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Undergraduate Civil Engineering Program and Track Requirements

The objective of the Bachelor of Science degree programs in civil engineering is to give students an educational background that will aloow them to enter the professional engineering. Civil engineering includes planning, analysis, design and construction of physical systems involving structures, soils, mapping, water resources, transportation, hydrology, water treatment and supply, wastewater treatment and disposal and water quality management. This includes planning, designing ans supervising the construction of highways, bridges, buildings, dams, energy complexes; irrigation systems and transportation systems; developing water resources for municipal, industrial and recreational use; land reclamation, foundation design; urban planning; and the management of water purification and propoer waste treatment as well as solving problems of air pollution and solid and hazardous waste management.

 

The curriculum is designed to provide fundamental and essential knowledge in the Civil Engineering discipline. Students with a particular interest in structures, geotechnical, transportation/materials or environmental may select the appropriate track for one of these areas in the Civil Engineering degree program. For those students more interested in the environmental engineering area, a separate baccalaureate program is also available.

 

As mentioned above, there are four tracks withing the civil engineering curriculum. These tracks allow the substitution of some courses in the general major curriculum (for Major Requirements, see the table below) and require specific courses to be taken. A student need not select a track and can just take the general curriculum. Technical elective lists are available from the department. The four tracks are as follows:

In addition to core curriculum requirements, following are the major requirements for the Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering that apply all of the above four tracks.

 

Credit
II- Major Requirements
98
   
 

A.

Humanistic – Social Science Elective

1
     

NOTE: A total of 16 credits of humanity courses (Social Science, Fine Arts, Diversity and Core Humanities) are needed for engineering accreditation. Therefore, one additional credit is needed. This can be satisfied with a separate 3 credit diversity course (I-H.). If the diversity requirement was satisfied with another course, a 1 to 3 credit humanity course selected from the “Green Sheet”, that is provided by the department, can be used.
       
 

B.

Communications – 3 credits
   

i.

ENGR 301 – Engineering Communications

3
       
 

C.

Basic Sciences – 23 credits
   

i.

CEE 389 – Probability and Statistics for Civil Engineers

2
   

ii.

CEE 371 – Mathematical Methods in Civil Engineering

3
   

iii.

MATH 182 – Calculus II*

4
   

iv.

MATH 283 – Calculus III*

4
   

v.

MATH 285 – Differential Equations*

3
   

vi.

PHYS 181 – Physics for Scientists and Engineers II*

3
   

vii.

PHYS 181L – Physics for Scientists and Engineers Laboratory II*

1
   

viii.

Restricted science elective

3
     

SELECT ONE:
     

BIOL 190 – General Biology
     

CHEM 202 – General Chemistry for Scientists and Engineers II (CHEM 122 accepted)
     

GEOL 101 – General Geology
     

GE 250 – Geological Engineering
       
 

D.

Engineering Science and Design – 48 credits
   

i.

CEE 101 – Engineering Graphics

2
   

ii.

CEE 140 – Introduction to Civil Engineering

2
   

iii.

CEE 141 – Engineering Measurements

3
   

iv.

CEE 241 – Statics*

3
   

v.

CEE 364 – Engineering Hydrology

2
   

vi.

CEE 368 – Fluid Mechanics Laboratory

1
   

v.

CEE 372 – Strength of Materials*

3
   

vi.

CEE 375 – Construction Materials I*

3
   

vii.

CEE 376 – Construction Materials II

2
   

viii.

CEE 381 – Structural Analysis*

3
   

ix.

CEE 388 – Engineering Economy

2
   

x.

CEE 390 – Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering*

3
   

xi.

CEE 442 – Fundamentals of Geotechnical Engineering*

4
   

xii.

CEE 489 – Water Resources Engineering I

3
   

xiii.

CS 201 – Computer Science I

3
   

xiv.

MECH 242 – Dynamics

3
   

xv.

MECH 367 – Elementary Fluid Mechanics

3
   

xvi.

MECH 371 – Thermodynamics or EE 201 – Introduction to Network Analysis

3
   

xvii.

ENGR 490 – Fundamentals of Engineering Exam

0
       
 

E.

Capstone Requirements – 8 credits
   

i.

CEE 426 – Highway/Transportation Engineering

5
   

ii.

Track Capstone: Choose either CEE 431, CEE 443, CEE 456, CEE 457 or CEE 481

3
       
 

F.

Technical Electives – 15 credits

15
     

NOTE: List available from the department.
     

At least two courses must contain design and all students are required to take either CEE 480 or CEE 481
* In addition to the general university requirements of at least a "C" (2.0) average for graduation, engineering students must earn at least a "C" in those courses designated with an asterisk (*) and must also maintain at least a "C" average in the core mathematics and science courses and the major requirements courses. Students enrolled in civil engineering internship programs are required to take a one-credit seminar course (CEE 250, 350, 450) at the appropriate level each summer they are enrolled in the program. These credits are in addition to the total required for other engineering students. Class attendance is mandatory in all civil and environmental engineering courses. Civil engineering students who need to repeat courses to meet the minimum grade-point average requirement set by the university or the college are allowed to repeat only those courses in which they received a grade lower than a "C" (2.0). It is the policy of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering to not accept transfer courses from outside the UCSSN system with grades lower than "C-".



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