Engineering at Brown University

A suggested order for the 129 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate ENGN coursework.

• CHEM 0330Equilibrium, Rate, and Structureopens 28 courses (10.5 directly)
• ENGN 0030Introduction to Engineeringopens 17 courses (1 directly)
• ENGN 0040Dynamics and Vibrationsopens 16 courses (7.5 directly)
• ENGN 0510Electricity and Magnetismopens 14 courses (9.5 directly)
• APMA 0350Applied Ordinary Differential Equationsopens 12 courses (4.5 directly)
• ENGN 0810Fluid Mechanicsopens 7 courses (7 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate ENGN work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 129 ENGN and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 180 more ENGN courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on ENGN, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in ENGN. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at ENGN 1150

  1. MATH 0100Introductory Calculus, Part II
  2. ENGN 0030Introduction to Engineering
  3. ENGN 0040Dynamics and Vibrations
  4. ENGN 0810Fluid Mechanics
  5. ENGN 1150Environmental Engineering Design

• 5 courses deep, ending at ENGN 1595

  1. CHEM 0100Introductory Chemistry
  2. CHEM 0330Equilibrium, Rate, and Structure
  3. ENGN 0510Electricity and Magnetism

• 5 courses deep, ending at ENGN 1680

  1. CHEM 0100Introductory Chemistry
  2. CHEM 0330Equilibrium, Rate, and Structure
  3. ENGN 0510Electricity and Magnetism

• 5 courses deep, ending at ENGN 1760

  1. MATH 0100Introductory Calculus, Part II
  2. APMA 0330Methods of Applied Mathematics I, II
  3. APMA 0360Applied Partial Differential Equations I

Grade medians

Teaching in Spring 2027

Instructors on ENGN sections in Spring 2027, from the registrar's schedule.

• A. Peterson
• A. Van De Walle
• Abigail Kohler
• Adam Braff
• Ahmed Zaki
• Alexander Zaslavsky
• Angus Kingon
• Anita Shukla
• Anubhav Tripathi
• Arto Nurmikko
• B. Altringer
• B. Fleming
• Banu Ozkazanc-Pan
• Benjamin Kimia
• Brian Sheldon
• C. Rose
• C. Vargas-Irwin
• Celinda Kofron
• Chaki Ng
• Daniel Harris
• Daniel Mittleman
• Daniel Warshay
• David Bamford
• David Borton
• David Henann
• David Olson
• Domenico Pacifici
• Edward Barrows
• Edward Tracy
• Eric Chason
• Eric Suuberg
• F. Lin
• Franklin Goldsmith
• G Tayhas Palmore
• G. Jay
• G. Palmore
• Gabriel Taubin
• George Karniadakis
• Hamzah Ansari
• Haneesh Kesari
• + 56 more

Clubs & organizations

Groups the university lists under this department.

• American Institute of Chemical Engineers Brown University Chapter
• Biomedical Engineering Board (BMEB)
• Doctors & Engineers Without Borders
• Graduate Engineering Council (GEC)
• Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (GWiSE)
• Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA)
• National Society of Black Engineers
• Rocketry, Brown
• Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers, Brown

Clubs students here join

Department events

Engineering does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Brown campus feed.