Courses
University Bulletin - Complete EDSGN course list and descriptions: Undergraduate - Graduate
Schedule of Courses: Fall - Spring - Summer
Undergraduate EDSGN Courses (Credits)
EDSGN 010 Introductory Engineering Graphics (1)
Multiview projections, pictorial drawings, dimensioning, engineeringstandards, and working drawings.
EDSGN 011S Explorations in Design First-Year Seminar (1)
Students explore topical issues in engineering design.
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.This engineering First-Year Seminar is intended as a topical introduction to the field of solar engineering with a focus on solar electricity. Through hands-on activities, readings, and research, students explore the application of solar energy to power a model car (and by extension, solar electricity generation in general). Working in small teams, students design, build, and test a model solar-powered car. This seminar emphasizes active learning via project-oriented teamwork. Solar principles to be demonstrated include solar angles, solar resource, and conservation of energy. Students also use spreadsheets and computer models to perform parametric studies as an aid in the design process.Classes typically begin with a review and overview of the topics for that day. Class time is spent discussing new material, recent assignments, and working in the lab. Students also serve as mentors and advisors for local middle school students who will also be building and racing similar model solar cars.
EDSGN 013S Ethics of Star Trek First-Year Seminar (1)
The Star Trek television series is used as an introduction to ethics, withapplication to student life and engineering practice. In this first-year seminar, students explore ethical issues that arise in various episodes of Star Trek, from The Original Series with Captain James T. Kirk and company, through The Next Generation, with Captain Jean Luc Picard. Students learn how to methodically approach tough ethical decisions in their lives, especially those in professional life. This course helps them to identify, understand, and examine their moral values, and especially to plan actions that are consistent with these values. The class explores the current thinking on the responsibilities of engineers to society, community, family, and themselves. This is a discussion and application oriented course with emphasis placed on applying key concepts to realistic problems and on developing skills such as team work, argumentation, and communication skills. Underpinning the viewing of Star Trek episodes, the course starts with a foundation on moral and ethical theory. After discussing the ethical issues faced by the Star Trek crews, the class investigates similar situations faced by students and by engineers. Teams analyze and solve progressively more complex ethical cases in engineering and in general. The goal of the course is for students to develop their moral imagination and to understand how to make the best choices in difficult circumstances.
EDSGN 015S Transformations by Design: First-Year Seminar (1)
The course will be offered once a year in the fall semester.
Examination of the social and environmental transformations that followengineering design, and of the transformations of students by highereducation. Engineering design is a diverse field of study with many emerging topics and applications. The goal of this first-year seminar course is to introduce first-year students to engineering design. In turn, design is set within the essential dynamic context of technology: the transformation of the environment and society. Hence, doing design well means creating a better world and a sustainable environment. Students examine the global networks of product life cycles from extraction to disposal that is triggered by engineering design and how it affects people's lives and the environment. Since much engineering design is integrated design that brings together the disciplines and people necessary to achieve a design solution to a given problem, this FYS provides students with a vivid glimpse of engineering careers. This is developed further by student presentations that focus on their life goals and how their expected career in a given field of engineering will help them to achieve their goals. This course will combine lectures, discussions, teamwork, projects, and hands-on activities, with an emphasis on active learning and an examination of the transformations of technology from transducers to product life cycles. In addition to introducing first-year students to design topics and careers in engineering, this seminar course will help incoming students develop success skills and become acclimated to University life. But higher education is also presented to the students as a transformative process that reshapes their social relationships and determines much of their future.
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.
EDSGN 100H Introduction to Engineering Design (3)
Honors section of EDSGN 100.The same curriculum plus an examination of the way products and systems are produced in the global economy; cross cultural diversity in the design of technology; who benefits from development and who does not; and the transformative effects of technology globally on society, natural resources, and the environment. It includes global virtual design teams and optional follow-on programs abroad.
EDSGN 100S Introduction to Engineering Design (3) Introduction to engineering design processes, methods, and decision makingusing team design projects; design communication methods including graphical,verbal, and written.
EDSGN 130 Architectural Graphics and CAD (3)
Principles of architectural drawing; spatial relations with architecturalapplications; introduction to computer graphics (CAD) with project.
EDSGN 199 (IL) Foreign Studies (1-12)
Courses offered in foreign countries by individual or group instruction.
EDSGN 294 Research Project (1–12)
Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis.
EDSGN 295 Internship (1–18)
Supervised off-campus, non-group instruction including field experiences, practica, or internships. Written and oral critique of activity required.
EDSGN 296 Independent Studies (1–18)
Creative projects, including research and design, that are supervised on anindividual basis and that fall outside the scope of formal courses.
EDSGN 297 Special Topics (1–9)
Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparativelynarrow subject that may be topical or of special interest.
EDSGN 298 Special Topics (1-9)
Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrowsubject that may be topical or of special interest.
EDSGN 299 (IL) Foreign Studies (1–12)
Courses offered in foreign countries by individual or group instruction.
EDSGN 352 Fundamentals of Community Service Engineering (1)
Students collaborate on community service engineering projects. Coursemodules cover engineering design, teamwork and topics relevant to projectwork. EDSGN 352 is intended to assist students with improving their engineering skill through design/build activities. Students are required to design and construct an appropriate technology of their choice--a technology useful and commonly found in community settings. Examples of such appropriate technologies include projects related to water treatment and testing, wastewater treatment and testing, housing, energy, agriculture and mechanical devices. Lectures and presentations are provided, along with associated student activities, addressing skills needed by design engineers when engaging in community-based projects. These include topics related to (among others): laboratory/shop training, project management techniques, teambuilding exercises, creation and implementation of community assessment tools, project management and leadership skills, as well as issues related to ethics and sustainability. Students will also collaborate with EDSGN 452 students on actual, real-life projects.
EDSGN 394 Research Project Courses (1-12)
Supervised student activities on research projects identified on anindividual or small-group basis.
EDSGN 395 Internship (1-18)
Supervised off-campus, nongroup instruction including field experiences,practica, or internships. Written and oral critique or activity required.
EDSGN 396 Independent Studies (1-18)
Creative projects, including research and design, that are supervised on anindividual basis and that fall outside the scope of formal courses.
EDSGN 397 Special Topics (1-9)
Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparativelynarrow subject that may be topical or of special interest.
EDSGN 399 (IL) Foreign Studies (1-12)
Courses offered in foreign countries by individual or group instruction.
EDSGN 410 Integrated and Innovative Product Design (3 credits)
Course number not yet approved, currently listed as EDSGN 497D
I 2 Design will focus on innovative product and system design that integrates several disciplines in the design process, including non engineering disciplines.
EDSGN 420 Sustainable Design (3) (Info)
Course number not yet approved, currently listed as EDSGN 497A
Sustainable design is an emerging practice that is relevant and important to all design disciplines. Course Objective: To learn and apply principles of sustainable design to real-world problems. Topics include industrial ecology, environmental ethics, sustainability metrics, life-cycle assessment, renewable energy, green materials, and green buildings. Active learning is emphasized via case studies, experiments, and hands-on projects.
EDSGN 425: Global Engineering Design (3)
The course examines global diversity in resources (supply chains) and markets, and the use of the 24-hour clock, globally distributed teams, and distributed low-cost engineering centers (LCECs). Global Design examines the nature of cultural diversity in the practice of design and in communications in the global economy. Innovation (and how it is measured) as a driving force in economic growth and its ethical challenges (innovation for what and for whom) are given special attention. It has semester-long, client-based, design projects often for clients in other countries in Europe and Asia. Teams are formed with students in other countries.
EDSGN 452 Projects in Community Service Engineering (1-2)
Students engage in research and design of appropriate solutions to real-lifecommunity-based problems and project management of such projects. EDSGN 452 is intended to promote civic responsibility and enhance the student's abilities to engage in research and design, project management, communications, professional conduct and the understanding of user needs. This is accomplished by students undertaking team-based engineering projects in community service with partner community organizations. The projects offer real-world engineering design experience, from problem formulation through performance assessment. The project offerings will include a mix of local and international offerings. Students work on multidisciplinary teams with a project supervisor (i.e., faculty or practicing engineer) and a representative from the partner community organization. Projects are selected based on academic content, potential significance to the partner community, commitment of the partner community organization, and student safety. Students also examine the politics of technology, the relationship between engineering and communities (either domestic or international), and ethics in engineering practice. This includes the ways that engineering can be used positively and negatively in development. In the course of their work, the students will examine the ways that economic, social, cultural, political, and other contextual considerations are implicated in engineering design. Students are challenged to think critically about how engineering can be done most effectively to support community goals, and how engineering can weaken community efforts if done insensitively. These issues are explored through discussions of the relevant scholarly theory and through their manifestation in the course projects.
EDSGN 494 Research Project (1–12)
Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis.
EDSGN 494H Research Project (1-12)
Supervised student activities on research projects identified on anindividual or small-group basis.
EDSGN 495 Internship (1–18)
Supervised off-campus, nongroup instruction including field experiences, practica, or internships. Written and oral critique of activity required.
EDSGN 496 Independent Studies (1–18)
Creative projects, including research and design, that are supervised on anindividual basis and that fall outside the scope of formal courses.
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.
EDSGN 497A Project Based Engineering Design (3)
An introduction to the engineering design process with skill sets inanalysis, synthesis, decision making, and team work learned in the contextof design project experiences.
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.
EDSGN 497C Humanitarian Engineering (1-3)
Design and construction of appropriate technologies commonly used indeveloping communities. Emphasis placed on energy, water, wastewater,housing and agriculture projects.
EDSGN 497D Innovative Integrated Product Design (3)
Innovative Integrated Product Design will focus on innovative product andsystem design that integrates several disciplines in the design process,including non-engineering disciplines.
EDSGN 497E Senson and Controller System Integration (3)
This is an intensive "hands-on" project based course that covers interfacingcomputers of various form factors to a wide array of sensors, transducersand sub-systems. The course covers some of the fundamental engineeringconcepts of instrumentation, control, signal conditioning, operating systems,etc. Interlinking of various programming languages and application programsshall also be covered.
EDSGN 497F Sensor and Controller System Practicum (1)
This is a companion seminar series course to Sensor and Controller SystemsIntegration course that includes a practicum series of lectures and hands-onworkshops on entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, innovative thinking,intellectual property and patenting, venture funding and related issues.
EDSGN 497G AutoCAD 2008 Tutorial (2)
The class will consist of a series of hands-on seminars using AutoCAD 2008for 2-D drawing, illustration, and presentation in HTML with potentialintroduction to basic 3-D drawing.
EDSGN 497I International Design, Entrepreneurship, and Leadership (2)
Fundamentals of design, entrepreneurship, and leadership as practiced in aglobal context and a global collaborative project.
EDSGN 497K Engineering Design and Analysis with CATIA (3)
Covers fundamentals of CATIA V5 in solid modeling, part design, and assemblydesign, prototyping, and design documentation. Also covers the basic FEA(finite element analysis) capabilities of CATIA V5. Students will learn howto quickly generate a finite model for surface and/or solid parts and how toperform analysis using the finite elements method with CATIA V5.
EDSGN 498 Special Topics (1-9)
Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrowsubject that may be topical or of special interest.
EDSGN 499 (IL) Foreign Studies (1–12)
Courses offered in foreign countries by individual or group instruction.
Graduate EDSGN Courses
EDSGN 510/ME 597A Innovative Engineering Design with TRIZ (3)
This course presents a systematic approach to innovative design based on the TRIZ, the Russian acronym for Theory of Inventive Problem Solving.
EDSGN 520/IE 597 Design Decision Making (3)
Course number not yet approved; currently listed as EDSGN 597A
Students will internalize the importance of information and decision-making in design; understand the complexities due to uncertain information, multi-person decision making, technology obsolescence, competitive priorities, etc.; become familiar with state-of-the-art methods and tools for design decision-making; and demonstrate the application of this knowledge in the context of individual and collaborative design projects.
EDSGN 530 Systems Design (3) (Info)
Overview of systems engineering design, methodology, management, tools, integration, and operation for large and small scale systems.
EDSGN / ME / IE 547 Design for Human Variability (3)
Course waiting for approval. Course will be offered every fall semester.
The course presents the use of statistics, optimization, and robust design methodologies in the design of products and environments that are robust to the variability in users. This includes the development of modeling strategies that incorporate an understanding of variability in human size, capability, and preference. The material will be presented through a variety of hands-on activities including design projects. Current and best industrial practices will also be presented. This is a unique opportunity to explore material from engineering, statistics, biomechanics, disability and aging research, and business in the context of design problems.
EDSGN 590 Colloquium (1–3)
Continuing seminars that consist of a series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers.
EDSGN 594 Research Project (1–12)
Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis.
EDSGN 595 Internship (1–9)
EDSGN 596 Independent Studies (1–9)
EDSGN 597 Special Topics (1–9)
EDSGN 598 Special Topics (1–9)
EDSGN 599 (IL) Foreign Studies (1–2 per semester, maximum of 4)