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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Engineering, B.S.


Program Description


JMU Engineering is an ABET accredited, 4-year interdisciplinary Bachelor of Science degree program. It offers a world-class undergraduate engineering experience based on a philosophy of learning by doing. It integrates many traditional engineering disciplines with course work in project management, engineering, design and liberal arts with foci on sustainable design and project delivery.

Admission and Retention Requirements


Admission to the Major

To be eligible for admission into the B.S. in engineering program, students must have completed the following:

Courses (or approved equivalents) required for the engineering major with a minimum grade of “C-“:

Courses (or approved equivalents) required for the engineering major with a minimum grade of “C”:

Any of the preceding courses may only be repeated once to be considered for admission.

For students transferring from a program with an existing articulation agreement, the student coordinator will work with the engineering Academic Unit Head to assess the relative merit of transfer students with qualifying transcripts.

Progressing in the Major

Once admitted to the engineering program, students must maintain a minimum in-major and cumulative GPA of 2.0.

Once admitted, any course required as part of the engineering major may only be repeated once.

Degree and Major Requirements


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

Total

80

127

Footnotes


1 The General Education  program contains a set of requirements each student must fulfill. Some credits may be fulfilled by courses required within the major.

2 In addition to course work taken to fulfill General Education  requirement.

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 non-ENGR courses are eligible). This may include courses that qualify as technical electives but were not used to meet the technical elective requirement.  

Recommended Schedule for Majors


First Year


Total: 14 Credit Hours

Spring Semester


Total: 14 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 .

Second Year


Third Year


Total: 17 Credit Hours

Spring Semester


Total: 17 Credit Hours

Fourth Year


Fall Semester


Total: 18 Credit Hours

Spring Semester


Total: 16 Credit Hours

Program Total: 127 Credit Hours