Civil Engineering - Transportation/Material (BS)

Location(s): Manhattan Campus

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The Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Civil Engineering at Kansas State University is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, https://www.abet.org, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Civil Engineering Programs.

Bachelor’s degree requirements

The civil engineering curriculum requires the completion of 128 credit hours. There are seven available tracks that impact the selection of courses taken to meet the requirements of the track electives and the design electives listed in the senior year of the civil engineering curriculum. The seven tracks are General, Construction Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Transportation/Materials Engineering, and Water Resources Engineering.

Kansas State University Core: 34-36 Credit Hours

K-State Core is the foundation for an impactful life and career after time at K-State.

The K-State Core framework covers six disciplinary areas: English, Communications, Mathematics & Statistics, Natural & Physical Sciences, Social & Behavioral Sciences, and Arts and Humanities. In addition, a seventh area is reserved for institutionally designated use, which K-State is keeping as free electives. In total, the framework takes up 34-35 credit hours of 100 and 200-level coursework. Students who complete their general education elsewhere cannot be required to take additional general education coursework in the disciplinary areas of the framework without permission from KBOR to continue requiring courses in the K-State Core.

General Education: K-State Core

Transportation/Material

The curriculum for this major assumes students enter college prepared to take Calculus.

Math and Science: (22-23 credit hours)

CHM 210 - Chemistry I Credits: 4
GEOL 100 - Earth in Action Credits: 3
MATH 220 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus I Credits: 4 KSC-030
MATH 221 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus II Credits: 4
MATH 340 - Elementary Differential Equations Credits: 4
PHYS 213 - Engineering Physics I Credits: 5 KSC-040
Math and Science Course
STAT 510 - Introductory Probability and Statistics I Credits: 3

Transportation/Material Requirements: (52-54 credit hours)

CE 015 - Engineering Assembly Credits: 0
CE 202 - Civil Engineering Graphics Credits: 3
CE 212 - Elementary Surveying Engineering Credits: 3
CE 241 - Introduction to Civil Engineering Materials Credits: 3
CE 301 - Civil Engineering Problem Solving Credits: 1
CE 333 - Statics Credits: 3
CE 351 - Incompressible Fluid Mechanics Credits: 3
CE 501 - Project Economic Evaluation Credits: 1
CE 502 - Project Management Credits: 1
CE 503 - Project Delivery Credits: 1
CE 522 - Soil Mechanics I Credits: 3
CE 533 - Mechanics of Materials Credits: 3
CE 534 - Mechanics of Materials Laboratory Credits: 1
CE 537 - Introduction to Structural Analysis Credits: 3
CE 563 - Environmental Engineering Fundamentals Credits: 3
CE 571 - Introduction to Transportation Engineering Credits: 3
CE 585 - Civil Engineering Project Credits: 3
DEN 160 - College of Engineering Orientation Credits: 1
DEN 161 - Engineering Problem Solving Credits: 1
ENGL 415 - Written Communication for Engineers Credits: 3
ME 310 - Elements of Thermodynamics Credits: 2
ME 512 - Dynamics Credits: 3
CE 550 - Water Resources Engineering Credits: 3
OR
BAE 560 - Hydrology for Biological Systems Credits: 3
DEN 325 - Engineering Professionalism and Decision Making Credits: 1
OR
PHILO 185 - Engineering Ethics Credits: 3

Restricted Electives: (18 credit hours)

Approved Civil Engineering electives and requirements are provided in the undergraduate student handbook available at https://ce.k-state.edu/academics/undergraduate/

CE 528 - Foundation Engineering Credits: 3
CE 544 - Structural Engineering in Concrete Credits: 3
CE 552 - Hydraulic Engineering Credits: 3
CE 572 - Highway Engineering Credits: 3
CE 774 - Pavement Design Credits: 3
CE 441 - Design of Civil Engineering Materials Credits: 3
OR
CE 775 - Traffic Engineering Credits: 3

Total Minimum Hours Required for Graduation: 128

Notes:

Students must achieve a minimum GPA of 2.250 in the four Civil Engineering (CE) design elective courses that fulfill their 12-hour CE design elective requirement. These electives must be drawn from at least four of the following design areas: Environmental, Geotechnical, Structural, Transportation/Materials, and Water Resources. If a student completes more than 12 hours of CE design electives, the best 12 hours will be used to compute CE Design Elective GPA.

A resident cumulative GPA of 2.300 or better is required for a change of major from any engineering program to civil engineering.