Handbook for Undergraduate
Engineering Programs
1998-99
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
-- page 1
AN OVERVIEW OF ENGINEERING CURRICULA
-- page 3
Departmental Majors
School of Engineering Majors
Accreditation
University Requirements
Undergraduate Program Sheets
MORE ABOUT ENGINEERING MAJORS
-- page 11
Departmental and School of Engineering Majors
Individually Designed Majors
Majors Involving Computer Science
APPROVED COURSES
-- page 19
The Mathematics Requirement
The Science Requirement
The Technology in Society Requirement
Engineering Fundamentals
Experimentation
POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
-- page 27
Policy on Academic Performance
Petitions and Substitutions
Transfer Credit
Planning the Freshman Year
Advanced Placement Credit
Declaring an Engineering Major
Graduation Procedures
OTHER DEGREE PROGRAMS
-- page 37
Alternative Bachelor's Degrees
Coterminal Degree Programs
Minors in the School of Engineering
SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS
-- page 47
Diversity and Affirmative Action Programs in Engineering
Women's Science and Engineering Network
Technical Communications Program
Engineering Societies
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF)
ENGINEERS AND OVERSEAS STUDIES PROGRAMS
-- page 53
Berlin
Kyoto - Stanford Center in Technology and Innovation (SCTI)
Oxford
Paris
SUMMER EMPLOYMENT AND CAREER PLANNING
-- page 57
The Career Planning and Placement Center
Overseas Resource Center
Fundamentals of Engineering Exam
INFORMATION FOR ADVISORS
-- page 61
School of Engineering Advisee Meal Program
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS FOR ENGINEERING MAJORS
Aeronautics and Astronautics
-- page 67
Chemical Engineering
-- page 75
Civil Engineering
-- page 83
Computer Science
-- page 95
Computer Systems Engineering
-- page 105
Electrical Engineering
-- page 111
Industrial Engineering
-- page 137
Materials Science and Engineering
-- page 149
Mechanical Engineering
-- page 155
Product Design
-- page 165
Petroleum Engineering
-- page 169
Science, Technology, and Society
-- page 175
Last updated 25 March 1999.