Senior Capstones and Department Honors Application and Registration

ESRM Capstone Course Application Form [includes applying for ESRM Department Honors via either a Capstone course or ESRM 499 Completion]

Here is where you apply for a Senior Capstone, either for Department Honors or Non-Honors purposes.  You need to submit an application form even if you already have lined up a faculty member to work with, as we need to track this information.

There are two varieties of application available:

• • Note: For students seeking research mentors, all Capstone applications are currently closed.  They are currently expected to reopen in Spring 2026 for students seeking research mentors for the Summer 2026-Summer 2027 period
  • If you already have a research mentor, applications remain open.  Please fill out this short capstone application to identify yourself and your faculty member.  After application submission, you next complete the ESRM Capstone Registration Form below.

ESRM Capstone Registration Form

All students who have completed the Capstone Application and had a faculty assignment confirmed by SEFS Advising, please complete and submit the registration form available here.  You must complete and submit a new registration form every quarter.  Students who have been assigned to the new ESRM Capstone course series will be registered by SEFS advising once your assignment to the course is confirmed.

ESRM Department Honors status requires the following:

• a successful Capstone assignment either to individual research or to the Capstone course
• support from your research advisor in doing Department Honors capstone (gained by the research advisor signing off on Department Honors registration via the first quarter registration form, OR by registration in the Department Honors section of the first quarter Capstone course

ESRM students meeting these requirements will be signed up to Department Honors by SEFS Advising, and you will see Department Honors status noted on your degree audit.

SEFS Course Petition Form

Undergraduate Course Substitution Petition Portal for all SEFS Undergraduates. At this page, you will find the ESRM Course Petition Form and a place to submit the Form and all necessary supporting materials. You may petition any course requirement in the major, subject to the limits and restrictions listed on the Petition Form. Petition evaluation is the responsibility of the SEFS Faculty; petition acceptance is not guaranteed. Petitions should be submitted as early as possible.

ESRM Undergraduate Research Registration Form (ESRM 499) for Non-Honors Credit

The Undergraduate Research Registration form and where to submit the completed form are located here. Please note: there are two types of registration forms available:

• registering yourself as an individual student doing research with a faculty member, or
• faculty or lab leads registering a group of students doing the same research with a faculty member

For more information about research opportunities, see the Undergraduate Research Opportunities page

ESRM Undergraduate Internship Credit Registration (ESRM 399 A or B sections)

Both the Undergraduate Internship Registration Form (for ESRM 399A or SBSE 399A) and where to submit it are available at this location. Registration instructions for ESRM 399B are available at this page (in the Click Here section). For more information about choosing between ESRM A and ESRM 399 B sections, see the top section of this page.   SEFS Student Internship Opportunities has additional information about internships.

SEFS Registration Request Form

Please use the SEFS Registration Request Form if an ESRM or SBSE or SEFS course requires an entry code to register (such as during week 2 of the quarter).   Note: for full courses/lab sections/QZ sections, if any seats become available, you need to be signed up to be notified of open spots via notify.uw rather than using this form.

UW Campus Registration Forms

UW Registration Transactions Form:  Complete the top section of the form, plus whichever section pertains to your registration issue. Once the form is complete, email it to regoff@uw.edu or submit in person at the 2^nd floor of Schmitz Hall. This form is used for a variety of registration changes, listed here in the order of frequency the average student may need to use them:

• • To register for classes that have a Time Conflict (section 1 of form).
  • To change the number of credits registered for in a Variable credit class (section 3).
  • To stay in the same course, but change a section (section 4),
  • To fix the situation of a course dropped in error (section 5),
  • To change to audit grading (section 2),
  • To use Cross-Campus Registration (if MyUW is not an option) (section 6)

SEFS Course Petition Form

Undergraduate Course Substitution Petition Portal for all SEFS Undergraduates. At this page, you will find the SBSE Course Petition Form and a place to submit the Form and all necessary supporting materials. You may petition any course requirement in the major, subject to the limits and restrictions listed on the Petition Form. Petition evaluation is the responsibility of the SEFS Faculty; petition acceptance is not guaranteed. Petitions should be submitted as early as possible.

SBSE Major Course Prerequisite Petition for SBSE-prefixed course Registration

SBSE Majors who need to take a SBSE-prefixed course but have not met the course or GPA prerequisite(s) must complete a petition and have it approved for this to occur.

SBSE Undergraduate Research Registration Form (SBSE 499) for Non-Honors and Honors Credit

The Undergraduate Research Registration form and where to submit the completed form are located here. Please note: there are two types of registration forms available:

• registering yourself as an individual student doing research with a faculty member, or
• faculty or lab leads registering a group of students doing the same research with a faculty member

For more information about research opportunities, see the Undergraduate Research Opportunities page

SBSE Undergraduate Internship Credit Registration (SBSE 399 A section)

Both the Undergraduate Internship Registration Form for SBSE 399A and where to submit it are available at this location.   SEFS Student Internship Opportunities has additional information about internships.

BSE/SBSE students are also eligible to register for Internship credit via ENGR 321, which offers some advantages, including much cheaper tuition costs.  Earning internship credit is not required for either the BSE or SBSE majors, so if students register for credit, it is usually due to the desire to keep UW Student status or to do additional work to support the learning you will be doing in your internship job.  Please talk to a SEFS Advisor if you have questions about registration.

SEFS Registration Request Form

Please use the SEFS Registration Request Form if an ESRM or SBSE or SEFS course requires an entry code to register (such as during week 2 of the quarter).   Note: for full courses/lab sections/QZ sections, if any seats become available, you need to be signed up to be notified of open spots via notify.uw rather than using this form.

UW Campus Registration Forms

UW Registration Transactions Form:  Complete the top section of the form, plus whichever section pertains to your registration issue. Once the form is complete, email it to regoff@uw.edu or submit in person at the 2^nd floor of Schmitz Hall. This form is used for a variety of registration changes, listed here in the order of frequency the average student may need to use them:

• • To register for classes that have a Time Conflict (section 1 of form).
  • To change the number of credits registered for in a Variable credit class (section 3).
  • To stay in the same course, but change a section (section 4),
  • To fix the situation of a course dropped in error (section 5),
  • To change to audit grading (section 2),
  • To use Cross-Campus Registration (if MyUW is not an option) (section 6)

SEFS Course Petition Form

Undergraduate Course Substitution Petition Portal for all SEFS Undergraduates. At this page, you will find the SBSE Course Petition Form and a place to submit the Form and all necessary supporting materials. You may petition any course requirement in the major, subject to the limits and restrictions listed on the Petition Form. Petition evaluation is the responsibility of the SEFS Faculty; petition acceptance is not guaranteed. Petitions should be submitted as early as possible.

SBSE Undergraduate Research Registration Form (ESRM 499) for Non-Honors Credit

The Undergraduate Research Registration form and where to submit the completed form are located here. Please note: there are two types of registration forms available:

• registering yourself as an individual student doing research with a faculty member, or
• faculty or lab leads registering a group of students doing the same research with a faculty member

For more information about research opportunities, see the Undergraduate Research Opportunities page

Declaring SBSE Department Honors

If you want to sign up for BSE/SBSE Department Honors, you must also submit the Department Honors Registration form at the same time you submit the first quarter form for Honors SBSE 499 registration.  This form is acquired and submitted here. More information about the Departmental Honors process is available.

SEFS Registration Request Form

Please use the SEFS Registration Request Form if an ESRM or SBSE or SEFS course requires an entry code to register (such as during week 2 of the quarter).   Note: for full courses/lab sections/QZ sections, if any seats become available, you need to be signed up to be notified of open spots via notify.uw rather than using this form.

SEFS Registration Request Form

Please use the SEFS Registration Request Form if an ESRM or SBSE or SEFS course requires an entry code to register (such as during week 2 of the quarter).   Note: for full courses/lab sections/QZ sections, if any seats become available, you need to be signed up to be notified of open spots via notify.uw rather than using this form.

 

ESRM/SBSE Undergraduate Research Registration Form (ESRM/SBSE 499) for Non-Honors Credit

The Undergraduate Research Registration form and where to submit the completed form are located here. Please note: there are two types of registration forms available:

• registering yourself as an individual student doing research with a faculty member, or
• faculty or lab leads registering a group of students doing the same research with a faculty member

For more information about research opportunities, see the Undergraduate Research Opportunities page

ESRM/SBSE Undergraduate Research Registration Form (ESRM/SBSE 499) for ESRM Non-Honors Credit and SBSE Honors or Non-Honors credits

The Undergraduate Research Registration form and where to submit the completed form are located here. Please note: there are two types of registration forms available:

• registering yourself as an individual student doing research with a faculty member, or
• faculty or lab leads registering a group of students doing the same research with a faculty member

Individual students doing research should be submitting their own registration forms (and they have their own link in the ESRM Major section above to do so), though sometimes faculty prefer to start composing the registration form themselves.  Completed group registration forms should be completed and submitted by the faculty member/lab lead, though individual students should certainly receive a copy of the requirements they need to complete to receive credit.

ESRM Capstone Registration

While ESRM capstone students need to submit this registration form (and they have their own link in the ESRM Major section above to do so), sometimes faculty prefer to start composing the registration form themselves.  The registration form document is available at the top of this Microsoft form.