Civil Engineering Major, BS in Civil Engineering

uTrack Requirements

Universal Tracking (uTrack) is an academic monitoring system designed to help students stay on track for timely graduation. In order to remain on track, students must complete the minimum requirements for each tracking semester, known as milestones. Milestones include successful completion of specified courses and/or attainment of a minimum GPA. uTrack requirements only affect full-time, degree-seeking students who first entered Fall 2013 or later. uTrack does not apply to transfer students who entered prior to Fall 2015.

Progression Policies and Requirements

Students are required to be advised every semester. Students are required to maintain a cumulative grade point of at least 2.0 in all civil engineering and environmental engineering courses taken at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, used to satisfy the graduation requirements. No more than four credit hours of civil and environmental engineering courses in which a C- or lower is the highest grade earned may be counted toward graduation. Students must earn a grade of C or better in all courses within their two selected concentrations.

Requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering

Term 1	Hours	Milestone Notes
CHEM 120 * or CHEM 128 *	4	MATH 130 or higher or one Arts and Humanities Elective , Cultures and Civilizations Elective , or Social Sciences Elective *
EF 105	1
EF 151 * or EF 157 *	4
ENGL 101 * or ENGL 118 *	3
MATH 141 * or MATH 147 *	4
Term 2
EF 152 * or EF 158 *	4	MATH 130 or higher
ENGL 102 *	3
CHEM 130 * or CHEM 138 *	4
MATH 142 * or MATH 148 *	4
Term 3
CE 210	4	EF 151 * or PHYS 135 *
ECON 201 * or ECON 207 *	4
MATH 231 or MATH 237	3
ME 202	2
STAT 251	3
Term 4
CE 205 *, CE 262 , CE 391	9	EF 152 * or PHYS 136 *
MATH 241 or MATH 247	4
²Science Electives	3-4
Term 5
CE 310 , CE 331 , CE 355 , CE 371 , CE 381	13	CBE 201 or COSC 102 or ME 202 or MSE 201
Cultures and Civilizations Elective *	3
Term 6
Arts and Humanities Elective *	3	No milestones
CE 300 , CE 305 , CE 321 , CE 340	11
EF 230	2
Term 7
CE 399S	1	No milestones
Cultures and Civilizations Elective *	3
CE 401	2
¹CE Concentration Elective	3
¹CE Concentration Lab	1
Social Sciences Elective *	3
³Technical Elective	3
Term 8
Arts and Humanities Elective *	3	No milestones
¹CE Concentration Elective	3
¹CE Concentration Lab	1
CE 400	3
³Technical Elective	6
TOTAL	127-128

*	Meets University General Education Requirement . All electives must be pre-approved by the advisor and the department head.
¹	Select two of the following concentration sequences: construction sequence (CE 441 or CE 448 , and CE 432 or CE 463 ), environmental sequence (CE 481 or CE 487 , and CE 482 ), geotechnical sequence (CE 430 or CE 437 , and CE 432 ), structural sequence (CE 461 or CE 467 , and CE 463 ), transportation sequence (CE 455 or CE 458 , and CE 456 ), water resources sequence (CE 494 or CE 497 , and CE 496 ).
²	Select from BIOL 101 , BIOL 102 , BIOL 150 , BIOL 158 , BIOL 160 , BIOL 168 ; Environmental Engineering 513; ESS 462 ; GEOG 131 ; GEOL 101 , GEOL 103 , GEOL 107 .
³	Must be approved by advisor.

Civil Engineering Major – Honors Concentration

In addition to satisfying the requirements for the civil engineering major, candidates for the honors civil engineering concentration must also complete the following requirements:

Maintain a 3.4 cumulative GPA.
Four 100- or 200-level honors courses* (14 hours minimum, at least two courses must be from Materials Science and Engineering, Engineering Fundamentals, Physics, Math, Chemistry, Biology, Statistics, or MSE 117 - Honors: Materials Chemistry or Materials Science and Engineering 207 ).
Complete two upper-division honors courses in civil engineering (CE 437 , CE 448 , CE 458 , CE 467 , CE 487 , or CE 497 ).
Satisfy the Breadth Requirements for the Cook Grand Challenge Honors Program.

*	While most students fulfill this requirement with 100- and 200-level courses, students may substitute upper level courses on approval of the Honors faculty.

Civil Engineering Major – Five-Year BS/MS Program

The department offers a Five-Year BS/MS program with a BS (major in civil engineering) and an MS (major in civil engineering or environmental engineering) for qualified students. The primary component of the program is that qualified students may take up to 6 hours of approved graduate courses for their senior undergraduate electives and have them count toward both their bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Tennessee. This program is designed for students attending the University of Tennessee for their Master of Science degree because other universities may not accept these courses for graduate credit since they were used to satisfy requirements for the Bachelor of Science degree. Significant components of the program are:

Students must have an overall GPA of 3.4 in required coursework. Conditional admission to the five-year program may be granted after completion of 65 hours of required coursework, while full admission may be granted after the completion of 96 hours of required coursework with a minimum GPA of 3.4.
Admission must be approved by the department and the Graduate School.
Students must at least be conditionally admitted to the program prior to taking courses that receive credit for both the BS and MS degrees. All courses taken for graduate credit must be approved by the graduate program director. Students admitted to the program must request permission from the Graduate School to take approved courses for graduate credit. Students admitted to the program must also follow the normal procedure for admission to the Graduate School.
Students will not be eligible for assistantships until they are enrolled as graduate-level students in the Graduate School.

Undergraduates

Graduate Students