Instructions for Declaring a Major in Civil Engineering

Download and complete your major Program Sheet, which can be obtained from the School of Engineering Undergraduate Handbook Program Sheets website: https://ughb.stanford.edu/program-sheets. Be sure to fill in all courses that you have taken and those which you plan to take. You will have the opportunity to revise this later, so please fill in as many courses as you can.
Email your completed program sheet to jill.filice@stanford.edu and request to have a CEE advisor assigned to you. You may request a specific advisor if you wish.
Meet with your CEE undergraduate advisor and review your program sheet with them. Have your undergraduate advisor sign your program sheet. If
Make sure you requested the transfer of any AP credit you want applied to your Stanford transcript. To request AP credit at Stanford, contact the College Board to request that your scores be sent to Stanford. For incoming freshmen, AP credit is posted to your student record in mid-September.
Email your signed program sheet to jill.filice@stanford.edu, and upon receiving your signed sheet Jill will approve your major declaration in Axess.
You are encouraged to meet with your CEE undergraduate adviser at least once a quarter to review your academic progress. Changes to your program sheet can be made by submitting a revised program sheet with your undergraduate adviser’s signature to Jill at jill.filice@stanford.edu. NOTE – it is very important to confirm that your program sheet is up to date at least one quarter prior to graduation. SoE and Department Deviation Petitions must be submitted at least the quarter prior to your graduation quarter. Changes to your program may be denied within one quarter prior to graduation.

More information can be found here: https://cee.stanford.edu/academics-admission/undergraduate-degrees/how-declare-cee-your-major

Exploring Civil Engineering as a Major

Are you wondering whether a Civil Engineering major is for you? If so, here are some courses accessible early in your undergraduate career that will help you explore your interest in our major. If you end up joining our program, this early start on fulfilling requirements will pay off by giving you more flexibility in class scheduling for your junior and senior years.

The following electives are accessible to frosh/sophomores, and can count towards the major:

CEE 41Q: Clean Water Now! Urban Water Conflicts
CEE 63: Weather and Storms
CEE 64: Air Pollution and Global Warming: History, Science & Solutions
CEE 80N: Engineering the Built Environment: Intro to Structural Engr
CEE 83: Seismic Design Workshop
CEE 107A: Understanding Energy or CEE107S
CEE 120A: Building Modeling for Design and Construction
CEE 131C: How Buildings Are Made: Materiality and Construction Methods
CEE 162F: Coastal Processes

For an introduction to Civil Engineering, classes required for all of our declared majors that are readily accessible to you are

Class	Description	Quarter
ENGR 14	Introduction to Solid Mechanics, 3 units (prereq: PHYSICS 41)	A,W,S
ENGR 90 (same as CEE 70)	Environmental Science & Technology, 3 units	W
CEE 100	Managing Sustainable Building Projects (WIM), 4 units	A

CE-BS - Civil Engineering (BS)

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