Course Information Suite

Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering

iese.illinois.edu
Head of Department: Jong-Shi Pang
Department Office: 117 Transportation Building, 104 South Mathews, Urbana, (217) 333-2731

Curriculum in General Engineering

iese.illinois.edu

Undergraduate Program Office: 209 Transportation Building
Fax: (217) 244-5705

For the Degree of Bachelor of Science in General Engineering

General Engineering is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary program emphasizing real-world problem solving through a unique orientation toward partnerships with industry. It brings together basic sciences, engineering sciences, and engineering design. The curriculum offers flexibility through the Secondary Field Option, while providing a broad background in mechanics and structures, control systems, and decision making that support a systems approach to engineering.

General Engineers understand how to apply business fundamentals to promote utilization of new technology, engage in entrepreneurship, and succeed in engineering and nonengineering careers. The curriculum emphasizes the integration of engineering and business principles, preparing students to apply both functions to bring a product from invention to market.

Design experience and project management are emphasized and integrated across the core with a focus on establishing critical problem-solving skills applied across disciplines, strong communication skills, and the ability to work effectively and get results in a team environment.

The capstone experience for General Engineering undergraduates is the Senior Design Project Course. Students work collaboratively with industry and a team of faculty members on a real-world problem during their final semester. The results are documented in a final written report and a formal presentation at the end of the semester to the company so that the student recommendations may be implemented.

Overview of Curricular Requirements

The curriculum requires 131 hours for graduation and is organized as follows.

Orientation and Professional Development

These courses introduce the opportunities and resources your college, department, and curriculum can offer you as you work to achieve your career goals. They also provide the skills to work effectively and successfully in the engineering profession.

Hours Requirements
0 ENG 100—Engineering Orientation1
1 GE 100—Intro to General Engineering1
0 GE 390—General Engineering Seminar
1 Total
1. External transfer students take ENG 300—Engrg Transfer Orientation instead.

Foundational Mathematics and Science

These courses stress the basic mathematical and scientific principles upon which the engineering discipline is based.

Hours Requirements
3 CHEM 102—General Chemistry I
1 CHEM 103—General Chemistry Lab I
4 MATH 221—Calculus I1
2 MATH 225—Introductory Matrix Theory
3 MATH 231—Calculus II
4 MATH 241—Calculus III
3 MATH 285—Intro Differential Equations
4 PHYS 211—University Physics: Mechanics
4 PHYS 212—University Physics: Elec & Mag
2 PHYS 214—Univ Physics: Quantum Physics
30 Total

1. MATH 220—Calculus may be substituted, with four of the five credit hours applying toward the degree. MATH 220 is appropriate for students with no background in calculus.

General Engineering Technical Core

These courses stress fundamental concepts and basic laboratory techniques that comprise the common intellectual understanding of general engineering.

Hours Requirements
3 CS 101—Intro Computing: Engrg & Sci
4 ECE 110—Intro Elec & Computer Engrg
2 ECE 211—Analog Circuits & Systems
3 GE 101—Engineering Graphics & Design
1 GE 161—Business Side of Engineering
3 GE 310—General Engineering Design
3 GE 311—Engineering Design Analysis
1 GE 312—Instrumentation and Test Lab
4 GE 320—Control Systems
3 GE 330—OR Methods for Profit & Value
3 GE 331—Analyt Methods for Uncertainty
3 GE 400—Engineering Law
3 GE 424—State Space Design for Control
3 GE 494—Senior Engineering Project I
2 GE 495—Senior Engineering Project II
3 TAM 211—Statics
3 TAM 212—Introductory Dynamics
3 TAM 251—Introductory Solid Mechanics
4 TAM 335—Introductory Fluid Mechanics
54 Total

Secondary Field Option Electives

These courses enable the student to tailor the studies to one's interests and career goals in both technical and nontechnical areas.

Hours Requirements
12 Secondary field option electives selected from lists established by the department or by petition to the department. See the Secondary Field Options section below.

Technical Electives

The design elective augments a student's knowledge in one or more subdisciplines of mechanics and structures, control systems, and decision making that support a systems approach to engineering. The engineering science elective extends the knowledge of that area.

Hours Requirements
3 Design elective selected from the list of Design Electives established by the department.
3 Engineering science elective selected from the list of Engineering Science Electives established by the department.
6 Total

Liberal Education

The liberal education courses develop students’ understanding of human culture and society, build skills of inquiry and critical thinking, and lay a foundation for civic engagement and lifelong learning.

Hours Requirements
3 ECON 102—Microeconomic Principles or
ECON 103—Macroeconomic Principles
3 Electives from the campus General Education social & behavioral sciences list.
6 Electives from the campus General Education humanities & the arts list.
6 Electives either from a list approved by the college, or from the campus General Education lists for social & behavioral sciences or humanities & the arts.
18 Total

Students must also complete the campus cultural studies requirement by completing (i) one western/comparative culture(s) course and (ii) one non-western/U.S. minority culture(s) course from the General Education cultural studies lists. Most students select liberal education courses that simultaneously satisfy these cultural studies requirements. Courses from the western and non-western lists that fall into free electives or other categories may also be used satisfy the cultural studies requirements.

Composition

These courses teach fundamentals of expository writing.

Hours Requirements
4 RHET 105—Principles of Composition
  Advanced Composition (satisfied by completing GE 400 in the General Engineering Technical Core)
4 Total

Free Electives

These unrestricted electives, subject to certain exceptions as noted at the College of Engineering advising Web site, give the student the opportunity to explore any intellectual area of unique interest. This freedom plays a critical role in helping students to define research specialties or to complete minors.

Hours Requirements
6 Free electives. Additional unrestricted course work, subject to certain exceptions as noted at the College of Engineering advising Web site, so that there are at least 131 credit hours earned toward the degree.

Secondary Field Options

Secondary field options are of two types: preapproved and customized. Preapproved secondary fields have designated titles and a specified list of courses, from which several may be selected. Approval for the substitution of a course for one on the specified list may be requested via a petition form submitted to the department. Customized secondary fields may be created to achieve goals in areas not provided by preapproved fields. To do this, a suitable title and all the courses must be petitioned for acceptance by the department. Petition approval is based on the merit of the secondary field and the coherence of the courses within it relative to the student's goals.

Pursuit of campus minors, dual degrees, and James Scholar contracts may be integrated with customized secondary field options. Courses taken may be applied to minors, dual degrees, or contracts as well as secondary field options.

Preapproved Secondary Fields

Preapproved secondary fields are listed below. Approved courses for each are specified at the department's secondary field Web site. The following course substitutions may be used interchangeably to comply with prerequisites of specified courses in some of the secondary fields:

  • CEE 202, GE 331, IE 300, STAT 400
  • CEE 201, GE 330, IE 310
  • MSE 406 , CEE 300
  • ECE 486, GE 320, ME 340

Students may petition to the department for inclusion of a course in the secondary fields listed below. The most likely classes to be accepted are nonpermanent and experimental offerings relevant to the various fields. A current list of these may be found at the department's secondary field Web site.

1. Students fulfilling the corresponding Campus Minor may simultaneously complete the requirements of this General Engineering secondary field option.

Customized Secondary Fields

Customized secondary fields differ from preapproved ones in that no sets of specified courses to choose from have been predefined. For all customized secondary field options, a course list must be constructed and submitted for approval by the department.

The following list contains examples of over sixty titles of customized secondary field options which have been approved. The complete list may be found at the department's secondary field Web site. Additional titles beyond those listed may be proposed.

  • A foreign language (several)
  • An engineering discipline (several)
  • Biology
  • Business
  • Chemistry
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • International Studies
  • Mathematics
  • Military Science
  • Pre-Law
  • Pre-Med
  • Religious Studies
  • Renewable Energy

Suggested Sequence

The schedule that follows is illustrative, showing the typical sequence in which courses would be taken by a student with no college course credit already earned and who intends to graduate in four years.  Each individual's case may vary, but the position of required named courses is generally indicative of the order in which they should be taken.

First year

Hours First Semester
3 CHEM 102—General Chemistry I
1 CHEM 103—General Chemistry Lab I
0 ENG 100—Engineering Orientation
1 GE 100—Intro to General Engineering
3-4 GE 101—Engineering Graphics & Design or
RHET 105—Principles of Composition 1
4 MATH 221—Calculus I2
3 Liberal education elective3
15-16 Total

Hours Second Semester
4 ECE 110—Intro Elec & Computer Engrg
2 MATH 225—Introductory Matrix Theory
3 MATH 231—Calculus II
4 PHYS 211—University Physics: Mechanics
4-3 RHET 105—Principles of Composition or
GE 101—Engineering Graphics & Design1
17-16 Total

Second year

Hours First Semester
3 CS 101—Intro Computing: Engrg & Sci
1 GE 161—Business Side of Engineering
4 MATH 241—Calculus III
4 PHYS 212—University Physics: Elec & Mag
3 TAM 211—Statics
3 Liberal education elective3
18 Total

Hours Second Semester
3 GE 330—OR Methods for Profit & Value
3 MATH 285—Intro Differential Equations
2 PHYS 214—Univ Physics: Quantum Physics
3 TAM 212—Introductory Dynamics
3 TAM 251—Introductory Solid Mechanics
3 Liberal education elective3
17 Total

Third year

Hours First Semester
2 ECE 211—Analog Circuits & Systems
3 GE 310—General Engineering Design
4 GE 320—Control Systems
3 Secondary field option elective4
3 Liberal education elective3
15 Total

Hours Second Semester
3 GE 311—Engineering Design Analysis
1 GE 312—Instrumentation and Test Lab
3 GE 331—Analyt Methods for Uncertainty
0 GE 390—General Engineering Seminar
3 GE 424—State Space Design for Control
3 Secondary field option elective4
3 Liberal education elective3
16 Total

Fourth year

Hours First Semester
3-5 GE 400—Engineering Law5 or6
GE 494—Senior Engineering Project I and GE 495—Senior Engineering Project II
4 TAM 335—Introductory Fluid Mechanics
3 Design elective7
3 Engineering science elective8
3 Secondary field option elective4
16-18 Total

Hours Second Semester
5-3 GE 494—Senior Engineering Project I and GE 495—Senior Engineering Project II or6
GE 400—Engineering Law5
3 Secondary field option elective4
3 Liberal education elective3
6 Free electives
17-15 Total
1. RHET 105 may be taken in the first or second semester of the first year as authorized. The alternative is GE 101.
2. MATH 220—Calculus may be substituted, with four of the five credit hours applying toward the degree. MATH 220 is appropriate for students with no background in calculus.
3. Liberal education electives must include 6 hours of social & behavioral sciences and 6 hours of humanities & the arts course work from the campus General Education lists. ECON 102 or ECON 103 must be one of the social & behavioral sciences courses, highly recommended before the fourth semester. The remaining 6 hours may be selected from a list maintained by the college, or additional course work from the campus General Education lists for social & behavioral sciences or humanities & the arts. Students must also complete the campus cultural studies requirement by completing (i) one western/comparative culture(s) course and (ii) one non-western/U.S. minority culture(s) course from the General Education cultural studies lists. Most students select liberal education courses that simultaneously satisfy these cultural studies requirements. Courses from the western and non-western lists that fall into free electives or other categories may also be used satisfy the cultural studies requirements.
4. To be selected from the lists of Secondary Field Option Electives established by the department or by petition to the department.
5. Satisfies the General Education Advanced Composition requirement.
6. GE 494 and GE 495 may be taken in the first or second semester of the fourth year as authorized. The alternative is GE 400.
7. To be selected from the list of Design Electives established by the department.
8. To be selected from the list of Engineering Science Electives established by the department.