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Ref: 27-60_A_General_Regulations

General Regulations

  1. [1] 1. Any member of the University who has been admitted to the status of student for the degree of Doctor of Engineering by the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Board and who has satisfied the conditions prescribed by these regulations may supplicate for the degree of Doctor of Engineering.
  2. [2] 2. Candidates shall follow a programme of study consisting of (a) coursework and (b) research, in engineering or applied science, in the context of industrial or other professional practice. Each candidate must pass a specified number of coursework modules during the programme of study, as detailed in the special regulations for the degree of Doctor of Engineering. Each candidate shall submit for examination a thesis, or portfolio of a coherent set of linked research projects.
  3. [3] 3. A student for the degree of Doctor of Engineering shall normally pursue his or her course of study at Oxford for 12 terms.
  4. [4] 4. A student for the degree of Doctor of Engineering may be permitted by the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Divisional Board to undertake their research in a well-found research environment outside the University. Such students shall be dispensed from the residence requirements, but shall be required to attend for such instruction as the Division and department concerned shall require, as specified in the Special Regulations and Course Handbook. Before admitting a candidate on this basis, the conditions set out in the Special Regulations of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division shall be met.
  5. [5] 5. Candidates shall be admitted initially with the status of Probationer Research Student.
  6. [6] 6. A member of the University who has held the status of Probationer Research Student and has completed the qualifying test for entry to Doctor of Engineering status prescribed in the Special Regulations below may be admitted to the status of student for the degree of Doctor of Engineering.
  7. [7] 7. A candidate should normally apply for confirmation of his or her status as a student for the degree of Doctor of Engineering no later than the tenth term after that in which he or she was initially admitted to the status of Probationer Research Student. All students for the degree of Doctor of Engineering must have their status confirmed before applying for the appointment of examiners. Candidates applying for confirmation of status must have fulfilled the requirements as specified in the special regulations for the degree of Doctor of Engineering.
  8. [8] 8. Examiners of the thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Engineering shall bear in mind that their judgement of the substantial significance of the work should take into account what may reasonably be expected of a capable and diligent student after four years of full-time study.
  9. [9] 9. If a candidate is not permitted to continue with Doctor of Engineering status, he or she may be permitted to transfer instead to the status of student for the degree of M.Sc. by Research.
  10. [10] 10. Except as specifically provided above, and as provided in Special Regulations for the degree of Doctor of Engineering below, the provisions of the following regulations shall apply: Regulations for Admission as a Probationer Research Student; General Regulations for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (§1-7); General Regulations of the Education Committee governing the examination of students for the degrees of M.Sc. by Research, M.Litt. and D.Phil. and concerning the maintenance of the register; Special Regulations of Divisional and Faculty Boards concerning the status of probationer research student and the degrees of M.Litt. M.Sc. by Research, and D.Phil.: Mathematical and Physical Sciences Division; provided that, in all cases, ‘Doctor of Engineering’ shall be substituted for ‘Doctor of Philosophy’.