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Some of you may be curious to know about the “gold sheet.” Now I shall shed some light on this subject; I’ll also be posting this on the WSIL Wiki.

The gold sheet has an official letterhead (from the Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies). Now for the rest of the form…

REPORT OF DISSERTATION DEFENSE
The Doctoral Dissertation Committee for (your official name)
(your UT EID)
Has conducted a final examination on: (your defense date)
On the dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The student has passed the final oral; completed a dissertation which is an independent investigation and which constitutes an original contribution to knowledge; and submitted for publication in Dissertation Abstracts International an abstract, which meets the approval of the Committee.

Then there are six lines for the signatures of your committee members, with the first line labeled as “Signature of Supervisor.”

The Graduate Studies Committee has determined this student has completed all assigned work and passed all examinations required by the graduate program, and recommends that the degree of Doctor of Philosophy be granted.

Finally there are two lines for the signature of the ECE GSC Chair (currently Dr. Jack Lee) and the date of the Chair’s signature. You should submit the form to Melanie on the first floor, and after Dr. Lee signs it, someone from the ECE grad office will take it to the Doctoral Degree Evaluator in the Main Building for you.

Unfortunately, it appears that the mysterious “green sheet” actually does not exist. If I happen upon it for some reason, I will make another post on that.

As I have just submitted the mysterious “pink sheet,” I can now shed some light on it.

The pink sheet is the “request for final oral examination.” There’s a note at the top stating that this “form must be on pink paper; it will not be accepted otherwise,” which I found to be both amusing and bewildering. I asked Melanie Gulick about this, and she said that it was a holdover from the days when all important forms needed to be color-coded.

The form has places for you to list your name, EID, address, and your phone number. You also state the date/time/place of your defense. In addition, you sign the form to allow UT to publicize your defense.

Each member of your committee needs to sign the form to indicate that they’ve received a copy of your dissertation and agree to attend your defense. If any of your committee members plans to attend the defense but can’t sign the form, your advisor (or Dean Neikirk) can sign the form in their place. Then, Dean Neikirk needs to sign the form.

If any of your committee members can’t attend the defense, they can indicate that by signing the back of the form (again, your advisor or Dean Neikirk can act as a proxy in this case).

When you submit the pink sheet to the Graduate School in the Main Building, you also bring along a hard copy of your abstract, vita, title page and “committee certification of approved version” (which will require more signatures). The doctoral degree evaluator does a cursory check of those pages to see if there are any obvious formatting errors.

Assuming all goes well, I will learn about the “gold sheet” and the “green sheet” (if they actually exist).

Chan-Byoung’s recent flurry of blog activity has inspired me to emerge from blogging hibernation.

Many of us wonder what forms need to be signed in order for us to graduate. We’ve heard stories about the “green sheet,” the “gold sheet,” the “pink sheet” and even the mysterious “white sheet.” What, exactly, are these various forms?

I can now say with some certainty that the mysterious “white sheet” is the “Report of ECE Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Committee.” Your qualifying exam committee chair fills out this form and signs it at the bottom. The highlights of this form include: 1) a list of the qualifying exam committee members and 2) the committee’s recommendation (including the dreaded “Other” option).

As for the “green,” “gold” and “pink” sheets, stay tuned (perhaps Kaibin’s defense will shed some light on this).

Hi Everyone,

This is Seijoon.

I went back to Korea very well thanks to you.

It is very natural for me to live in Korea so my Austin days look like a dream.

It is a monsoon season in Korea so it has been raining since I arrived Korea, which makes me depressed.

Anyway, I hope you are doing very well.

Keep in touch.

I already miss you all.

Sincerely,

Seijoon in Korea.