The process for pre-booking engineering classes will be slightly differently than previous semesters. The University Registrar is in the process of creating a pre-booking webform that all courses will need to use going forward. We will share additional information/updates as we receive them. In the meantime, we are asking all courses that need special-purpose classrooms to submit their request through Central’s pre-assignment request form. Special-purpose classrooms include those with distance learning equipment, lecture recording capability, active learning tables, secondary projectors, document cameras, and/or side white boards. The available classroom equipment varies by room. Please submit any requests for computer labs as usual through our pre-booking form below. If you have any questions or concerns, please email Kathy Dimiduk, klc78.

PLEASE NOTE: The University Registrar is counting TAs and instructor(s) towards the total enrollment of your course. Ex: If your course has 2 instructors, 2 TAs, and 6 students, the course total enrollment is 10. Please make note of this breakdown when submitting your form. If you’re unsure of the amount of TAs your course will have, please make a best guess.

Do you want to reserve an Engineering classroom for any other kind of event, including office hours, exam reviews, and study sessions? This isn’t the page you’re looking for. Use Cornell’s event scheduler instead. Please do not fill out the form below for events.

Pre-Booking Process

1. Submit your pre-booking request form here. All requests submitted by the priority deadline set by the Engineering Registrar’s office will be considered equally. For competing requests, which is common, instructional needs and alternative possibilities will be discussed with the instructor/department. The priority deadline to request rooms for Fall 2025 is April 16th, 2025. Pre-booking requests submitted after the priority date but before pre-enroll will be considered on a space-available basis.
2. Departments will be notified before pre-enroll of pre-booking placements, and of pre-booking requests that could not be met. Departments are responsible for double checking that the pre-booking placements (time and days) match the meeting times that students will see in the course roster during pre-enrollment. If there is a mismatch, the pre-booking cannot proceed, so it is to the department’s benefit to detect the mismatch and resolve it as soon as possible.
3. After pre-enroll closes, the Engineering Registrar will enter the pre-bookings into the scheduling system. Late pre-booking requests will continue to be considered on a space-available basis.
4. The University Register will bulk-schedule all classes and post classroom assignments. Note that the University Registrar can override pre-bookings. This can happen, for example, if enrollment does not match room size, or a higher-priority room assignment must be made. The Engineering Registrar and MTEI try to decrease the likelihood of overrides by careful pre-booking placements. You can help by setting realistic room size requests.
5. After classroom assignments are posted, instructors are responsible for checking that their assigned classroom (which might or might not be what was requested through pre-booking) will work for the instructional needs of the course. If there is an issue, the instructor should request a room swap ASAP through their department course coordinator — not through this form.

Pre-booking Request Form