A STUDENT ADVISING SYSTEM FOR UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING CURRICULAR SCHEDULING

An advising system has been developed to aid an undergraduate engineer ing student and advisor in developing a long-term curricular schedule. The system is unique from other advising systems in two ways: (1) it aids the student in developing a custom long-term schedule for all fut ure semesters that will ensure the student meets all course requiremen ts for graduation; (2) it is flexible in that it allows the user to pe rform ad hoc queries to develop alternative schedules and assesss thei r impact on graduation. These features make the advisor a useful syste m for those students with atypical scheduling constraints such as invo lvement in a cooperative education program or transfer into a departme nt.