program self-study report - Lamar University Electrical Engineering

Only engineering courses offered by accredited engineering programs are acceptable fortransfer. Upper division engineering courses taken at institutions eligible for ABETaccreditation and not accredited are not accepted in transfer. Lower division courses areaccepted from Texas community colleges as part of an articulation agreement reached byrepresentatives of every state engineering school and the community colleges. Coursesfrom out of state community colleges are accepted on a similar basis. Courses in questionare reviewed for course content. Courses from international universities are evaluatedrelative to standard references used by international admission officers. In each casementioned above the University Admissions Officer evaluates each course as directlyequivalent or non-equivalent to a Lamar University course (based on previous input fromfaculty or department chairs – if previous input is not available, the course is listed as nonequivalent).Credit for non-equivalent courses is decided by the appropriate department.Documentation of this credit is retained in the student’s records. Direct equivalent creditfor a non-equivalent course may be approved by the department advisor.4. Special admission requirements for entry into the upper division or professional programsin the College of Engineering are as follows:The general requirements for entering the professional engineering program are discussedin 1. above. These requirements are the same for each engineering discipline.Quantitatively, all students enrolled in a professional curriculum have met these admissioncriteria. We also require that students earn 45 hours in the program after they are admitted.The following courses are required for admission to these departments:Electrical Engineering: ELEN 2311 (Circuits I) and ELEN 2107 (Circuits Lab)Chemical Engineering: CHEN 2374 (Thermodynamics) and usually CHEN 3340 (ProcessAnalysis)5. Admission requirements for transfer students from other institutions to the College ofEngineering follow:Students transferring to Lamar from another institution must have a minimum GPA of 2.0.Only courses for which a “C” or better is earned are eligible for transfer. Students enterthe provisional engineering program and apply for the professional program when theymeet the requirements.6. A history of the number of students transferring to the engineering program for the currentand last five academic years is shown in Table II-10 on page 42.B. Requirements for Graduation1. Each engineering program has a degree plan that is used by the department, college anduniversity records office to verify that graduation requirements are met. College policyrequires that any degree plan with transfer or substitution credit be approved by the dean.Substitutions require a separate form showing the course requirement and the proposedII - 152