chairman and the Dean of the Graduate School .In the case of failure or adjournment, the student may request a re-examination, which must be scheduled no lessthan one week after the original defense. A second failure to defend the project satisfactorily will result in thetermination of the student’s graduate program. Upon passing the oral defense of the thesis or report, thestudent must make any corrections required by the GAC.The final, corrected copy and an executed signature page indicating approval by the student’s research advisor, theGAC, the coordinator and the Department Chairman must be submitted to the Dean of the Graduate School forformat approval. Format instructions are available in the Graduate School and should be obtained beforebeginning work on the thesis / report.Page 27