CECE Undergraduate Program

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Undergraduate Advisor

Ms. Mary Smith,
Mary.Smith2@ucf.edu
ENG II 211 G
407-823-2841

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FLOWCHARTS, 4-YEAR PLANS, ELECTIVES

2021 and Later Requirements:

2016 to 2020 :

2011 to 2015 Requirements:


Approved Technical Elective Lists:

• BS Civil Engineering
• BS Environmental Engineering
• BS Construction Engineering

Double Major within the Department Policy

ENGINEERING EXAMS

Florida Board of Professional Engineers
National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying
FE Exam Information
FE Supplied Reference Handbook
Chemistry Review

IMPORTANT LINKS

UCF Registrar’s Ofice
Undergraduate Catalog
Academic Calendar
Final Exam Schedule
Schedule of Fees
UCF Golden Rule
UCF Graduate College
UCF Alumni Association

Academic Advising

Please refer to the CECE Advising web course at webcourses.ucf.edu.  If you still have questions and wish to speak to an Academic Advisor, please see the information below.

Scheduled MeetingsIn-Person or Zoom

Contact

Schedule a meeting with Ms. Mary Smith through my.UCF.edu.  See the availability and schedule an appointment at  ucflorida.campus.eab.com

For double majors, more complex issues, or if you have a personal situation affecting your academic performance, please contact

Career Advising

There are several ways to obtain career advice. The first step is to contact Ms. Mary Smith and she can refer you to a faculty member in the respective field. In addition, the department and university host several events and organizations that can assist you in making a decision on different career options:

  • The department hosts the Career Mixer each major semester to interact with potential employers. It is an ideal opportunity to interact directly with company representatives looking for interns and employees in our majors. Please look for the announcement.
  • Multiple student chapters of professional societies (e.g., ASCE) are available for you to interact with professionals in the field. They frequently have invited speakers, resume workshops, student competitions, etc. where you will interact directly with the industry.
  • Please visit the university Career Services and Experiential Learning website for opportunities. You can review Handshake searches for an internship, job, or co-op.

The University of Central Florida Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering Department has over 1000 undergraduate students pursuing one or more of three undergraduate degree programs.

The undergraduate degree programs are each 128 credit hour programs and requirements include a project design course and a capstone design course which encourages students to synthesize knowledge from earlier courses to solve real-world engineering problems. In short, these three programs are majors that build civilizations and improve quality of life and are intricately involved in the sustainment of society’s basic needs yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

 Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering

Civil Engineering is concerned primarily with the planning, analysis, and design skills for such areas as structures, geotechnical, transportation, and water resources.

  • Structures:
    Analysis and behavior of steel, concrete and composite structures. Classical and finite element analysis of structures in static and dynamic environments. Research projects include fiber reinforced plastics, prestressed concrete bridge behavior, wind engineering, the inelastic seismic response of concrete and steel connections and systems, and nonlinear dynamics.
  • Geotechnical:
    Basic geotechnical engineering, foundation design, dynamics of soil, groundwater seepage and hydrology. Advanced geotechnical engineering and environmental geotechnology. Research projects include subsurface exploration, soil, and material testing, ground improvement and stabilization, soil-structure interaction and soil contamination.
  • Water Resources:
    Surface and groundwater with emphasis on open channels, closed conduits, modeling, stormwater management, hydraulic designs, hydrologic characterization, reservoir, systems, and groundwater systems are studied with respect to theory and practice.
  • Transportation:
    The curriculum in transportation engineering covers the planning, design, and operation of transportation facilities including highways, mass transit, airports, and railroads. The coursework covers state-of-the-art Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS). Research in the areas of traffic incident management, traffic safety, advanced traveler information systems, efficiency of electronic toll collection systems, and air quality modeling of electronic toll plazas is carried out through the Transportation Systems Institute (TSI).

While licensure or certification may be available in this field of study, our program does not directly lead to such licensure or certification upon graduation. The professional preparation you receive in our program meets the educational requirements for licensure as a Professional Engineer and may still assist you in such pursuits; however, the licensing authority and requirements for Professional Engineers falls under the jurisdiction of the licensing board for the state, territory, or foreign entity in which engineer practices. If you intend to pursue such credentialing in your state or elsewhere, we strongly advise you to contact the applicable state credentialing authority to familiarize yourself with its specific requirements. Alternatively, you are welcome to contact Dr. Kevin Mackie Kevin.Mackie@ucf.edu with questions in this regard and we will do our best to assist you in your career planning.

Bachelor of Science in Construction Engineering

Construction Engineering interdisciplinary nature of the program offers a mix of essential technical, managerial, and business courses for a successful career in the industry.

  • The construction industry is the second largest industry in the United States employing more than six million people representing engineers, contractors, architects, owners, real estate developers, construction labor, material and equipment vendors, financial and insurance institutions, attorneys and government agencies. The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects employment growth of construction engineers to exceed 35,000 new positions by 2006. The construction engineering program prepares students for rewarding
    careers in the areas listed above.

While licensure or certification may be available in this field of study, our program does not directly lead to such licensure or certification upon graduation. The professional preparation you receive in our program meets the educational requirements for licensure as a Professional Engineer and may still assist you in such pursuits; however, the licensing authority and requirements for Professional Engineers falls under the jurisdiction of the licensing board for the state, territory, or foreign entity in which engineer practices. If you intend to pursue such credentialing in your state or elsewhere, we strongly advise you to contact the applicable state credentialing authority to familiarize yourself with its specific requirements. Alternatively, you are welcome to contact Dr. Kevin Mackie Kevin.Mackie@ucf.edu  with questions in this regard and we will do our best to assist you in your career planning.

Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering

 Environmental Engineering addresses the interaction of humans with their environment and the planning, design, and control of systems for environmental quality management. This discipline covers such areas as air and noise pollution, solid waste, potable water, and wastewater.

Air: 
Air pollution control, atmospheric dispersion modeling and air quality modeling. Current research includes: control of air toxins and other pollutants from hazardous waste incinerators, and modeling the carbon monoxide concentrations near busy traffic intersections.

Noise:
Outdoor noise propagation and control. Ongoing research includes Development of enforceable ordinances, modeling of transportation noise sources, the design of mitigation, and atmospheric effects on outdoor noise propagation.

Potable Water:  
Physical and chemical unit operations and water treatment plant design emphasizing compliance with amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act. Research includes design and modeling of conventional and advanced technologies for the control of DBP precursors, corrosion, biological pathogen, SOCs and other contaminants emphasizing cost and performance. Faculty, staff, and students are currently involved in regional, national and international research projects involving drinking water treatment.

Solid Waste:
Solid and hazardous waste including municipal solid waste management and facility design, hazardous waste regulation and management, subsurface contaminant transport and hazardous waste incineration. Research activities include solid waste composting, landfill gas emission modeling and measurement, landfill leachate treatment, hazardous waste incineration, and beneficial reuse of landfill gas.

Wastewater:  Unit operations and processes for the management of municipal and industrial wastewater. Biological processes for domestic and degradable industrial wastewater. Physical and chemical methods to eliminate toxicity associated with certain industrial sources. Waste management strategies through water conservation, by-product recovery, material substitution, recycling, reuse, and other product modifications.

While licensure or certification may be available in this field of study, our program does not directly lead to such licensure or certification upon graduation. The professional preparation you receive in our program meets the educational requirements for licensure as a Professional Engineer and may still assist you in such pursuits; however, the licensing authority and requirements for Professional Engineers falls under the jurisdiction of the licensing board for the state, territory, or foreign entity in which engineer practices. If you intend to pursue such credentialing in your state or elsewhere, we strongly advise you to contact the applicable state credentialing authority to familiarize yourself with its specific requirements. Alternatively, you are welcome to contact Dr. Kevin Mackie Kevin.Mackie@ucf.edu with questions in this regard and we will do our best to assist you in your career planning.

Students transferring into the University of Central Florida Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering Bachelors Degree programs generally do so with some or all of the following courses completed at the Community/State College.
All courses which are pre-requisite for other courses within the CECE program must have an earned grade of “C” (2.0) or better.

  1. An A.A. Degree
  2. Calculus I, II, and III (MAC 2311, 2312, 2313)
  3. Differential Equations (MAP 2302)
  4. Physics with Calculus I and II (PHY 2048C and 2049C) with labs
  5. College Chemistry I CHM 1045C with lab for Civil or Construction programs and
    both CHM 1045C and CHM 1046C with labs for Environmental program.

Students transferring from a Community/State college with a Pre-Engineering program
may also be able to transfer the following courses:

  • EGS 2310…..Statics
  • EGS 2321…..Dynamics
  • EGS 2025…..Probability and Statistics for Engineers
  • EGS 1006…..Introduction to Engineering
  • EGS 1007…..Engineering Concepts and Methods

The courses you will be allowed to enroll in during your first term at UCF will be determined by the courses that you have completed and are transferring with. You may not be eligible for full-time load of courses in your major in your first term. Schedules will be individually determined during your transfer orientation session. If you have not completed MAC 2311, MAC 2312, PHY 2048C, and CHM 1045C you will be admitted to pending status which may also impact the ability to obtain a full-time load in your first semester.

More info at Transfer & Transition Services site

  1. ONE PROBLEM PER PAGE (unless two short problems can be fitted in very neatly on one page). Number all pages, and use one side of the paper only!
  2. The problem definition (statement), either handwritten or photocopied, must be put on the page.
  3. SHOW ALL WORK!
    Present all equations used in the solution of the problem.
    Present all diagrams used.
    Reference all figures/tables used.
    List all assumptions used in the solution of the problem.
    Show a complete problem solution for “full” credit.
  4. WATCH UNITS! Use dimensional analysis, where necessary, to convert quantities to identical units. A solution without any units will be graded as ‘incorrect’.
  5. The solution should be presented in adequate detail to be reviewed by a third party.
  6. The correct numerical answer is important. Check your work for algebraic, computation, spelling, and units conversion errors. Scoring penalties will be imposed for those errors that should be identified by review of the work prior to submission. In practice, when a design fails, lawsuits often follow. Juries may not understand technical details but they understand computational errors.
  7. Do not round off intermediate answers. Be very careful of mathematical errors. Math errors in the range of 3 – 15% may occur if you round off intermediate answers. Round off final answer(s) only. Report final answers to the appropriate number of significant digits (usually 3 or 4).
  8. FINAL ANSWERS ARE TO BE BOXED IN!
  9. Work from the left side of the paper to the right side and from top to bottom.
  10. All work shall be presented in a professional manner. Neatness counts toward your final homework grade. Illegible or extremely sloppy work may be returned with a grade of ZERO.
  11. Put your name on each sheet in the upper right-hand corner of each page and paginate.
  12. All homework problems to be submitted for grading shall be turned in at the beginning of class. NO late homework will be accepted unless PRIOR arrangements are made with the Professor.
  13. All work is to be done on Engineering Paper or Grid-Line Paper. Computer-generated work is acceptable if cleared with the instructor first. No notebook paper will be allowed!
  14. All graphs shall be computer generated or very neatly hand-drawn (using a straight edge) on 8.5″ x 11″ paper, and shall be thoroughly labeled.

HOW TO STUDY FOR AN ENGINEERING COURSE

GENERAL

When you begin to take engineering courses (as opposed to pre-engineering and science courses), you are entering into a new “culture.” Certain things are expected in engineering courses and many faculty ASSUME you are aware of these expectations. This handout lists a few important points in studying for engineering courses.

  • ATTEND CLASSES. Most of the important material is covered in class and if you get lecture material or verbal information from a colleague, this may or may not be accurate and in some cases may be hearsay.
  • Know a responsible classmate to double-check information with and depend upon in case you do have to miss a class. Know other responsible classmates as part of your study group. Networking is very important.

AFTER CLASS

As soon as possible after class:

  • Review your class notes: Make sure you understand the notes and double-check formulae, subscripts, exponents, symbols, etc. Clear up any problems or discrepancies IMMEDIATELY (NOT the evening before an examination).
  • Work the homework problems, yourself, (assigned and suggested) promptly and make sure you understand the concept(s), problem and solution. Putting off problems until the night before they are due or before an examination is often counterproductive. When submitting problems make sure you work on engineering paper and follow the professor’s instructions as to format (See Handout entitled “Homework Rules and Guidelines”). Homework shall be presented in a professional manner such as you would do in working for a professional firm. Pay attention and be careful. If you are not careful with homework, how can you expect to do well on examinations?

WHEN PREPARING FOR EXAMINATIONS

Prepare for ALL examinations as if they were “Closed Book,” even if they are “Open Book.” “Open Book” examinations are usually harder than “Closed Book” examinations since faculty assume you have organized your notes, reviewed carefully and thoroughly, and can thus move quickly through the examination.

Although we recognize the pressures associated with examinations, try to present your examination solutions neatly and carefully. Faculty are more inclined to give partial credit, if appropriate, if they can follow the student’s work.

And, finally, maintain a professional attitude. Being “cool and casual” with respect to your attitude about class, homework, doing well in the course, etc., is a characteristic that is NOT appreciated in an engineering course.