2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

The core curriculum is essential to higher education, ensuring the knowledge and skills needed for a successful college, career, community, and life experience and participation. The construction degree programs include the core curriculum courses as a part of the degree requirements defined by the state, regional accreditation, and professional accreditation procedures. While complying with the accreditation requirements, the construction programs select different sets of mathematics and physics courses, establishing the tone and teaching approach for the technical content of the curriculum. This paper reviews the mathematics and physics core curriculum requirements of construction programs in Texas. As part of this study, the catalog requirements of the construction degree programs are queried for mathematics and physics requirements. The data is presented using rubrics and the common numbering system designations, presenting the patterns and trends. A discussion of the differences among the construction science, management, and technology degree designations is included to highlight the accreditation and structural organization variances.