As an engineering freshman, you'll work toward completing common freshman year courses while acquiring information to help you determine a major and career. During the first two or three semesters on campus, you will take a set of courses that are required by all engineering departments. After successfully completing the freshman engineering requirements, you'll formally apply for admission to the CArEE department.

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Freshman engineering program

As part of our goal to advance the professional preparedness of our students, the civil, architectural and environmental engineering department has developed an Experiential Learning Program in coordination with our students’ professional internships. In our Vision 2020 Strategic Plan, enhancing experiential learning opportunities was listed as one of our top priorities. In this program, students on professional or academic internships or fellow programs are required to meet a set of learning objectives to gain the most from their internship.

Experiential learning form

You can obtain a bachelor of science degree in both civil and architectural engineering.

The number of additional credit hours needed for concurrent degree majors is as little as 19 additional credit hours. Once successfully completed a student will receive two degrees — a bachelor of science in civil engineering and a bachelor of science in architectural engineering.

The benefit of pursuing this path provides students more opportunities in their career pursuits with some overlap. The overlap is mostly in the structures, construction and geotechnical field. Disciplines that are more specific to the civil engineering degree include infrastructure (dams, bridges, water treatment, transportation systems). For architectural engineering degree majors the disciplines include building related systems (mechanical, electrical, lighting and acoustics).

Civil engineering courses 

Architectural engineering courses