Academic Advisement

VASE AdvisorsThe office of Viterbi Admission and Student Engagement (VASE) provides services and resources to help students in the successful pursuit of their graduate degrees. All engineering graduate students are welcome to stop by the VASE office to discuss their academics and student life.
Academic AdvisorsAdvisement on course registration/planning is provided by your academic department advisors and research advisement is provided by faculty in the respective academic departments.

VASE Advisors

Nora Sandoval

Director, Master's Student Affairs

Nora oversees the Master’s Student Affairs operation including advisement, international student services, DEN@Viterbi, student engagement and academic probation/interventions.

Patty Rinehart

Advisor, Master's Student Services

Patty oversees DEN@Viterbi student services and provides general advisement for on campus and DEN@Viterbi admitted and limited status students. Patty reviews program extension requests from international students.

Yadi Wang

Advisor, International Student Programs

Yadi provides advisement services for on campus and online master's students regarding academic and immigration rules and manages student affairs programs and events for students.

Andrea Mora

Advisor, Master's Student Services

Andrea provides general advisement for all on campus students. Andrea reviews RCL and OPT requests from international students and oversees special populations including Pre-Masters and Military Connected Students.

Meet with a VASE Master's Advisor



*Drop-in Advising available: Monday - Friday: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (PST)

Academic Department Advisors

Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
Astronautical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering & Materials Science
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Computer Science / Data Science
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Industrial & Systems Engineering

Note:

  • Financial Engineering and Green Technologies are housed
    within the Electrical and Computer Engineering department.

  • Petroleum Engineering is housed within the Chemical
    Engineering & Materials Science department.

  • System Architecting & Engineering is housed within the
    Astronautical Engineering department.

Published on October 8th, 2021

Last updated on June 23rd, 2022