Des Moines Area Community College.

Civil Engineering Courses

To earn a Civil Engineering Technology AAS degree, a student must complete all course work as prescribed and maintain a 2.0 grade point average.

Required Courses

Course Course Name Credits
CET102 Fundamentals of Civil Engineering 3
CET119 Survey I 3
CET135 Materials I 3
CET138 Construction I 3
CET169 Survey II 4
CET173 Highway Design I 4
CET178 Automated Design I 4
CET192 Statistics 4
CET219 Survey II 4
CET222 Soils and Foundations 3
CET235 Construction II 3
CET244 Materials II 3
CET278 Automated Design II 4
CET283 Highway Design II 4
CET291 Stucture Design and Construction 3
MAT773 Applied Math II 3
CSC110 Intro to Computers 3
CET305 Field Coop 5
With Faculty Approval, students may take the following in place of CET305:
CET307 Field Orientation 2
AND 1 of the following courses
MGT145 Human Relations in Business 3
Or
PSY111 Intro to Psychology 3

Option Courses

Select Both Option I Courses, OR Both Option 2 Courses, AND 1 Course from Option 3

Course Course Name Opt Credits
COM703 Communication Skills Opt 1 3
ENG105 Composition I Opt 1 3
 
ENG105 Composition I Opt 2 3
ENG108 Comp II: Technical Writing Opt 2 3
 
MGT145 Human Relations in Business Opt 3 3
PSY111 Intro to Psychology Opt 3 3
PSY102 Human and Work Relations Opt 3 3
Total credits required to complete AAS degree 72

Recommended Electives (not required for the AAS degree):

Course Course Name
CAD119 Intro to Computer Aided Drafting
SPC101 Fund of Oral Communication
MAT130 Trigonometry
SRV215 Intro to Land Information Systems