Approved Substitutions for Required FYE Courses

The following courses have been approved by the First-Year Engineering (FYE) Curriculum Committee as acceptable substitutions for the listed FYE Course Requirements. Students in FYE should typically plan on taking the standard coursework. Most of these substitutions are appropriate for students who took the course(s) from a campus within the Purdue University System (Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW), Purdue University in Indianapolis (PUi), or Purdue University Northwest (PNW)) prior to entering FYE on Purdue's main campus in West Lafayette, or before Change of Degree Objective (CODO) from a different degree program at Purdue.

Approved transfer courses (those taken at universities/campuses other than PFW, PUi, or PNW) will post to a student's transcript as the appropriate Purdue-West Lafayette course number. See the Purdue Transfer Credit Course Equivalency Guide for more information.

This list may be updated periodically by the First-Year Engineering Curriculum Committee. The list below was approved on December 10, 2014. Additions to the list were approved on January 13, 2015; February 17, 2015; March 10, 2015; and February 6, 2017.

 

Requirement #1: Intro to Engineering I (2 credit minimum)

Formal course options

  • ENGR 13100
  • ENGR 16100
  • EPCS 11100 and EPCS 12100

Accepted substitutions

  • ENGR 12700 (PFW)
  • ENGR 13000
  • ENGR 17100 (PNW)
  • ENGR 19000 (PNW)
  • ENGR 19000 (PUi)
  • ENGR 19500, Creative & Innovation Engr (Fa08)
  • ENGR 19500, Honors Creative &Innovation Engr I (Fa09, Fa10, Fa11, andFa12)
  • ENGR 19500, Ideas To Innovation I (Sp10)
  • ENGR 19500, Transforming Ideas to Innovation I (Fa09)
  • ENGR 19600 (PUi)
  • ENGR 19900 (PFW)

Requirement #2: Intro to Engineering II (2 credit minimum)

Formal course options

  • ENGR 13200
  • ENGR 13300
  • ENGR 16200

Accepted substitutions

  • ENGR 12100 (PFW)
  • ENGR 12800 (PFW)
  • ENGR 15100 (PNW)
  • ENGR 18100 (PNW)
  • ENGR 19500, Creat & Innovatn Engr Desgn II (Sp09)
  • ENGR 19500, Creatv&Innovatn Engr II-Honors (Sp10, Sp11, Sp12, Sp13)
  • ENGR 19500, Ideas to Innovation II (Su10)
  • ENGR 19500, Ideas To Innovation II (Sp10)

Requirement #1 and 2 together: Intro to Engineering I and II (4 credit minimum)

Accepted substitutions

  • ENGR 10000 and 12600 (last offered Fall 2009)
  • ENGR 10300 and 12600 (prior to Fall 2007)
  • ENGR 10400 and 12600 (prior to Fall 2007)
  • ENGR 19500 and 19600 (PUi)
  • EPCS 10100 (2 credits total, may be more than one semester) and ENGR 19500, EPICS Learning Community (Fa12, Fa13)
  • ENGR 13000
  • ENGR 19500 (Fa19 and Fa20)

ENGR 13300 AND VIP 17911 (or ENGR 17911) AND VIP 17912 (or ENGR 17912), VIP Learning Community 

Requirement #3: Calculus I (4 credit minimum)

Formal course options

  • MA 16100
  • MA 16500

Accepted substitutions

  • MA 16300 (PFW, PNW)
  • MA 16700 (PNW)

Requirement #4: Calculus II (4 credit minimum)

Formal course options

  • MA 16200
  • MA 16600

Accepted substitutions

  • MA 16400 (PFW, PNW)
  • MA 16900 (PNW)
  • MA 17300
  • MA 18100

Requirement #5: Chemistry I (4 credit minimum)

Formal course options

  • CHM 11500
  • CHM 11100 and CHM 11200

Accepted substitutions

  • CHM 12300 (last offered Fa09)
  • CHM 12500
  • CHM 13500
  • CHEM C1050 and C1250 (PUi)

Requirement #6: Physics (4 credit minimum)

Formal course options

  • PHYS 17200
  • ENGR 16100 and ENGR 16200

Accepted substitutions

  • PHYS 15200

Requirement #7: FYE Selective (3 credit minimum)

Formal course options

  • BIOL 11000
  • BIOL 11100
  • CHM 11600
  • CS 15900
  • ENGR 14100 and 14200 (for entry prior to Fa2015)

Accepted substitutions

  • BIOL 12100 and BIOL 19500 (before Fa2013)
  • CHM 10901
  • CHM 12400
  • CHM 12600
  • CHM 12901
  • CHM 13600
  • CHEM C1060 and C1260 (PUi)
  • CS 15800 (if taken prior to entry into FYE)
  • CS 18000 (if taken prior to entry into FYE)
  • CS 22000 (PNW)
  • CS 22700 and CS 22800 (PFW)
  • ECE 15200 (PNW)
  • ECE 19595 (Fa10)
  • ENGR 11700 (last offered Sp09)
  • ENGR 15200 (PNW)
  • ENGR 18100 (PNW, 5 credits total, counts for both requirement 2 (2 cr) and 7 (3 cr))
  • ENGR 18900 (PNW)
  • ENGR 19500, Honors Creatv&Innovatn Engr I (Fa09, Fa10, Fa11, and Fa12) and ENGR 19500, Creatv&Innovatn Engr II-Honors (Sp10, Sp11, Sp12, Sp13) — counts for both requirement 2 and requirement 7
  • ENGR 19700 and ENGR 29700 (PUi)
  • ENGR 22100 and ENGR 22200 (PFW)

Requirement #8: Written Communication

Formal course options

Accepted substitutions

  • Courses approved by the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee on the "Retro and Transfer Courses" List. As of February 2015, this included:
    • ENG W1310
    • ENG W2330 (PFW)
    • ENG W1400 (PFW)
    • ENG W1400 (PUi) and W1500 (PUi)
    • ENGL 10100
    • ENGL 10200
    • ENGL 10300
    • ENGL 10400 (PNW)
    • ENGL 10500 (PNW)

Requirement #9: Oral Communication

Formal course options

Accepted substitutions:

  • Courses approved by the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee on the "Retro and Transfer Courses" List. As of February 2015, this included:
    • COMM C1100 (PUi)
    • COMM R1100 (PUi)
    • SPCH S1210

 

Updated: June 12, 2025