Undergraduates

• Academic Catalog Courses are exempt from export control laws as long as extracurricular technical data^* or goods are not introduced.
• Undergraduate travelers to foreign countries must consult with the ITOC^* Travel Policy.
• Undergraduates participating in activities normally associated with graduate and post-doctoral work should be treated as Graduate / Post-doctoral students.

Graduate / Post-doctoral
Foreign national Graduate students and Post-docs working on a sponsored project may be required to obtain an export license if:

• There are any publication^* restrictions on the research results or any proposed publications are subject to approval by the sponsor.
• There are controls on the access and dissemination of the research results. For example, any foreign nationals working on the project must first be approved by the sponsor.
• A graduate student requires access to a controlled good or technology in order to conduct research
• Graduate students are encouraged to register with the ITOC^* and must sign a waiver if they will be travelling to a location on the Restricted Regions List.

Dissertations
Under the fundamental research^* "exemption", students are allowed to publish their dissertation even in sponsored research programs.  In some situations, a sponsor may request to review a dissertation prior to publishing.  In cases where graduation and the review period overlap, dissertations should be submitted with an "embargo" (publication^* delay) until the sponsor has provided the results of their review and comments on the paper.  The "embargo" process may also be used to protect patents during the filing period.