Ph.D Written Comprehensive Exam
This past week was the Ph.D Written Comprehensive Exam for the transportation engineering group. The four day test was intended to measure our ability to think through transportation problems, evaluate our ability to develop a research idea, and assure we have the technical abilities to proceed with the Ph.D program. Overall, there was a significant amount of writing to do, over 75 pages in four days.
I will receive the results of the test sometime this summer. If passed, the next step in the process will be the Ph.D Oral Exam, which I plan to take this coming autumn.
August 30th, 2011 at 4:13 pm
[...] the last of three steps to becoming a Ph.D candidate in my department. The first step, the written comprehensive exam, I passed in May, and the second step, the oral examination, I passed in December. This third step [...]