Academic Requirements
Curriculum Requirements
All courses listed in a student's specific curriculum must be successfully completed in order to receive the degree(s), and all GPA requirements must be met.
Grade Point Average (GPA)
The University of Denver requires students to maintain an overall GPA of 2.0 (on a 4 point scale) to remain in academic good standing. Students whose GPA falls below 2.0 are placed on probation and eventual suspension. The University Bulletin contains details on this process.
A Major GPA of 2.0 or greater is also required for graduation. In Engineering, all courses with prefixes ENCE, ENEE, ENGR, MTSC, and ENME are Major courses. The procedure for calculating the Major GPA is the same as that used by the University in calculating the overall GPA. Additionally, to graduate, all courses in the curriculum must be passed, and all required Major courses must be passed with a grade of C- or better.
Students in the Coordinated Engineering/MBA programs are required to have a GPA of 3.0 or better in the MBA program. This includes all courses applied toward completion of the MBA, which includes the 4 quarter hours of Engineering courses designated as an elective for the MBA. Only grades of C- or better may be applied to the MBA.
Only courses taken at the University of Denver are considered in the calculation of the overall, Major, and MBA GPA's.
Admission to Engineering Classes
Any student who is completely on track with the curriculum will be able to continue with the curriculum in the order specified, provided he or she pre-registers as soon as permitted. (Some alternatives may be required in the MBA curricula.)
Class Standing in Engineering
Some courses in Engineering require junior or senior standing in Engineering. This is in addition to junior or senior standing in the University, which is determined solely on the basis of credit hours completed. Engineering students are determined to have junior or senior standing in Engineering based on the following:
Junior Standing in Engineering
A student must have completed required mathematics and physics courses required in the common 2-year curriculum, COMP 1571, COMP 1572 and either: 1) ENEE 2011, ENEE 2015, ENEE 2021, ENEE 2025, ENCE 2101 or 2) ENME 2510, ENME 2520, ENME 2710. To retain junior standing in engineering, the student must be enrolled in, or have completed, the other of these two sequences and must complete the remainder of the common 2-year curriculum. Failure to have done so will result in not being permitted to enroll in ENGR 2610, 2620, Engineering Integration I, II.
Senior Standing in Engineering
A student must have completed all courses in the common 2-year curriculum, the junior engineering integration sequence (ENGR 2610, ENGR 2620) and most of the courses required for the particular degree in the discipline. Failure to have done so will result in not being permitted to enroll in ENGR 3313, 3323, Engineering Design Project I, II or in ENGR 3950, Engineering Assessment II.
Students failing to meet these requirements may be denied enrollment in courses requiring a particular class standing.
Prerequisites and Co-requisites
Course descriptions list all prerequisite and co-requisite courses. All prerequisite courses listed must be taken and passed before a course may be attempted; all co-requisite courses must either have already been completed or must be taken concurrently. Failure to do this will usually result in a student being excluded from the course. If a student drops a course, then any co-requisite courses must be dropped as well. Grades of D-, D, D+ are considered to be "passing" for purposes of fulfilling prerequisites to a course. Note, however, that if these grades are obtained in a required engineering course, that course must still be repeated until a grade of C- or above is obtained in order to satisfy Major requirements.
Fundamentals of Engineering Examination (FE) and Enrollment as an Engineer-in-Training (EIT)
As an essential part of our assessment program, all engineering students in ABET/EAC accredited curricula must register for and take the FE before graduation.
The FE is a national 8-hour examination administered by NCEES (National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying) in conjunction with the Colorado State Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. Students must have senior standing in Engineering to apply to take the FE, for which a fee is charged. The Department's liaison with the State Board is Dr. M. A. Hamstad, PE.
In order to be enrolled as an EIT, the student must pass the FE and send a final transcript recording the receipt of the Engineering degree to the Colorado State Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. The EIT is a nationally recognized designation. Enrollment as an EIT in Colorado (or any other state) is recognized by all others states when the individual later applies for registration as a Professional Engineer (PE). Typically, the requirements for registration as a PE beyond those required for the EIT are four years of engineering work experience with increasing engineering responsibility and passing the PE examination.