Webmail

Computer Support

Engineering Student Services

IEEE Student Branch

Eta Kappa Nu

Women in Sci. & Eng.

EYES Internships

What is Engineering

About Engineering Careers

Engineers Without Borders

UNM ARTS Lab

MIND Institute

Center for High Technology Materials

Center for High Performance Computing

Optical Science and Engineering

Southwestern Regional ECE Department Heads Association

FPGA Mission Assurance Center

ABET

School of Engineering

WebCT @ UNM

Photo Album

UNM Home

 Undergraduate

---

EE Challenge Examinations

Challenge examinations may be administered to students to establish credit for courses in the Electrical Engineering program. This is subject to restrictions of the UNM catalog. A student may not challenge a course which he/she has taken previously at UNM, including courses with W, WP and WF grades. A course can be challenged only once. For students who were exposed to non-transferable similar material at another institution, the amount of effort required to review for a challenge examination is a major consideration. Frequently, the effort required to review for a challenge examination may be comparable to actually taking the course. The procedures for challenging a course are:

1. An Electrical Engineering advisor reviews a student's background and recommends a course challenge to the Associate Chairman.
2. The Associate Chairman reviews the recommendation of the advisor and suggests an appropriate instructor to administer the challenge examination.
3. The student obtains the necessary university form and pays the appropriate fees for the course challenge. The authorization form is then signed by the Associate Chairman and by the Associate Dean of Engineering.
4. The student takes the challenge examination and receives a credit or no- credit grade by the examiner.

There is no fixed format for a challenge. For a lecture course, a challenge may require that a student take a special comprehensive final examination. Alternatively, for example, the examiner may require that one take the periodic examinations of a section of his/her course during an academic session and then take the final examination. The intent of the challenge is to determine that the student knows the course material and that the knowledge and experience is equivalent in all respects to the course content as described in the UNM Catalog and as reported to ABET. Challenges of laboratory courses must demonstrate oral and written communication, proficiency in laboratory practice, satisfy any design requirements, and show a proficiency in the related theory.