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DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
Required Courses

  Engineering Tiered Curriculum Chart (PDF)
  Engineering Guide to the Major (PDF)

For course descriptions, please see the Smith College course catalog or the Engineering Guide to the Major.

First-Year Courses (two courses)

  EGR 100 Engineering for Everyone
  EGR 110 Fundamental Engineering Principles

200-Level Core Engineering Courses (12 credits)

  EGR 220 Engineering Circuit Theory
  EGR 270 Engineering Mechanics
  EGR 290 Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

300-Level Core Engineering Courses (12 credits: choose three of five courses)

  EGR 320 Signals and Systems
  EGR 326 Dynamic Systems & Intro to Control Theory
  EGR 363 Mass and Heat Transfer
  EGR 374 Fluid Mechanics
  EGR 375 Strength of Materials

Technical electives (12 credits)

  A series of three thematically related engineering courses (two of which must be at the 300 level or higher) selected in consultation with the student’s adviser and with a short proposal outlining the rationale.

Capstone experience (8 credits)

  EGR 410D Design Clinic (one full academic year)

Required basic science, computer science, and math courses (39 credits)

  Chemistry (one course, 5 credits)
CHM 111 (or higher) General Chemistry

  Computer Science (one course, 4 credits)
CSC 111 Introduction to Programming

  Mathematics (5 courses, 20 credits)
MTH 111 Calculus I and MTH 112 Calculus II or MTH 114 Calculus: Differential Equations & Power Series
One of MTH 211, 212, 222
MTH 241 Probability and Statistics for Engineers or MTH 245 Practice of Statistics
PHY 210 Mathematical Methods of Physical Sciences and Engineering I

  Physics (2 courses, 10 credits)
PHY 117 General Physics I (mechanics)
PHY 118 General Physics II (or other science course)

Required demonstration of liberal arts breadth (20-24 credits)

Fulfill requirements for a second major or a minor in Div I (Humanities) or Div II (Social Sciences and History) or
Submit a proposal describing an alternative approach to acquire curricular breadth or
Complete Latin Honors (one course from each of the seven major fields of knowledge:)

Literature
Social science
Historical studies
The arts
Foreign language (8 credits of intro or 4 intermediate)
Natural science
Mathematics and analytical philosophy

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