School of Engineering
The School of Engineering (SoE) offers excellent education, caring professors, and outstanding classmates. Students in SoE programs develop a sense of healthy technological progress in a Christ-centered environment, leading graduates to have fulfilling engineering careers at many excellent companies.
By earning a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or Electrical Engineering, students develop into thoroughly competent engineers, through rigorous classroom instruction and hands-on experience. SoE students develop a full understanding of general engineering principles as well as those of a specific engineering discipline, equipping them to become leaders in the workforce.
A fee of $150 per semester is charged to each student to help support the continued improvement of the Engineering program.
Transfer students pursuing a major in any of these areas must take a minimum of 40% of the coursework for their major at Benedictine College.
Before enrolling in any junior-level (or above) CENG, CIVL, EENG, ENGR, and MENG course, students must receive approval from the School of Engineering.
Review Processs
During the spring semester, a SoE faculty committee that consists of the chair and the faculty members in an engineering discipline conducts a review of all sophomore students in its major.
- The process for this review is found in the School of Engineering Code of Student Conduct.
- The committee conducts its review within seven days of the posting of spring-semester midterm grades.
- The committee informs students of the results before fall registration begins. Only students who receive approval will be able to enroll in junior- and senior-level engineering courses.
- A student may request a reconsideration of the decision after final grades have been posted for the spring semester.
Continuation in an Engineering Degree Program
- All students must maintain a GPA of at least 2.1 (2.0 for freshmen) in all engineering courses taken to date.
- If a student falls below the minimum engineering GPA, the SoE will issue a warning via email and/or Navigate.
- A second semester below the minimum engineering GPA will result in the SoE removing the student from the engineering degree program and notifying the student via email.
- Students may also be removed from an engineering degree program after a particularly egregious instance of academic misconduct.
Due Process Procedures
- A student who was removed from continuation in an engineering degree program may appeal that decision by submitting a letter to the SoE Chair (via email) of appeal no later than seven calendar days after the notification was issued.
- An engineering faculty committee reviews the appeal and communicates its final decision via an email to the student.
- If still unsatisfied, the student may appeal to the Provost.