Seminar Policy

Students must attend at least twelve seminars from the department seminar series, thesis defenses, and/or technical conferences. A student receives a credit of three attended seminars for giving a seminar that is not his/her final public defense, or for giving a conference presentation. Attendance should be taken by the track coordinator for the departmental seminars and by the student's advisor for thesis defenses. Documentation should be provided by the student's advisor for conference attendance and conference presentations. Attendance lists and documentation should be submitted to the ECE office.


Update (11/04/2025):

Due to the University-wide move from Laulima to Lamaku, the Laulima seminar credit sites are scheduled for deletion early next year. When students are part of a Lamaku site, it is strictly designated as a semester-based site. This means that we cannot use Lamaku for graduate student seminar credits, since these are tracked over multiple semesters.

Because of this, we will be moving the tracking of seminar credits from Laulima to Google Sheets. Please be on the lookout for an email sharing your individual Google Sheet. Each student will only have access to their own sheet. The ECE Office has done our best to correctly transfer the information, but it would be very helpful for each of you to go ahead and double check that your Google Sheet matches your Laulima records in case of any errors.

For future seminar credit, please send the following to eeoffice@hawai.edu:
  • Seminar Information (flyer, link, screenshot, etc.)
    • For ECE Seminars, the ECE Office will already have access to the flyer, so please just let us know which seminar you have attended and we can pull up the information.
  • Proof of Attendance (attendance sheet, Zoom screenshot, photo of the seminar, etc.)
    • For ECE Seminars, the hosting professor should provide the ECE Office with the attendance sheet. If needed, please remind the professor or take a photo of the attendance sheet yourself as a backup.