Secondary Fields of Concentration for the Undergraduate Curriculum in GE
Basic Information
The Secondary Field of Concentration provides
virtually unlimited opportunity and flexibility to tailor
the General
Engineering
curriculum to one's interests and career goals. Secondary
Fields of Concentration are of two broad classifications, pre-approved and customized, as described below. Preapproved ones have
designated titles and a specified list of courses from
which several may be selected. However, approval for
the substitution of a course for one on the specified
list may be requested via a petition form submitted
to the department. Customized Secondary Fields of Concentration
may be created to achieve goals in areas not provided
by Preapproved ones. To do this, a suitable title and
all the courses must be petitioned for acceptance the
department. Petition approval is based on the merit
of the Secondary Field of Concentration and the coherence
of the courses within it relative to the student's
goals.
Pursuit of Campus or College Minors or completion of James
Scholar Contracts may be integrated with Customized Secondary
Fields of Concentration in the General Engineering curriculum.
Courses taken may be applied to both the Minor or Contract
and the Secondary Field. This may also be done for coursework
applying to a second major in engineering or a dual degree
in another UIUC College.
For an explanation of procedures to declare Secondary Fields
of Concentration and petitions associated with them, consult
the Chief Advisor of the department or www.iese.illinois.edu.
As can be seen by the titles of Secondary Fields of Concentration
presented below, interesting and varied choices can be
made. Often such Secondary Fields of Concentration are
tailored to a student's long-term goals of integrating
a basic engineering education with specialized activity
related to engineering in direct or indirect ways. Secondary
Fields of Concentration may be technically or non-technically
oriented. Each requires a minimum of 12 hours of coursework.
Electing a Secondary Field of Concentration is usually
done in the sophomore or junior year before the first course
is taken in the Secondary Field of Concentration. Until
this decision is made, you are presumably 'undecided.'
In either case, you must make a declaration the Information
Survey section of the IESE Course Planning
Consultant. A Secondary Field of Concentration declaration
includes an option code and title. The various option categories
are:
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Option
Code – Description
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Typical
Titles
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1 – Undecided
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Undecided
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2
– Pre-approved SFC: with no course changes
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Automotive
Eng
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3
– Pre-approved SFC: with petitioned course changes
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Control
Sys
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4
– Customized SFC: title from list; all courses
petitioned
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Finance
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5 – Custom SFC: both title and all courses petitioned
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Modeling
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Pre-Approved Choices (Options 2 and 3)
Pre-approved
Secondary Fields of Concentration consist of related
courses in the areas of study listed below. For Option
2, any 12 hours of credit may be selected from the course
list given for the Field of Concentration. For Option
3, 12 hours still applies, but a request for the substitution
of a course not in the list for Option 2 may be made
via a petition form (see below). Generally speaking,
one course substitution is reasonable. Two or more suggest
that a Customized choice be made (see below). Petition
approval by the IESE Department is based
on the coherence of the complete set of courses chosen.
In several instances, the following course substitutions
may be used interchangeably to comply with prerequisites
of listed courses within the preapproved Secondary Fields
of Concentration:
CEE, 202, ECE 413, GE 331, IE 300, STAT 400/MATH 463
CEE 201, GE 330, IE 310
MATSE 406/ME 330, TAM 324/CEE 300
ECE 486, GE 320, ME 340
In the list that follows, choices of titles for Secondary
Field of Concentration under Options 2 or 3, and approved
course lists for those in Option 2, are effective Fall
2005. (Courses which appeared on a prior Option 2 list,
but no longer do, remain valid if taken when the list was
effective.)
For
each of these options, courses may be chosen without further
approval to complete the Secondary Field of Concentration.
Approval for other courses not listed may
be sought by petition. The most likely candidates are non-permanent
and experimental offerings relevant to the various fields.
See the list.
Secondary
Field Petition Form (for Options 3, 4, 5)
Customized
Choices (Options 4 and 5)
Customized Secondary Fields of Concentration can be created
to achieve specific career goals not addressed by Pre-approved
Secondary Fields of Concentration. Customized Secondary
Fields of Concentration differ from Preapproved ones
in that no sets of specified courses to choose from have
been predefined. For all Customized Secondary Fields
of Concentration, a course list must be constructed and
submitted for approval by the department. To do so, a
petition form (see below) stating the title and courses
for the Secondary Field of Concentration must accompany
the Course Planning Consultant Information Survey declaration.
Petition approval by the Department of General Engineering
is based on both the merit of the Secondary Field of
Concentration and the coherence of the courses within
it relative to the student's goals. For Option
4, established
titles exist, but not course lists.
Selection of courses for a Customized Secondary Field can
be made through research of the Courses Catalog and with
the assistance of the student's academic advisor. In
addition, for Option 4, a limited database of courses
previously selected exists that may be reviewed in the
Chief Advisor's Office. But one should note that courses
cited are only suggestive, as they were approved on a
case-by-case basis with pertinent goals in mind and available/appropriate
course offerings have changed over time.
In the list that follows, choices for Secondary Field Titles
under Option 4 are effective Fall 2005. They represent
titles for Customized Secondary Field of Concentration
that have been petitioned in the past.
- Accountancy
- Acoustics
- Agricultural
Engineering (or any other engineering discipline)
- Agronomy
- Animal
Science
- Applied
Mathematics
- Applied
Statistics
- Astronomy
- Audio
Engineering
- Aviation
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Cinematography
- Circuit
Analysis and Design
- Economics
- Energy
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Finite
Element Analysis
- Fluid
Dynamics
- Food
Science
- Geography
- Heat
Transfer
- History
of Engineering, Science and Technology
- Human
Factors
- Industrial
Design
- Industrial
Psychology and Organizational Behavior
- Insurance
and Actuarial Science
- Integrated
Engineering and Industrial Design
- International
Business
- Japanese
(or any other language)
- Landscape
Architecture
- Machine
Design
- Mechatronics
- Meteorology
- MicroElectroMechanical
Systems (MEMS)
- Mining
and Geological Engineering
- Philosophy
- Political
Science
- Power
Systems
- Pre-Dentistry
- Pre-Law
- Pre-Medicine
- Pre-Veterinary
Science
- Railroad
Engineering
- Solar
Energy
- Technical
Journalism
- Technology
and Management
- Telecommunications
- Thermal
Science
- Thermodynamics
- Vehicle
Dynamics
Secondary
Field Petition Form (for Options 3, 4, 5)
If a Secondary Field of Concentration title of interest
is not found in the above lists of Pre-approved and Customized
choices, a title may be created, resulting in the Secondary
Field of Concentration being categorized as Option
5.
For Option 5, the title and course list must be put into
the petition, and the Option and title declared in the
Information Survey section of the
Course Planning Consultant.
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(note: This is the unofficial guide from Gamma Epsilon and is not endorsed by IESE) 