Associate in Engineering (A10500)

College Transfer Associate Degree

The Associate in Engineering (AE) degree shall be granted for a planned program of study consisting of a minimum of 60 semester hours of credit (SHC) of courses. Within the degree program, the institution shall include opportunities for the achievement of competence in reading, writing, oral communication, fundamental mathematical skills, and basic computer use.

The degree plan includes required general education and prerequisite courses that are acceptable to all state-funded Bachelor of Engineering programs. Students who follow the degree progression plan will meet the entrance requirements at all of the North Carolina public Bachelor of Science Engineering programs. Associate in Engineering graduates may then apply to any of these programs without taking additional, and sometimes duplicative, courses. Admission to bachelor’s level engineering programs is highly competitive and admission is not guaranteed.

To be eligible for the transfer of credits under the AE to the Bachelor of Science in Engineering Articulation Agreement, community college graduates must obtain a grade of “C” or better in each course and an overall GPA of at least 2.5 on a 4.0 scale.

Students may be required to take developmental courses in Math and/or English as a result of high school GPA or pre-enrollment placement tests.  Therefore, the student may need more than the minimum number of semester hours listed for graduation. Consult a program advisor for more information.

**Students should choose courses appropriate to the specific university and engineering major requirements.

Upon completion of this program, students will:

• Clearly communicate, in both oral and written formats, Engineering designs, problems, or issues.

• Design solutions for an engineering technical problem.

• Apply engineering principles and concepts to solve design problems to complete calculations to answer contextualized questions, represent data in appropriate forms, and communicate the results.

Universal General Education Transfer Component (UGETC)

English Composition (6 Credit hours required)

Humanities/Fine Arts and Communications (6 Credit hours required)

Humanities (3 Credit hours required)

Fine Arts/Communications (3 Credit hours required)

Social/Behavioral Science (6 Credit hours required)

Required:

Choose One:

Mathematics (12 Credit hours required*)

*Calculus I is the lowest level math course that will be accepted by the engineering programs for transfer as a math credit. Students who are not calculus-ready will need to take additional math courses, specifically MAT 171 Pre-calculus Algebra and MAT 172 Pre-calculus Trigonometry.

Natural Sciences (12 Credit hours required)

**Other General Education (3-4 Credit hours required)

Degree Completion Component (3 Credit hours required)

*Students must complete ACA 122 within the first 30 hours of enrollment

 **Other General Education  and Pre-major Elective Courses (12 Credit hours required)

Select 12 SHC of courses from the following courses classified as pre-major, elective, or general education courses within the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement.

Students must meet the receiving university’s foreign language and/or health and physical education requirements, if applicable, prior to or after transfer to the senior institution.

 Students should choose courses appropriate to the specific university and engineering major requirements. 

Total Semester Credit Hours in Program: 60-61

General Recommended AE Semester by Semester Plan

●         Success in this program necessitates math to be taken every semester.

●         The appropriate level math class should be taken in the student’s first semester, and a math course should be taken each subsequent semester until all required math courses have been completed with a grade of “C” or better.

●          ACA 122 and EGR 150 should be completed in the first semester.

Fall Semester (14 Credits)

**3 Credits must be selected from Other General Education and Pre-major Elective

Spring Semester (13-14 Credits)

**3-4 Credits must be selected from Other General Education

Summer Term (10 Credits)

Fall Semester (14 Credits)

**3 Credits must be selected from Other General Education and Pre-major Elective

Spring Semester (17 Credits)

**6 Credits must be selected from Other General Education and Pre-major Elective

**3 Credits must be selected from the list of Social/Behavioral Elective

Total Semester Credit Hours in Program    60-61

^ The 8 credit hours for MAT 171 and MAT 172 are prerequisites for MAT 271 and are considered not part of the program.

 Example Other General Education and Pre-major Elective selections by discipline:

●      Chemical Engineering: MAT 285, CHM 152, CHM 251, CHM 252

●      Civil Engineering: DFT 170, EGR 220, MAT 285, COM 231, a CSC course, BIO or GEL

●      Mechanical Engineering: DFT 170, EGR 220, MAT 280, MAT 285, a CSC course

Remember to visit the transfer University's website for their requirements.

 AE to Western Carolina University (WCU) BS Mechanical Engineering Semester by Semester Plan

●         Success in this program necessitates math to be taken every semester.

●         The appropriate level math class should be taken in the student’s first semester, and a math course should be taken each subsequent semester until all required math courses have been completed with a grade of “C” or better.

●          ACA 122 and EGR 150 should be completed in the first semester.

Fall Semester (17 Credits)

Spring Semester (16 Credits)

Summer Term (10 Credits)

Fall Semester (14 Credits)

Spring Semester (14 Credits)

Total Semester Credit Hours in Program: 63

^ The 8 credit hours for MAT 171 and MAT 172 are prerequisites for MAT 271 and are considered not part of the program.