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Apr 23, 2024
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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog
Engineering, B.S.
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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
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80
127
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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
Program Total: 127 Credit Hours
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