BS in Civil Engineering Curriculum

Courses

Units

First Year

1st Quarter

Chemistry and Biochemistry 20A – Chemical Structure 1

4

Civil and Environmental Engineering 1 – Civil Engineering and Infrastructure 2

2

English Composition 3 – English Composition, Rhetoric, and Language

5

Mathematics 31A – Differential and Integral Calculus 1

4

2nd Quarter

Chemistry and Biochemistry 20B/20L – Chemical Energetics and Change/General Chemistry Laboratory 1

7

Mathematics 31B – Integration and Infinite Series 1

4

Physics 1A – Mechanics 1

5

3rd Quarter

Mathematics 32A – Calculus of Several Variables 1

4

Physics 1B/4AL – Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields/Mechanics Laboratory 1

7

UCLA Samueli GE Elective 3

5

Sophomore Year

1st Quarter

Civil and Environmental Engineering 91 (Statics) or Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 101 (Statics and Strength of Materials) 2

4

Civil and Environmental Engineering 109W (Ethics in Civil and Environmental Engineering) or UCLA Samueli Ethics Course 5

4 or 5

Mathematics 32B – Calculus of Several Variables 1

4

Physics 1C – Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity 1

5

2nd Quarter

Civil and Environmental Engineering C104 (Structure, Processing, and Properties of Civil Engineering Materials) or Materials Science and Engineering 104 (Science of Engineering Materials) 2

4

Civil and Environmental Engineering 108 – Introduction to Mechanics of Deformable Solids 2

4

Mathematics 33A – Linear Algebra and Applications 1

4

3rd Quarter

Civil and Environmental Engineering M20 (Intro to Computer Programming with MATLAB) or Computer Science 31 (Intro to Computer Science I) 2

4

Mathematics 33B (Differential Equations) or Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 82 (Mathematics of Engineering) 1

4

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 103 (Elementary Fluid Mechanics) or Civil and Environmental Engineering 107 (Environmental Fluid Mechanics) 2

4

Junior Year

1st Quarter

Civil and Environmental Engineering 120 – Principles of Soil Mechanics 2

4

Civil and Environmental Engineering 135A – Elementary Structural Analysis 2

4

Civil and Environmental Engineering 150 – Introduction to Hydrology 2

4

Civil and Environmental Engineering 153 – Introduction to Environmental Engineering Science 2

4

2nd Quarter

Chemical Engineering 102A (Thermodynamics I) or Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 105A (Introduction to Engineering Thermodynamics) 2

4

Major Field Elective 2,4

4

Natural Science Course 1

4

3rd Quarter

Civil and Environmental Engineering 103 – Applied Numerical Computing and Modeling in Civil and Environmental Engineering 2

4

Civil and Environmental Engineering 110 (Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers) or Civil and Environmental Engineering C111 (Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Civil Engineering) 2

4

Major Field Electives (2) 2,4

8

Senior Year

1st Quarter

Civil and Environmental Engineering 190 – Professional Practice

2

Major Field Electives (2) 2,4

8

Technical Breadth Course 3

4

UCLA Samueli GE Elective 3

5

2nd Quarter

Major Field Electives (2) 2,4

8

Technical Breadth Course 3

4

UCLA Samueli GE Elective 3

5

3rd Quarter

Major Field Elective 2,4

4

Technical Breadth Course 3

4

UCLA Samueli GE Elective 3

5

TOTAL

181 or 182
  1. Counts as Mathematics and Basic Sciences for ABET, total units Mathematics and Basic Sciences = 56.
  2. Counts as Engineering Concepts for ABET, total units Engineering Concepts = 82.
  3. Students should contact the Office of Academic and Student Affairs for approved lists in the categories of Technical Breadth Requirement and General Education Requirements.
  4. See Field Electives for courses that apply and how to satisfy the requirement.
  5. When selecting an ethics course, review the Engineering Writing requirement. If the requirement will not be satisfied another way, select an ethics course that also satisfies the writing requirement.