Catalog for The School of Engineering

General Requirements

Class attendance and requirements pertaining to minimum scholastic standards for continued University enrollment are given in the Academic Regulations chapter of this catalog.

A student on academic probation enrolled in the school must repeat, when he or she is next offered, any required courses in which a grade of D or F was received before including new course work in the program of study. Unless there are extenuating circumstances, a student on probation who does not achieve a grade-point average of 2.00 or better in the work attempted during the two semesters following the date of probation will be denied further registration in the school.

The purpose of the Engineering School honor system is to inculcate in each student the highest standard of personal integrity and professional responsibility. The honor system makes student honesty both in and out of the classroom the responsibility of the student body. Each year an Honor Council is approved by the ESB executive council to maintain the honor system. This council indoctrinates new students, receives reports of infractions, determines innocence or guilt, and recommends disciplinary action to the dean of the Engineering School.

Each entering freshman and transfer student is assigned to a member of the Engineering School faculty who acts as the student's adviser. Students who express a preference for one of the engineering departments as a major field are given an adviser from this department. Those who have not yet reached a decision as to a major are assigned an adviser by the Office of the Dean of Engineering. Each student is scheduled for regular conferences with the adviser. In addition, students are encouraged to confer with their advisers or other faculty members as the need arises at times other than the regularly scheduled conferences. A curriculum check-off sheet is kept by the department in which the student is majoring to assure that students are completing the appropriate required courses in the proper prerequisite order to meet graduation requirements that have been previously specified to meet EAC/ABET, the Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL), University, and other criteria.

Most curricula in the school allow for the selection of certain technical and nontechnical courses. Approval of the student's department chair/adviser is required in the selection of all electives.

The general education requirements of the undergraduate degree programs of the School of Engineering are consistent with The University of Mississippi's tradition of educating engineering leaders through the school's strong interaction with the University's liberal arts programs. Further, these requirements are established to fulfill the school's published mission of preparing "students with a broad-based education" intended to develop "leadership skills" and "communication skills."

The general education requirements consist of 18 credits as described below, but students should check with the department to learn the specific requirements for an individual program:

Fifteen credits of liberal arts

Students must complete at least 15 semester hours consisting of social sciences, humanities, and fine arts course work, with at least 3 semester hours from each of those areas. For the purpose of these requirements, social science will include anthropology, economics, Latin American studies, political science, psychology, and sociology; humanities will include classics, English, history, modern languages (200 level and above), philosophy, religion, and Southern studies; and fine arts will include courses in the history, appreciation, and criticism of art, dance, music, and theatre arts. (Courses emphasizing the enhancement of skills and performance are not acceptable.) Honors, African American studies, and gender studies courses may be used to meet these requirements as appropriate, depending upon their topical content.

Three credits of additional general education course work

Students must complete an additional 3 semester hours of course work beyond the 15 hours required above. These additional 3 hours are to be composed of any additional fine arts, humanities, or social science course work (as defined above) or any combination of credits from the courses listed below:

In some programs students are allowed to choose a coherent group of courses from appropriate areas to permit the student to pursue particular topics in more depth than provided by required courses or to complement the student's major area of study. Selection of these courses should be made in consultation with and approved by the student's department chair/adviser.

The curriculum below is recommended for all freshmen engineering students who have not decided upon a major field of study. The first-year course requirements in the various major degree areas differ from this curriculum only in minor aspects and subsequent schedules may be modified to include any courses missed. Students without sufficient preparation, as shown by results of previous work and aptitude tests, to enter the unified calculus and general chemistry courses will be assigned alternatives such as Mathematics 125 (college algebra/trigonometry) and Chemistry 101 by their advisers.* Courses identified by an asterisk (*) may be taken by transfer students immediately upon enrolling in the School of Engineering if these courses were not available at the student's previous college.

* These course may not be counted toward a degree in the School of Engineering