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Department ofGeneral Engineering

Minor in General Engineering

The General Engineering minor is intended to enable students outside of engineering who are majoring in non-engineering fields to gain an introduction to engineering design and analysis. Declaring the minor is by application only; students will be advised by the Director of General Engineering. Students must complete a minimum of courses listed under the ‘Requirements for the minor’. It is the student’s responsibility to make sure that the prerequisites for each course are met. To complete the minor, students must earn a GPA of at least 2.0 in the prerequisite and required courses.

Students must fulfill the following requirements for a minor in general engineering:

  • One course selected from COEN 10, 11, CSCI 10, OMIS 30, or other approved programming course together with the associated lab
  • CENG 41
  • ELEN 50, 50L
  • MECH 10L, 12L, 121
  • Two courses selected from BIOE 24, CENG 10, CENG 43, COEN 12, ELEN 21, ELEN 33, ELEN 115, MECH 11, MECH 15, MECH 140, together with associated labs
  • A two-course sequence selected from BIOE 153 and BIOE 154, CENG 115 and CENG 118, CENG 121 and CENG 143, COEN 79 and any upper-division COEN course, ELEN 100 and ELEN 110, ELEN 115 and (ELEN 116, 127, or 164), MECH 122 and MECH 132, MECH 123 and MECH 125, together with associated labs

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General Engineering
Santa Clara University
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Santa Clara, CA 95053

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