Civil Engineering B.S.
Mission
The faculty and staff provide the opportunity for civil engineering students to develop state-of-the-art engineering knowledge and skills through student-centered education and research. Teamwork, professionalism and the importance of life-long learning are hallmarks of our program. Students and faculty provide outreach through innovative civil engineering solutions to significant regional, national, and global issues.
Vision
The department will be a leader in civil engineering education through the integration of design in the curriculum. Upon graduation, our students will be able to excel in the global civil and environmental engineering community. We will be a recognized center for innovative civil engineering research and expertise that meets the needs of industry, government, and society.
Program Educational Objectives
- Graduates demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to become engineering leaders and assume responsibility for multidisciplinary engineering design; project construction, and asset management; and ethical decision making in professional practice.
- Graduates continue to grow intellectually and professionally through participation in professional society activities, continuing engineering education, graduate studies, and/or self-study during their professional career.
- Graduates demonstrate effective oral, written, and graphical communication skills to meet increasing professional demands.
- Graduates become licensed professional engineers.
Student Outcomes
Graduates can:
- Apply knowledge of traditional mathematics, science, and engineering skills, and use modern engineering tools to solve problems.
- Design and conduct experiments, as well as analyze and interpret data in more than one civil engineering sub-discipline.
- Design systems, components, and processes and recognize the strengths and areas for possible improvement of their creative designs within realistic constraints such as economic, political, social, constructability, sustainability, public health and safety, environmental, and ethical.
- Work independently as well as part of a multidisciplinary design team.
- Identify, formulate, solve, and evaluate engineering design problems using engineering models in the disciplines of structural engineering, transportation engineering, hydrology, construction management, and/or environmental engineering.
- Analyze a situation and make appropriate professional and ethical decisions.
- Demonstrate effective oral, written, and graphical communication skills.
- Demonstrate a commitment to learning and continued professional development outside the classroom, incorporate contemporary issues and historical perspectives during problem solving, and determine the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context.
- Explain professional practice attitudes, leadership principles and attitudes, management concepts and processes, and concepts of business, public policy, and public administration.
Graduation Requirements
During a civil engineering student’s first semester at The University of Texas at Tyler, a civil engineering faculty member is assigned as the student’s academic advisor to work with the student in planning a program of study to complete degree requirements. Students are encouraged to meet with their advisor throughout the semester and are required to meet with their advisor prior to registering for the next semester or summer session.
To graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering degree, a student must
- complete the general baccalaureate degree requirements for the university;
- earn a grade of “C” or better in all courses used to meet the degree requirements;
- achieve satisfactory performance on the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination. A senior may take the FE exam within one year of completing the BSCE curriculum. The FE exam may be taken more than once, and seniors will be encouraged to take the exam at the earliest opportunity; and
- complete the Civil Engineering curriculum requirements specified in the following sections.
Degree Requirements
Total Semester Credit Hours=128
Freshman Year
First Semester (16 hrs.)
| ENGR 1201 | Introduction to Engineering | |
| ENGL 1301 | College Composition I [TCCN: ENGL 1301] | |
| MATH 2413 | Calculus I [TCCN: MATH 2413] | |
| CHEM 1311 | General Chemistry I [TCCN: CHEM 1311] | |
| CHEM 1111 | General Chemistry I Laboratory [TCCN: CHEM 1111] | |
| POLS 2306 | Introductory Texas Politics [TCCN: GOVT 2306] | |
Second Semester (16 hrs.)
| ENGR 1204 | Engineering Graphics I | |
| MATH 2414 | Calculus II [TCCN: MATH 2414] | |
| PHYS 2325 | University Physics I [TCCN: PHYS 2325] | |
| PHYS 2125 | University Physics I Laboratory [TCCN: PHYS 2125] | |
| SPCM 1315 | Fundamentals of Speech Communication [TCCN: SPCH 1315] | |
| ENGL 1302 | College Composition II [TCCN: ENGL 1302] | |
Sophomore Year
First Semester (17 hrs.)
Second Semester (18 hrs.)
| ENGR 2302 | Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics | |
| CENG 3306 | Mechanics of Materials | |
| ECON 2301 | Principles of Macroeconomics [TCCN: ECON 2301] | |
| ECON 2302 | Principles of Microeconomics [TCCN: ECON 2302] | |
| MATH 3305 | Ordinary Differential Equations | |
| HIST 1302 | United States History II [TCCN: HIST 1302] | |
| PHIL 2306 | Introduction to Ethics [TCCN: PHIL 2306] | |
Junior Year
First Semester (16 hrs.)
| CENG 3434 | Civil Engineering Materials, Codes, and Specifications | |
| CENG 3310 | Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics | |
| MATH 3351 | Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists | |
| CENG 4339 | Civil Engineering Construction Management | |
| Additional Science Elective | |
Second Semester (15 hrs.)
| CENG 3361 | Applied Engineering Hydrology and Hydraulic Design | |
| CENG 3351 | Transportation Engineering Systems | |
| CENG 3371 | Introduction to Environmental Engineering | |
| CENG 3336 | Soil Mechanics and Foundation Design | |
| CENG 3325 | Structural Analysis | |
Senior Year
First Semester (15 hrs.)
Second Semester (15 hrs.)
| CENG 4315 | Senior Design II | |
| HIST 1301 | United States History I [TCCN: HIST 1301] | |
| CENG 4341 | Civil Engineers and Leadership, Public Policy, Business Practices, and Asset Management | |
| CENG Elective | |
| Technical Elective | |
| Visual and Performing Arts | |
Civil Engineering Completion Curriculum
Students who have earned the Texas Associate of Science in Engineering Science degree from an ASAC/ABET accredited program at a participating community college with an overall GPA of at least 2.50/4.00 and with no grade lower than a “C” are eligible to pursue the Civil Engineering Completion Program to earn a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. This pathway enables a student to begin their engineering degree at a participating community college and complete the degree at UT Tyler.
Course Requirements for Completion Curriculum
Junior Year
First Semester (18 hrs.)
| CENG 2336 | Geomatics | |
| CENG 3310 | Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics | |
| MATH 3351 | Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists | |
| CENG 3306 | Mechanics of Materials | |
| CENG 4339 | Civil Engineering Construction Management | |
| Additional Science Elective | |
Second Semester (15 hrs.)
| CENG 3361 | Applied Engineering Hydrology and Hydraulic Design | |
| CENG 3351 | Transportation Engineering Systems | |
| CENG 3371 | Introduction to Environmental Engineering | |
| CENG 3336 | Soil Mechanics and Foundation Design | |
| CENG 3325 | Structural Analysis | |
Senior Year
First Semester (16 hrs.)
Students are required to complete either three Design courses (CENG4315, 4371, and 4381) or two of the above Design courses and one technical elective.
Second Semester (18 hrs.)
| CENG 4315 | Senior Design II | |
| CENG 4341 | Civil Engineers and Leadership, Public Policy, Business Practices, and Asset Management | |
| Technical Elective | |
| POLS 2305 | Introductory American Government [TCCN: GOVT 2305] | |
| HIST 1302 | United States History II [TCCN: HIST 1302] | |
| PHIL 2306 | Introduction to Ethics [TCCN: PHIL 2306] | |