Academic Advising Team

The Academic Advisors in the Graduate Student Services office can help with various concerns regarding your program and student record.

Contact us via email, individual appointments, and virtual office hours. To prepare for your appointment, please review the Graduate School of Engineering Appointments & Advising Policies.

Graduate students are expected to be professional and respectful at all times in their interactions with the Graduate School of Engineering staff. Please review a summary of these expectations.

Topics best for Virtual Drop-In Advising Hours
(Drop-in hours limited to 10 minutes)

Registration errors and issues
Questions about GSS Forms
Apply to Graduate questions
Holds on students’ records

Topics best for pre-scheduled individual appointments
(20 minutes)

Academic Probation/ Subject to Dismissal
Graduation Clearance
PlusOne students advising
Review and resolve student degree audit issues (DARS)

Many questions can be answered quickly if you email your Academic Advising Department contact listed below. Please include your home department, NUID, and a detailed account of your questions. Accelerated Bachelor/Graduate Engineering students, who are still in undergraduate standing, please email the Academic Advising Department contact listed below.

Email us

Bioengineering Academic Advisors

Chemical Engineering Academic Advisors
Civil and Environmental Engineering Academic Advisors
Electrical and Computer Engineering Academic Advisors*
*except MS in Robotics with Computer Science should contact Khoury Academic Advisor, Cailyn Ellard.
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Academic Advisors
Multidisciplinary Engineering Academic Advisors
PhD Advising

* Contact Khoury Academic Advisor, Cailyn Ellard for MS in Robotics with Computer Science

Virtual Drop-in Advising

During virtual office hours, students can drop in without an appointment to ask an advisor questions in a breakout room for their privacy. Students attending the hours must log in to Zoom with their NU credentials. Upon joining, you will need to submit a response to a survey to connect with an Academic Advisor. To join on the dates and times listed below, please click Summer 2025 hours.

Summer 2025: Virtual Drop-in Advising Hours
- 5/8/2025 10:00AM to 11:00AM EST
- 5/22/2025 10:00AM to 11:00AM EST
- 6/5/2025 10:00AM to 11:00AM EST
- 7/17/2025 10:00AM to 11:00AM EST
- 7/31/2025 10:00AM to 11:00AM EST
- 8/14/2025 10:00AM to 11:00AM EST
Fall 2025: Virtual Drop-In Advising Hours:
- 8/28/2025 10:00AM to 12:00PM EST
- 09/11/2025 10:00AM to 12:00PM EST
- 9/25/2025 10:00AM to 12:00PM EST
- 10/09/2025 10:00AM to 12:00PM EST
- 10/23/2025 10:00AM to 12:00PM EST
- 11/06/2025 10:00AM to 12:00PM EST
- 11/20/2025 10:00AM to 12:00PM EST
- 12/4/2025 10:00AM to 12:00PM EST
- 12/18/2025 10:00AM to 12:00PM EST

One-on-one advising appointments

Graduate Engineering students, you can schedule a 20-minute virtual or in-person appointment to meet with your assigned academic advisor via Navigate. (See Navigate Instructions).

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One-on-one advising appointments

Graduate Engineering students, you can schedule a 20-minute virtual or in-person appointment to meet with your assigned academic advisor via Navigate. (See Navigate Instructions).