Advising
By John E. Prussing. Initial version based on a manual by Arthur M. Clausing in MIE
- Tutoring in Technical Courses
- Requirements in Humanities and Social Sciences
The College of Engineering requires all students to complete 18 hours of approved courses. A minimum of 12 of these hours are needed to satisfy the Campus General Education requirements. Courses beyond those used to satisfy the campus requirements must come from either that same list of approved Campus General Education courses or from the Supplemental List of College of Engineering Approved Humanities and Social Science Courses.
- Requirements in Cultural Studies
The Campus General Education Requirements also require one course from the approved list of Western Cultural Studiesand one course from the approved list of Non-Western Cultural Studies. Note that courses can be chosen to satisfy multiple requirements. For example, if a student completes HIST 172 US Hist Since 1877 the following two requirements are satisfied: (i) campus-wide General Education Humanities and Arts, (ii) Campus Western Cultural Studies.
- Requirements in Foreign Language
Effective for all entering freshmen in Fall 2000 and later, the foreign language requirement must be completed for graduation. This requirement may be satisfied by:
- Successfully completing a third semester of college foreign language;
- Successful completion, in high school, of the third year of the same foreign language; or
- Demonstrating proficiency at the third semester level in a language proficiency examination approved by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the appropriate department.
A student who enters UIUC without three years of the same foreign language in high school must take a foreign language placement test to determine the courses in which they should enroll.
- MATH 285 Differential Equations and Orthogonal Functions The AE Faculty recommends that an AE student enroll in one of the regular (non-Mathematica) sections of the course. But AE will accept credit in any section.
- 6. Restrictions Applying to Undergraduate Students
- All undergraduates must have a dean's approval to register for more than 18 credit hours.
- A student on Probation should not take more than 16 credit hours.
- A faculty member may give an undergraduate student an I (incomplete) grade only with a dean's approval.
- Restrictions on Free Electives
- Kinesiology: a maximum of 3 hours of basic (skill) courses can be used.
- Religious Foundation: a maximum of 4 hours can be used.
- Military Science: a maximum of 6 hours of advanced courses (200-level or above) can be used.
- Remedial: credit cannot be used for any course below MATH 220 (e.g., MATH 002, 012, 016, 117, etc.) or below CHEM 102 (e.g., CHEM 101).
- Duplicate Credit: credit is not allowed that duplicates previous college course work.
- Overage Credit: overage hours in CHEM 102/103 and 104/105 and in Rhetoric and graphics transfer credit can be used.
- Credit/No-Credit Option
- The only courses an AE undergraduate is allowed to take Credit/No-Credit are the unspecified Technical Electives, Free Electives, and some Humanities/Social Science Electives (see below).
Note: A course taken to satisfy the Campus General Education Requirements must be taken for a letter grade. - Courses taken as an Engineering Minor or a Campus Minor cannot be taken Credit/No Credit.
- 6 hours of Social Science Electives and 6 hours of Humanities Electives must be taken for a letter grade. The remaining 6 hours may be taken Credit/No-Credit (but not courses satisfying General Education Requirements).
- The Credit/No-Credit form is available in 206 Engineering Hall and must be signed by the advisor.
- To be eligible for Dean's List, a student must be registered for at least 14 hours credit, of which at least 12 must be taken for letter grade.
- Only an undergraduate student on clear status (not on probation) may elect the Credit/No-Credit grading option.
- A grade of C-minus or better must be earned to receive credit, which appears as a CR grade on the transcript. No credit appears as an NC grade.
- The last day to elect the Credit/No-Credit option or to return a course to a letter grade option is the same as the last day to drop a course, which occurs at mid-semester.
- A full-time student may take a maximum of two courses per semester Credit/No-Credit. A part-time student may take only one course per semester Credit/No-Credit. During the summer session a student may take only one course Credit/No-Credit.
- Free Electives may be taken Credit/No-Credit.
- Engineering Minors and Campus Minors
Information on these minors is available at the Engineering Advising Webpage. A student needs to formally declare a minor by filling out a form in 206 Engineering Hall.
Note for Computer Science Minor: AE 470 Aerospace Numerical Methods will substitute for CS 257 Numerical Methods.
Note for Mathematics Minor: credit for MATH 415 will not be allowed if it is taken after MATH 225, starting in Fall 2003. To get credit for MATH 415 it should be taken instead of MATH 225 (2 hours of 415 will count in place of 225 and 1 hour will count as Technical Elective).
- Graduate Credit for Undergraduates
- Curriculum Codes in Engineering
4048 Aerospace
0102 Agricultural and Biological
0106 Civil and Environmental
0109 Computer Engineering
0112 Computer Science
0115 Electrical
0118 Engineering Mechanics
0121 Engineering Physics
0124 General
0127 Industrial
0130 Materials Science and Engineering
0133 Mechanical
0139 Nuclear
General tutoring is available for freshman, sophomore, and some upper-division technical courses. Tutoring for AE students is provided by the AE Department. Please check the AE FLYER or contact Barbara Kirts for days and times.
Undergraduate Students Enrolled in Graduate Courses:
Undergraduate students should take 400-level courses for undergraduate hours credit rather than graduate hours. If they later become a graduate student and those hours were not used toward their undergraduate degree, they can petition to have the credit changed to graduate credit. If they want to take a 3 undergraduate hour course for 4 undergraduate hours (so that it will convert to a full 4 graduate hours) they may be able to simultaneously enroll for 1 hour of Independent Study (AE 497 or equivalent in other departments) under the instructor's call number and perform the same additional work as a graduate student enrolled for a 4 graduate hours.
An undergraduate may take a 500-level course for graduate credit with the approval of the instructor and the teaching department. Generally a student should have a GPA of 3.0 or higher to receive approval. The teaching department will permit the student to enroll once the approval has been granted.
If an undergraduate student wants the credit for a 500-level course to count toward their undergraduate degree, approval of the instructor and teaching department are required. If approved, the teaching department will allow the student to enroll for graduate credit.
Early Admission to the Graduate College:
Undergraduates may apply for early admission if they are within 5 hours of their B.S. degree and have a GPA of 3.0 or higher. They must complete the Petition for Early Admission to the Graduate College in addition to the usual graduate application for admission. These forms are available in 206 Engineering Hall.
