Engineering

An introduction into diverse methods, practices, and tools to foster creative problem-solving. Engage in exercises and assignments to foster creativity. Delve into the link between creativity and innovation, unlocking potential for groundbreaking solutions.

Students will gain a working understanding of technologies of interest to entrepreneurs. The course will be refreshed yearly, but the initial offering is expected to include emerging technologies and day-to-day technologies. NOTE: Only available as part of the Engineering Entrepreneurship Summer Instititute (E2SI)

This course explores the application of transformative technologies to drive business innovation. Learn practical applications of emerging technologies like AI, blockchain, and loT. Uncover strategies to harness their potential, equipping yourself to engineer technological advancements and drive strategic innovation.

Provides work experience in a start-up business environment for a sophomore student registered in the engineering entrepreneurship minor program.

A course in the fundamentals of the intricate landscape of intellectual property management. Gain comprehensive insights into patents, copyrights, and trademarks. Learn strategies for protecting innovations and maximizing their commercial potential, essential for success in competitive industries.

Social entrepreneurship combines entrepreneurial principles with social impact. This course explores innovative approaches to address societal challenges, create sustainable business models, measures social impact, and drive positive change through entrepreneurial ventures.

This course teaches design thinking and customer discovery for startups. Learn to empathize with users, ideate innovative solutions, and validate concepts through real-world experimentation. Gain indispensable skills to drive startup success and customer satisfaction.

Team-based course focused on the design and construction of of a proof-of-principle prototype which demonstrates a product or service. Students will create a high-level product design specification and conduct market and competitive analysis; hold consumer focus interviews and report findings.

Provides work experience in a start-up business environment for a junior student registered in the engineering entrepreneurship minor program.

Provides work experience in a start-up business environment for a junior student registered in the engineering entrepreneurship minor program.

Embark on a transformative journey in this course, learning to engineer innovative business models for startup and corporate environments. Employ cutting-edge strategies, tools, and frameworks to craft dynamic models that drive success in today's competitive business landscape.

The design of business models for very low-income customers. Topics include: Money flow in low income communities, micro-lending, co-creation of technologies, appropriate technologies, and business model canvas.

Working with a novel medical device, the course covers the process of medical technology commercialization. Topics include voice of the customer, clinical needs analysis, competitive positioning, and market entry strategy. Intellectual property management, regulatory process, and reimbursement are explored.

This course provides an introduction to student services offered at Villanova University and the College of Engineering, as well as online learning and the necessary knowledge and skills required to complete courses in the blackboard e-learning environment.

First course of the Career Compass professional development program. This first-year course focuses on setting the foundation for the program in six overarching competencies: Communication, Teamwork and Collaboration, Personal Development, Leadership, Networking and Relationship Building, and Career Development and Strategies.

Second course of the Career Compass professional development program. Continues to build the foundation for the program in six overarching competencies: Communication, Teamwork and Collaboration, Personal Development, Leadership, Networking and Relationship Building, and Career Development and Strategies.

This is a project-based course introducing students to the engineering profession and human-centered engineering design. Other concepts covered include communication, teamwork, data analysis, and social justice and Augustinian values in the context of engineering.

Project-based introduction to engineering course for freshmen engineering majors. First half of semester consists of an elective interdisciplinary project. Students choose from among several of these. Second half consists of a program-specific series of topics.

The biggest issues facing the world and the role engineering must play in the solutions will be examined. Constitutive groups will be identified, and experts will discuss the problems from their perspective area of expertise. Interdisciplinary engineering teams will be used to develop ethical, sustainable, and humanistic solutions to real world problems.

The Introduction to Humanitarian Engineering is the first in a series of courses intended to provide the context for undergraduate students who are interested in engaging with international program partners on global development challenges. This course provides background information about developing communities with a focus on historical issues related to colonization, development theory and poverty alleviation efforts. In addition, this course introduces technical issues related sustainable development with an emphasis on the role of external support, ethical engagement in community development and whole systems thinking. Finally, this course introduces practical skills in community engagement through a series of hands-on mini project activities, designed to provide students with the necessary skills to conduct field work with international partners.

Third course of the Career Compass professional development program. This sophomore year course focuses on the continuation of the six overarching competencies: Communication, Teamwork and Collaboration, Personal Development, Leadership, Networking and Relationship Building, and Career Development and Strategies.

Fourth course of the Career Compass professional development program. This sophomore year course focuses on the continuation of the six overarching competencies: Communication, Teamwork and Collaboration, Personal Development, Leadership, Networking and Relationship Building, and Career Development Strategies.

View cultural diversities as opportunities that will enhance the creativity and overall quality of any project development process or team effort. The course will provide students with pragmatic tools for understanding and working effectively across and through differences in culture and communication in professional situations and promote an inclusive design approach for solutions. Includes tactical emphasis on effective teaming, innovative teams, and difference by design. Restricted to 30 students (15 seats reserved for Engineering. Junior or senior level.

Structure and function of biomolecules, cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems (including muskuloskeletal, circulatory, respiratory, and nervous systems).

Survey of current topics in biomedical engineering; Engineering fundamentals (e.g., mechanics of materials, dynamics, transport, signal processing) with applications to biomedical engineering.

One of two required core courses for the Sustainable Engineering Minor that introduces whole-systems thinking to address the dynamic field of sustainability. Topics include climate change, planetary boundaries, greenhouse gas management, climate change mitigation/adaptation, sustainable materials and disruptive technologies.

One of two required core courses for Sustainable Engineering Minor that introduces life cycle assessment (LCA) and circular economy (CE). Students will learn phases of LCA and application of SimaPro software and gain understanding and application of CE business models.

Tradition and key themes of Catholic Social Teaching and how engineers can incorporate these themes in developing solutions to engineering problems. Engineering topics and case studies will be analyzed, with emphasis on a comparison of """greater good"""" and """"common good""""."

Fifth course of the Career Compass professional development program. This junior year course focuses on the continuation of the six overarching competencies: Communication, Teamwork and Collaboration, Personal Development, Leadership, Networking and Relationship Building, and Career Development Strategies.

Final course of the Career Compass professional development program. This junior year course focuses on the continuation of the six overarching competencies: Communication, Teamwork and Collaboration, Personal Development, Leadership, Networking and Relationship Building, and Career Development Strategies.

Student participation in independent research under faculty supervision, frequent conferences with advisor on literature search, theoretical and experimental research.

Interdisciplinary course directly and specifically focused on professionalism as the path to near term and long term career success. Complimentary to senior year Capstone Design Experiences.

An in-depth analysis of required professional skills including leadership, management, ethical behavior, team and group dynamics, time management, listening, technical writing, negotiations and self-awareness delivered through a combined lecture/seminar format.

Service learning experience related to engineering. Mandatory weekly group meetings as well as participation in seminar series. Fee associated with course. Consent of instructor required.

Leading a service learning trip related to engineering. Mandatory weekly group meetings as well as participation in seminar series. Fee associated with course. Consent of instructor required.

Engineering Service Learning Capstone.

Provides work experience for an undergraduate student who has been offered an opportunity to work in a field directly related to their major. Permission of Deparment of Chair and Associate Dean required.

Provides work experience for a graduate student who has been offered an opportunity to work in a field directly related to their major. Permission of Graduate Advisor required.

Introduction to the current state of science & public policy directions; development of a comprehensive framework for evaluating the challenges and opportunities resulting from Global Climate Change and Sustainability; application of technical/economic tools for solving high-potential opportunities.

Introduction to engineering in a developing community context; frameworks for applying engineering and technology to achieve sustainable development goals; geo-political, historical, institutional, economic, cultural, and ethical perspectives. NOTE: Intro course for the Sustainable Development track and should be the first course taken for this 4 course track program.

Applied mathematics course tailored to the needs of engineering graduate students. Topics: complex variable theory, linear spaces and linear operators, series solution of differential equations, Sturm-Liouville problem, eigen-function expansion and special functions, matrix theory, non linear differential equations, multi-dimensional Fourier analysis, partial differential equations and variational calculus. Various examples from engineering and physics will be incorporated as appropriate.

Fundamental knowledge and skills for the design and implementation of a greenhouse gas (GHG) management program for a corporation or other large organization in accordance with global standards. Topics include GHG inventories, science-based reduction targets, reporting and disclosure, and market and policy mechanisms.

Intrepretation and assessment of climate change science and its application to Sustainable Engineering solutions. Topics include: climate science, climate modeling and reporting, climate tools and data analysis, adaption and mitigation climate technologies, risk assessment and sustainable whole systems thinking.

Review of dynamic process modeling, linearization, transfer function and state-space models. Stability and dynamics of open-loop and closed-loop systems. Feedback control system design and analysis in the frequency and time domain. Topics include: Bode, Nyquist, and Root locus design; multivariable control; feedforward control. Prerequisite: Undergraduate background in systems and control.

Introduction to digital control analysis & design techniques applied to discrete-time & sampled continuous-time systems. Sampling, difference equations, the Z-transform & modified Z-transform, discrete transfer function & state-space models, discrete-time regulator & observer design, stability of discrete-time systems, discrete linear quadratic regulator & linear quadratic Gaussian formulation. Prerequisite: EGR 8301 or equivalent with permission of the instructor.

Advanced treatment of nonlinear dynamical systems and control theory using modern techniques with applications. Topics include: Lyapunov stability theory, partial stability finite-time stability and control design, control Lyapunov functions, nonlinear optimal control, sliding mode control, and adaptive control.

Introduction to system identification techniques for linear systems. Topics include: non-parametric time- and frequency-domain methods, parametric model structures, noise models, parametrc estimation methods, recursive estimation, bias and data pre-filtering, validation methods.

Introduction to nonlinear dynamic analysis using analytical, graphical & numerical techniques. Linear system theory, the nonlinear pendulum, stability concepts, bifurcation theory, self-excited oscillations, overview of asymptotic methods, Floquet theory, Poincare maps, & chaos.

Introduction to feedforward control techniques with an emphasis on model-based methods. Design of feedforward inputs for linear systems, nonlinear systems, nonminimum phase systems, and systems with actuator redundancy; integration of feedforward and feedback; iterative control; dealing with plant uncertainty.

Continuation of Sustainable Engineering degree-required research during the Summer

Provides work experience for a graduate student who has been offered an opportunity to work in the field of Sustainable Engineering. Required for curricular practical training. Permisson of Graduate Advisor.