Civil Engineering and Technical Electives
The civil engineering elective is any non-required civil or environmental course offered by the department. The course should be chosen in the major interest area of the student.
Policies for technical electives are:
- The technical electives may be a departmental offering, including a graduate course for undergraduate credit. A sutdent must have a GPA of 2.75 or higher or 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 and technical electives are given in the following table.
Interest Area |
Example Civil/Technical Electives |
| All areas | BSET 414 (AutoCad) |
| Construction | CE 540, CE 541, CE 543 |
| Environmental | CE 486, Chem 230, Chem 310, Chem 350, Microbiolgy 210 |
| Geotechnical | CE 431, CE 531, CE 532, CE 535; Earth and Planetary Science 470 (Geophysics); Geology 310, 330, 340, 370, and 470 |
| 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 490 |
| Business | Accounting 200 |