Undergraduate Student Frequently Asked Questions

Changing your major is not uncommon.  Whether or not you will be able to keep the same expected graduation date is very dependent on:

1. What program you came from 
2. What program you are changing to 
3. Timing of your decision to change your program of study

While we will do our best to help you complete your degree “on time”, due to the technical nature of some subject matter and the interdependency of coursework (particularly in engineering), this is often not possible.  The College of Aeronautics and Engineering simply cannot guarantee that students will keep the same anticipated graduation date if they change their major.  For this reason, we strongly advise you to meet with one of our advisors prior to changing your major.

Who is my academic advisor? 

• Last names A - H: Mackenzie Yozwiak | myozwiak@kent.edu
• Last names I - P: Kasey Monda | kmonda2@kent.edu
• Last names Q - Z: Jared Brown | jbrow252@kent.edu
• Aeronautics students with a concentration in Professional Pilot/Flight Technology: Michael Gershe | mgershe@kent.edu

You can schedule an appointment with your adviser at KSU Advising. In your student dashboard on Flashline, go to Advising and GPS tab, then click on Schedule Advising Appointment. 

Advisors set their schedules two weeks in advance so if you’re not seeing availability, please check back.

• Appointments are 30min, double-check the start time of your appointment.
• Be on time or your appointment may be canceled.
• Be sure to check-in with the front desk when you arrive for your appointment!

Schedule an Advising Appointment

Please do not schedule appointments for letter requests.

For questions about Financial Aid, please contact the OneStop. 

OneStop Information

Our Advising Team is only able to override courses in our own college (College of Aeronautics and Engineering) on a case by case basis. Students must monitor the system for closed courses for when seats become available. If trying to get into a course outside of CAE, they must contact the department the course is housed in (i.e. Seven Ideas that Shook the Universe is housed in the Department of Physics). 

Additionally, you need to work with your respective Academic Advisor in CAE to ensure the override is necessary and won’t set you up for more scheduling challenges further down the road. 

The best place to get your roadmap is from the Kent State University Catalog. 

University Catalog

Note: Aeronautics majors with a concentration in Aeronautical Studies, Air Traffic Control, Aviation Management, Professional Pilot or Unmanned Aircraft Systems will find their roadmap under the “Aeronautics - B.S.” link.

Your roadmap is your 4-year plan to graduate with a degree. It’s essentially a contract between you and the university; you’re agreeing to take the courses by following the plan to earn a degree.  CAE and the university are agreeing to offer the courses and support your plan so you can graduate in four years.  In a given semester, CAE schedules classes for over 40 possible roadmap configurations! That’s a lot of deconfliction and planning. So if you leave your roadmap and follow a different plan, it’s much more difficult to graduate on time. Also, you might find as you get further and further off your plan, the scheduling becomes more and more challenging. This can add a lot of stress, which we really hope to help you avoid.

You can find your GPS Audit from your Flashline account. Select the Student Tools and Courses tab and there you will find GPS.

Watch GPS Video Tutorial

Two things are needed to process transfer credit: your official transcript from the institution where you took the course, and Kent State’s Transfer Credit Form.

We recommend you look at the Transfer Credit Guide prior to enrolling in courses at another institution. We also recommend you speak with your advisor before registering for a course outside of Kent State that you intend to transfer back, to ensure that the credit will be accepted. Once the course is complete at the institution, request an official transcript be sent to Kent State’s Admissions Office for processing.  

Transfer Credit Guide

At any point you can complete the Transfer Credit From and submit to your advisor.

Transfer Credit Form

My Time to Register

On the left hand side of the page you will see links for spring, summer and fall registration. 

NOTE: Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the scheduling windows for Spring 2020 have shifted. Check back on this site regularly, and look for emails once the schedule is confirmed. Regardless, you can expect to begin scheduling sometime in October, depending upon your credit hours earned.

For more information about internships, co-ops, and job career opportunities please contact:

Steven Nowinski, Coordinator - Career Services, College of Aeronautics and Engineering

snowinsk@kent.edu

All CAE classes have a built-in waitlist. Be sure to add your name to the waitlist. Do NOT contact the instructor, or your advisor about being on the waitlist; they won’t be able to add you to the class.

The waitlist is the default scheduling option once a class is full.

The CAE waitlist accepts any number of students. If a registered student drops the course, the “seat” in the class is automatically offered to the first student on the waitlist. The “offer” is sent to the student via their official kent.edu email account. The student has 24 hours to respond to the email, in other words, the student has 24 hours to accept the spot in the class by following the directions in the email. If they do not respond within 24 hours, the student loses the spot in the class and the “seat” is offered to the No. 2 student on the waitlist.

The 24-hour period begins from when the email was sent, NOT from when the student read the email. The student who missed the opportunity to register for the available seat in the class will be dropped from the waitlist and will have to re-add their name, this time at the end of the existing waitlist.

It is extremely important, if you’re on a waitlist, to monitor your @kent.edu email!

Why can’t the college just add seats to it so we can all take the class?

There are several reasons why classes are set with a given number of students, and the main reason is usually driven by fire code and the number of allowable persons in the room. Other reasons are lab equipment limitations and faculty limitations. 

Why can't the college just add another section so we can all take the class? 

Every time a course is scheduled, it requires a room and a professor to teach the course. There may not be physical space to schedule the course, and there may not be a professor who has the availability to teach the course. 

I spoke with my professor who said they’d teach another course and that we just needed to “add it.” Why might this not work?

All faculty are limited in the number of courses they can teach; at Kent State University this is called “load” and refers to the workload of the faculty member. This is governed by contracts so it’s not always possible to just “add a class” as much as many would like to.

No. The prerequisite is in place to provide the requisite knowledge needed to succeed in the subsequent course.

Students are required to fulfill the requirements for their declared program of study as outlined in the undergraduate catalog for the academic year of admission. Program requirements can change in future catalogs, but students should not be bound by those changes if they were admitted prior to the changes being implemented.