U-CE-BSE - Civil Engineering (BSE)

The major requirements for civil engineering (CE) are included in the minimum of 34.0 course credits listed under general requirements and departmental requirements.

Meeting the departmental requirements together with the four engineering and applied science courses from the general requirements requires that the following courses must be included. All majors must take Engineering 101L, 201L, 244L and 305; Civil and Environmental Engineering 132L, 201L, 301L, 302L; and Statistical Science 130. All majors must complete at least one concentration: structural engineering and mechanics (S/M) or environmental engineering and water resources (E/W). Majors choosing the structural engineering and mechanics concentration (S/M) must take Civil and Environmental Engineering 421L, 422L, 423L and 429. Majors choosing the environmental engineering and water resources concentration (E/W) must take Civil and Environmental Engineering 461L, 462L, 463L and 469. To complete the engineering and applied sciences general requirement, all majors must take one of the following (electrical science, information and computer science, materials science, thermal science, and transfer processes) courses: Biomedical Engineering 253L, 307, Civil and Environmental Engineering 560, 581, Computer Science 201, Electrical and Computer Engineering 110L, 311, Engineering 224L, Mechanical Engineering and Material Science 221L, 331L, or Physics 271L (students completing the structural engineering and mechanics concentration may take Civil and Environmental Engineering 461L, 463L, or 462L; students completing the environmental engineering and water resources concentration may take Civil and Environmental Engineering 421L, 422L, or 423L). All majors must take two civil and environmental engineering electives at the 300-level, or higher. All majors have a total of two unrestricted electives.

Toward fulfilling the general requirements, the following elective options must be selected from the following courses. The natural science requirement is satisfied by completing Biology 201L, 215/215L, 275A, 311, Earth and Climate/Ocean Sciences 101, 102, 201L, 202, or 370A. At least one of the five courses used to satisfy the humanities and social sciences requirement, or an approved alternate course, must possess an ethical inquiry (EI) code.

A sample semester-by-semester sequencing of the requirements for the major is available online at cee.duke.edu/undergrad/degrees/ce-planning. Students planning to attend graduate school are strongly advised to use the unrestricted electives to take at least one additional civil and environmental engineering elective, with at least one of them at the 500-level, or higher.