CMW: Effective, Engaged, and Persuasive Communication: Written Component (6 hours)

• ENGL 101 - Critical Reading and Composition
• ENGL 102 - Rhetoric and Composition

ARP: Analytical Reasoning & Problem Solving (8 hours)

• MATH 141 - Calculus I
• MATH 142 - Calculus II

SCI: Scientific Literacy (8 hours)

• CHEM 111 - General Chemistry I
• PHYS 211 - Essentials of Physics I
• PHYS 211L - Essentials of Physics I Lab

GFL: Global Citizenship and Multicultural Understanding: Foreign Language (0-8 hours)

• Score two or better on foreign language placement test; or complete the 109 and 110 courses in FREN, GERM, LATN or SPAN; or complete the 121 course in another foreign language.

GHS: Global Citizenship and Multicultural Understanding: Historical Thinking (3 hours)

• Any approved Carolina Core course for GHS

GSS: Global Citizenship and Multicultural Understanding: Social Sciences (3 hours)

• Any approved Carolina Core course for GSS

AIU: Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding (3 hours)

• Any approved Carolina Core course for AIU

CMS: Effective, Engaged, and Persuasive Communication: Spoken Component (0-3 hours)

Choose from:

• SPCH 140 - Public Communication

INF: Information Literacy (0-3 hours)

• ENGL 102 - Rhetoric and Composition (if taken at USC) or any approved overlay or stand-alone Carolina Core course for INF

VSR: Values, Ethics and Social Responsibility (0-3 hours)

Choose from:

• PHIL 211 - Contemporary Moral Issues
• PHIL 320 - Ethics

Mechanical Engineering Electives (9 hours):

Choose from

Technical Elective (3 hours):

• Choose from any EMCH elective or from a list of acceptable technical elective courses that is maintained in the department office and on its website.

Minimum Course Grades

The Mechanical Engineering B.S.E. program requires that a grade of “C” or better be earned in each of the following courses:

• ENGL 101 - Critical Reading and Composition
• ENGL 102 - Rhetoric and Composition
• MATH 141 - Calculus I
• MATH 142 - Calculus II
• CHEM 111 - General Chemistry I
• PHYS 211 - Essentials of Physics I
• PHYS 211L - Essentials of Physics I Lab

Progression Requirements

Progression requirement policies are described in the College of Engineering and Computing section of this bulletin. For the purpose of these policies:

Major GPA

Major GPA requirement policies are described in the College of Engineering and Computing section of this bulletin. For the purpose of these policies, the following courses are used to determine the Major GPA for the Mechanical Engineering B.S.E. program:

• All Lower Division Engineering courses
• All Mechanical Engineering Major courses, and
• All courses used to satisfy a Mechanical Engineering Elective or Technical Elective.