Newly admitted

Newly admitted graduate students in the
Welding Engineering Distance Education program

Welcome and congratulations on your admission to the Welding Engineering Distance Education program within the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University. We are excited about your enrollment and wish to make your participation in graduate course work as simple as possible. Information on a number of items, such as OSU account activation, enrollment, and class participation, are provided below.

Autumn Semester begins
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
 

Please feel free to contact Mark Cooper, MSE / WE Graduate Studies Coordinator, should you have any further questions at:

  • Telephone: 614-292-7280
  • E-mail Mark Cooper, or
  • Suite 2136 Fontana Lab
    140 W. 19th Ave.
    Columbus, OH 43210

Four key items are to be addressed:

  1. Accept admission,
  2. OSU account activation,
  3. Secure a WE faculty advisor and develop a course plan, and
  4. Register for a Distance Learning course.

Accept admission

By way of your OSU application account, please follow the "Accept/Decline" link to formally accept admission. This is a necessary step that allows your account to be activated.

Activate your OSU internet account

Upon acceptance you may activate your OSU internet account. An e-mail/internet account is provided to all OSU students. The user name and password you establish for this account will permit on-line access to such things as course scheduling, grades, course web sites, and other important web-based resources provided by the university.

To activate your account, please go to the following web site:

  • my.osu.edu
  • Click "Activate Now!" and follow the activation process. Associated with your application account should be an OSU user name in the form of "lastname.###" (such as "cooper.73")
  • Be sure to note your OSU username and the password you established. These items will allow you to register for classes, check grades, etc.

If you are unable to activate your account please contact Mark Cooper.

Secure an advisor and submit a course plan

Please contact a member of our Welding Engineering faculty who shares your field of interest in WE and ask if s/he will be available to serve as your academic advisor. A listing of the WE faculty is available on the Directory page of our site by narrowing the search to the "Welding / Joining" faculty. You may wish to contact the WE Director of Distance Learning, Dr. Avi Benatar, for guidance.

Discuss with your advisor your general goals for the degree and the courses or subjects you wish to study. Please complete a Plan of Study (pdf) which will outline the proposed courses to meet the degree requirements. It is understood that this is tentative, but it is helpful. Submit this plan to your advisor for approval before the end of your first term in the program.

Registering for Courses

Before registering for classes, you must first discuss with your WE advisor which graded courses you should take (thus you can not register for academic classes until you have an advisor). Graduate level courses are rarely closed, so you will not be shut out of a class, even if admitted close to the start of a term.

  • The "Courses" page provides a listing of the on-line courses to be offered in the coming terms.

After establishing which courses you will take, students use the OSU Registrar's on-line registration system (BuckeyeLink) to enroll in classes:

Steps involved in course enrollment:

  1. Go to Buckeyelink.osu.edu
  2. Select My Student Center under the "SIS Student Center" section.
    [Note: detailed instructions for the use of the Student Center are available there as well. The video is especially helpful.]
  3. Please enter the username (lastname.###) and password you established when you activated your OSU internet account. This will bring you to your OSU Student Center page, the home page of your OSU account (see above). It allows you to add/drop courses, check your account balances, update contact info, and more.
  4. Click Add a class under the "Academics" section. This takes you to your course shopping cart (if you've ever bought anything on line, this process is very similar).
  5. Choose the desired term. [Continue]
  6. Find a course using the search option (or enter a class number if you have the individual course indentifier). To search:
    • Select the course subject, such as Welding Engineering.
    • Select a course number search parameter such as is exactly, is greater than or equal to, etc. For example, enter "6999".
    • Course career should be set to "Graduate".
    • Campus = Columbus and "show open classes only" are set as defaults.
    • To display only Distance Courses: Expand the "Additional search criteria" section and under Mode of Instruction, select "Distance Learning".
    • Click the green Search button.
    • Important tip! Results displayed for courses with multiple offerings are truncated to display only the first three items. Click the View all link to display all offerings of a given course.
  7. As you find the courses, click the green select class button to add the course to your shopping cart. You may be prompted to enter the number of units if the course may be taken for variable credits.
    [You are not yet enrolled in the course.]
  8. When you have finished adding courses to your shopping cart, click the green button Proceed to Step 2 of 3. This will take you to a confirmation screen.
    • If you are blocked from enrolling please contact the course instructor (see our site Directory for email addresses) and ask to be allowed into the course. It is helpful to cc Mark Cooper. With the instructor's reply, forward the email to Mark so he can ask the Graduate School to add you to the course.
  9. Click the green Finish enrolling button to confirm your enrollment in these courses. This will display the "View results" page which will alert you to any enrollment problems. From this page you'll be able to view your class schedule, make account payments, etc.

Additional help with registration:

Your fees

Once registered a total fee amount for the term will be generated. If you have registered for only distance learning courses, then you will be billed at the in-state, Ohio Resident rate, regardless of your residency or citizenship. Additionally, certain on-campus fees will not be assessed, while certain distance learning will be added. For more, please see the "Costs" section.