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The engineering career field is at once challenging, rewarding, and dynamic. As a profession, Engineering changes constantly, and impacts virtually every aspect of our lives. Opportunities for students in this career field are endless. Engineering disciplines, or branches, include Aeronautical, Environmental, Civil, Mechanical, Industrial, Electrical, Optical, Computer, and Chemical Engineering. These engineering branches are represented at many four-year universities within California (see links for more information). The Las Positas College Career Center, Transfer Center or your counselor can provide you additional information.

The following list outlines the courses required for an Engineering major at Las Positas College. Although this list shows only two years, it is not uncommon for transfer students to take 3 or more years to complete the courses listed below. To make sure that you have competed the appropriate courses for transfer to a specific college make sure to schedule an appointment with a Las Positas counselor and check how these courses transfer to any college or university in California, including UCs and CSUs. Another excellent resource for transfer information is the ASSIST website, which provides specific course-to-course articulation information between any California community college and any 4-year California university.

Notes:

*CHEM 1B is not required for most engineering majors; Chemical Engineering and Materials Engineering majors should take CHEM 1B. Check www.assist.org for information specific to a given major and a given transfer university.

**MATH 7, MATH 10 and PHYS 8D may not be required by some universities for specific engineering majors. Check www.assist.org for information specific to a given major and a given transfer university.

***MATH 3 may be taken concurrently with PHYS 8B

Other Important Notes:

1. Do not complete all of your lower-division General Education courses. As an Engineering major, you are one of the few transfer majors who do not complete General Education courses before transferring. Note that CSU campuses (e.g., San Jose State, CSU East Bay, Cal Poly SLO) require more G.E. courses for transfer than do UC campuses (e.g., UC Davis, UC Berkeley). See an LPC counselor for more information.
   
   
2. Take as high a Math class as possible each semester. Because Math classes are prerequisites for all Physics and Engineering classes, it is important to complete your Math sequence as efficiently as possible.
   
   
3. Complete Chemistry early in your lower-division program, complete Physics and Engineering late in your lower-division program.
   
   
4. Most 4-year universities will only accept 70 semester units. However, most of these universities also understand that engineering majors frequently exceed that 70 semester unit threshhold. Because of this, most transfer universities will grant course credit for required courses beyond the 70 unit threshhold (meaning you do not have to repeat the same course at the university), even when they do not grant the units.
   
   
5. Most transfer students will spend about 3 years at the community college to complete a lower-division program. Only those students who start with Calculus I (MATH 1) during Fall Semester, Freshman year, will have a chance to complete the transfer program in 2 years time. Your goal as a transfer student is to transfer into the Junior class at a 4-year university. LPC transfer students for Fall 2009 are transferring to California universities including UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCLA, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, San Jose State, Sacramento State, and Chico State.