Program Requirements

In order to receive the Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering, students must complete the following graduation requirements:

A. General University Requirements

Complete the baccalaureate degree requirements listed in the UAA Course Catalog.

B. General Education Requirements

Complete the General Education Requirements for Baccalaureate Degrees (GER) listed in the UAA Course Catalog. See attached amended GER's for Civil Engineering Bachelor of Science majors with additional requirements noted.

C. Engineering Fundamentals Requirements

1. Complete these required courses with a "C" or higher.

Course	Title	Credit Hours
CHEM A105	General Chemistry I	3
CHEM A105L	General Chemistry I Lab	1
CHEM A106	General Chemistry II	3
CHEM A106L	General Chemistry II Lab	1
COMM A111 or A235 or A237 or A241		3
ENGL A111	Methods of Written Comm.	3
ENGL A212	Technical Writing	3
ES A103/A103L	Engineering Graphics/Lab	3
ES A111	Engineering Science	3
ES A201	Computer Techniques	3
ES A209	Engineering Statics	3
ES A210	Engineering Dynamics	3
ES A302	Probability & Statistics for Engineers	3
GEO A155	Fundamentals of Surveying	3
MATH A200	Calculus I	4
MATH A201	Calculus II	4
MATH A202	Calculus III	4
MATH A302	Ordinary Differential Equations	3
PHYS A211	General Physics I	3
PHYS A211L	General Physics I Lab	1
PHYS A212	General Physics II	3
PHYS A212L	General Physics II Lab	1
Total Credit Hours		61

D. Civil Engineering Professional Requirements

1. Satisfactorily complete these required courses with a GPA of 2.0. Courses with an asterisk (*) are prerequisite courses and must be completed with a grade of 'C' or better.

Course	Title	Credit Hours
CE A334/334L*	Properties of Materials/Lab	3
CE A344	Water Resources	3
CE A402	Transportation Engineering	3
CE A403	Arctic Engineering	3
CE A422	Foundation Engineering	3
CE A431*	Structural Analysis	4
CE A432 OR A433	Steel Design	3
CE A433 OR A432	Reinforced Concrete Design
CE A435/435L*	Soil Mechanics/Lab	3
CE A438	Design of Engineering Systems	3
CE A441	Sanitary Engineering	3
ES A309	Elements Of Electrical Engr.	3
ES A331*	Mechanics of Materials	3
ES A341*	Fluid Mechanics	4
ES A341L*	Fluid Mechanics Lab	1
ES A346	Basic Thermodynamics	3
ESM A450	Economic Analy. & Operations	3
Total Credit Hours		48

2. A Natural Science elective (minimum 3 credits) must be taken in addition to the 7 credit Natural Sciences General Education Requirement (met by taking CHEM A105 & A106) and may be selected from the following list:

Course	Title	Credit Hours
BIOL A115/L	Fundamentals of Biology I/Lab	4
BIOL A271/L	Principles of Ecology/Lab	4
BIOL/GEOL A178	Fundamentals of Oceanography	3
CHEM A450	Environmental Chemistry	3
GEOL A111 (recommended)	Physical Geology	3
PHYS A303	Modern Physics	3
PHYS A314	Electromagnetics	3
PHYS A320	Simulation of Physical Systems	3
PHYS A456	Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos	3

Note: Geol 111 is the recommended course.

3. Six (6) credits of technical elective courses are required and may be chosen from the courses listed below. Other engineering courses at the 400 level or 600 level may be used to meet this requirement upon the prior approval through the academic petition process. Note that CE 603 (Arctic Engineering) is not petitionable as an undergraduate Civil Engineering technical elective. Graduate courses may not be applied to both a baccalaureate and masters degree.

Course

Title
Credit Hours

AEST A601 Aquatic Processes Chemistry
3

AEST A602 Water Quality Management
3

AEST A603 Solid Waste Management
3

AEST A608 Air Pollution
3

AEST A613 Remediation
3

CE A404
Highway Engineering 3

CE A432 Steel Design
3

CE A433 Reinforced Concrete Design
3

CE A434
Timber Design 3

CE A442
Environ. System Design 3

CE A600 Fundamentals of Environmental Science and Engineering
3

CE A605 Chemical and Physical Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes
3

CE A606 Biological Treatment Processes
3

CE A631 Structural Finite Elements
3

CE A633 Structural Dynamics
3

CE A634 Earthquake Engineering
3

CE A662 Surface Water Dynamics
3

CE A663 Ground Water Dynamics
3

CE A674 Waves, Tides, and Ocean Process
3

CE A675
Design of Ports and Harbors 3

CE A676 Coastal Processes
3

CE A677 Coastal Measurements and Analysis
3

CE A682 Ice Engineering
3

CE A681
Frozen Ground Engineering 3

CE A683 Arctic Hydrology & Hydraulic Engineering
3

CE A684
Arctic Utility Distribution 3

GEO A456
Geomatics & Civil Design 3

4. A total of 132 semester credit hours is required for the degree. At least 42 credits must be upper division courses (300-level or above).

5. All Civil Engineering students are strongly encouraged to take the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination in their senior year as an initial step toward professional registration. Civil Engineering students are also encouraged to consider
minors in Mathematics or Physics and graduation with departmental honors.

ACADEMIC PROGRESS

Any given civil engineering (CE) or engineering science (ES) course may only be taken when all prerequisites for the course are met with a grade of C or higher.

A student who is unable to earn a grade of “C” or better in a CE or ES course during his/her initial enrollment may attempt to earn a satisfactory grade one additional time, on a space-available basis. Failure to earn a grade of “C” or better on the second attempt results in removal from the civil engineering program.

A student who has a semester GPA in engineering courses below 2.0 will be placed on academic warning by the School of Engineering. A student on academic warning who receives a semester GPA in Engineering courses of at least 2.0, will be removed from academic warning status by the School. Otherwise, he/she will be removed from the civil engineering program and will not be permitted to attend CE and ES courses.