Engineering

Degrees and Certificates

Classes

EGEN 2100 : Creativity and Innovation

An introduction to various methods, practices, and tools that can be effectively used to develop creative solutions to problems. Different exercises and assignments will be used to allow students to demonstrate their creative potential both as individuals and as part of a team. The connection between creativity and innovation will also be addressed.

Credits

Credits 1

EGEN 2150 : Intro to Entrepreneurial Techn

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)

Credits

Credits 3

EGEN 2200 : Opport Indentif & Bus Principl

Foundation course for moving an idea from concept to reality. Topics include: opportunity discovery and analysis; business and engineering steps in product design; protecting ideas; prototyping; technical and business feasibility; team dynamics; introduction to venture financing and marketing. Prereq: Membership in the Engineering Entrepreneurial Minor

Credits

Credits 3

Prerequisites

Corequisites

EGEN 3100 : Feas Analysis for Entrepreneur

Learn and apply techniques to prove or disprove the technical and business feasibility of product and service concepts. Help students understand plans and begin to create business plans for their own business concepts. Additional topics in opportunity analysis, feasibility analysis, accounting, marketing, financing, and product development management. Any engineering major in engineering entrepreneurship minor program.

Credits

Credits 3

Prerequisites

EGEN 2200

Corequisites

EGEN 3200 : Product & Service Prototyping

Team-based course focused on the design and construction of a proof-of-principle prototype which demonstrates a product or service. Students will create a high-level product design specification (PDS), work breakdown structure (WBS), and budget for their prototype; conduct market and competitive analysis; hold consumer focus interviews and report findings. Course mastery includes the development of an investment pitch for potential funding.

Credits

Credits 3

Prerequisites

EGEN 3100

Corequisites

EGEN 3400 : Entrepreneurship Practicum III

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

Credits

Credits 1

Corequisites

EGEN 4100 : Market, Finance, and Vent Plan

Students will experience the detailed steps in designing and commercializing a product. Development by a team of multidisciplinary engineering students of a professional quality business model for a technology based product or service of the students' choosing. Learn how to set up, staff, run and finance a company. Additional topics include Entrepreneurship Leadership, Innovation Management, and Risk Management. Cover activities of corporate CEOs, CTOs, CFOs and COOs.

Credits

Credits 3

Prerequisites

EGEN 3200

EGEN 4500 : Sustain. Bus. Models BOP Techn

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.

Credits

Credits 3

EGEN 5100 : Medical Tech Commercialization

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.

Credits

Credits 3

EGR 1000 : Online Grad EGR Orientation

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.

EGR 1001 : Career Compass First Yr A

First part of the professional development program for first year engineering students focused on four areas: The Engineering Profession, Setting the Stage for Personal Success, Post-Graduation Planning, and Communicating in the 21st Century.

Credits

Credits 0.5

EGR 1002 : Career Compass First Yr B

Second part of the professional development program for first year engineering students focused on four areas: The Engineering Profession, Setting the Stage for Personal Success, Post-Graduation Planning, and Communicating in the 21st Century.

Credits

Credits 0.5

EGR 1200 : Egr. Interdisciplinary Proj. I

Core engineering concepts and project-based introduction to engineering course for freshmen engineering majors. First half of semester is lecture/project format emphasizing core concepts and math. Second half consists of an elective interdisciplinary project. Students choose from among several of these.

Credits

Credits 3

EGR 2001 : Egr: Humanistic Context

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.

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Credits 3

EGR 2002 : Intro to Humanitarian Engr

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.

Credits

Credits 3

EGR 2003 : Career Compass Second Yr A

First part of the professional development program for second year engineering students focused on four areas: The Engineering Profession, Setting the Stage for Personal Success, Post-Graduation Planning, and Communicating in the 21st Century.

Credits

Credits 0.5

EGR 2004 : Career Compass Second Yr B

Second part of the professional development program for second year engineering students focused on four areas: The Engineering Profession, Setting the Stage for Personal Success, Post-Graduation Planning, and Communicating in the 21st Century.

Credits

Credits 0.5

EGR 2005 : Bridging Diver & Bldg Communit

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.

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Credits 3

EGR 2020 : Physiology for Engineers

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

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Credits 3

Prerequisites

CHM 1151 :Y

EGR 2021 : Elements of Biomed Engr

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

Credits

Credits 3

Prerequisites

MAT 2705 :Y and PHY 1102 or PHY 2402 or PHY 2412

EGR 2110 : Sus Eng: Risks & Opportunities

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.

Credits

Credits 3

EGR 2111 : Sus Eng: LCA & Circular Econ

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.

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Credits 3

EGR 2200 : Transport in Bioengineering

Provide non-engineering students with a basic engineering background for a bioengineering minor. The content covers thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mass transfer and kinetics.

Credits

Credits 3

EGR 2930 : Catholic Soc Teaching for EGRS

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". Permission of instructor.

Credits

Credits 3

EGR 3005 : Career Compass Third Yr A

First part of the professional development program for third year engineering students focused on four areas: The Engineering Profession, Setting the Stage for Personal Success, Post-Graduation Planning, and Communicating in the 21st Century.

Credits

Credits 0.5

EGR 3006 : Career Compass Third Yr B

Second part of the professional development program for third year engineering students focused on four areas: The Engineering Profession, Setting the Stage for Personal Success, Post-Graduation Planning, and Communicating in the 21st Century.

Credits

Credits 0.5

EGR 4000 : Undergraduate Research I

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

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Credits 1

EGR 4007 : Profess. & the Def. of Success

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.

Credits

Credits 1

Prerequisites

EGR 3006

EGR 4008 : Profess: Your Key to Success

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.

Credits

Credits 3

EGR 5001 : Engineering Service Learning

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.

Credits

Credits 1

EGR 5002 : EGR Service Learning Leader

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.

Credits

Credits 1

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EGR 5001

EGR 5050 : Professional Practicum

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.

EGR 7110 : Fundamentals-Sustainable Engr

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.

Credits

Credits 3

EGR 8301 : Control Systems Engineering

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.

Credits

Credits 3

EGR 8302 : Digital 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.

Credits

Credits 3

Prerequisites

EGR 8301

EGR 8304 : Nonlinear Control

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.

Credits

Credits 3

Prerequisites

EGR 8305 : System Identification

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.

Credits

Credits 3

EGR 8306 : Nonlinear Dynamics

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.

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Credits 3

EGR 8308 : Feedforward Control

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.

Credits

Credits 3