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Engineering Design (EDSGN)

EDSGN 010 Introductory Engineering Graphics (1) Multiview projections, pictorial drawings, dimensioning, engineering standards, and working drawings.
Effective: Fall 2007
 

EDSGN 011S Explorations in Design First-Year Seminar (1) Students explore topical issues in engineering design.
Effective: Spring 2007
 

EDSGN 012S Solar Racers First-Year Seminar (1) Students explore solar energy engineering by designing, building, testing, and racing a model car powered by a photoboltaic panel.
Effective: Spring 2007
 

EDSGN 013S Ethics of Star Trek First-Year Seminar (1) The Star Trek television series is used as an introduction to ethics, with application to student life and engineering practice.
Effective: Spring 2007
 

EDSGN 015S Transformations by Design: First-Year Seminar (1) Examination of the social and environmental transformations that follow engineering design, and of the transformations of students by higher education.
Effective: Spring 2007
 

EDSGN 100 Introduction to Engineering Design (3) Introduction to engineering design processes, methods, and decision making using team design projects; design communication methods including graphical, verbal, and written.
Effective: Fall 2007
 

EDSGN 100H Introduction to Engineering Design (3) Introduction to engineering design processes, methods, and decision making using team design projects; design communication methods including graphical, verbal, and written.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
 

EDSGN 100H Introduction to Engineering Design (3) Introduction to engineering design processes, methods, and decision making using team design projects; design communication methods including graphical, verbal, and written.
Effective: Spring 2010 Ending: Spring 2010 Future: Spring 2010
 

EDSGN 100S Introduction to Engineering Design (3) Introduction to engineering design processes, methods, and decision making using team design projects; design communication methods including graphical, verbal, and written.
Effective: Fall 2007
 

EDSGN 130 Architectural Graphics and CAD (3) Principles of architectural drawing; spatial relations with architectural applications; introduction to computer graphics (CAD) with project.
Effective: Fall 2007
 

EDSGN 199 (IL) Foreign Studies (1-12) Courses offered in foreign countries by individual or group instruction.
Effective: Summer 2007
 

EDSGN 294 Research Project (1-12) Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis.
Effective: Summer 2004
 

EDSGN 295 Internship (1-18) Supervised off-campus, nongroup instruction including field experiences, practica, or internships. Written and oral critique of activity required.
Effective: Summer 2004
 

EDSGN 296 Independent Studies (1-18) Creative projects, including research and design, that are supervised on an individual basis and that fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Summer 2004
 

EDSGN 296H Independent Studies (1-18) Creative projects, including research and design, that are supervised on an individual basis and that fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Spring 2010 Ending: Spring 2010 Future: Spring 2010
 

EDSGN 297 Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject that may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Summer 2004
 

EDSGN 297A Project Based Design (3) An introduction to the engineering design process with skill sets in analysis, synthesis, decision, making, and team work learned in the context of design project experience.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
 

EDSGN 298 Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject that may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Summer 2008
 

EDSGN 299 (IL) Foreign Studies (1-12) Courses offered in foreign countries by individual or group instruction.
Effective: Summer 2005
 

EDSGN 352 Fundamentals of Community Service Engineering (1) Students collaborate on community service engineering projects. Course modules cover engineering design, teamwork and topics relevant to project work.
Effective: Summer 2008
 

EDSGN 394 Research Project Courses (1-12) Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis.
Effective: Summer 2007
 

EDSGN 395 Internship (1-18) Supervised off-campus, nongroup instruction including field experiences, practica, or internships. Written and oral critique or activity required.
Effective: Summer 2007
 

EDSGN 396 Independent Studies (1-18) Creative projects, including research and design, that are supervised on an individual basis and that fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Summer 2007
 

EDSGN 397 Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject that may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Summer 2007
 

EDSGN 399 (IL) Foreign Studies (1-12) Courses offered in foreign countries by individual or group instruction.
Effective: Summer 2007
 

EDSGN 452 Projects in Community Service Engineering (1-2) Students engage in research and design of appropriate solutions to real-life community-based problems and project management of such projects.
Effective: Summer 2008
Prerequisite: EDSGN 352 ; 5th semester standing  

EDSGN 494 Research Project (1-12) Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis.
Effective: Summer 2004
 

EDSGN 494H Research Project (1-12) Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis.
Effective: Fall 2007
 

EDSGN 495 Internship (1-18) Supervised off-campus, nongroup instruction including field experiences, pracrica, or internships. Written and oral critique of activity required.
Effective: Summer 2004
 

EDSGN 496 Independent Studies (1-18) Creative projects, including research and design, that are supervised on an individual basis and that fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Summer 2004
 

EDSGN 496A Solidworks Fundamentals (3) Fundamentals of solidworks.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
 

EDSGN 496A Solidworks Fundamentals (3) Fundamentals of solidworks.
Effective: Spring 2010 Ending: Spring 2010 Future: Spring 2010
 

EDSGN 496C CATIA V5 Fundamentals and Applications (3) Students will learn fundamentals of Part, Assembly and Shape design, Digital Mock up tools and Parametric design basics. Students will explore Digital Mock up workbench tools and learn building and optimizing various mechanisms. As reverse engineering exercises, each student will have to reconstruct a part from a 3D scan model and also construct and optimize a selected machine or mechanism.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
 

EDSGN 496C CATIA V5 Fundamentals & Applications (3) Students will learn fundamentals of part, assemble, and shape design, digital mock up tools and parametric design basics. Students will explore digital mock up workbench tools and learn building and optimizing various mechanisms. As reverse engineering exercises, each student will have to reconstruct a a part form a 3D scan model and also construct and optimize a selected machine or mechanism.
Effective: Spring 2010 Ending: Spring 2010 Future: Spring 2010
 

EDSGN 497 Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject that may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Summer 2004
 

EDSGN 497A (S T S 497A, E SC 497A) Nanotransformations (3) The social, human, and ethical impacts of nanotechnology research and design using rhetorical analysis to study nanoscience and technology discourse.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
 

EDSGN 497A X-Disc Creativity: Smart Products for Tomorrow (3) Taught in a studio learning environment, students from engineering, design, computation, and business backgrounds will work together to design and develop Innovative Smart Products. Teams will be cross disciplinary in nature and consider all aspects of the design, creation, fabrication, and marketing of products with embedded intelligence.
Effective: Spring 2010 Ending: Spring 2010 Future: Spring 2010
 

EDSGN 497B Computer-Aided Design (3) The class will consist of a series of hands-on seminars on ProE Interface, Solid Modeling, Assembly, Finite Element Analysis and HTML documentation.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
 

EDSGN 497B Computer-Aided Design (3) The class will consist of a series of hands-on seminars on ProE Interface, Solid Modeling, Assembly, Finite Element Analysis and HTML documentation.
Effective: Spring 2010 Ending: Spring 2010 Future: Spring 2010
 

EDSGN 497C Design for Developing Communities (1) A seminar series related to the context and project management of projects in Kenya; Eco-village, Mashavu and social networkig.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
 

EDSGN 497C Design of Developing Communities (1) A seminar series related to the context and project management of projects in Kenya: Eco-village, Mashavu and Social networking.
Effective: Spring 2010 Ending: Spring 2010 Future: Spring 2010
 

EDSGN 497D Sustainability Leadership Projects (3) This class will engage engineering students in hands-on projects that will advance the efforts of Penn State and the Center for Sustainability to implement sustainable technologies at Penn State and create a culture of sustainable thinking among engineering students. Teams formed in this class will pursue actual projects in solar, wind, or green building technologies that will provide first-hand experiences and promote the development of teamwork and leadership skills.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
Prerequisite: 4th or 5th MAE or ENG graduate students  

EDSGN 497E Sensor and Controller System Integration (3) This is an intensive "hands-on" project based course that covers interfacing computers of various form factors to a wide array of sensors, tranducers, and sub-systems. The course covers some of the fundamental engineering concepts of instrumentation, control, signal conditioning, operating systems, etc. Interlinking of various programming languages and application programs shall also be covered.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
 

EDSGN 497F Sensor and Controller System Practicum (1) This is a companion seminar series course to Sensor and Controller System Integration course (EDSGN 497E) that includes a practicum series of lectures and hands-on workshops on entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, innovative thinking, intellectural property and patenting, venture funding and related issues.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
 

EDSGN 497G AutoCAD Tutorial (3) The class will consist of a series of hands on seminars using AutoCAD for 2-D drawing, illustration, and presentation in HTML with potential introduction to basic 3-D drawing.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
 

EDSGN 497G AutoCAD Tutorial (3) The class will consist of a series of hands on seminars using AutoCAD for 2-D drawing, illustration, and presentation in HTML with potential introduction to basic 3-D drawing.
Effective: Spring 2010 Ending: Spring 2010 Future: Spring 2010
 

EDSGN 497H Nanotransformations (3) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject that may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Spring 2010 Ending: Spring 2010 Future: Spring 2010
 

EDSGN 497I Global Engineering Design (3) Inquiry and discussion based course, with a semester long project with global partners on the engineering basis for sustainable architecture.
Effective: Spring 2010 Ending: Spring 2010 Future: Spring 2010
 

EDSGN 497K Engineering Design and Analysis with CATIA (3) The first part of the course covers the fundamentals of CATIA V5 in solid modeling, part design, and assembly design, prototyping and design documentation. The second part of this course covers the basic FEA (finite element analysis) capabilities in CATIA V5. Students will learn how to quickly generate a finite element model for surface and/or solid parts and how to perform analysis using the finite elements method with CATIA V5.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
 

EDSGN 497K Engineering Design and Analysis with CATIA (3) The first part of the course covers the fundamentals of CATIA V5 in solid modeling, part design and assembly design prototyping, and design documentation. The second part of this course covers the basic FEA (finite element analysis) capabilities in CATIA V5. Students will learn how to quickly generage a finite element model for surface and/or solid parts and how to perform analysis using the finite elements method with CATIA V5.
Effective: Spring 2010 Ending: Spring 2010 Future: Spring 2010
 

EDSGN 498 Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject that may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Summer 2008
 

EDSGN 498B (E SC 498B) CAD Based Finite Element Modeling (3) The course is designed to introduce the fundamentals of Finite Element Modeling (FEM) concepts through the use of commercial software for real world problems. This course will emphasize evaluation and verification of numerical solutions.
Effective: Fall 2009 Ending: Fall 2009
 

EDSGN 498B CAD-Based Finite Element Modeling (3) Fundamentals of FEM using commerical software for real world problems with emphasis on evaluation and verification of numerical solutions.
Effective: Spring 2010 Ending: Spring 2010 Future: Spring 2010
 

EDSGN 499 (IL) Foreign Studies (1-12) Courses offered in foreign countries by individual or group instruction.
Effective: Summer 2005
 

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