Dear BME Graduate Students!

Welcome to the 2012-13 academic year! The graduate electronic enrollment period for the Fall 2012 term begins on Monday, August 6, 2012, and allows you to electronically enroll through your Student Center. You will be assigned a random appointment time to enroll. The system will be open from August 6 to September 15th. This deadline will be adhered to, so please plan accordingly as late registrations will NOT be accepted.

The self-enrollment letter provided by the Office of the Registrar, as well as our fall/winter term schedule is attached to this message (and the website has been updated).

Important Enrollment Information

• If you are NOT taking a course this term, you do not need to follow the enrollment instructions in this email.
• Please discuss your course enrollment with your immediate supervisor(s) before electronically registering. Enrollment will be verified and approved after the deadline date, and you will be contacted by the BME office if any changes to your enrollment occur (i.e., you are not eligible to enroll in a particular course)
• If you wish to take a course outside of BME, you must complete the proper form (visit: http://www.eng.uwo.ca/research/biomed/FormsNew.html). Please ensure to return the completed form to the BME Program Office (SEB 2001) with all signatures by September 15th.
• If you wish to audit a graduate course, please complete the proper form with appropriate signatures and submit to the BME office by September 15th
• If you wish to drop a course, please discuss with your supervisor first. If you are dropping a course prior to the enrollment deadline, you are able to do so electronically, otherwise you must complete a drop form and submit it to the BME office
• Courses dropped within one (1) month of the official beginning of the term will not appear on an academic record
• Courses dropped after the deadline date, but within eight (8) weeks of the beginning of term, will remain on your academic record with the notation WDN
• Courses dropped after eight (8) weeks from the beginning of term stay on the academic record and are recorded as FAI

IF YOU ARE A NEW STUDENT STARTING IN SEPTEMBER: please contact your supervisor(s) to discuss your course enrollment prior to selecting courses. You must first register and fulfill your admission conditions (if applicable) before you are able to use the online electronic registration system. Your appointment information will be in your Student Center when you log in.

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:

• For CURRENT students: your annual progress reports are due to the BME office by August 31st
• TA Assignments: You will hear from the BME office during the week of August 27th about your TA assignments; contracts must be signed and returned to the BME office by September 4th
• If you are appointed a TA, you must contact the course instructor ASAP
• For NEW students: please pick up your orientation packages from the BME program office on September 4th or September 5th (between 9:00am-noon)
• The Fall 2012 term begins September 4th and ALL students must arrive by this date. Please make certain to present yourself to the BME program office by this date. If you are unable to arrive by this date, please inform your supervisor and the BME office as soon as possible to avoid de-registration
• SGPS new graduate student orientation: September 4th (4:00-6:00pm) North Campus Building, Room 101
• Western Engineering new graduate student orientation: September 6th (11:30am-2:30pm) Spencer Engineering Building, Room 3109
• Graduate Student Scholarship Orientation Session (NSERC & OGS): September 7th (12:00-1:00pm) Spencer Engineering Building, Room 1
• CLASSES BEGIN September 10th
• Lab Safety Training: September 20th (11:30am-2:30pm) Spencer Engineering Building, Room 3109 (you do not need to do this training if you have completed it in previous years)
• BME New Student (orientation) and (facility tours):   Orientation - September 11th (12:30-1:30pm) Spencer Engineering Building, Room 2009b; Facility Tours with current students (1:30-4:00pm)
• BME Grad Club Get-together: September 11th (4:30pm) Grad Club, Middlesex College
• ***NEW UPDATE*** BME Games Night: September 14th (5:00-10:00pm) Room 3102
• Course enrollment deadline: September 15th
• BME Town Hall: September 18th (12:30-1:30pm), Medical Sciences Building, Room 148
• BME Seminars will begin every Tuesday, beginning October 2nd, from (12:30-1:30pm) Medical Sciences Building, Room 148 for the Fall term.  The seminar schedule will be posted, and also available at the Town Hall meeting on September 18th
• Course Drop deadline is September 29th
• For NEW students: your advisory committee must be identified by October 31st -- complete the advisory committee form, get signatures and return to the BME office by Oct 31st

If you have any questions, please contact bmegrad@uwo.ca. You may also visit the BME Program Office, Monday - Friday between (9:00am-noon).