This page is intended as a guide for new PhD and EngD students joining the Optics and Photonics group.
Prior to your First Day
| Ensure registration at The University of Nottingham has been completed successfully
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| Collect student card from registration
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| Ensure you can access your University emails, on-line guides are available to assist with setting up university email on mobile devices
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| Arrange to meet with Supervisors
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| Ask Supervisor to check if PC workstation has been ordered, new PhD and EngD students are entitled to a new machine, intended to last the length of their programme
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Using the portal service check that you have entered your bank account details, this allows your Studentship to be paid each month
First Week
| Meet with supervisors
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| Once set-up with a new machine, ask to be given a username for the group Linux server. Contact Steve Sharples or Rodger Light
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| Collect key for building from Facilities Manager (Chris Finch), this requires a £20 deposit to be paid to The Science and Engineering Finance Office
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| Register for an account on the Wiki
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| Once approved, familiarize yourself with the wiki help pages, before adding yourself to the people index and your own personal page
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| Log in to Moodle and and search through the self-enrollment modules. Useful modules will likely include, The Laser Safety Course and Introduction to MATLAB for Engineers
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Contact the Business Operations Officer for the faculty of Engineering to request a copy of the Postgraduate Studentship Acceptance form. This must be completed and returned in order to be eligible for your studentship.
EngD Specific
| Contact industrial supervisor/sponsor company, with a view to arranging a meeting soon after the start date
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| Soon after the start at Nottingham University you will be invited for an introduction from the RCNDE.
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