UNDERGRADUATE

ACADEMIC ADVISING FOR B.S.E. STUDENTS

Every freshman who is a candidate for the B.S.E. degree is assigned an adviser who is a member of the engineering faculty. Working closely with the adviser are several junior and senior peer advisers known as Interactors. Students meet with their advisers several times during the year to select and change courses, as well as to discuss academic goals. Interactors meet with their advisees to provide encouragement and support as well as to engage them with the engineering community. The Freshman Year in Engineering at Princeton webpage contains the answers to frequently-asked questions about the freshman year in the B.S.E. program.

At the end of the freshman year, B.S.E. students join a department, and the webpage Frequently-Asked Questions by B.S.E. Rising Sophomores answers many questions students have at this time.

Sophomores, juniors, and seniors in the B.S.E. program are advised by their academic departments. Departmental representatives oversee the advising of departmental students, and questions about departmental degree requirements, the organization of independent work, and other policies should be directed to them.

B.S.E. DEPARTMENTAL REPRESENTATIVES, 2007-2008

Interdepartmental Certificate Programs

B.S.E. students participate in many different interdepartmental certificate programs. For more information, contact the program director as listed in the current Undergraduate Announcement or Course Offerings.

RESOURCES

  • Course Offerings
  • Student Course Guide contains student reviews
  • Math 104 is probably the math course most commonly taken by B.S.E. first-year students. Professor Ed Nelson has a Math 104 page with useful supplemental information and sample quizzes. It's worth calling this resource to the attention of your advisees taking the course.
  • General chemistry courses (201-202, 203-204) of interest to engineering students
  • Physics 103, the rite of passage for first-year engineering students
  • Planning for a Career in the Health Professions, from the Health Professions Advising Office
  • Frosh Help!, published by the Engineering Council, contains informal advice from the experience of junior and senior engineering students

Please alert the Undergraduate Affairs Office of other WWW resources that you come across which might be helpful in advising.