College of Engineering

Unit Requirements

Each candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering must satisfactorily complete an approved curriculum in engineering. No unit of coursework you complete may be used to satisfy two different degree requirements (except where the catalog specifically indicates otherwise). Detailed requirements for the approved curricula are given in the Undergraduate Courses chapter of this catalog; to see the courses required in your major, consult this section. The minimum number of required units varies with the curriculum, from 180 to 195. You are responsible for planning your program and satisfactorily completing all degree requirements.

You may, for good cause, request a modification of particular degree requirements by submitting a student petition. These petitions, which are available in the Undergraduate Advising Office, can be a valuable aid in resolving individual program conflicts or other special problems. Such petitions are subject to approval by the Committee on Student Petitions, a body of eight faculty members and non-voting staff advisers and student representatives. A negative decision by the committee may be appealed to the Executive Committee of the College for action at a regular meeting.

Transfer students. To be eligible for transfer into the College of Engineering you must have at least ninety transferable quarter units (sixty semester units) from another institution. To be a competitive applicant, you must have a minimum overall GPA of 3.100.

Highest priority for admission is given to California community college transfer applicants who have completed two transferable English composition courses and all of the required lower division engineering coursework offered at the community college they attended.

We give lower priority for admission to community college applicants who are missing one or two of the required lower division courses. Community college applicants will be denied admission if they are missing three or more of the required lower-division courses.

Priority is next given to junior-level transfers from other UC campuses and other four-year institutions in and out of state. These students must also have completed all of the required lower-division coursework.

Successful applicants are admitted to a specific major. You may be limited in your ability to change majors within the college after you are admitted.

Transfer advising and information. For more specific advise on lower-division requirements for community college students, meet with the transfer counselor at your institution or consult the Assist Web site, http://www.assist.org. Transfer credit agreements are available on the College of Engineering Web site, http://engineering.ucdavis.edu. You may also contact the College of Engineering Undergraduate Advising Office (530) 752-1979.

California Community college students should consider a Transfer Admission Agreement (TAA), which is a formal written agreement specifying the courses you need to complete and the grade point average you need to earn to be admitted. A signed agreement guarantees that you will be admitted to UC Davis in the major you want and for the term you have chosen-provided that you complete the agreement and apply for admission during the open filing period. If you would like more information on the TAA program, see your community college counselor or consult
http://why.ucdavis.edu.

We also participate in the Transfer Opportunity Program, which encourages community college students to transfer to UC Davis and provides them with services to ease the transition. You can use the Transfer Opportunity Program to get information about admission and transfer requirements, academic programs, financial aid, housing, tutoring, campus life and other services.

Upon admission, you will be classified as having upper division status, but you will be obligated to complete all lower division course requirements for your major before your lower division requirements are considered complete. You may, however, start your upper division coursework while completing your lower division requirements provided you meet all prerequisites for the upper division courses.

The College of Engineering does NOT recommend completion of the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC).

Credit for Open Campus (Concurrent) Courses. Students may apply a maximum of 16 units of credit for courses taken in the Open Campus (Concurrent) Program through UC Davis Extension towards the 180-unit undergraduate degree requirement. The grade points earned when enrolled in Open Campus courses will count toward the calculation of a student's UC GPA upon his/her admission or readmission to regular student status at UC Davis. Students registered at UC Davis may not enroll in Open Campus courses. Open Campus is not available to students that have been enrolled at UC Davis within the last 12 months and not graduated, unless an exception letter is provided to Extension by the dean of the student's college.

Credit for UC Davis Extension Courses. Registered UCD students who plan to use academic credit earned in a UC Davis Extension courses other than Open Campus (Concurrent) towards their UCD degree must obtain prior written approval from their College before registering in the UC Davis Extension. Upon approval students may apply a limited number of credits towards the 180-unit undergraduate degree requirement.

Residence Requirement

In addition to fulfilling the university residence requirement, you must complete at least 35 of the final 45 units characteristic of your curriculum in engineering while registered in the College.

Scholarship Requirement

In addition to meeting the university scholarship requirement, you are required to maintain a 2.000 grade point average for all course work within Engineering.

English Composition Requirement; Upper Division

The upper division composition requirement can be satisfied by passing the Upper-Division English Composition exam or through an approved upper-division writing course when a student has satisfied the lower-division writing requirement and has 70 or more units. Consult your program's degree requirements for the list of courses approved for your major.

The Upper-Division Composition Examination is administered through the College of Letters and Science. It is typically offered on Saturday mornings in mid-October, late January and late April. See the Class Schedule and Registration Guide for specific dates. Registration for the exam is done on-line (http://writingprogram.ucdavis.edu) beginning the Monday before each exam date until Friday at noon or until the exam slots are filled. You must obtain the English Composition Examination form, available at the UC Davis Bookstore, to take the exam. (Units of credit are not given for passing this examination.)

This requirement is in addition to the expository writing course requirement (English 3; Comparative Literature 1, 2, 3 or 4; Native American Studies 5; or University Writing Program 1).

Engineering Design Requirement

Engineering design is the process of devising a system, component, or process to meet certain needs. Design involves a decision-making process (often iterative), in which the basic sciences, mathematics and engineering sciences are applied to convert resources optimally to meet a stated objective. Among the fundamental elements of the design process are the establishment of objectives and criteria, synthesis, analysis, construction, testing and evaluation. You must take an appropriate amount of design course work through a combination of required and restricted elective courses. Specific comments about design are included in individual curricula descriptions. You should also review the design content of your individual program with your adviser in the course of completing the upper division advising worksheet.

Electives

In general, there are three kinds of elective courses in the engineering curricula; General Education, technical and unrestricted. Some transfer students have an additional set of electives; Physical and Biological Sciences electives.

General Education Electives. Because, as an engineer, you will be a significant participant in the human setting, you will need to have a breadth of education that will allow you to deal with contemporary social issues and to understand the impact of engineering solutions in the global and societal context. To these ends, you will need to take a minimum of 24 units of credit in meeting the General Education requirement (or 33 units for majors in Computer Science and Engineering).

Since all engineering programs are in the Science and Engineering GE topical breadth area, you will fulfill the campus GE requirements by taking courses in the Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences areas.

In satisfying the GE requirement note that (a) you must take GE courses for a letter grade, and (b) you must satisfy the Entry Level Writing requirement before you can receive writing experience credit for any course.

In consultation with your academic adviser, you should attempt to design a coherent approach to contemporary issues by using your GE electives.

In addition, to ensure that your GE program has a degree of depth and coherence, you must take at least two Arts and Humanities or Social Science topical breadth courses that are upper division courses (courses numbered 100 or above).

Technical electives. Technical electives permit you to tailor a program to your own academic and career objectives. For some, technical electives offer the opportunity to prepare for a specific occupation. For others, they offer an opportunity to broaden a background in the sciences and engineering. You may receive technical elective credit up to a maximum of 6 units for any combination of engineering courses numbered 190C, 192, 198, and 199. (You should note that academic credit for 199 courses is limited to a maximum of 5 units for each substantially different project). Academic credit for engineering internship courses (192) is limited to a maximum of 5 units per quarter. (Individual departments may allow fewer units.) With the exception of the following courses, upper-division courses in chemistry, engineering, mathematics, physics, and statistics may be taken as technical electives.

The courses which may not be used are:

Chemistry 194HA, 194HB, 194HC, 195, 197, 198, 199
Engineering Computer Science 188
Engineering 191
Engineering 198: Gearing Up for Grad School
Engineering 160 (restricted to one unit of technical elective)
Mathematics 192, 194, 197TC, 198, 199
Physics 137, 160 (both are restricted to one unit of technical
elective), 194HA, 194HB, 195, 197T, 198, 199
Statistics 100, 102, 103, 104, 106, 108

In addition to the upper-division chemistry, engineering, mathematics, physics and statistics courses not excepted above, the following courses, when not used to satisfy other degree requirements, may be taken as technical electives.

Agricultural and Resource Economics 100A, 100B, 106, 112, 118, 130, 132, 135, 136, 138. 139, 140, 155, 156, 157, 171A, 171B
Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources: any upper division course except 120 and 190 through 199
Animal Biology 102, 103
Animal Genetics 101, 105, 107, 111, 120
Animal Science 103, 104, 105, 106, 115, 118, 119, 120, 120L, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129 131,136, 137, 140, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 149, 149L
Applied Biological Systems Technology 101, 110L, 121, 142, 161, 163, 165, 175, 180, 182, 185
Atmospheric Science 110, 111, 115, 116, 120, 121A, 121B, 124, 128, 133, 149, 150, 158, 160
Avian Sciences 100, 103, 115, 121, 123, 149, 150, 160, 170
Biological Sciences 1A, 1B, 1C, 101, 101D, 102, 103, 104, 120, 120P, 122, 122P, 132
Chemistry 2B, 2BH, 2C, 2CH, 8A, 8B
Economics 100, 101, 102, 103, 122, 140
Engineering 17, 35
Entomology 100, 100L, 101, 102, 103, 104, 107, 109, 110, 116, 117, 119, 123, 135, 153, 156, 156L
Environmental Horticulture 100, 102, 105, 120, 125, 129, 130, 133, 144, 145, 150, 160
Environmental and Resource Sciences 100, 100L 121, 131, 136, 140, 141, 144, 185, 186, 186L,
Environmental Science and Policy 100, 110, 116, 116G, 121, 123, 124, 125A, 125B, 125C, 126, 150A, 150B, 150C, 151, 151L, 155, 155L, 160, 163, 167, 168A, 168B, 170, 171, 173, 175, 178, 179, 179L
Environmental Toxicology 101, 102A, 102B, 103A, 103B, 111, 120, 127, 128, 131, 135, 138, 146
Evolution and Ecology 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 108, 112, 112L, 115, 117, 119, 134, 134F, 134L, 138, 140, 141, 147, 149, 175
Exercise Biology 101, 102, 103, 107, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 115, 116, 117, 118, 125, 126
Fiber and Poly.mer Science 100, 150, 161, 161L
Food Science and Technology 100A, 100B, 101A, 101B, 102A, 102B, 103, 104, 104L, 107, 108, 109, 110A, 110B, 117, 119, 120, 120L, 123, 123L, 127, 128, 131, 159, 160
Geology 17, 32, 35, 36, 50, 50L, 60, 100, 100L, 101, 101L, 103, 105, 106, 107, 107L, 108, 109, 109L, 110, 116, 116G, 130, 131, 134, 138, 139, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150A, 150B, 150C, 152, 156, 160, 161, 162, 163
Hydrologic Science 110, 115, 122, 122L, 124, 134, 141, 142, 143, 144, 146, 151, 182
Management 11A, 11B, 100, 120, 140, 150, 160, 170, 180
Microbiology 102, 102L, 105, 120, 120L, 140, 150, 155L, 160, 162, 170
Molecular and Cellular Biology 120L, 121, 122, 123, 126, 140L, 142, 143, 144, 145, 150, 150L, 160L, 161, 162, 163, 164
Nematology 100, 110
Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, 100 through 169
Nutrition 111AV, 111B, 112, 114, 115, 116A, 116B, 116AL, 116BL, 117, 118, 119A, 119B, 122, 123, 123L, 124, 127, 130
Physics: Any units from the Physics 9 series not used to satisfy other degree requirements.
Plant Biology 102, 105, 108, 111, 111D, 112, 112D, 113, 113D, 116, 117, 118, 119, 123, 126, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 152, 153, 154, 157, 158, 160, 161A, 161B, 170, 171, 172, 172L, 173, 174, 176, 178
Plant Pathology 120, 123, 130, 140, 148, 150, 151A, 151B, 155, 185
Soil Science 100, 102, 105, 107, 109, 111, 112, 118, 120
Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology 100, 101, 101L, 102, 102L, 110, 110L, 111, 111L, 120, 120L, 121, 122, 130, 136, 141, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158

You are urged to discuss the selection of technical elective courses with your academic adviser.

Unrestricted electives. If your curriculum allows for unrestricted electives, you may count any course for which university credit is allowed as an unrestricted elective in the engineering curricula.

Degree Check

Use a Degree Requirement Check sheet for your major to monitor your progress toward completing degree requirements. These check sheets are available in the Undergraduate Advising Office (1050 Kemper Hall). The Undergraduate Advising Office will prepare only one unofficial preliminary degree check for you (preferably at the end of your junior year). You should also file for a follow-up degree check the quarter before you plan to graduate. You can get further information concerning these services and the forms for requesting a degree check, a follow-up degree check or an exit interview in the Undergraduate Advising Office, 1050 Kemper Hall.

Current Curriculum Requirement

Since engineering is a rapidly developing profession, curricular changes are made by the faculty from year to year. To ensure that you benefit from these changes, the College of Engineering has established a policy that you must fulfill the degree requirements stated in the College of Engineering Bulletin for the year in which you complete degree work or in the Bulletin for the year immediately preceding. The Bulletin is available at the College of Engineering Web site, http://engineering.ucdavis.edu/.