Design and Technical Electives List

Design Electives

Nine (9) credits must be taken from this list. No more than 6 hours can be from one sub-discipline.

Technical Electives
All Civil Engineering students must take at least twelve credits of technical electives. At least six credits of the technical electives must be 400-level Civil Engineering courses not taken to fulfill another degree requirement for Civil Engineering. Additional Design Electives beyond the required 9 credits can count as Civil Engineering Technical Electives.

A student can fulfill up to six credits of technical electives from courses outside of Civil Engineering in engineering departments, mathematics, science, construction management, etc., if approved by a student's faculty academic advisor, to be part of the student's course of study.

Lists of Technical Elective Courses Often Approved

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Other Engineering Courses
Examples of commonly approved engineering courses include:

• IMSE 206 (Engineering Economics) Most commonly taken elective
• MECH 200 (Thermodynamics)
• ELEC 211 (Elements of Electrical Engineering)

Mathematics Courses
If used as a technical elective, these courses cannot also count toward the CIVE computer methods requirement. Examples of commonly approved math courses include:

• MATH 314 (Applied Linear Algebra or Matrix Theory)
• MATH 340/CSCE 340 (Numerical Analysis I)
• MATH 322 (Advanced Calculus)
• MATH 324 (Intro to Partial Differential Equations)

Science Courses
Examples of commonly approved science courses include:

• Phys 213 (General Physics III)
• Phys 231 (Electrical and Electronic Circuits I)
• BIOS 101 (General Biology)
• GEOL 101 (Physical Geology)
• GEOL 488 (Groundwater Geology)
• METR 200 (Weather and Climate)

Business and Management Course
Examples of commonly approved courses include:

• CNST 241 (Construction Equipment and Methods)
• BLAW 371 (Business Law)
• CNST 485 (Project Scheduling and Control)

Courses beyond those on the below lists typically should be at the 300 or 400-level.