This curriculum represents the maximum number of non-engineering credit hours which are required of pre-engineering students at most non-engineering institutions. It is not expected or required that FMU students complete this entire program prior to transferring to an institution offering four-year baccalaureate programs in engineering. After transferring, the student could expect to complete the requirements for a Bachelor of Science degree in an engineering discipline (except chemical engineering) after completing two to two-and-one-half years of additional study.

Students interested in this curriculum should plan their program based on the catalog requirements of the institution to which they plan to transfer. The advisers for pre-engineering are assigned from the Department of Physics and Engineering.

A student who wishes to spend the first two years of his/her academic career studying a pre-engineering program at FMU is advised to take the following courses:

Physics

• PHYS 200 – Technical Physics I
• PHYS 201 – Technical Physics II
• PHYS 202 – Technical Physics III
• PHYS 220 – Computational Methods for Physics and Engineering
• PHYS 314 – Modern Physics

Chemistry

• CHEM 111/111L – General Chemistry I: General Concepts/Lab
• CHEM 112/112L – General Chemistry II: General Concepts Chemistry/Lab

English

• ENGL 101 – Analysis & Argument
• ENGL 102 – Rhetoric, Genre, and Research
• Select two (2) of the following:
  • ENGL 250 – Introduction to Literature
  • ENGL 251 – Introduction to Film Studies
  • ENGL 252 – Read & Write Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

Mathematics

• MATH 201 – Calculus I
• MATH 202 – Calculus II
• MATH 203 – Calculus III
• MATH 301 – Ordinary Differential Equations
• MATH 306 – Multivariable Calculus

Social Science and Humanities – 12 hours

• ECON 203 – Introduction to Microeconomics
• ECON 204 – Introduction to Macroeconomics
• Electives (6-9 hours)