Engineering majors who plan to pursue Departmental Honors must be members of the Honors Program and should enroll in ENGR 30003 Honors Tutorial during their junior year and ENGR 40003 Senior Honors Research Paper during their senior year.  The Honors Tutorial provides the student the opportunity to work individually with a faculty  member to study and explore an area of mutual interest.  Recent examples include design of elements of a fiber optic system, design of a refrigeration test facility, characterization of the frictional pressure drop in a capillary-tube flow, and development of digital signal processing algorithms for an optical interferometer.  The Senior Honors Project allows the student to continue working in the area explored during the Honors Tutorial;  the student is challenged to apply the knowledge and skills acquired in the tutorial course to implement a solution to a "real-world" problem. 

Senior Honors Projects represent the highest levels of undergraduate research and creative activity.  The final reports are placed in the Special Collections are of the Mary Couts Burnett Library. 

Transfer applicants should refer to "General Policies" in the Admissions section of the Undergraduate Studies Bulletin for general admission requirements and deadlines.  A degree plan will be prepared for each transfer student during the student's first semester of enrollment at TCU.  The application of previous coursework to an engineering degree at TCU is based upon equivalency of content with TCU courses.  All Engineering Emphasis courses must be completed at TCU, and a maximum of 15 semester hours may be applied to the Engineering Core.  All engineering courses must be from programs with ABET accreditation, unless otherwise pre-approved.

After enrolling at TCU, all students must receive prior written approval for any credit to be transferred to TCU.  The approval process is initiated by completing an Academic Action Form (available from the College of Science and Engineering).  Approval must be obtained from the Chair of the Department of Engineering and from the Dean of College of Science and Engineering.  It is customary to provide a copy of the catalog course description for the course to be transferred.  See the TCU Undergraduate Studies Bulletin for additional limitations on the transfer of credit.