IME at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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 IME coursework.

• STAT 3210Engineering Statisticsopens 21 courses (5.1 directly)
• MATH 1151Linear Algebraopens 14 courses (2.2 directly)
• CSC 1031Programming for Engineersopens 14 courses (0.7 directly)
• IME 1143Introduction to Design and Manufacturingopens 12 courses (4.4 directly)
• ME 1148Engineering Design Communicationopens 12 courses (2.5 directly)
• IME 1140Technical Graphics Communication for Design and Manufacturingopens 12 courses (2 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 IME 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 74 IME and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 20 more IME 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 IME, 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 IME. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 8 courses deep, ending at IME 4462

  1. IME 1143Introduction to Design and Manufacturing
  2. IME 1140Technical Graphics Communication for Design and Manufacturing
  3. IME 2243Intermediate Design and Manufacturing
  4. IME 3330Fundamentals of Manufacturing Engineering
  5. IME 4461Senior Project - Design I
  6. IME 4462Senior Project - Design II

• 6 courses deep, ending at IME 5541

  1. MATH 1261Calculus I
  2. CSC 1031Programming for Engineers
  3. ME 3236Engineering Measurement and Data Analysis

• 5 courses deep, ending at IME 5565

  1. MATH 1261Calculus I
  2. STAT 3210Engineering Statistics
  3. IME 3326Statistical Decision-Making and Quality Control

• 4 courses deep, ending at IME 3356

  1. EE 2115LCircuits & Electronics Laboratory for Non-Majors
  2. EE 2115Circuits & Electronics for Non-Majors
  3. IME 3356Manufacturing and Process Automation

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for IME yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under IME yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

IME does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Cal Poly SLO campus feed.