Advising

Entrance requirements:

Admission to AMEP is internal to UW-Madison, you must be admitted to UW-Madison or already be a UW-Madison student to join AMEP.

Declaration requirements can be found on the AMEP Guide page under “How to Get In”.

AMEP is a Letters and Science (L&S) degree, a Bachelor of Science in AMEP (BS-AMEP), not a major. This means it cannot be added on as an additional major to a degree in another School or College. If you want to pursue AMEP and are not in L&S, you must transfer into L&S.

Declaring the AMEP degree:

Students are encouraged to declare AMEP as soon as possible in order to receive AMEP specific advising and be included on the AMEP mailing list to stay informed about AMEP current events and opportunities. Students should first familiarize themselves with the degree requirements and the four-year plan, the list of recommended or required courses then visit an AMEP advisor (listed below) to declare the degree.

Please schedule an advising appointment via Starfish. Some faculty advisors may not use Starfish so if they are not on the page or have no available meetings, please email them directly with your availability to schedule an advising appointment. When contacting a professor, students should make sure they put “AMEP” in the subject line and send a brief clear message, since professors receive many emails.

Please note that professors usually have advising appointments only during the regular Fall and Spring semesters. The academic advisor for AMEP will have availability throughout the year.

Advisors and Department Homepages:

The average AMEP student will typically interact with the AMEP academic advisor and three faculty advisors:

1. An applied mathematics advisor in the Department of Mathematics
2. A physics advisor in the Department of Physics
3. An engineering advisor in the engineering department the student chooses to focus on

A list of current faculty advisors follows. Note that other engineering faculty besides those listed below can serve as an AMEP advisor if they are willing. The engineering part of the AMEP curriculum should be any coherent concentration of courses at the intermediate to advanced level.