Transcript Pre-registration Briefing

Zachry Department
of Civil Engineering
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas
Pre-registration Briefing
for Fall 2009
Zachry Department
of Civil Engineering
Which Color Do I Use?
Catalog 131 (purple) for freshmen
Catalog 130 (green) for sophomores
Catalog 128 (white) for juniors
Catalog 129 (blue) for seniors
If you don’t know what catalog you are in, or who your
advisor is, see the list at the front of the room, or see:
http://www.civil.tamu.edu/currentstudents.html
This presentation can be found at http://Lowery.tamu.edu/a
Zachry Department of
Civil Engineering
Zachry Student Advising and Services Center,
Undergraduate Office (Room 140 CE Bldg)
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Dr. Terry Kohutek, Head
Mr. Richard Bartoskewitz, Senior Advisor
Dr. Lee Lowery, Advisor
Ms. D’Anne Crain, Administrative Assistant
Ms. Crystal Faust, Administrative Assistant
OCEN Senior Undergraduate Advisor
• Dr. Pat Lynnett
• Ms. Pam Fambro, Administrative Assistant
The pre-registration process
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Attend this meeting. Good job!
 Pick up a Curriculum Planning Worksheet and
Flowchart from the front of the room.
See http://courses.tamu.edu for a
complete list of courses offered.
 Use the Curriculum Flowchart to plan your
courses for the next 2 semesters.
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The pre-registration process
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Verify that you have all course prerequisites from the
current catalog, and take your courses in proper
sequence.
Make an appointment with your faculty advisor (check
for a sign-up sheet on their office door?)
Show up at your advisor’s office on time with a
completed flowchart, curriculum planning worksheet,
and degree audit (print one from myrecord.tamu.edu if
you are upper level.)
Get your advisor's approval and signature on your
curriculum planning sheet.
Take the signed sheet to D’Anne or Crystal in CE 140 to
be unblocked.
The pre-registration process
(continuing)
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They will check for blocks and verify your
correct local address and email address on
SIMS.
 Your TAMU e-mail account is your official
contact point with the University. Forward any
mail sent there to your preferred email account!
 Pre-register as approved by your advisor. Your
registration start date and time will be sent to your
TAMU EMAIL ACCOUNT: April 16 – May 1,
Open registration: May 4 – May 29.
Registration Issues
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After registration, at the end of the semester,
should you get a D or F in one of your classes
where a C or better is required, you must re-evaluate
your plans. Don’t just go ahead and take classes for
which you don’t have the pre-requisites.
Take your 3xx classes EARLY! If you wait until
your senior year you may find that they are not
scheduled to avoid conflicts with 4xx classes and
you find it difficult to take the classes you need to
graduate.
Registration Issues
All upper level students should get an audit
from http://myrecord.tamu.edu. It will tell you
exactly which courses you should be taking to get
a degree in Civil Engineering.
All students should check myrecord
REGULARLY – at least twice a semester, and
especially at critical times, such as after dropping
classes, before and after registration, etc.
Tips on interpreting your degree
audit:
 Myrecord.tamu.edu shows (1) what courses you
still need to graduate, (2) coursework which you
have completed towards your degree, and (3)
courses which you have taken but which are not
part of your degree plan. Sometimes a course
which you have completed is shown in (3) in
error. Don't panic. Check with D’Anne who will
submit a substitution request form for you.
Requirements Remaining
SECTION 1 - Academic Requirements Remaining
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This analysis assumes successful completion of all course
work currently in progress
COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING.
29 hours REQUIRED. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING:
A. Breadth: 9 hours REQUIRED. SELECT CVEN 363;
CVEN 365; CVEN 400.
B. Focus: 20 hours REQUIRED. Complete the following:
Requirements Completed
SECTION 2 - Academic Requirements Completed or in Progress
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ENGR CBK - CHEM 107 GEN CHEM FOR ENGINEERS 05A 4.0 B
ENGL 104 COMPOSITION & RHETORIC 03C 3.0 A
ENGR 111 FOUNDATIONS OF ENGR I
04C 2.0 B
MATH 151 ENGINEERING MATH I
04C 4.0 A
MATH 152 ENGINEERING MATH II
05A 4.0 A
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - MAJOR COURSEWORK - - - - - CVEN 302 COMP APPL ENGR & CONST 06A 3.0 A
CVEN 345 THEORY OF STRUCTURES
06C (3.0) Registered
CVEN 422 CIVIL ENGR SYSTEMS II
06C (3.0) Registered
Work Not Yet Applied
SECTION 3 - Work Not Yet Applied - See Advisor for Substitutions
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HUMANITIES II
04A 3.0 A Must be substituted to use
Transferred HUMA1302 from #2
HUMANITIES I
03C 3.0 B Must be substituted to use
Transferred HUMA1301 from #2
ARTS 150 ART HISTORY SURVEY II 04C 3.0
Meets no requirements Transferred ARTS150 from #3
BIOL 111 GEN. BIOLOGY
03C 4.0 A
Meets no requirements Transferred BIOL1406 from #2
CVEN 306 SP TP MAT ENGR CVEN ENGS 06A 3.0 A
Meets no requirements (Note: GOOD CLASS)
THAR 145 – Basic Theatrical Design In progress Meets no requirements
Note! Bad class!
Registration Resources
http://www.civil.tamu.edu/currentstudents.html
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Academic Information
Course Catalogs
TAMU Academic Calendar
TAMU Student Information System (My Record)
Course Registration
Q-Drop Form
Grade Exclusion Policy
Force Request for CVEN Courses
Curriculum Planning Worksheet
Common Degree Plan Flowcharts (Catalogs 121-130)
CVEN Degree Plan (Catalog 130)
Technical Elective Plans
CVEN Course Prerequisites (Catalog 130)
Dual Credit ICD Courses
Tutoring Services On Campus
Many more links have been added to this site
lately. Check them out.
Advising
 Undergraduate Student/Faculty Advisor List
 Contact an Advisor
 Catalog and Specialty Option by Student
Lower Division Students (CVEL)
CVEL students cannot take engineering courses (CVEN,
MEEN, etc.) numbered 200 or higher (except CVEN
207) until they have advanced to upper division
(CVEN.)
They can take upper level math courses, political
science, history, social & behavioral science, visual &
performing arts, ethics, technical writing, kine, technical
writing, statistics, CVEN 207.
For automatic admission to upper level, students must
complete all of eight of the CBK classes, with no grade
less than “C”, and a minimum 2.75 GPR.
Lower Division Students (CVEL)
If you are listed as CVEL but should be
moved to CVEN, go to
http://lowery.tamu.edu/a
and fill in the request to be moved to
CVEN (browse to “Other”)
CVEL STUDENTS WILL BE
DROPPED FROM CVEN COURSES!
Lower Division Students (CVEL)
 If you are listed as CVEL and expect to complete the
requirements for CVEN status by transferring courses
from other institutions, have them transfer your credit to
A&M to prevent delays in being advanced to upper
level.
 If an instructor in an upper division engineering course
identifies you as a lower division student and not
eligible for their course, come to the Student Services
Office for advice.
 Unless special arrangements can be made, you must
drop the course prior to the “drop” deadline. You can
add replacement courses until the “add” deadline. See
link to university calendar at http://lowery.tamu.edu/a
Other Policies:
 All math, science and engineering prefix courses
require a C or better or you will not pass degree
audit. D is passing in Ethics, POLS, HIST, SBS,
VPA, KINE, technical writing.
 University policy prevents taking a class more than
3 times – including q-drops, etc. On the third
attempt you will pay an additional $100/credit hour
and after 3 times will probably be dropped from CE.
 Don’t let these policies keep you from graduating!
Other Policies:
CVEN 385 (Coop) and CVEN 485 (Problems) generally cannot
be substituted for technical electives.
You should take your courses in the order in which they appear
on the flow charts. In particular take technical writing early,
ethics late, and CVEN 400 or other capstone class your last
semester.
ENGL 203, 210. 241, 301, 1302 - Composition II, or
equivalent, either by AP, Dual Credit, CLEP, or for any
other reason will substitute for your technical writing
requirement. Do not take technical writing until you run a
degree audit and see if you already have credit for it! Many
of you are taking this class twice.
Other Policies:
 ENGR 482 is an in-major writing intensive class. If you
are in Catalog 127 or later, your degree requirements
include taking one in-major writing class. Catalog 130 or
later requires two in-major writing classes. The Texas Tech
version of ethics does not include an approved writing
component so you will have to take an additional writing
class if you don’t take ethics at A&M.
 15 hour rule, see information at http://lowery.tamu.edu/a
 If you have taken a class from another university have
them send your transcript to:
TAMU Department of Admissions
PO Box 40003
College Station, TX 77842-4003
Getting Bumped from a Current Class
 The Civil Engineering Department maintains a course
inventory taught on a regular basis which hopefully makes
it possible for our students to graduate in a timely manner.
However, the State has drastically reduced funding which
makes it increasingly difficult to keep pace with the
growing number of students seeking degrees. In the past
we taught multiple duplicate classes with unused seats,
making it easy for students to get into classes of their
choice. That is no longer an option.
 How it works – (discussion)
 To force into a class: http://lowery.tamu.edu/force
Social & Behavioral Science, Humanities and
Visual & Performing Arts
 Social and Behavioral Science (SBS):
– Catalog 124-129 - Only one SS required.
– See pages 298 (cat 121), 316 (cat 122), 326 (cat 123), 17-18
(cat 124-129), 19 (cat 130-133). If it is not listed on these
pages, IT IS NOT A SBS CLASS.
 Humanities:
– All catalogs require you to take ENGR482 (cross listed as
PHIL 482, same class.) For Catalogs 127 and above this will
also serve as an in-major writing class, ONLY IF YOU TAKE
IT AT A&M.
 Visual and Performing Arts (VPA):
– One required. See your Catalog 124-133 - Any Visual and
Performing Arts listed around pages 17-19. If it is not listed on
these pages, IT IS NOT A VPA CLASS.
BE CAREFUL
 When you take your schedule to your advisor,
with THAR 155 on it, they will assume that it
carries V&PA credit. If it is not actually a V&PA
class, that’s your problem. There is no way they
can check those details – it is your job to do so. (It
is a V&PA.)
When you say you intend to take THAR 155 and
find it full, and then take THAR 145, you will get
no credit of any kind, since THAR 145 is NOT a
V&PA class.
International & Cultural Diversity
 International and Cultural Diversity (ICD) Requirements:
– Catalog 124-133 – Two courses are required as listed around
pages 18 -20. This can be satisfied by a careful selection of
HIST, VPA, SBS classes (dual credit classes.)
 For a listing of Dual Credit Courses see:
– http://lowery.tamu.edu/a
– http://lowery.tamu.edu/advising
• SBS & ICD
• VPA & ICD
• HIST & ICD
Technical Electives
CE students enter and remain in the “General” option
unless they change to another specialty, taking a special
set of technical electives approved for these areas:
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Coastal and Ocean
Environmental
Construction Engineering and Management
Geotechnical
Structural
Transportation
Water Resources
Technical Electives
The set of “grayed out” boxes in the flow chart for each
catalog are for your technical elective courses.
To see the required Technical Electives for your catalog
and option, go to http://lowery.tamu.edu and browse to
section IX-H.
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Copies of the flow charts for various catalogs are also
available for at:
http://www.civil.tamu.edu/currentstudents.html
Technical Electives
If you wish to change from the General Option
plan, you will need to choose a technical elective
plan around the beginning of your Junior year, and
then take the technical elective courses approved
for that plan.
Notify D’Anne or Crystal in 140 C.E. of your
intentions.
Technical Electives
 Your required Math/Science tech elective is
dictated by your Technical Elective plan. Want to
go structures? You must take MATH 311.
Environmental? You must take CHEM 222, etc.
 The coordinator for your technical plan must
approve any exceptions to the pre-approved
technical elective lists in advance, and in writing.
See the option plan sheets for the name of the
option plan coordinator.
CVEN 342 substitution
 The Department is offering 4 sections of
CVEN 342 (Materials of Construction) and
2 sections of CVEN 343 (Concrete
Materials for CE’s).
 All students can take either CVEN 342 OR
CVEN 343 to satisfy their 342 requirement.
CVEN 302 – Computer Apps
 CVEN 302 previously taught (3-0)
– Fall 2009
• Will be taught as CVEN 489 (2-2 hour lab)
– Spring 2010
• Will be taught as CVEN 489 (2-3 hour lab)
– Fall 2010
• Will be taught as CVEN 302 (2-3 hour lab)
CVEN 405/421
 Mainly affects CEM option students
 CVEN 405 is offered in 09C
 CVEN 421 CANNOT be used to sub for CVEN 405
CVEN 403 (2 SCH)
 “Applied Civil Engineering Surveying”
– (Summer Surveying Camp)
 Offered in May mini-mester
– Taught over two weeks in period between the end of the
spring semester and start of the summer semester.
– Limited enrollment (~30)
– Students enroll during fall/summer pre-registration
period.
 Accepted as a technical elective in ALL specialty
areas
– GCE, CEM, COE, ENE, GEO, STR, TRA, WRN
What’s “new”?
 CVEN 422 is now CVEN 322
 MEEN 227 is now MEEN 315
 ELEN 215 is now ECEN 215
 BAEN 320 (thermo) or MEEN 315 (thermo)
or ECEN 215 (circuits) can be taken to
satisfy your engineering science elective.
 GEOL 320 now offered Fall and Spring
 CVEN 424 is required by Cat. 130 and later.
Summer 2009 Study Abroad
 Spain
– CVEN 339 & 423 (Olivera)
– CVEN 444 & 483 (Barroso)
 Panama & Costa Rica
– CVEN 301 & 463 (Cahill)
 Belgium
– BAEN 460 (Munster) => CVEN 463
– BAEN 465 (Munster) => CVEN 301
– THIS SUBSITUTION IS ALLOWED FOR STUDENTS WHO
TAKE THESE COURSES THIS SUMMER ONLY!
For Cadets only...
 If you successfully complete the required 12
hours of upper-level ROTC courses, you
will get credit for...
– 3 hr American History
– 3 hr Political Science
 If you are contemplating an ROTC contract,
don’t take these 6 hours until late in your
career.
Pay on time! Don’t get dropped!
 Make sure that you are enrolled for at least
one hour before the first day of classes, or
you will have to pay a $100 late registration
fee. All adds and drops must be done by the
5th class day. See
http://admissions.tamu.edu/Registrar/General/Calendar.aspx
for links to the university calendar.
Other sources of information:
 Myrecord.tamu.edu can be used by upper level
students to check your schedule, correct your
address, and verify your schedule at critical times.
Also to see which classes you have completed,
and which ones you still need to take. Were you
successfully dropped? Added?
 If you have not signed up for the Departmental
List Server, go to http://cenotes.tamu.edu and
click on “CE Notes List Server” and sign up.
Otherwise you are not getting critical information!
 SIGN UP on this list server!
Other Announcements...
 Q-drop deadline and last day to withdraw from
classes is Monday April 6th 5:00 pm.
 Study Abroad - many opportunities exist. See
Dawna Rosenkranz, Room 326 Weisenbaker.
 Coop - many opportunities exist. See Dr. Lee
Lowery, 139C CE
 Certificate Programs – Management, Business
Other Announcements...
 Please remind students during the pre-advising meetings
that scholarships totaling $470,000 are available. This
semester we have over 185 scholarship recipients, of
which about 60 were new awards (as opposed to a
continuation of a winner from the previous year). That puts
a student’s odds at about 50% of winning a scholarship.
Average award is $1,000/academic year. Several of our
scholarships are $4,000 or more (for example Bob Jones'
17 hour scholarships).
Dr. Harry Jones, Head of Scholarship Committee
 Apply at http://lowery.tamu.edu/scholarships (when up.)
Students are notified when the site is up through the CE list server.
 Deadline for application: Friday, April 17, 2009
Web-based registration (cont’d)...
 If you are employed, anywhere, you might be eligible to
register early. See rules, restrictions, dates when they will
accept your form, and fill out a "Student Employment
Form" at
http://admissions.tamu.edu/Registrar/Current/StudEmpInfo.aspx
Forms will be accepted NO EARLIER than 8 a.m., Monday,
March 9, 2009 and NO LATER than 5 p.m., Friday, March 13,
2009. Makes no sense to me, at all.
 Freshman Grade Exclusion for up to 3 classes. Stays on
your record, but changes your official GPA. See
http://lowery.tamu.edu/a
Miscellaneous
The 3-peat rule is being enforced. The third time you
take a class you will pay something like $100/credit
hour.
If you flunk a class a third time, you will probably have to
find another major.
If you have 60+ hours, you cannot take ENGL 210. You
will have to take ENGL 301, or one of the other courses
listed. You can take 210 elsewhere and transfer it in.
If you don’t know who your advisor is, or your catalog
number, or your technical option, see:
http://www.civil.tamu.edu/currentstudents.html
Questions…?
Print out and sign this waiver. Bring to Crystal in CE
Room 140 after you have met with your advisor.
To: Dr. Terry Kohutek, Director of Student Services:
I was absolutely unable to attend any of the 5 scheduled preregistration meetings
this semester. I testify that I have thoroughly reviewed and fully understand all
materials regarding any new University and Departmental requirements that
apply to me. I also understand that by not coming to the meetings I take
personal and full responsibility for any errors made in selecting appropriate
classes, or satisfying other requirements that affect my continued enrollment
and/or timely graduation in Civil Engineering.
I have obtained a curriculum planning worksheet from the CE website at
http://lowery.tamu.edu/a
I have met with my advisor as directed in the web presentation, and am now
submitting my signed Curriculum Planning Worksheet with this waiver.
Signed _____________________________
Name (printed)_______________________
UID # ______________________________
Date _____________