Elective Courses

Approved CE Elective (AE) Courses
Capstone Design (CD) Courses
Engineering Science Electives
Free Electives
Humanities and Social Science Electives



Approved CE Elective Courses

* This course requires consent of the Associate Chairman (currently Dr.Lennon)

+ This course is offered during alternate springs

CE 205* Design Problems (1-6)
CE 211* Research Problems (1-6)
CE 244 Foundation Engineering (3) Spring
CE 258 Structural Laboratory (3) Spring
CE 259 Structural Analysis II (3) Spring
CE 261 Structural Steel Design (3) Fall
CE 263 Structural Concrete Design (3) Fall
CE 266 Project Management (3) Spring
CE 281* Special Topics
CE 320 Flood Hydrology and Hydraulics (3) Fall
CE 321 Open Channel Hydraulics (3) Fall
CE 326 Engineering Groundwater Hydrology (3) Spring
CE 327+ Water Quality Modeling (3) Spring
CE 335 Coastal Engineering (3) Fall
CE 341 Ground Improvement Engineering (3) Spring
CE 342 Experimental Geotechnical Engineering (3) Fall
CE 343 Seepage and Earth Structures (3) Spring
CE 344 Behavior of Soils as Engineering Materials (3) Spring
CE 345 Geo-Environmental Engineering (3) Fall
CE 346 Fundamentals of Designing with Geosynthetics (3) Spring
CE 352 Structural Dynamics (3) Spring
CE 359 Plate Analysis and Design (3) Spring
CE 365 Prestressed Concrete (3) Spring
CE 370 Water and Wastewater Treatment (3) Fall
CE 374 Environmental Water Chemistry (3) Spring
CE 375 Environmental Engineering Laboratory (3)


For those interested in Environmental Engineering, Architecture/CEE or EES/CEE, the following courses are considered electives:
Chem 31 Chemical Equilibria in Aqu. Systems (3) Fall/
Spring
ChE 321 Fundamentals of Air Pollution (3)
Arch 343 Architectural Design IV (6) Fall
EES 316 Hydrogeology (3)

Approval for other courses by petition to associate chair

Capstone Design Courses

Note: Courses listed below are also approved electives. All courses offered in spring; sometimes CE205 available in Fall. CE328 may be offered in spring of odd years. Course must be taken either as a CD course or as an AE course, not both. Prerequisites shown in brackets. Asterisk indicates departmental permission required

CE 205* Design Problems (3)
CE 290 CE Design Project (3)
CE 328 Water Resources Eng. Design [CE222, and 320 or 321] (3)
CE 336 Harbor & Coastal Engineering Design [CE335] (3)
CE 360 Structural Engineering Project [CE261, 263, 259] (3)
CE 347 Geotechnical Engineering Design [CE143, 244, one other Geotech AE] (3)
CE 377 Environmental Engineering Design [CE270, 370] (3)
CE 381-51*, 381-52* Structural Guideways I and II (3)


Engineering Science Electives

Note: Some of the courses on this list may not be offered as shown. It is incumbent on the student to check course availability.


Mech 102 Dynamics (3) Fall/Spring
ME 104 Thermodynamics (3) Fall/Spring
ECE 81 Principles of Electrical Engineering (4) Fall/Spring


Free Electives

Each degree program includes the opportunity for a student to complete six or more credits in courses numbered 399 or lower in the senior year of study, for which he or she is qualified. Since no limitation is imposed on the selection of these courses, they are called free, or personal, electives. In particular, free electives can be used to fulfill the requirements of a minor program. Other elective courses in Civil Engineering are appropriate.

The granting of a waiver of up to six credits is only possible using technical courses. See Lehigh University Catalog for details concerning free electives.


Humanities and Social Science Electives [Classes of 2003 and later]see catalog

Humanities and Social Science Electives [Classses 2000, 2001 and 2002]

Basic Requirement: English and Economics. (Three courses totaling a minimum of ten credit hours): Students must complete English 1 (or 3), English 2, (or 4,5,6,8 or 10), and Economics 1.

Advanced Requirement: Breadth and Depth. A minimum of five courses whose total credit hours plus the total credit hours in the basic requirement equals a minimum of 25 credit hours. These courses must be selected from the departments/programs listed in Table 2, excluding those courses in Table 1.

Depth:A minimum of three courses totaling at least nine credit hours must be in one discipline, of which at least one course must be at the 100 level or above. Breadth:A minimum of two courses totaling at least six credit hours. These courses must be taken in disciplines different from the courses which establish depth. These courses must not be cross listed with the department/program chosen for depth.

TABLE 1 Courses which cannot be used to satisfy the HSS requirement.

Anthropology 12
Architecture 147, 351, 352
Communications 60, 130, 144, 331
Economics 101, 145, 351, 352, 357
English, all freshman composition courses, 171, 173
Journalism 1 through 12, 111, 123, 128, 129, 141, 212, 214, 215, 220, 229, 231, 233, 240, 306, 311, 312, 314, 320
Music 11 through 79
Philosophy 114
Political Science 313, 314
Psychology 110, 160-162, 176, 210, 335, 373, 375, 382
Social Relations 41, 111, 112
Theater 61, 111, 161, 181

TABLE 2 Course Designations for HSS Courses

African American Studies (AAS), Ancient Greek (Grk),Anthropology (Anth),Architecture (Arch),Art (Art), Arts and Science (Arts),Asian Studies (Asia),Chinese (LChin),Classical Civilization (Clss),Communications (Comm), Economics (Eco),Education (Educ),English (Engl),French (LFren),German LGerm),Hebrew (LHebr),History (Hist),International Relations (IR),Japanese (LJpns),Journalism (Jour),Latin (Lat),Law (Law),Modern Languages and Literature (MLL),Music (Mus),Philosophy (Phil),Political Science (PolS),Psychology (Psyc),Religion Studies (Rel), Russian (LRuss),Science Technology and Science (STS),Social Relations (SR),Sociology/Social Psychology (SSP), Spanish (LSpan),Special Education (SpEd),Theater (Thtr),Urban Studies (US),Women's Studies (WS)

For a listing of course designations for HSS Courses, as well as an HSS and Free Elective Checklist, click here