Civil Engineering and Technical Electives
Policies for Civil Engineering/Technical Electives are:
- The technical electives may be a departmental offering, including a graduate course for undergraduate credit. A student must have a GPA of 2.75 or higher or have approval of the instructor to take a 500-level course for undergraduate credit.
- The course must be above the fundamental level in its topic area; no freshman course is acceptable.
- There must be a logical relationship between the course and a major interest area of the student. This category is not a place to put courses already taken which do not have a place elsewhere in the minimum degree requirements.
- A transfer or first-degree course can be used as a technical elective if it meets these stipulations.
- An advisor has the prerogative of requiring a student to justify the choice of a technical elective in writing, with that written note going into the student's file.
Suggested civil engineering/technical electives are given in the following table.
Interest Area |
Example Civil/Technical Electives |
| Construction | CE 540, CE 541, CE 543 |
| Environmental | Chem 230, Chem 310, Chem 350, Envr 511. Envr 513 |
| Geotechnical | CE 531, CE 532, CE 535; Geology 310, 330, 340, 370, and 471 |
| Materials | CE 521, CE 522, CE 525 |
| Structures | CE 462, CE 472, CE 474, CE 576 |
| Transportation | CE 451, CE 453, CE 551, CE 552 |
| Water Resources | CE 485, CE 520, CE535 |
| Business | Accounting 200 |