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 198. 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 College Executive Committee.

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 transfer 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 advice on lower-division requirements for community college students, meet with the transfer counselor at your institution or see the Assist Web site at 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 Guarantee (TAG), 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 TAG
program, see your community college counselor or see 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, transfer students are classified as having upper division status, but are obligated to complete all lower division course requirements for the 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 have 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 UC Davis students who plan to use academic credit earned in a UC Davis Extension courses other than Open Campus (Concurrent) towards their UC Davis 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 with a grade of C- or better 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, at
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 ; appropriate Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate credit or completion of one of the following courses with a grade of C- or better: 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). In addition, to add a degree of depth and coherence to the general education requirement, the College of Engineering requires that students complete two upper division topical breadth courses.

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).

2008-2009 Technical Electives List

Technical electives permit you to tailor a program to your own academic and career objectives. For some, the 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 five 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 195, 197
• Engineering Computer Science 188
• Engineering 191Engineering 198: Gearing Up for Grad School/Undergraduate Research
• Engineering 160 (restricted to one unit of technical elective)
• Mathematics 197TC,
• Physics 137, 160 (both are restricted to one unit of technical elective), 195, 197T
• 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 (ARE) 100A, 100B, 106, 112, 118, 130, 132, 135, 136, 138. 139, 140, 155, 156, 157, 171A, 171B
• Animal Biology (ABI) 102, 103
• Animal Genetics (ANG) 101, 105, 107, 111, 120
• Animal Science (ANS) 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 (ABT) 101, 110L, 121, 142, 161, 163, 165, 175, 180, 182, 181N
• Atmospheric Science (ATM) 110, 111, 115, 116, 120, 121A, 121B, 124, 128, 133, 149, 150, 158, 160
• Avian Sciences (AVS) 100, 103, 115, 121, 123, 149, 150, 160, 170
• Biological Sciences (BIS) 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 2C, 101, 101D, 102, 103, 104, 120, 120P, 122, 122P, 132
• Biotechnology (BIT) 160, 161A, 161B
• Chemistry (CHE) 2B, 2BH, 2C, 2CH, 8A, 8B
• Economics (ECN) 100, 101, 102, 103, 122, 140
• Engineering (ENG) 17, 35, 45
• Entomology (ENT) 100, 100L, 101, 102, 103, 104, 109, 110, 116, 117, 119, 123, 135, 153, 156, 156L
• Environmental Horticulture (ENH) 100, 102, 105, 120, 125, 129, 130, 133, 144, 145, 150, 160
• Environmental and Resource Sciences (ERS) 100, 100L, 121, 131, 136, 140, 141, 144, 185, 186, 186L,
• Environmental Science and Policy (ESP) 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 (ETX) 101, 102A, 102B, 103A, 103B, 111, 120, 127, 128, 131, 135, 138, 146
• Evolution and Ecology (EVE) 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 108, 112, 112L, 115, 117, 119, 134, 134F, 134L, 138, 140, 141, 147, 149, 175
• Exercise Biology (EXB) 101, 102, 103, 110, 111, 112, 113, 115, 116, 117, 125, 126
• Fiber and Polymer Science (FPS) 100, 150, 161, 161L
• Food Science and Technology (FST) 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 (GEL) 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 (HYD) 110, 115, 124, 134, 141, 142, 143, 144, 146, 151, 182
• Management (MGT) 11A, 11B, 100, 120, 140, 150, 160, 170, 180
• Microbiology (MIC) 102, 102L, 105, 120, 120L, 140, 150, 155L, 160, 162, 170
• Molecular and Cellular Biology MCB) 120L, 121, 123, 126, 140L, 142, 143, 144, 145, 150, 150L, 160L, 161, 162, 163, 164
• Nematology (NEM)100, 110
• Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior (NPB) 100 through 169
• Nutrition (NUT) 111AV, 111B, 112, 114, 115, 116A, 116B, 116AL, 116BL, 117, 118, 119A, 119B, 122, 123, 123L, 124, 127, 130
• Physics (PHY) 9D, 9HD, 9HE if not used to satisfy other degree requirements
• Plant Biology (PLB) 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 (PLP) 120, 123, 130, 140, 148, 150, 151A, 151B, 155, 185
• Plant Sciences (PLS) any upper division course except 120 and 190 through 199
• Soil Science (SSC) 100, 102, 105, 107, 109, 111, 112, 118, 120
• Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology (WFC) 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 in 1050 Kemper Hall. The University holds students responsible for knowing and completing all degree requirements. Degree checks are performed as a courtesy to help students make accurate progress toward fulfilling all major, college, and university requirements. Students should request a preliminary degree check three quarters prior to graduation and a follow-up degree check prior to the beginning of a student's final quarter. Requests can be submitted to the Undergraduate Advising Office in 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/.