Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

Transfer Process

Becoming an ISU Student

To officially become an ISU student, you must complete the following three steps:

  1. Apply to ISU.
  2. Receive an acceptance letter.
  3. Pay your admittance fee to the university.
  4. Attend New Student Orientation.

If you are not an ISU student, CCEE advisors have limited or no access to information on you as a student, which will make them unable to answer questions about your situation.

Campus Visits

Iowa State has scheduled campus visit days for transfer students to achieve several purposes, including a general group meeting with an advisor.

Planning Your Transfer from a Community College

If you plan to transfer from a community college, use the transfer plans for the College of Engineering to find courses that transfer to CE or ConE.

Find out which courses can be transferred in to fulfill the U.S. diversity and international perspectives requirements (pdf).

Also, learn about fulfilling the First-Year Composition requirements (English 104 and 105).

Transferring Courses

While applying to ISU, the Admissions Office will review your transcript from the other institution. They will send you a Transfer Credit Evaluation form indicating which courses transfer to ISU with your admissions letter.

Only courses with a grade of "C" or better will be considered.

Not all courses that transfer to Iowa State, however, can be used toward a degree in civil engineering (CE) or construction engineering (ConE).

Courses Not on a List of Approved Transfer Courses

If some of your courses aren't on the approved list, contact Admissions directly at 1-800-262-3810 for a Transfer Credit Evaluation if a course you've taken or want to take while at a different college doesn't show up on the transfer plan lists.

If Admissions evaluates the course as a 100-, 200-, or 300-level course, that means that it is not a specific ISU equivalent course, but is a freshman (100), sophomore (200), or junior (300) level course.

Once you are on campus, you can have a faculty member from the appropriate department conduct a specific review of the transfer course (pdf) (the sociology department if it's a sociology class you want evaluated, etc.).

If you want to know about a course to determine whether you are ready for the next course in a prerequisite sequence, then it is safest to plan to take the course and have it reviewed when you arrive on campus.

Course Planners

Use the resources below to find out which courses are required for your degree. Obviously, you'll transfer some of these courses in.

Civil Engineering

Check off the general or environmental emphasis charts with what you know will transfer. Begin planning your schedule with the Program of Study form (pdf).

Learn more about the civil engineering major.

Construction Engineering

To build a preliminary schedule to see how long until graduation, fill in the ConE program planner (pdf).

Use the course matrix and prerequisite chart that relates to your emphasis (building, heavy/highway, etc.). You might want to print your matrix and prerequisite chart for easy reference on the program planner.

Be sure to include all the courses listed on the prerequisite chart in the planner, along with the

  • Social Science and Humanities Requirements (15 credits),
    • Psych 101, 230 or 280 (3 credits)
    • Econ 101 or 102 (3 credits)
    • US Diversity course (3 credits)
    • International Perspective course (3 credits)
    • A depth course (3 credits):
      • any two approved SSH electives with the same department designator, totaling six credits, or
      • any approved SSH elective at the 200-level or higher
  • Engl 302, 309, or 314 (3 credits),
  • Acct 284 (3 credits), and
  • Engineering Elective Topics Elective (see course matrix for your emphasis's credit requirements).

Please see the Construction Engineering List of Standard Substitutions (pdf) for courses that can substitute for other ISU courses in the ConE curriculum.

Learn more about the construction engineering major.

Orientation

This is the last step before arriving for classes.

Attend the earliest New Student Orientation you possibly can. You get everything done in one day that it will otherwise take you up to two weeks to accomplish after school starts.

If you choose not to attend Orientation, you may not have access to services on which class syllabi, assignments, and/or quizzes are provided to students during the first days of class.

Orientation is necessary to get your

  • ISU identification to get into your password-protected course websites, allowing you to take quizzes and get assignments beginning your first week
  • Class schedule and registration
  • ISU email account

Academic Advisors

Civil engineering advisor: Ted Millen, 515-294-4658, tmillen@iastate.edu.

Construction engineering advisor: Rhonda Wiley-Jones, 515-294-2183, rwiley@iastate.edu.