Eligibility Criteria for Construction Engineering Major Declaration from Within

To be considered for admission to the Construction Engineering Major, undeclared students, students changing major, or seeking a double major, must satisfy the following criteria:

1. Candidates must have completed all the Criteria Courses (as listed below).
2. Candidates must have achieved an Overall GPA of at least 2.75.
3. Candidates with Transfer credits or exempted from certain courses will only be considered after completion of at least 14 AUC credit hours of Criteria Courses (as listed below) or Additional Courses within the Construction Engineering Curriculum. 

Criteria Courses (14 Credit Hours):

• CSCE 1001 - Fundamentals of Computing I (3 cr.)   
• CHEM 1005 - General Chemistry I (3 cr.)  
• CHEM 1015  -  General Chemistry I-Laboratory (1 cr.)  
• MACT 1121 - Calculus I (3 cr.)  
• PHYS 1011 - Physics 1: Classical Mechanics, Sound and Heat (3 cr.)  
• PHYS 1012 - General Physics Laboratory I (1 cr.)  

Additional Courses:                                      

Any of the Construction Engineering Curriculum Requirements including PHYS or MACT; the following courses are recommended:

• CENG 1001 - Introduction to The Engineering Profession (1 cr.)  
• CENG 1251 - Engineering Drawings (1 cr.)  
• CENG 2111 - Engineering Mechanics - Statics and Dynamics (4 cr.)  
• CENG 2311 - Construction Surveying (3 cr.)  
• MACT 1122 - Calculus II (3 cr.)  

Admission Index:

The index is the GPA for all courses included in the Criteria and the Additional courses with an Additional Increment of 0.01 per credit of successfully completed Additional courses as indicated in the following formula:

Index = GPA of (Criteria+Additional courses) + Additional Increment

Selection of Students

To fill in available places, students satisfying the above criteria will be prioritized according to their admission index.