Engineering, B.S.

Required courses

General Education 41 Credit Hours ¹
Quantitative requirement 3 Credit Hours ²
Scientific Literacy requirement 3 Credit Hours ²
Major requirements (listed below) and electives 80 Credit Hours

Total: 127 Credit Hours

Additional Information

Students must complete a total of nine hours of approved electives, including at least six hours of technical electives. Students may not use courses required for the engineering major to fulfill elective requirements.

Technical Electives: Must include at least three credit hours of ENGR 440 -ENGR 479. Up to three credit hours of technical electives may be from ENGR 480 or ENGR 498 .
Free electives: May include up to three credit hours of any other 300- or 400-level courses at JMU (both ENGR and nonENGR courses are eligible). This may include courses that qualify as technical electives but were not used to meet the technical elective requirement.

Footnotes

¹ The General Education program contains a set of requirements each student must fulfill. The number of credit hours necessary to fulfill these requirements may vary.
² In addition to course work taken to fulfill General Education requirement.

Recommended Schedule for Majors

First Year

Fall Semester

MATH 235. Calculus I [C3QR] 4.00 ¹
PHYS 240. University Physics I [C3PP] 3.00 ²
PHYS 240L. University Physics Laboratory I [C3PP] 1.00 ²
General Education 6 Credit Hours ³

Total: 14 Credit Hours

Spring Semester

ENGR 112. Engineering Decisions 3.00. (Engineering Decisions)
General Education 3 Credit Hours ³
MATH 236. Calculus II 4.00
PHYS 250. University Physics II 3.00
PHYS 250L. University Physics Laboratory II 1.00

Total: 14 Credit Hours

Second Year

Fall Semester

MATH 237. Calculus III 4.00
CHEM 131. General Chemistry I [C3PP] 3.00
CHEM 131L. General Chemistry Laboratory [C3PP] 1.00
ENGR 231. Engineering Design I 2.00
General Education 6 Credit Hours ⁴

Total: 16 Credit Hours

Spring Semester

Total: 17 Credit Hours

Third Year

Fall Semester

ENGR 311. Thermal-Fluids I 4.00
ENGR 313. Circuits and Instrumentation 4.00
ENGR 322. Engineering Management II: Engineering Project Management 3.00
ENGR 331. Engineering Design III 3.00
General Education 3 Credit Hours

Total: 17 Credit Hours

Spring Semester

ENGR 312. Thermal-Fluids II 4.00
ENGR 314. Materials and Mechanics 4.00
ENGR 332. Engineering Design IV 3.00

Total: 17 Credit Hours

Fourth Year

Fall Semester

ENGR 411. Fundamentals of Sustainable Engineering and Design 3.00
ENGR 413. Systems Analysis 3.00
ENGR 431. Engineering Design V 3.00
Approved engineering elective 3 Credit Hours
General Education 6 Credit Hours

Total: 18 Credit Hours

Spring Semester

ENGR 412. Sustainable Engineering and Design II 3.00
ENGR 432. Engineering Design VI 3.00
Approved engineering elective 3 Credit Hours
General Education 7 Credit Hours

Total: 16 Credit Hours

Footnotes

¹ Also fulfills General Education requirement for Cluster Three, Group 1 .

² Also fulfills General Education requirement for Cluster Three, Group 2 .

³ Fulfills General Education requirement for Cluster One .

⁴ Engineering students are required to take either BIO 222 or GEOL 210 to meet engineering requirements as well as Cluster Three, Group 3 requirements.