Every Whiting School student is assigned both a professional academic advisor (from the Office of Engineering Advising) and a faculty mentor (from the Department of Civil & Systems Engineering). Both are important resources who will help to guide you through your academic program and future career / graduate school planning.  You are required to meet with your academic advisor and your faculty mentor once each semester (more frequently for first-year students) for guidance, but you should also be independently tracking your academic progress using the resources on this page.

Degree Checkout Sheets for Civil and Systems Engineering Majors and Minors

Degree checkout sheets are the low-tech version of JHU’s degree audit system Stellic. Each of the links below will guide you to a page with requirements specific to your graduation year and your major / minor. There you will find your degree checkout sheet (an Excel worksheet that you can download and update for 4 years) as well as an explanation of your degree requirements.

Quick Links to the Johns Hopkins e-catalogue Pages

The e-catalogue includes important resources and policy information for undergraduate students. The links below will quickly take you to some of the pages that we find most helpful. Just note that these links are to the current catalog; you should go to the e-catalogue archives if you matriculated prior to fall 2025.

Quick Links to the WSE Office of Engineering Advising pages

The Office of Engineering Advising (OEA) maintains a website with several resources that you will find useful. Please take a look at the linked pages below. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, reach out to your professional academic advisor or your program’s Director of Undergraduate Studies (for Civil Engineering, Prof. Rachel Sangree and for Systems Engineering, Prof. Melissa Tilashalski).

Awards and Honors

The Whiting School of Engineering and the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering recognize students with exemplary academic records.

For graduating students:

General Honors are awarded to students with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.5 or higher.

Departmental Honors are awarded to students who have a 3.75 GPA or higher in their major-specific courses.

For continuing undergraduates:

Dean’s List- For students who have earned a 3.50 semester average with a program of 14 or more credits (12 with grades).

Honor Societies – Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society