Navigating a BSCE Curriculum

While each of the more than 200 BSCE curricula is designed for four years of study, it is possible to complete the four-year curriculum in three or three and a half years. On the other hand, students who need more courses before starting on the first calculus course in their freshman year need more than four years to complete. This is due to the fact that almost every BSCE program has prerequisites built into its curriculum. Prerequisites are necessary to ensure students taking a particular course have the required preparation because many of the courses do build on knowledge learned in other courses. 

The above is for a curriculum requiting structural design in its capstone design course. Each preceding course is the prerequisite of the course 

Before you graduate, there is one particular exam administered by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) that you are encouraged to take and pass. The content of the exam is closely related to your curriculum. This is briefly introduced in the following section using contents published at the official NCEES site (www. ncees.org). 

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