College of Engineering

COLLEGE DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

The basic requirement for a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering is 132-136 semester hours of academic work, depending on the career field chosen. While students coming from high school with adequate preparation will be able to satisfy this requirement in eight semesters, some students require preparatory courses and others choose to enroll in slightly lighter loads and graduate in nine or ten semesters. Students enrolled in ROTC require an additional 19 semester hours to meet all graduation requirements and graduate in 10 semesters (5 years).

Engineering is a rapidly changing profession and the departmental curricula are updated continuously to keep pace with these changes. Students entering under this catalog will be required to comply with such curriculum changes in order to earn their degree. However, the total number of semester hours required for the degree may not be increased and all work completed in accordance with this catalog prior to the curriculum change will be applied towards the student's degree requirements. Former students of the college must meet the curriculum requirements in effect at the time of their readmission.

College Graduation Requirements

In addition to the general university requirements, a candidate for a degree from the College of Engineering must also meet the following requirements:

Candidates for engineering degrees must meet the minimum curricular requirements established by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.

A candidate for a degree from the College of Engineering must have earned a grade-point average of no less than 2.00 on all courses in the student's major area of study, all engineering courses, and all work completed at the University and presented for the degree. Grades on work taken at other colleges and presented for transfer credit must also meet this standard.

No student will be allowed to graduate if the student has "D'' grades in more than 15% of all credit earned in this institution and presented to meet the requirements for a degree.

All ROTC classes are elective. Unspecified electives may be satisfied with any course except those courses, or prerequisite courses, needed to satisfy the student's curriculum, and those courses which are considered remedial to the programs in engineering.