Gen Ed Requirement

Required (Special General Education, 23 credits)

In the interest of making engineers fully aware of their social responsibilities and better able to consider related factors in the decision-making process, course work in the humanities and social sciences is required as an integral part of our mechanical engineering program. To satisfy this requirement, the course selected must provide both breadth and depth and not be limited to a selection of unrelated introductory courses. Not all courses in humanities and social sciences are acceptable, i.e. skill developing courses are not acceptable. Courses should be chosen to simultaneously satisfy the university cultural diversity requirements. Each student should discuss the selection of courses to meet this requirement with his/her mechanical engineering advisor. All students are urged to discuss this plan with their mechanical engineering advisors early in their academic career.

Specifically, the 16 credit minimum requirements include:

1. three credits of macroeconomics or microeconomics (ECON 201 or ECON 202),
2. at least 6 credits in the humanities area,
3. at least 6 credits in the social science area,
4. (a), (b), and (c) must total at least 16 credits
5. to provide the measure of depth to the course of the study, at least 3 credits at the 300-level or above must be included in the 16 credit requirement. At least one upper division course must follow a course in the same subject area.

Please see the [PDF] ME list of acceptable H/SS electives (31 KiB).