Suggested Engineering Core:

Requirements may differ according to date of enrollment. Current students should check their college catalog.

*Students interested in electrical engineering may omit PHYS 322; areas other than electrical and mechanical engineering may omit PHYS 324 (in some cases mechanicals may omit this also). Students are encouraged to consult engineering school catalogs for specific requirements.

Strongly recommended are courses in computer programming such as Scientific Programming Using C++ (CSIT 106), Modern Physics (PHYS 234), and 3 to 6 credit hours of economics. This core, coupled with the departmental and general university requirements, forms the basic curriculum for the three-year program at SUNY Fredonia.

An attractive feature of the 3-2 option is that the final decision regarding the area of engineering usually is not made until the third year, thus providing the student with sufficient experience to make a proper choice. However, it is to the student’s advantage to choose the second institution and the area of engineering as soon as possible. To transfer, the student first consults with the Cooperative Engineering director and then applies to one of the affiliated engineering colleges or to any other engineering college of his/her choice. Usually, a favorable letter of recommendation from the director is forwarded for highly motivated students with satisfactory academic records. At the affiliated engineering institution, a SUNY Fredonia student application is given special consideration. However, it should be noted that for Case Western Reserve and Columbia, admission is guaranteed to students with an overall average of B+ (3.3).

Since there are more than 60 baccalaureate programs with numerous concentrations available at the affiliated institutions, and since these curricula are frequently updated, it is mandatory that all students registered in Cooperative Engineering meet the director or authorized designee for advisement each and every semester.

For students interested in transferring to the Cooperative Engineering program either from other Fredonia majors or from other colleges, the following applies:

1. The student should have completed sufficient background courses to insure timely completion of the three-year Fredonia component.
2. The student should have a cumulative GPA of approximately 2.5 or higher. Students should be aware that engineering schools will not accept students with less than outstanding academic records.

A student organization, the Fredonia Engineering and Physics Society, provides a lecture series given by engineers invited from industry as well as from the affiliated institutions, who speak about their work and about engineering careers. The society also provides other extracurricular activities including design projects. Recent projects include the design and construction of a magnetically levitated model train, an optical holography table, and a small robot.

A large number of engineering and engineering-related courses comprising most courses typically taught in the first two years at engineering schools are offered at Fredonia. These include Engineering Mechanics I and II (PHYS 321-322), Circuit Analysis I and II (PHYS 323-324), Thermodynamics (PHYS 330), and Optics w/lab (PHYS 340, 341).

Students should contact the director of the Cooperative Engineering program for additional details for the following awards:

• Herbert P. Carlyon Scholarship
• Cooperative Engineering Scholarship Award