WVU Institute of Technology
Department of Civil Engineering
List of Approved Electives, September 2009
RETURN TO CIVIL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM
Structural Design Electives Geotechnical Electives
CE 462 Concrete Design (3) CE 451 Foundation Engineering (2.5)
CE 463 Steel Design (3) CE 452 Groundwater & Seepage (1.5)
Transportation Electives Environmental/Water Resources Electives
CE 431 Highway Engineering (2) CE 422 Advanced Hydraulics (1.5)
CE 411 Pavement Design (2) CE 444 Advanced Sanitary (2)
CE 432 Traffic Engineering (2) CE 446 Solid Waste Management (1.5)
CE 425 Engineering Hydrology (1)
Technical Electives* CE Electives*
 
Any 400 level CE course CE 461 Structural Analysis 2 (1)
BIOL 240 Microbiology (0) CE 464 Timber Design (2)
CHEM 215 Analytical Chemistry I: Quantitative Analysis (0) CE 497 Research (0)
CHEM 233 Organic Chemistry I (0) Any 400 level CE course
CHEM 234 Organic Chemistry II (0)
CHEM 241 Physical Chemistry (0)
EE 221 Intro to Electrical Engineering (0)
MATH 420 Numerical Analysis (0)
MATH 441 Applied Linear Algebra (0)  
MATH 493 Advance Engr. Math (0)
MAE 320 Thermodynamics (0)
MAE 340 Vibrations (0)
MECE 445 Computer Applications in Engineering (1)
MAE 456 Finite Element Method (1)  
MECE 463 Advanced Fluid Mechanics (0)
PHYS 112 Physics/Scientists/Engineers II (0)
Any course not on this list must be approved by the faculty advisor and the department chair.
*Out of these nine hours of electives (3 hours of a CE Elective and 6 hours of Technical Electives), there must
be at least 2 hours of ABET design content.  ABET design content for each course is listed in the parenthesis.