To begin a new concentration or to revise an existing declaration, simply login to http://ask.brown.edu and navigate to the"Declarations" tab in the top menu. Then select the button that says "Declare a New Concentration" or “Change” to revise an existing declaration. Once you select and set a concentration, degree, and track, then you will be able to enter in your program plan.

As a first step, students are strongly encouraged to login and try to edit the "Program Plan". (The program plan is the graphic interface that shows which classes you would like to use toward your engineering concentration.) You will be able to add courses from your academic history or by manual entry, and then you can drop and drag these into bins for each requirement. (If you need to make a substitution, e.g. MATH0520 in place of MATH0190, you can also drop different courses into the bin, but this will require you to add a comment explaining the substitution, and will be contingent on advisor review and approval.)

The ASK Program Plan system is infinitely flexible about substitutions. All you have to do is drop and drag the course you wish to use into the bin of the requirement. Then the system will ask you to add a comment explaining the substitution. Your advisor will then review your substitution request when it is submitted, and either approve or request revisions.

You may receive a warning that includes a list of requirements. This means that you have not fulfilled these requirements in the "Program Plan" view. You may well have these courses listed on your "Course Plan", but ASK does not know how these classes will match to the "Program Plan" requirement bins. You need to have a complete form, with every bin filled in the Program Plan, before you can submit. The Program Plan is the graphic interface that shows which classes you would like to use toward your engineering concentration. (You can access this by clicking in the Program Plan and the edit links just above your course plan list.) The Program Plan is where you can drop and drag courses into bins for each requirement. (It is also where you can request substitutions for requirements. If you need to make a substitution, e.g. MATH0520 in place of MATH0190, you can also drop different courses into the bin, but this will require you to add a comment explaining the substitution, and will be contingent on advisor review and approval.)

If you receive a warning without a list of requirements, and have completed the "Program Plan" (drop and drag interfaces), then the most likely problem is the presence of a "Null" credit course in your "Program Plan". Some courses in Banner are listed with both a "null" credit and a one credit option. (If you pick the "null" credit version, you will notice that the number of credits "In Plan" will be one less than the number "Required" in the "Program Plan" view.) To fix this error, please remove the "null" version of the course from your "Course Plan". Then add the "one credit" version and drop and drag in the "Program Plan" view.

The newly revised engineering section of the University Bulletin provides the most concise, complete and up­-to-­date description of each concentration track (including our AB program and our ScB programs in biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, environmental engineering, materials engineering, and mechanical engineering, as well as engineering and physics). You can find the most recent version of the Bulletin online at: http://bulletin.brown.edu/engineering/ Then, please click on the “Undergraduate” link at the top to see the program requirements.