Candidates do NOT need a ticket to attend graduation. Tickets for their guests (MAXIMUM of 8) are distributed to students at the UConn Bookstore ONLY starting April 1st. Ticket Desk hours will be 9:00am-4:30pm in the week before commencement. 

All guests aged 4 years (and older) require a guest ticket for entry to the ceremony. Tickets are bar-coded to guard against copies being made for sale or other unauthorized use. If students need extra tickets, they need to fill out the form that has been provided to them from engr-ugcommencement@uconn.edu  All responses must be made through a @uconn.edu email account for verification. Being placed on the waiting list is not a guarantee of extra tickets but we do our best to meet reasonable requests. Extra tickets will not be issued until the week OF Commencement. We will notify the waitlist when the tickets are available for pick-up and give a date and location for pick up. Graduation Guest tickets cannot be picked up by anyone other than the student. 

To participate in the ceremony students MUST purchase UCONN undergraduate regalia (cap & gown). Participation in the Commencement ceremony is OPTIONAL, so no exception will be made to this policy. Please access this webpage to get started. 

UConn will be hosting live streams of all Commencement ceremonies. For those unable to obtain a guest ticket or make the trip to Storrs, the College of Engineering ceremony will be live streamed on the internet. The link to the stream will be posted on the University Commencement webpage (http://www.commencement.uconn.edu). Shortly after the live-stream is completed, a video recording will be available for on-demand watching via the same webpage. 

Professional photographers will take photographs of candidates in front of the College of Engineering banner and as they are presented with their diploma covers during the ceremony. Candidates fill out an address card, in the staging area, prior to the student procession into the Gampel. Color proofs will be mailed to the address they provide on the card.  

Tripods are NOT allowed. Cameras with removable lenses are NOT allowed. Video cameras/equipment are NOT allowed. Flash photography is NOT allowed. 

Members of the audience using cellphones or small hand-held cameras may take pictures during the ceremony from their seat OR from the concourse level of Gampel Pavilion ONLY! Please do not stand up in your seat to take a photo because you will block the view of other guests. To accommodate everyone, individuals who wish to use the Concourse area to take photos should only do so for a short time – a minute or two – and then return to their seats.  

If you attempt to stand in any walkway or aisle to take photos, you will cause a safety and security issue. Event staff will ask you to return to your seat immediately.

Flags, banners, bullhorns, balloons, large bags, umbrellas, cameras with removable lenses, food, beverages (including water bottles) are among the items NOT allowed at Gampel for the College of Engineering Commencement ceremony.  

Gampel pavilion also gives a list here, including the size of ‘approved’ items. All bags are subject to search upon entry and are subject to additional searches within the stadium. 

Strollers are not permitted in any seating areas or on the concourse and stroller storage is very limited; all patrons are encouraged to leave them safely stored inside their vehicles. 

Yes, so please plan accordingly by leaving non-essential items at home or in your vehicle.   

Alcohol cannot be brought to the Field House or Gampel and will be confiscated by our security personnel before entry. 

Traffic in the Storrs area is extraordinarily heavy on Commencement Day; please allow plenty of extra time. Parking will be available at no cost in the North and South Parking Garages on Commencement Day. 

The closest available area for handicapped parking is on the ground level of the South Parking Garage, which is adjacent to Gampel. Handicapped parking spaces are only available for vehicles displaying a permit issued by an American state Motor Vehicles Department. These spaces are limited and are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. We suggest that you consider dropping off guests needing special assistance with one other family member in front of Gampel. Gampel security personnel will be happy to assist you and your guests. To allow sufficient space for all guests who use wheelchairs, we ask that only one family member or friend plan on sitting in the area set aside for people needing this accommodation. You do NOT need to reserve this accommodation; we are happy to assist all people needing this assistance.  

Gampel is wheelchair/handicapped accessible. However, the university does not have wheelchairs to loan available. If an individual needs a wheelchair, they must provide one themselves. For hearing impaired guests, the University provides a sign language interpreter for all ceremonies. Please let staff members know if you need this service when you arrive at Gampel. 

If you are an individual with a disability or have a guest that will need a special accommodation that was not addressed in this publication, please make your request in writing no later than April 20th by sending an email to: engr-ugcommencement@uconn.edu 

When the student procession order is determined that information will be given here.  

As a CoE undergraduate tradition, while guests are waiting for the candidate to process into Gampel so the ceremony can begin, we run a slideshow of the graduating class in Gampel on the jumbo monitors.  

Candidates have been notified by email of how, where, and when to submit the slide.  Students missing the deadline (generally early Apri) will NOT have a slide included in the slideshow. We take the submissions, vet them, add them to the slideshow, render the slideshow as a video, and submit that media to the venue by their FIRM deadline for final approval.  

To prevent others from submitting a slide the candidate has not approved, the slides must be submitted by them, from their UConn email account in the FORM we provided.  

However, if you want to make a slide for your busy senior – email it to them and they can submit it to us IF THEY WISH TO DO SO.  

The slide must meet ALL these conditions to be included: 

• Appropriate for family viewing – keep it PG. No swimwear shots, etc.  

• Must be submitted in Microsoft PowerPoint format.  

• Landscape orientation (a template was emailed to all candidates)  

• Must have a caption on the slide with candidate’s name, major (no minors etc.), and hometown. NO OTHER INFORMATION CAN BE INCLUDED!  

• Text on the slide must be in Calibri, Times New Roman, or Arial font ONLY!  If you want to use other fonts, they must be embedded in a photo image on the slide – JPG format!  

• Do NOT include an animation.  

• Does not have to be formal or posed – candids are great.  

• By yourself No group shots but indistinct or blurred “crowd” faces of others in the background are okay!  

• Name your slide submission: Lastname.Firstname.ppt  

• And once again, PLEASE submit as a .ppt file using the form only – NOT via email! Other formats or slides emailed to us as an attachment will be REJECTED 

Most students use a portrait-oriented picture and put a banner/text box with the information we require to “fill in” the slide and make it LANDSCAPE orientation. Students should remove “red-eye” if they can, since this looks very bad on the Gampel monitors.  

They should not  s t r e t c h  their picture to fill the slide – this produces odd looking results.