Incoming Students

Incoming Undergraduate Students

Dear 1st year Chemical & Biological Engineering Student,

Welcome to Chemical and Biological Engineering! Summer registration for 1st year students is on July 25th. Please read this letter carefully so that you make the right choices for the fall. Suggested course guidelines will help to ensure that you are on track for your degree program.

If you are coming to CU-Boulder with no AP or IB credits, we suggest that you take the following courses during the Fall semester:

CHEN 1211/CHEM 1221 Chemistry for Engineers 5 credit hours

GEEN 1300 Introduction to Computing 3 credit hours

APPM 1350 Calculus 1 4 credit hours

A Humanities and Social Science course 3 credit hours

If you are coming to CU-Boulder with Calculus credit, we suggest you take the next level math course (or the level you feel most comfortable with) instead of Calculus 1. In this case, all other courses in the suggested course schedule will remain the same.

If you are coming in with Chemistry credit, your course enrollment will depend on your AP/IB exam score.

If you received a 5: You have placed out of the Chemistry requirement for the department. In this case we suggest you take Physics 1 instead of Chemistry for Engineers.
If you received a 4: You will be given credit for CHEM 1111. You will need to enroll for either CHEM 1131 or CHEN 1211/CHEM 1221.
- If you do take CHEM 1131, you can apply this course towards the completion of a Chemistry or Biochemistry minor due to the number of Chemistry courses in the Chemical & Biological Engineering Department curriculum. (To obtain a CHEM or BioCHEM Minor you will need to contact the Chemistry department as soon as you have completed the necessary courses – usually during your junior year).
- We suggest you sign up for Physics 1 in the Fall and Chemistry 2 in the Spring (or vice-versa depending upon which courses fit in your schedule).

If you are coming to our department with Physics credits, please be aware that only AP Physics-C examination credits will count towards our degree. All other students should enroll for Physics 1.

The Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering requires all students to enroll in 1 semester (or 1 year) of Biology. This requirement differs from many other majors at CU. This requirement can be satisfied by:

Receiving a score of either a 4 or 5 on the AP/IB Biology exam;
Enrolling in MCDB 1150 (offered in the fall semester);
Enrolling in CHEN 2810 (offered in the Spring semester);
Or by enrolling in both EBIO 1210 and 1220 ( a two semester sequence course)

Students considering a pre-med career path follow a more restricted schedule.

First, if you DO NOT have AP or IB credit for Biology, you will need to enroll in two semesters of Biology with lab. The ChBE Department recommends the MCDB sequence of Biology courses.
Second, pre-med option students have a more limited choice of humanities courses.
- If your major is Chemical Engineering:
  - Enroll in a literature course as your Humanities and Social Sciences choice. The pre-med advisors recommend an English lit class such as ENGL 1500.
  - If you received a score of 3, 4 or 5 on the English Literature and Composition AP test OR you received a score of 4 on the English A-2 Higher IB test, you will receive credit for ENGL 1500. In this case, you can instead consider enrolling in another literature course or enrolling in MCDB 1150 with the lab during your first semester.
- If your major is Chemical and Biological Engineering:
  - Instead of taking a Humanities and Social Science course your first semester, enroll in MCDB 1150 and 1151

We hope that this information gives you some guidance for your initial schedule.

It is important that you register for your classes as early as possible on July 25!

New students who have confirmed their enrollment in the College of Engineering & Applied Science, should receive a packet of information regarding the registration process (July 25 from any computer with an Internet connection) and orientation program (August 22 & 23) by mail. This packet will be mailed to your permanent address during June 2007.
Please call (303) 492-5071 if you do not receive this package by July 7, 2007.

Changes to your schedule can be made when you arrive for orientation, however your choice of classes will be more limited at that time since many courses will reach capacity.

Further information is available on our website: www.colorado.edu/che under the Undergraduate Program link. You can find details on the different curriculum options, as well as the lists of courses that will fulfill humanities and technical elective requirements. Information regarding the application of AP and IB credits to your curriculum can also be found online.

I look forward to meeting all of you at orientation in August.

Janet deGrazia

Associate Chair

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Resources and Information for Incoming Students:

Chemical Engineering Curriculum

Option curricula also exist for bioengineering, environmental engineering, computers, materials science, and microelectronics. There is also a pre-medicine curriculum.

Chemical and Biological Engineering Curriculum

There is also a pre-medicine curriculum.

Humanities and Social Sciences Elective Course Listing

Technical Elective Course Listing

AP/IB Equivalency Table for the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department

University of Colorado Honor Code

All students of the University of Colorado at Boulder are responsible for knowing and adhering to the academic integrity policy of this institution. Violations of this policy may include: cheating, plagiarism, aid of academic dishonesty, fabrication, lying, bribery, and threatening behavior. All incidents of academic misconduct shall be reported to the Honor Code Council and those students who are found to be in violation of the academic integrity policy will be subject to both academic sanctions from the faculty member involved and non-academic sanctions given by the Honor Code Council (including but not limited to university probation, suspension, or expulsion).

Please refer to www.colorado.edu/honorcode to view the specific guidelines. If you have any questions related to this policy, please contact the Honor Code Council at honor@colorado.edu.

Examples of Academic Dishonesty

PLEASE NOTE: Academically dishonest behaviors include, but are not limited to, the brief examples described below. If your concerned about what constitutes academic dishonesty we encourage you to speak with your professor or if you do not feel comfortable doing so please contact the honor code office at honor@colorado.edu.

Plagiarism: Portrayal of another’s work or ideas as one’s own.

Buying a paper off the internet and turning it in as if it were your own work

Improperly citing references on a works cited page or within the text of a paper

Cheating: Using unauthorized notes or study aides, allowing another party to do one’s work/exam as one’s own, or submitting the same or similar work in more than one course without permission from the course instructors.

Taking an exam for another person

Looking off another person’s exam for answers

Bringing and using unauthorized notes during an exam

Fabrication: Falsification or creation of data, research or resources, or altering a graded work without the prior consent of the course instructor.

Making up a reference for a works cited page

Making up statistics or facts for academic work

Aid of Academic Dishonesty: Intentionally facilitating plagiarism, cheating, or fabrication

Helping another person do a take home exam

Giving answers to an exam

Collaborating with others on work that is supposed to be completed independently

Lying: Deliberate falsification with the intent to deceive in written or in verbal form as it applies to an academic submission.

Bribery: Providing, offering, or taking rewards in exchange for a grade, an assignment or the aid of academic dishonesty.

Paying a student to do work on your behalf

Attempting to pay a teacher to change a grade

Threat: An attempt to intimidate a student, staff, or faculty member for the purpose of receiving an unearned grade or in an effort to prevent the reporting of an Honor Code violation