通用课程选项适用于对其他BSE专业领域的组合感兴趣，和/或对所提供选项之外的专业领域感兴趣的学生。其他专业领域的例子包括水产养殖工程，森林工程和生物材料工程。尽管食品和生物过程工程专业为对生物燃料加工感兴趣的学生提供了理想的课程，但对生物能源生产的相关领域感兴趣的一些学生仍可以选择通用计划选项。报名参加“通用计划选项”的学生必须获得其BSE系教职顾问批准的“计划学习课程”。审查的主要目的是检查计划的学习课程是否符合ABET工程认证委员会的要求。顾问审查的第二个目的是建议可以提供更连贯和/或学术性研究计划的
The General Program Option is for students who are interested in a combination of the other specialization areas or are interested in an area outside of the options offered. Examples of other specialization areas include aquaculture engineering, forest engineering, and biomaterials engineering. Although the Food and Bioprocess Engineering specialization provides an ideal curriculum for students interested in biofuels processing, some students interested in related areas of bioenergy production may choose the General Program Option instead. Students who complete the requirements of one of the offered specialization areas will have that area of specialization identified on their official transcript. There is no such identification on the transcript of a student enrolled in the General Program Option.