NEW MSE GRADUATE STUDENT CHECKLIST

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📆 Last updated: April 2024

Welcome to SFU! Below you will find a list of admin tasks you will need to complete to get setup.

General items

1. Open a Canadian bank account
   
2. Social Insurance Number (SIN)
3. Buy a Compass card from a Skytrain station or retailer to use public transit
   
4. 🟥 Load your U-Pass on your Compass card
5. 🟥 If you will not be using public transit in Vancouver and wish not to pay for the U-Pass, request a U-Pass exemption.
   

SFU Related

1. Activate your computing ID (this will be your SFU email handle, and it is different than your 9-digit SFU student number)
2. Key/card access for campus spaces (including your lab)
   
3. Enroll in courses asap (deadline: end of week 2 of term)
   • 🔵 MASc students - enroll in MSE 898 MASc Thesis every term until you graduate
     
   • 🔵 PhD students - enroll in MSE 890 PhD Qualifying Exam every term until you pass your Qualifying Exam, then enroll in MSE 899 PhD Thesis every term until you graduate
     
4. 🟥 Pay your tuition
5. 🔵 Register for payroll if you will be working as a Research Assistant (RA)
   
6. 🟥 Get your SFU student ID card from RIS on the Mezzanine level. (you will be asked to provide an acceptable form of ID)
   
7. 🔵 Declare your supervisor (This is to confirm you will be working with the same supervisor you were admitted under. Upon admission all students in research programs need to declare their supervisors).
   
8. 🔵 Complete two 700 or 800 level technical courses graded on standard grading basis (A+, B, etc) to be eligible for Graduate Fellowships as soon as possible.