ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM

Students enrolled in the architectural engineering program take the same core engineering, mathematics, science and English courses taken by other engineering students. They also take a series of architectural planning, design and studio courses from the College of Architecture. During the last two years these undergraduate students take structural engineering courses from CEES.

The culmination of each BS degree program in CEES is a two-semester capstone sequence. The capstone design experience requires students to draw upon various aspects of their undergraduate course work to develop a comprehensive solution to an open-ended problem. CEES has developed two innovative capstone courses; a multi-disciplinary engineering course and an environmental course. In the multi-disciplinary capstone class that includes civil, mechanical and electrical engineers, and will include architectural engineers, students are assembled into design teams structured to simulate a typical engineering design firm. The student design teams address a real-world problem and their work is supervised by practicing engineers. The teams must submit written reports and make oral presentations before an evaluation board comprised of practitioners. The instructor for the multi-disciplinary capstone courses has won two national engineering education awards (1996 ASEE Merryfield Award, 2000 NSPE Excellence in Engineering Education Award).