2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Architectural Engineering Technology (AS.AET)


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Program Description 

Vermont State University’s Associate of Applied Science in Architectural & Building Engineering program offers exciting and challenging classes on how to plan, shape, and maintain the structures in the world around us. Students gain the fundamental skills of architectural and engineering drafting, including instruction in CAD systems, along with a foundation in science, mathematics, and technical writing. Practical projects involve laboratory testing and field observation of construction.  

Graduates of this program are prepared for a wide range of careers working with architects and engineers, contractors, project managers, drafters, and surveyors. 

Graduates of the program are also prepared to advance to bachelor’s degree programs in architecture or construction management to further enhance their abilities to effect positive change in the world. 

Program Outcomes 

  1. Apply knowledge, techniques, skills, and modern tools of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology to solve well-defined engineering problems appropriate to the discipline. 
  2. Design solutions for well-defined technical problems and assist with the engineering design of systems, components, or processes appropriate to the discipline. 
  3. Apply written, oral, and graphical communication in well-defined technical and nontechnical environments. 
  4. Identify and use appropriate technical literature. 
  5. Conduct standard tests, measurements, and experiments and analyze and interpret results and function effectively as a member of a technical team. 

Program Objectives

  1. Professional skills: be immediately productive in the workplace. 
  2. Management skills: handle workload responsibility based on knowledge of necessary skills. 
  3. Engineering skills: demonstrate knowledge of theory and ability to perform workload applications. 
  4. Innovation skills: engage in post-degree learning and adapt to new and changing technologies. 

Credits Required for Major: 53


Graduation Requirements


To obtain a degree, students must fulfill the major-specific requirements as well as satisfy all other Degree Requirements  including the Connections General Education Program Requirements .

Accreditation


Accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET, https://www.abet.org, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Architectural Engineering Technology. 

Sample Degree Map


Degree Map (Sample) - AS.AET  

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