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have spent five years in professional and educational work, (during one of
which they must have been in responsible charge), who have proved their
ability to plan or to design as well as to direct engineering work or original
investigation along engineering or scientific lines, and who present an ac-
ceptable thesis. Graduates who hold the degree of M.S. in Engineering
from the University of Wisconsin are credited with two years’ professional
work.

The thesis shall give evidence of professional attainment. It shall be
in such form and of such an original contributive or analytical character as
to make it suitable for publication in the proceedings of the appropriate
national engineering society. The thesis may be an engineering study of an
economic, design, or research nature. It may not be a mere description of
usual engineering work or a digest of engineering literature. A copy of the
thesis must be in the hands of the Dean not later than May 1, if the candi-
date is to receive his degree at the following Commencement. .

The professional degree will be granted in the course in which the can-
didate has received his B.S. or M.S. degree, unless the candidate requests
otherwise, and submits with his request, satisfactory evidence of his scien-
tific attainments in the field in which the professional degree is requested.

SECOND DEGREE IN PUBLIC HEALTH

The degree of Master of Public Health will be conferred upon gradu-
ates of approved medical colleges who satisfactorily complete one year of
graduate work in sciences related to public health. For a detailed statement
regarding this degree application may be made to the Dean of the Medical
School.

SECOND DEGREE FOR STUDENTS IN PROFESSIONAL COLLEGES

Graduates of approved institutions who are regularly enrolled in the
professional colleges of this University may supplement their professional
studies by work taken in the Graduate School. Upon the completion of an
approved course of study they will be admitted to examination for the mas-
ter’s degree, to be conferred at the time of their graduation.

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

I. THE DEGREE. Doctor of Philosophy is a research degree. It is not
a degree conferred solely as a result of study, no matter how faithful, ex-
tending over any prescribed period; it does not rest merely upon any com-
putation of time or any enumeration of courses. Questions of residence and
plans of study, listed below as the minimum, are secondary. The granting
of the degree is based essentially upon evidence of general proficiency and
of distinctive attainments in a special field, and particularly upon the rec-
ognized power of independent investigation as shown by the production of
a thesis embodying original research or creative scholarship and presented
with a fair degree of literary skill.

II, RESIDENCE. Candidacy for the degree is based upon resident grad-
uate study normally extending over a period of not less than three academic
years, at least one of which must be spent at this University. But it is to
be understood that the mere completion of three years of resident study does
not of itself confer a right to take the final examination. The matter of
time is determined by the character of a student’s undergraduate record
and by the quality of the work done in the Graduate School.