Returning Student Registration FAQs

Refer to the Registrar’s Office Dates and Deadlines website to learn when registration will open on Carleton Central. Be sure to check for your specific time-ticket.
The Engineering Scheduler Tool be available as a planning tool only before registration opens. Check the welcome page of the Scheduler Tool to learn when EOR will open for override request submissions.

Unlike in first year, upper-year B.Eng students are required to build their own timetables. For technical help with registration, check out the Carleton Central how-to-videos.

To check which courses you should register for, refer to your program progression tree. If you need help planning your schedule, try using the Timetable Assistant on the Engineering Scheduler Tool.

When your time-ticket opens in the summer, you are eligible to register for both fall and winter courses. This is highly encouraged, as many winter courses fill up shortly after registration opens. However, changes to your timetable can be made up until the registration deadline of each term.

Please note that there are different payment deadlines for the fall and winter terms, so you are not required to pay for both terms at once.

General information can be found: 4th Year Project Registration. Additional information regarding project options is available from your Academic Department office. A list of Engineering Departments and contact information can be found here.

Carleton University assigns year standing according to the number of credits completed successfully which count towards the degree. In Bachelor of Engineering programs, we use year status, which is based on credits completed successfully as part of a specific year’s requirement.

You can review the year status requirements on our website (based on the catalog year noted on your audit). You can see how many credits of each year’s requirement you have completed by running your audit on Carleton Central.

Please note: “X year status” is often a prerequisite to upper-year engineering courses.

You can review the year status requirements on our website. You can see how many credits of each year’s requirement you have completed by running your audit on Carleton Central.

To check which courses you should add to your registration, refer to your program progression tree and your academic audit. Follow the progression tree that corresponds to your catalog year, which can be found at the top of your audit (e.g. students with a catalog year of 201930 follow the 2019-2020 progression tree).

If you need help planning your schedule, try using the Timetable Assistant in the Engineering Scheduler Tool.

If you are off-pattern (i.e. not able to follow the schedule of your progression tree), you should meet with your academic advisor to create a registration plan to get you on track to graduate.

In some cases, B.Eng students may be eligible to take a course at the University of Ottawa through the uOttawa Exchange program or at another university via a Letter of Permission. The course must be equivalent to one that is required for your Carleton B.Eng degree, and is subject to the approval of your academic advisor and the Associate Dean.

Refer to the uOttawa Exchange website and/or the Letter of Permission Guide for eligibility criteria and application information.

With exceptions made due to course delivery shifting to online during the COVID-19 pandemic, B.Eng students are not permitted to take online (CUOL) or on-demand (VOD) courses. However, the following engineering courses are offered online only:

• ECOR 1056 and ECOR 1057
• ECOR 2995
• ECOR 4995
• Basic Science Elective (BSE)

Prerequisites are specific courses (sometimes with minimum grades) that must be met before you are able to register in a course. Course prerequisites are indicated with arrows on your program progression tree and are also published in the undergraduate calendar.

A concurrent prerequisite is a course that can be taken either before or in the same term with another course. Concurrent prerequisites are indicated with dotted arrows on your program progression tree and are identified on the undergraduate calendar course descriptions.

Lists of approved basic science electives (BSEs) and complimentary studies electives (CSEs) are updated for the fall/winter and summer terms and posted on our website before registration opens. Only courses included on these lists can count towards these degree requirements.

Acceptable 4^th-year engineering electives are identified in the notes at the bottom-right of your program progression tree. Alternative engineering electives require written approval from your academic advisor and require sign off by the Associate Dean to ensure that Accreditation requirements are met.

No, engineering students are not permitted to register with conflicts in their schedules.  Courses/sections with synchronous or “blended” delivery will remain scheduled and cannot have a schedule conflict. With synchronous and blended course delivery, students will need to be available during the assigned date/time for course activities as the instructor plans.

The Engineering Override Request system is a function of the Engineering Scheduler Tool that enables students to request override access to undergraduate engineering courses that they have been unsuccessful registering for themselves. If you aren’t able to register yourself for a course that you should be able to, submitting an EOR is how to request access to register.

Please note that only undergraduate courses offered by engineering departments can be requested using EOR (AERO, ASCE, CIVE, ECOR, ELEC, ENVE, MAAE, MECH, SREE, SYSC). Override access to any other course must be requested via the Registration Override Request on Carleton Central.

The Course Registration Override System (CROS) and the Engineering Override Request Form (EOR) are registration tools that forward override requests to the appropriate department administrator for review.

CROS encompasses the Registration Override Request function of Carleton Central. Override access to non-engineering or graduate-level courses must be requested via the Registration Override Request on Carleton Central.

Override access to undergraduate courses offered by engineering departments must be requested using EOR (AERO, ASCE, CIVE, ECOR, ELEC, ENVE, MAAE, MECH, SREE, SYSC).

If you are requesting override access to any non-engineering (math, science, the arts) course, you must submit a Registration Override Request on Carleton Central. Check out the how-to video for detailed instructions.

Please note that you must attempt to register in the course before you are able to submit a request.

If you are requesting override access to any undergraduate engineering course you must submit an EOR via the Engineering Scheduler Tool. Detailed instructions for how to submit an EOR can be found here.

The Engineering Scheduler Tool will be available as a planning tool only before registration opens. Check the welcome page of the Scheduler Tool to learn when EOR will open for override request submissions.

The Academic Support Office strives to respond to all requests within 5 business days. However, we receive an extremely high volume of requests during peak registration periods which may result in longer response times. We will contact you as soon as your EOR has been reviewed and a decision has been made – you will receive a response to your request via email with directions on what to do next.

If you are waiting for a response to your EOR submission, ensure that it was submitted successfully; automatic confirmation emails are sent from the “SchedulerToolEngineering” no-reply email account.

Each EOR is individually reviewed and considered. In some cases, a request may be set to pending if we require additional documentation or if we are communicating with the department regarding space in the class.

If your request is pending, be sure to watch for an email from “EngAcadSupport” or “ECORSupport” for decision and important registration instructions.

Students can submit only one EOR at a time. Therefore, we encourage students to attempt registration before submitting an EOR, to ensure that all necessary courses are included in the submitted request.

If you made a mistake or forgot to request a course, please contact us and we will cancel your request so that you can resubmit.

If your EOR is approved, you are granted override access, but you must register yourself in the course(s) before the override expiry date using Carleton Central.

You will receive an email from “Engineering Academic Support” with registration instructions. You must input the CRNs provided into the textboxes on the “Add/Drop Classes” page of Carleton Central, then click ‘Submit’ to register. Check your “Student Timetable” or academic audit on Carleton Central to ensure that you have successfully registered.