Help?! Freshman classes undecided Engineering (Civil/Chemical)

jrcsmom
Mon, 20 May 2013 10:53:54 +0000

Freshman year is very similar for all engineering tracks. The significant difference is a 1 credit class for the area you are intending to go into and if he has room in his schedule perhaps he’d want to take the one for both civil and chemical to help him decide.

Other than that he should take math - whatever level he needs to begin at Calc I, calc II, calc III…

Civil requires chem, physics, your choice of the 2nd semester of chem or physics, and one additional science elective, so he can take his choice of science.

He’ll need frehman comp if he doesn’t have credit.

He can take an honor’s seminar if he’s in honors and has room in his schedule.

And then he’ll take the new 3 credit freshman engineering course.

Although the engineering tracks start to diverge during sophomore year - with statics and dynamics and differential equations, they still maintain a lot of similarties.

It is really not until junior year that the tracks completely diverge from one another.