Zachry Department of Civil Engineering

Texas A&M University

College Station, Texas

Pre-registration Briefing for Fall 2009

Zachry Departmentof Civil Engineering

Which Color Do I Use?Catalog 131 (purple) for freshmen

Catalog 130 (green) for sophomores Catalog 128 (white) for juniors Catalog 129 (blue) for seniors

If you don’t know what catalog you are in, or who your advisor is, see the list at the front of the room, or see:http://www.civil.tamu.edu/currentstudents.html

This presentation can be found at http://Lowery.tamu.edu/a

Zachry Department ofCivil Engineering

Zachry Student Advising and Services Center, Undergraduate Office (Room 140 CE Bldg)

• Dr. Terry Kohutek, Head

• Mr. Richard Bartoskewitz, Senior Advisor

• Dr. Lee Lowery, Advisor

• Ms. D’Anne Crain, Administrative Assistant

• Ms. Crystal Faust, Administrative Assistant

OCEN Senior Undergraduate Advisor• Dr. Pat Lynnett

• Ms. Pam Fambro, Administrative Assistant

The pre-registration process

Attend this meeting. Good job! Pick up a Curriculum Planning Worksheet and

Flowchart from the front of the room.

See http://courses.tamu.edu for a complete list of courses offered.

Use the Curriculum Flowchart to plan your courses for the next 2 semesters.

The pre-registration process (continuing) Verify that you have all course prerequisites from the

current catalog, and take your courses in proper sequence.

Make an appointment with your faculty advisor (check for a sign-up sheet on their office door?)

Show up at your advisor’s office on time with a completed flowchart, curriculum planning worksheet, and degree audit (print one from myrecord.tamu.edu if you are upper level.)

Get your advisor's approval and signature on your curriculum planning sheet.

Take the signed sheet to D’Anne or Crystal in CE 140 to be unblocked.

The pre-registration process (continuing) They will check for blocks and verify your

correct local address and email address on SIMS.

Your TAMU e-mail account is your official contact point with the University. Forward any mail sent there to your preferred email account!

Pre-register as approved by your advisor. Your registration start date and time will be sent to your TAMU EMAIL ACCOUNT: April 16 – May 1, Open registration: May 4 – May 29.

Registration Issues

After registration, at the end of the semester, should you get a D or F in one of your classes where a C or better is required, you must re-evaluate your plans. Don’t just go ahead and take classes for which you don’t have the pre-requisites.

Take your 3xx classes EARLY! If you wait until your senior year you may find that they are not scheduled to avoid conflicts with 4xx classes and you find it difficult to take the classes you need to graduate.

Registration Issues

All upper level students should get an audit from http://myrecord.tamu.edu. It will tell you exactly which courses you should be taking to get a degree in Civil Engineering.

All students should check myrecord REGULARLY – at least twice a semester, and especially at critical times, such as after dropping classes, before and after registration, etc.

Tips on interpreting your degree audit: Myrecord.tamu.edu shows (1) what courses you

still need to graduate, (2) coursework which you have completed towards your degree, and (3) courses which you have taken but which are not part of your degree plan. Sometimes a course which you have completed is shown in (3) in error. Don't panic. Check with D’Anne who will submit a substitution request form for you.

Requirements Remaining

SECTION 1 - Academic Requirements Remaining **************************

This analysis assumes successful completion of all course work currently in progress

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING.

29 hours REQUIRED. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING:A. Breadth: 9 hours REQUIRED. SELECT CVEN 363;

CVEN 365; CVEN 400.B. Focus: 20 hours REQUIRED. Complete the following:

Requirements Completed

SECTION 2 - Academic Requirements Completed or in Progress*************************************- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ENGR CBK - -

CHEM 107 GEN CHEM FOR ENGINEERS 05A 4.0 BENGL 104 COMPOSITION & RHETORIC 03C 3.0 AENGR 111 FOUNDATIONS OF ENGR I 04C 2.0 BMATH 151 ENGINEERING MATH I 04C 4.0 AMATH 152 ENGINEERING MATH II 05A 4.0 A- - - - - - - - - - - - - - MAJOR COURSEWORK - - - - - -

CVEN 302 COMP APPL ENGR & CONST 06A 3.0 ACVEN 345 THEORY OF STRUCTURES 06C (3.0) RegisteredCVEN 422 CIVIL ENGR SYSTEMS II 06C (3.0) Registered

Work Not Yet Applied

SECTION 3 - Work Not Yet Applied - See Advisor for Substitutions *************************************** HUMANITIES II 04A 3.0 A Must be substituted to use Transferred HUMA1302 from #2 HUMANITIES I 03C 3.0 B Must be substituted to use Transferred HUMA1301 from #2 ARTS 150 ART HISTORY SURVEY II 04C 3.0 Meets no requirements Transferred ARTS150 from #3 BIOL 111 GEN. BIOLOGY 03C 4.0 A Meets no requirements Transferred BIOL1406 from #2 CVEN 306 SP TP MAT ENGR CVEN ENGS 06A 3.0 A Meets no requirements (Note: GOOD CLASS) THAR 145 – Basic Theatrical Design In progress Meets no requirements

Note! Bad class!

Registration Resources

Advising Undergraduate Student/Faculty Advisor List Contact an Advisor Catalog and Specialty Option by Student

Academic Information Course Catalogs TAMU Academic Calendar TAMU Student Information System (My Record) Course Registration Q-Drop Form Grade Exclusion Policy Force Request for CVEN Courses Curriculum Planning Worksheet Common Degree Plan Flowcharts (Catalogs 121-130) CVEN Degree Plan (Catalog 130) Technical Elective Plans CVEN Course Prerequisites (Catalog 130) Dual Credit ICD Courses Tutoring Services On Campus

Many more links have been added to this site lately. Check them out.

http://www.civil.tamu.edu/currentstudents.html

Lower Division Students (CVEL)

CVEL students cannot take engineering courses (CVEN, MEEN, etc.) numbered 200 or higher (except CVEN 207) until they have advanced to upper division (CVEN.)

They can take upper level math courses, political science, history, social & behavioral science, visual & performing arts, ethics, technical writing, kine, technical writing, statistics, CVEN 207.

For automatic admission to upper level, students must complete all of eight of the CBK classes, with no grade less than “C”, and a minimum 2.75 GPR.

Lower Division Students (CVEL)

If you are listed as CVEL but should be moved to CVEN, go to

http://lowery.tamu.edu/a

and fill in the request to be moved to CVEN (browse to “Other”)

CVEL STUDENTS WILL BE DROPPED FROM CVEN COURSES!

Lower Division Students (CVEL) If you are listed as CVEL and expect to complete the

requirements for CVEN status by transferring courses from other institutions, have them transfer your credit to A&M to prevent delays in being advanced to upper level.

If an instructor in an upper division engineering course identifies you as a lower division student and not eligible for their course, come to the Student Services Office for advice.

Unless special arrangements can be made, you must drop the course prior to the “drop” deadline. You can add replacement courses until the “add” deadline. See link to university calendar at http://lowery.tamu.edu/a

Other Policies:

All math, science and engineering prefix courses require a C or better or you will not pass degree audit. D is passing in Ethics, POLS, HIST, SBS, VPA, KINE, technical writing.

University policy prevents taking a class more than 3 times – including q-drops, etc. On the third attempt you will pay an additional $100/credit hour and after 3 times will probably be dropped from CE.

Don’t let these policies keep you from graduating!

Other Policies:

CVEN 385 (Coop) and CVEN 485 (Problems) generally cannot be substituted for technical electives.

You should take your courses in the order in which they appear on the flow charts. In particular take technical writing early, ethics late, and CVEN 400 or other capstone class your last semester.

ENGL 203, 210. 241, 301, 1302 - Composition II, or equivalent, either by AP, Dual Credit, CLEP, or for any other reason will substitute for your technical writing requirement. Do not take technical writing until you run a degree audit and see if you already have credit for it! Many of you are taking this class twice.

Other Policies:

ENGR 482 is an in-major writing intensive class. If you are in Catalog 127 or later, your degree requirements include taking one in-major writing class. Catalog 130 or later requires two in-major writing classes. The Texas Tech version of ethics does not include an approved writing component so you will have to take an additional writing class if you don’t take ethics at A&M.

15 hour rule, see information at http://lowery.tamu.edu/a If you have taken a class from another university have

them send your transcript to:TAMU Department of AdmissionsPO Box 40003College Station, TX 77842-4003

Getting Bumped from a Current Class

The Civil Engineering Department maintains a course inventory taught on a regular basis which hopefully makes it possible for our students to graduate in a timely manner. However, the State has drastically reduced funding which makes it increasingly difficult to keep pace with the growing number of students seeking degrees. In the past we taught multiple duplicate classes with unused seats, making it easy for students to get into classes of their choice. That is no longer an option.

How it works – (discussion) To force into a class: http://lowery.tamu.edu/force

Social & Behavioral Science, Humanities and Visual & Performing Arts

Social and Behavioral Science (SBS):– Catalog 124-129 - Only one SS required. – See pages 298 (cat 121), 316 (cat 122), 326 (cat 123), 17-18 (cat

124-129), 19 (cat 130-133). If it is not listed on these pages, IT IS NOT A SBS CLASS.

Humanities: – All catalogs require you to take ENGR482 (cross listed as PHIL

482, same class.) For Catalogs 127 and above this will also serve as an in-major writing class, ONLY IF YOU TAKE IT AT A&M.

Visual and Performing Arts (VPA):– One required. See your Catalog 124-133 - Any Visual and

Performing Arts listed around pages 17-19. If it is not listed on these pages, IT IS NOT A VPA CLASS.

BE CAREFUL

When you take your schedule to your advisor, with THAR 155 on it, they will assume that it carries V&PA credit. If it is not actually a V&PA class, that’s your problem. There is no way they can check those details – it is your job to do so. (It is a V&PA.)

When you say you intend to take THAR 155 and find it full, and then take THAR 145, you will get no credit of any kind, since THAR 145 is NOT a V&PA class.

International & Cultural Diversity

International and Cultural Diversity (ICD) Requirements:– Catalog 124-133 – Two courses are required as listed around

pages 18 -20. This can be satisfied by a careful selection of HIST, VPA, SBS classes (dual credit classes.)

For a listing of Dual Credit Courses see:

– http://lowery.tamu.edu/a– http://lowery.tamu.edu/advising

• SBS & ICD• VPA & ICD• HIST & ICD

Technical ElectivesCE students enter and remain in the “General” option unless they change to another specialty, taking a special set of technical electives approved for these areas:

– Coastal and Ocean – Environmental – Construction Engineering and Management – Geotechnical – Structural– Transportation– Water Resources

Technical Electives

The set of “grayed out” boxes in the flow chart for each catalog are for your technical elective courses.

To see the required Technical Electives for your catalog and option, go to http://lowery.tamu.edu and browse to section IX-H.

Copies of the flow charts for various catalogs are also available for at:

http://www.civil.tamu.edu/currentstudents.html

Technical Electives

If you wish to change from the General Option plan, you will need to choose a technical elective plan around the beginning of your Junior year, and then take the technical elective courses approved for that plan.

Notify D’Anne or Crystal in 140 C.E. of your intentions.

Technical Electives

Your required Math/Science tech elective is dictated by your Technical Elective plan. Want to go structures? You must take MATH 311. Environmental? You must take CHEM 222, etc.

The coordinator for your technical plan must approve any exceptions to the pre-approved technical elective lists in advance, and in writing. See the option plan sheets for the name of the option plan coordinator.

CVEN 342 substitution

The Department is offering 4 sections of CVEN 342 (Materials of Construction) and 2 sections of CVEN 343 (Concrete Materials for CE’s).

All students can take either CVEN 342 OR CVEN 343 to satisfy their 342 requirement.

CVEN 302 – Computer Apps

CVEN 302 previously taught (3-0)– Fall 2009

• Will be taught as CVEN 489 (2-2 hour lab)

– Spring 2010• Will be taught as CVEN 489 (2-3 hour lab)

– Fall 2010• Will be taught as CVEN 302 (2-3 hour lab)

CVEN 405/421

Mainly affects CEM option students CVEN 405 is offered in 09C CVEN 421 CANNOT be used to sub for CVEN 405

CVEN 403 (2 SCH) “Applied Civil Engineering Surveying”

– (Summer Surveying Camp) Offered in May mini-mester

– Taught over two weeks in period between the end of the spring semester and start of the summer semester.

– Limited enrollment (~30)– Students enroll during fall/summer pre-registration

period. Accepted as a technical elective in ALL specialty

areas – GCE, CEM, COE, ENE, GEO, STR, TRA, WRN

What’s “new”?

CVEN 422 is now CVEN 322 MEEN 227 is now MEEN 315 ELEN 215 is now ECEN 215 BAEN 320 (thermo) or MEEN 315 (thermo)

or ECEN 215 (circuits) can be taken to satisfy your engineering science elective.

GEOL 320 now offered Fall and Spring CVEN 424 is required by Cat. 130 and later.

Summer 2009 Study Abroad

Spain– CVEN 339 & 423 (Olivera)

– CVEN 444 & 483 (Barroso)

Panama & Costa Rica– CVEN 301 & 463 (Cahill)

Belgium – BAEN 460 (Munster) => CVEN 463

– BAEN 465 (Munster) => CVEN 301

– THIS SUBSITUTION IS ALLOWED FOR STUDENTS WHO TAKE THESE COURSES THIS SUMMER ONLY!

For Cadets only...

If you successfully complete the required 12 hours of upper-level ROTC courses, you will get credit for... – 3 hr American History– 3 hr Political Science

If you are contemplating an ROTC contract, don’t take these 6 hours until late in your career.

Pay on time! Don’t get dropped! Make sure that you are enrolled for at least

one hour before the first day of classes, or you will have to pay a $100 late registration fee. All adds and drops must be done by the 5th class day. See http://admissions.tamu.edu/Registrar/General/Calendar.aspx for links to the university calendar.

Other sources of information:

Myrecord.tamu.edu can be used by upper level students to check your schedule, correct your address, and verify your schedule at critical times. Also to see which classes you have completed, and which ones you still need to take. Were you successfully dropped? Added?

If you have not signed up for the Departmental List Server, go to http://cenotes.tamu.edu and click on “CE Notes List Server” and sign up. Otherwise you are not getting critical information!

SIGN UP on this list server!

Other Announcements...

Q-drop deadline and last day to withdraw from classes is Monday April 6th 5:00 pm.

Study Abroad - many opportunities exist. See Dawna Rosenkranz, Room 326 Weisenbaker.

Coop - many opportunities exist. See Dr. Lee Lowery, 139C CE

Certificate Programs – Management, Business

Other Announcements...

Please remind students during the pre-advising meetings that scholarships totaling $470,000 are available. This semester we have over 185 scholarship recipients, of which about 60 were new awards (as opposed to a continuation of a winner from the previous year). That puts a student’s odds at about 50% of winning a scholarship. Average award is $1,000/academic year. Several of our scholarships are $4,000 or more (for example Bob Jones' 17 hour scholarships).

Dr. Harry Jones, Head of Scholarship Committee Apply at http://lowery.tamu.edu/scholarships (when up.)

Students are notified when the site is up through the CE list server. Deadline for application: Friday, April 17, 2009

Web-based registration (cont’d)...

If you are employed, anywhere, you might be eligible to register early. See rules, restrictions, dates when they will accept your form, and fill out a "Student Employment Form" at

http://admissions.tamu.edu/Registrar/Current/StudEmpInfo.aspx Forms will be accepted NO EARLIER than 8 a.m., Monday, March 9, 2009 and NO LATER than 5 p.m., Friday, March 13, 2009. Makes no sense to me, at all.

Freshman Grade Exclusion for up to 3 classes. Stays on your record, but changes your official GPA. See http://lowery.tamu.edu/a

Miscellaneous

The 3-peat rule is being enforced. The third time you take a class you will pay something like $100/credit hour.

If you flunk a class a third time, you will probably have to find another major.

If you have 60+ hours, you cannot take ENGL 210. You will have to take ENGL 301, or one of the other courses listed. You can take 210 elsewhere and transfer it in.

If you don’t know who your advisor is, or your catalog number, or your technical option, see:

http://www.civil.tamu.edu/currentstudents.html

Questions…?

Print out and sign this waiver. Bring to Crystal in CE Room 140 after you have met with your advisor.

To: Dr. Terry Kohutek, Director of Student Services:I was absolutely unable to attend any of the 5 scheduled preregistration meetings

this semester. I testify that I have thoroughly reviewed and fully understand all materials regarding any new University and Departmental requirements that apply to me. I also understand that by not coming to the meetings I take personal and full responsibility for any errors made in selecting appropriate classes, or satisfying other requirements that affect my continued enrollment and/or timely graduation in Civil Engineering.

I have obtained a curriculum planning worksheet from the CE website athttp://lowery.tamu.edu/a

I have met with my advisor as directed in the web presentation, and am now submitting my signed Curriculum Planning Worksheet with this waiver.

Signed _____________________________ Name (printed)_______________________UID # ______________________________Date _____________