Pre-Engineering

You can begin your degree at The University of Winnipeg by studying Physics. If you complete a Physics 3-year Bachelor of Science degree and have a minimum GPA of 3.0 (depending on the Engineering Major), you are competitive to transfer to the University of Minnesota’s engineering program. After transferring your course credits acquired in Winnipeg to the University of Minnesota, you will complete your engineering degree with a final two years of study in Minneapolis, where you will earn an ABET-accredited engineering degree.

Upon graduation, you can make application to practice engineering in the Canadian province or other jurisdiction in which you wish to practice. In addition, you would be eligible to apply for CSE’s master of engineering program (acceptance to that program is not guaranteed).

In the end, you will have earned two degrees: a Bachelor of Science from The University of Winnipeg and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Minnesota. At this stage, you can apply to have your 3-year Bachelor of Science degree upgraded to a 4-year degree, subject to approval by the appropriate department based on transfer credits being granted for courses taken in Minnesota.

• Aerospace engineering and mechanics
• Biomedical engineering
• Bioproducts and biosystems engineering
• Chemical engineering
• Civil engineering
• Computer engineering
• Electrical engineering
• Environmental engineering
• Geoengineering
• Industrial and systems engineering
• Materials science and engineering
• Mechanical engineering

An engineering degree from the University of Minnesota is an asset for future employment or further study. Companies that have recently hired graduates of the College of Science and Engineering programs include 3M, Boeing, Cargill, Dow Corning, Hewlett Packard Company, IBM, Microsoft, and Motorola Inc.

• The College of Science and Engineering undergraduate engineering programs are consistently ranked among the top engineering programs in the United States.
• Manitoba students benefit from Manitoba and Minnesota’s tuition reciprocity agreement https://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/ie/domestic/minnesota.html. This means that Manitoba students pay the same affordable tuition as a student from Minnesota.
• Pre-engineering at UWinnipeg prepares you for other engineering programs, including Engineering Physics at University of Manitoba, and Engineering at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Germany, with which UWinnipeg has a student exchange program. 

PHYS-1101(6) Foundations of Physics
MATH-1103(3) Introduction to Calculus I and MATH-1104(3) Introduction to Calculus II
CHEM-1111(3) Introduction to the Chemical Properties of Matter (required for all but Computer Engineering)
CHEM-1112(3) Basic Principles of Chemical Reactivity (if required for some streams)
RHET-11xx(3) Academic Writing, if required
6 credit hours Humanities (consult Minnesota’s liberal education requirements for advice)
3 credit hours Elective (dependent on the engineering stream).