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Programs
of Study
Aerospace
Engineering (M.Eng., M.S., Ph.D.), Architectural Engineering (M.Eng., M.S., Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering (M.S., Ph.D.), Civil
Engineering (M.Eng., M.S., Ph.D.), Computer Science and Engineering (M.Eng.,
M.S., Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering (M.S., Ph.D.), Engineering
Mechanics (M.Eng., M.S.), Engineering Science (M.S.), Engineering
Science and Mechanics (Ph.D.), Environmental Engineering (M.Eng.,
M.S., Ph.D.), Industrial Engineering (M.Eng., M.S., Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering (M.S., Ph.D.), Nuclear
Engineering (M.Eng., M.S., Ph.D.). Program
descriptions can be found on the Web at http://www.engr.psu.edu/ogsr/Grad_Program_Summaries.htm
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Graduate
degrees are also available in the intercollege
graduate program in Acoustics (M.Eng., M.S., Ph.D.), Bioengineering
(M.S., Ph.D.), and Quality and Manufacturing Management (M.M.M).
Other related programs include Agricultural and Biological
Engineering, housed in the College
of Agricultural
Sciences, various programs
in the College
of Earth
and Mineral
Sciences, and the graduate minor in Science, Technology and Society.
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All
masters programs require a minimum of 30 graduate credits.
The M.S. degree requires the presentation of an acceptable thesis
or paper; the M.Eng. degree requires a significant culminating or
“capstone” experience as defined by the program of study.
The Ph.D. degree is conferred in recognition of high attainment
and productive scholarship as evidenced by the completion of a program
of advanced study that includes a minimum residency requirement, the
preparation and formal acceptance of a thesis involving independent
research, and the passing of the comprehensive and final oral
examinations.
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Research
Facilities
The
College emphasizes the strategic research areas identified by overlaying
national needs and College research strengths:
infrastructure,
energy, environment, information/communication, materials, product
development/manufacturing, and human needs engineering.
Engineering research expenditures exceed $92.6 million annually.
Research is supported by a network of laboratories and College
and intercollege
research
centers, and Penn State’s
Innovation
Park
supports a
tradition of successful technology transfer.
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Financial
Aid
Most
graduate students are supported by a variety of governmental and
industrial fellowships and traineeships and by research and teaching
assistantships. In 2007-08,
stipends for fellows and trainees ranged from $5,000-$30,000.
Stipends for half-time research and teaching assistantships range from
$18,684 to $20,304 (including summer).
Grants-in-aid covering tuition accompany these stipends. For
information on loans and scholarships, students should visit the Web
site at: http://www.studentloans.psu.edu/
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Cost
of Study
Tuition
for the Academic Year 2007-08 is $7,369 per semester for Pennsylvania
residents; $13,025 per semester for nonresidents. Students enrolled in
the College are assessed with information technology and activities fees
each semester based on the number of credits scheduled. Tuition rates and charges are updated each year in mid-July.
For more information, students can visit http://www.tuition.psu.edu
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Living
and
Housing
Costs
Graduate
housing ranges from single dormitory rooms to
two-bedroom apartments to four-bedroom townhouses.
On-campus housing information can be found on the Web at
http://www.hfs.psu.edu/rates/.
Off-campus housing is readily available in the borough of State
College
and the surrounding area.
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Student
Group
Fall
2006 statistics indicate that
83,721 students were enrolled at Penn
State,
with 42,914 on the University
Park
campus. There were 5,870 graduate students enrolled at
University
Park,
with 1,250 in the College
of
Engineering.
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Location
Penn
State’s
main campus, University
Park, is located near the geographic center of the state in the borough of
State
College.
The Centre Region has a resident population of about 79,500 and
is located in low, rolling mountain country. The University and surrounding area offer a wide array of
extracurricular, cultural, recreational, and athletic events.
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The
University and The College
Penn
State
is a land-grant university founded in 1855.
Graduate work began in 1862 with two
students.
Today, the Graduate
School
has approximately 3,000 faculty members and grants degrees in
about 150 majors. In 2006-07, 262
masters and 119 Ph.D. candidates received degrees in Engineering.
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Applying
Qualified
students may be admitted for any semester (August or January) or summer
session (May or June).
Admission is granted jointly by the
Graduate
School
and the academic program. For
information on how to apply, students should visit the Web site at http://www.gradsch.psu.edu/enroll/apply.html
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| FACULTY
HEADS AND RESEARCH AREAS |
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| Acoustics.
Anthony
Atchley, professor and head.
Research areas include active control of sound and vibration,
adaptive signal processing, aeroacoustics, architectural acoustics,
atmospheric acoustics, boundary and finite element techniques,
computational acoustics, hydroacoustics, intensity technique, noise
control, nondestructive evaluation, nonlinear acoustics, ocean
acoustics, physical acoustics, signal processing sonar engineering,
structural acoustics, transducers, ultrasonics, underwater acoustics,
wave propagation and scattering, thermoacoustics, sound quality. |
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Aerospace
Engineering.
George
Lesieutre, professor and head.
Research areas include astrodynamics; analytical, computational,
and experimental fluid dynamics and aeroacoustics; flight science and
vehicle dynamics; rotorcraft; structures, structural dynamics, and
adaptive structures; space
propulsion,
turbomachinery, and air-breathing propulsion.
Research facilities include subsonic and supersonic wind tunnels,
an anechoic hot jet noise facility, a supersonic shear layer facility,
massively parallel computer systems, a rotor test stand, an advanced
composites laboratory, a vibration control laboratory, an electric
propulsion test stand, and turbomachinery compressors and turbines.
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| Agricultural
and Biological Engineering.
Roy
Young, professor and head.
Programs are available in food engineering, soil and water
resource management and conservation, properties of biological
materials, environmental control, expert systems, particulate materials,
agricultural structures, systems engineering, machinery systems, safety
engineering, horticultural engineering, microclimate modifications, and
wood engineering. Facilities
include modern laboratories for food engineering, geographic information
systems, controlled environmental studies, water quality, electronics
instrumentation, waste management, hydraulic power and engines, physical
properties of biological materials, structural component testing,
computer vision, and machine research and design. |
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| Architectural
Engineering. Chimay Anumba, professor and head.
Graduate study and research are performed in four main subject
areas.
Construction:
process
modeling, lean construction, specialty contracting, productivity
improvement, project delivery methods.
Illumination
Systems: modeling
and visualization, daylighting, optical design, photometry, human factor
issues. Mechanical
and Energy Systems:
CFD modeling, district energy, thermal storage, indoor air quality, EMCS/real-time
tools, system modeling/optimization,
decoupled sensible
and latent cooling, emerging technologies.
Building
Structural Systems:
advancement
of analysis and design methods, optimization, seismic evaluation,
structural control, natural hazard resistance and serviceability of
building envelope systems, housing, historic preservation, cable and
membrane structures. |
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| Bioengineering.
Herbert
Lipowsky, professor and head.
A multidisciplinary program with core departmental faculty and
associate faculty members in other department with studies on artificial
organs, biomaterials, blood rheology, cell mechanics, hemodynamics,
medical imaging, microvascular function, molecular mechanics,
neuroeletrophysiology, physiological transport, pulmonary function,
ultrasound imaging and transducer engineering, and ultrasound
therapeutics. |
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| Chemical
Engineering.
Andrew Zydney, professor and head; Walter L. Robb Family Endowed
Chair. Research areas include applied thermodynamics;
biotechnology protein separations, plant cell cultures,
bioreactor design; catalysis/surface sciencecatalyst preparation
characterization, metal-support effects, molecular dynamics/Monte Carlo
simulations; physiological transport–flow/diffusion in lung,
cardiovascular fluid mechanics/mass transfer, cellular biomechanics;
polymers/colloids–diffusion, organized molecular assemblies; transport
phenomenaturbulent reacting flows, surface tension driven flows;
tribology–lubricant rheology, oxidation stability, high-temperature
lubrication. |
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| Civil
Engineering.
Peggy
Johnson, professor and head. Programs
include civil and building construction, project management, civil
engineering materials (geotechnical engineering, portland cement and
asphalt concrete, pavement design), hydrosystems (watershed models,
groundwater modeling, systems analysis, hydraulics of open channels),
structures (earthquake, blast,
abnormal loadings; bridges, buildings, and the building enclosure;
off-shore structures, structural control, reliability, and
rehabilitation), and transportation (traffic engineering, transportation
planning, facilities design, network optimization algorithms, and
intelligent transportation systems). |
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| Computer
Science and Engineering.
Raj
Acharya, professor and head.
Interests include bioinformatics,
data mining,
computer architecture, digital system design, embedded processors,
fault-tolerant computing, interconnection networks, parallel processing,
performance evaluation, VLSI design, database systems, distributed
computing, global information, sharing, programming language design,
semantics and implementation, software engineering, computer networks,
data communications, computer vision, document image analysis, machine
learning algorithms, pattern recognition, algorithmic design,
computational complexity, numerical computing, scientific visualization,
and computational molecular biology. |
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Electrical
Engineering.
W.
Kenneth
Jenkins
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professor and head.
Research
areas include antennas, propagation, microwaves, computational
electromagnetics, radar and lidar remote sensing, radiometry, in situ
and remote sensing of the ionosphere; digital communications,
networking, optical networks, wireless networks, image and signal
processing, multidimensional signals, signal recognition,
reconstruction, neural networks; nonlinear optics, fibers, optical
storage, computing; silicon, III-V, organic, wide bandgap semiconductors
and devices, MEMS, ceramic, ferroelectric, and quantum devices,
processing techniques; linear systems, active vision, control systems;
power system planning and control, drive systems, power electronics. |
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| Engineering
Science and Mechanics.
Judith
Todd, P.B. Breneman Department Head Chair.
Research
focuses on optical, electronic, or mechanical material property control;
advanced material fabrication and processing; and material, device, and
structure response simulation. Specific
research areas include composite materials; rheological and biological
materials; continuum mechanics; powdered materials engineering; fatigue
and fracture; failure analysis; micromechanics; surface engineering; CVD
and ion implantation; microelectronic materials and devices; ESR; thin
films; solid-state devices; display materials and devices;
nanofabrication; diamond films; NDE; sensors and actuators; adaptive
control; smart materials; wave-material interactions; ultrasonics,
structural dynamics; chaos, acoustics; boundary and finite elements;
condition monitoring; and artificial intelligence.
Facilities are available for SEM, SAM, SFM, X-ray clean rooms,
metallography, shock and vibration, and fatigue. |
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| Environmental
Engineering.
Peggy
Johnson, professor and head. Research
areas include water and wastewater treatment processes, aquatic
chemistry and microbiology, solid and hazardous waste treatment,
industrial pollution prevention and waste minimization, air pollution
treatment and control, water resource systems, and soil bioremediation. |
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| Industrial
and Manufacturing Engineering.
Richard
Koubek, professor and head.
Programs are available in human factors–ergonomics engineering,
human/machine interface design, safety; manufacturing
systems–metal-cutting, theory, plastic deformation and welding
processes, group technology, design of production systems, CAPP,
engineering for production, automation, robotics, control,
micromachining, CAD/CAM, flexible manufacturing systems, machine tool
sensing and diagnostics, tolerancing; operations research–applied
stochastic processes, decision analysis, mathematical programming, graph
theory and networks, engineering economy, artificial intelligence,
expert systems; and systems design–quality assurance, reliability,
experimental design, and systems simulation techniques. |
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| Mechanical
Engineering.
Karen Thole, professor and head.
Major fields of specialization include acoustics, automatic
control, biomechanics, compressible and incompressible flow, computer
vision, computational fluid dynamics, transport phenomena, combustion
and flame kinetics, space propulsion, dynamics of machines, turbulence
theory, simulation and modeling, transportation and vehicles,
mechatronics, heat and mass transfer, design analysis, optimization and
synthesis, simulation of mechanical systems, computer-aided design,
robotics, smart materials, structural dynamics, vibrations and noise
control, tribology, laser machining, and heat exchanger design.
Departmental facilities include wind tunnels, laser facilities,
advanced diagnostics for combustion and fluid flow studies, solid rocket
propellants, engines, control and mechatronics, vibrations, robotics
activities, and computer-based diagnostic facilities. |
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| Nuclear
Engineering. Jack
Brenizer,
Jr.,
professor and program chair.
Graduate
studies and research are offered in reactor safety–advanced reactor
design, thermal-hydraulic modeling, transient analysis, accident
analysis; reactor theory–computational methods, transport theory;
reactor control–advanced control methods, use of artificial
intelligence; reactor operations–fuel management, radiation
instrumentation, radiation monitoring and dosimetry; materials
research–radiation effects, plant-life extension issues, hyperfine
probes for defects in solids; and radiation applications–neutron
radiography. Facilities
include a 1-MW TRIGA reactor, hot cells, a thermal-hydraulic test
facility, and gamma irradiation, neutron radiography, neutron activation
analysis, reactor simulation, nuclear materials engineering, and
low-level radiation monitoring laboratories. |
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| Quality
and Manufacturing Management Program.
Jose
Ventura, professor and co-director.
This is a one-year interdisciplinary program leading to a Master
in Manufacturing Management (M.M.M.) degree.
Topics
include
business concepts in manufacturing, engineering design, quality
management, statistical process control and experimental design,
manufacturing systems planning and control, design practice for
manufacturing, manufacturing processes and materials, manufacturing
strategy, and communication and leadership skills. |
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Science,
Technology and Society Program.
Greg
Eghigian, associate professor and director.
STS offers an interdisciplinary, intercollege
minor for research in technology and design studies, science
studies, STS policy, and engineering and environmental ethics.
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