How to Register for Courses

How to Register for Courses

  1. Get your registration PIN.
    • Log in using your Purdue username and password, not BoilerKey.
    • For Summer registration, you will use the same PIN as for Spring.
  2. Review the current course list for available courses.
  3. Log in to myPurdue and click Registration in the banner at the top.
  4. Under Register for Classes, click Use Scheduling Assistant…
  5. If you don’t already have any courses on your schedule, click Build Schedule.
  6. Click New Course and search for the course you want to add by name or CRN.
  7. Add the course to your schedule.
  8. Click Submit Schedule.

Registration help videos:

How to Register for ECE595 Courses or Any Other ECE Courses Requiring Approvals

If you are unable to register for an ECE595 course following the instructions above, do the following:

  1. In myPurdue under Registration, click Use Scheduling Assistant….
  2. If you don’t already have any courses on your schedule, click Build Schedule.
  3. Click New Course and search for the course you want to add by name or CRN.
  4. Add the course to your schedule.
  5. Click Submit Schedule.
  6. When the pop-up box appears, click Request Approvals.
    • Once the approval is processed and approved, you will receive an email.
  7. Complete these steps to add the course. Elisheba Van Winkle (vanwinke@purdue.edu) will contact you with any questions and approve your request.

If this doesn’t work, email the following information to Elisheba Van Winkle (vanwinke@purdue.edu) using your Purdue email address:

  • Your name and PUID
  • The course number and name (for example: ECE595, Fundamentals of Current Flow)
  • The CRN and the number of credit hours
  • The course start date

Requesting Approvals: When requesting approvals for course adds or drops, do not “bundle” these requests. Instead, submit each request separately. This will allow us to more efficiently process these requests.