The Safety Engineering Certificate prepares the graduate for positions in several areas of safety engineering. Students completing 15 semester credit hours of the following courses can earn a Safety Engineering Certificate. This certificate is administered through the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center. The Safety Engineering Certificate has been awarded to students every year since spring 1994. The Safety Program Coordinator reviews each student's coursework before certification; both the coordinator and the Dean must then approve each student before the certificate is awarded.
Application Process
Students should complete and submit the certificate application (see application below) to the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center (246 Jack E. Brown Engineering Building) before registering for any of the certificate courses.
Requirements
- Students must be in good academic standing within their major department.
- Students must obtain a "C" or better in each course taken towards the certificate program.
- Students must achieve an overall GPR of 3.0 in approved certificate program coursework.
- Students must submit a completed certificate worksheet to the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center (246 Jack E. Brown Engineering Building) at least one semester before graduation.
- It is recommended that students take 6 hours of coursework above what is required for their degree program.
- Students must consult with an academic advisor before submitting an application for the certificate.
Required Courses and Approved Additional Courses
Please see the course information listed in the undergraduate course catalog.
Certificate Courses Accepted by Major
- Some or all courses may be accepted as technical electives with approval from the respective department.
- The chemical engineering department will allow CHEN 426, which is also part of their degree plan, to count towards the certificate. Two of the required courses (SENG 310, 312, 321, 430, 455, 460/660 or CHEN 460/660, 430) for the certificate can count as technical electives.
- Students may not take more than two distant learning courses to count towards the certificate.
- The civil engineering department will accept these courses as a technical elective for some majors.
- The aerospace engineering department will accept 485/491 courses and/or ENGR 281 and 381 towards degree plans if they are honors. Students can petition for a 400-level or 600-level course in AERO or another department to count for an AERO technical elective.
- The biological and agricultural engineering department has one 3-hour technical elective and one 3-hour engineering elective, which could be fulfilled by appropriate courses used toward a certificate program.
- The electrical and computer engineering department has several 400-level courses, which could be used as technical electives for ELEN. Each is reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
- The engineering technology and industrial distribution department accepts most upper-level (3xx or 4xx) engineering courses as a technical elective, particularly the safety engineering courses. Students should submit a written request explaining why and how it applies to the program.