Civil Engineering, B.C.E.

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Minimum hours required for degree: 129-130 (this does not include hours earned in the Engineering Cooperative Education Program Career Orientation classes)

Admission to major: Admission to the Washkewicz College of Engineering

Grade restrictions:

Civil Engineering students are limited to a total of two D grades in Civil Engineering courses and Civil Engineering technical electives.
Civil Engineering students must earn a grade of C or better grade in ESC 201 , ESC 211 and CVE 360 before registering for any higher-level course for which any of these three courses are a prerequisite.

Major Requirements

Mathematics Required Courses (3 courses)

Ethics Required Course (1 course)

PHL 215 - Engineering Ethics

Science Required Courses (6 courses)

Co-Op Required Course

(Optional course for degree - required for Co-Op program)

CSC 121 - Career Orientation

Engineering Science Required Courses (9-10 courses)

ESC 100 - New Student Orientation (Not required for transfer students)
ESC 102 - Technical Writing and Professional Communication
ESC 120 - Introduction to Engineering Design
ESC 200 - Engineering History and Heritage
ESC 201 - Statics (C grade required)
ESC 202 - Dynamics
ESC 211 - Strength Of Materials (C grade required)
ESC 250 - Differential Equations For Engineers
ESC 282 - Engineering Economy
ESC 310 - Engineering Statistics And Probability

Civil Engineering Required Courses (17 courses)

Civil Engineering Capstone Requirement (2 courses)

Civil Engineering Elective Courses

(2 courses required - must be chosen from available 400-level Civil Engineering courses using the list below as a guide - CVE 450 through 454 cannot be used as technical electives)

Honors Program Requirements

Honors students who are majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering are required to take a minimum of 8 credit hours of upper division (300, 400, and 500 level) honors courses in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. General guidelines for these credit hours are given below. However, the specific courses that each student takes will be agreed upon by the student, the student’s department undergraduate advisor, and the student’s honors advisor. The honor student’s department undergraduate advisor is responsible for finding an honors advisor for the student who is mutually agreeable to the undergraduate advisor, the honors advisor, and the honors student.

1. Honors Courses

The honors credits (8 hours minimum) will be taken from the following:

Honors Thesis (required) (CVE 499H, 3 credit hours). Each honors student conducts research and writes a thesis under the supervision of a CVE faculty member.
The following honors courses are optional:

Honors Research (CVE 495H, credit as arranged). This is research conducted jointly with a CVE faculty, similar to an independent study. This can be repeated for credit. Note that CVE 495 is already an approved course that “may be substituted for a regularly required departmental course” but the CVE Department will create a new course with the number CVE 495H for honors students only.

Graduate Course Any 500 level CVE or EVE graduate course for which the student has the prerequisites.

Junior Honors, Senior Honors Any 300 level or 400 level CVE course can be modified to become an honors course. This is referred to in the Honors Proposal as a “contract course.” This is done with the collaboration of the undergraduate advisor, the honors advisor, and the course instructor. The 300 level contract courses will all be numbered CVE 392H, and the 400 level contract courses will all be numbered CVE 492H.

2. Replaced Credit Hours

Honors credits can be used to replace a maximum of 9 credit hours of normally required courses, either CVE 412 Structural Analysis II or CVE 473 Environmental Engineering II, plus the two CVE electives. Typically, students will take both electives at the 500 level plus CVE 499H Honors Thesis.

University Scholars Requirements

Scholars students who are majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering are required to take a minimum of 9 credit hours of 500 level courses in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. These will include CVE 546 in place of CVE 446, as well as taking both CVE electives as 500 level CVE or EVE courses. However, the specific courses that each student takes will be agreed upon by the student the student’s department undergraduate advisor, and the student’s Scholars program advisor. The courses taken to satisfy the Scholars program requirements may also be used to satisfy either BCE or combined BCE/MSCE or BCE/MS Env Eng requirements.