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time required for completion of integrated undergraduate/graduate studies is normally less than that required to complete separate degree programs. The actual time required is determined by the individual student's objectives, needs, and diligence. The IUG program promotes the interchange of ideas across all branches of the scientific and engineering disciplines from both a theoretical and experimental perspective. Students in the composite degree program are expected to pursue interdisciplinary studies in areas that encompass nano- and bionanotechnology, advanced materials, electromagnetic, mechanics, microelectronics, nanoelectronics and bioelectronics, neural engineering, photonics and photovoltaics (among others) and they are expected to embrace multidisciplinary perspectives across departmental, College, and University boundaries. Integrated Undergraduate/Graduate Study - B.S. in Engineering Science - M.S. in Engineering Mechanics Engineering Mechanics students, because of the flexibility of the curriculum and their strength in fundamentals, have a unique opportunity to take advantage of the ESM Integrated Undergraduate Graduate (IUG) program. Application for IUG status may be made in the fifth or subsequent semesters. IUG status permits students to take on the rigors and research challenges of graduate study at Penn State, coordinating and combining them with their baccalaureate studies. Because some credits earned as an undergraduate may be applied to both degree programs, the time required for completion of integrated undergraduate/graduate studies is normally less than that required to complete separate degree programs. The actual time required is determined by the individual student's objectives, needs, and diligence. Other Relevant Information Continuous registration is required for all students until the thesis or engineering report is approved. Student Aid Research and Teaching Assistantships (half time) are granted to a majority of graduate students in good academic standing. Financial support is ordinarily limited to three semesters for full-time master's degree students, and six semesters for full-time Ph.D. students. In addition to the fellowships, traineeships, graduate assistantships, or other forms of financial aid described in the STUDENT AID section of the Graduate Bulletin, the following awards typically have been available to graduate students in this program. THEODORE HOLDEN THOMAS, Jr., MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP - Available to undergraduate or graduate students who display outstanding ability and have enrolled in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics. Apply to the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, 212 Earth-Engineering Sciences Building. Deadline is February 1. SABIH AND GÜLER HAYEK GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP IN ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND MECHANICS - Provides recognition and financial assistance to outstanding graduate students enrolled or planning to enroll in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics. DR. RICHARD LLORENS GRADUATE AWARD IN ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND MECHANICS - Provides recognition and financial assistance to graduate students pursuing a degree in Engineering Science and Mechanics who have achieved academic excellence. Apply to the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, 211 Earth-Engineering Sciences Building. Deadline is February 1. RICHARD P. MCNITT SCHOLARSHIP IN ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND MECHANICS - Available to undergraduate or graduate students enrolled in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics who have achieved superior academic records or who manifest promise of outstanding academic success. Apply to the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, 212 Earth- Engineering Sciences Building. Deadline is February 1. Courses Graduate courses carry numbers from 500 to 599 and 800 to 899. Advanced undergraduate courses numbered between 400 and 499 may be used to meet some graduate degree requirements when taken by graduate students. Courses below the 400 level may not. A graduate student may register for or audit these courses in order to make up deficiencies or to fill in gaps in previous education but not to meet requirements for an advanced degree. ENGINEERING MECHANICS (E MCH) course list ENGINEERING SCIENCE (E SC) course list Last Revised by the Department: Summer Session 2005 Blue Sheet Item #: 33-04-270, 33-04-271 Review Date: 1/18/05 Last updated by Publications: 3/25/11 Page C15 15
B. Justification Statement. A justification for changes made, such as updating instruction, together with an indication of expected enrollments and any effects on existing programs. • The range of research and educational expertise amassed by the ESM faculty has grown over the past several years to encompass bionanotechnology, biophotonics, and neural engineering in addition to advanced materials, electromagnetics, nanotechnology, and mechanics. With increasing collaboration across the boundaries of engineering science and mechanics, the ESM faculty voted to unify the two separate degree-granting programs into a composite Master of Science degree program in Engineering Science and Mechanics. The proposed degree program will provide greater flexibility in meeting the diverse needs of the graduate constituency within the ESM Department. Moreover, the new degree structure will simplify the course selection process. Currently, students must apply for the M.S. degree in Engineering Mechanics or the M.S. degree in Engineering Science and then contend with two very different and often confusing sets of course work options. As proposed and outlined above, the composite degree program provides a unified course listing that can be tailored to suit the student’s educational objectives and research interests. In the past, we have had 20-40 students annually pursue one of the two M.S. degrees offered by the ESM Department. Many have continued toward the Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science and Mechanics as originally planned, or after realizing that they enjoyed the research experience and wanted to continue to the next level. Introduction of the proposed degree program will support this process and provide a venue for us to attract more high quality students to our Ph.D. program. The structure of the new degree program will not impact existing course offerings or teaching loads. It will, however, facilitate advising for the faculty and course selection for the students. As a result, the faculty will be able to concentrate on teaching and the students will be able to concentrate on learning; both will be able to devote more time to research. As with all advanced degrees, the student’s academic program and research efforts will be supervised by Graduate Faculty members within the ESM Department and other Graduate Faculty as appropriate. C. Written evidence of consultation with affected units. The consultation may be documented in the form of a grid in the proposal as long as one copy of the actual correspondence is attached to the original proposal. Page C16 • The following Engineering Departments were consulted (in alphabetical order): Aerospace Engineering (George Lesieutre); Architectural Engineering (Chimay Anumba); Chemical Engineering (Andrew Zydney); Civil & Environmental Engineering (Peggy Johnson); Computer Science & Engineering (Raj Acharya); Electrical Engineering (W. Kenneth Jenkins); Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering (Paul Griffin); and, Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering (Karen Thole). Consultation was also sought from: the Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Bioengineering (Herbert Lipowsky); the College of Agricultural Sciences (Paul Heinemann); the College of Earth & Mineral Sciences (Gary Messing); and, Penn State Harrisburg (Peter Idowu). E-mail excerpts and responses follow. George Lesieutre, Professor & Head, Department of Aerospace Engineering (06/21/11). No problem here. It's interesting that you don't treat materials as a subset of engineering science. ESM Response. Actually – mechanics and materials are both considered part of the engineering sciences, but we retain the three categories as part of the ESM heritage and core strengths. George Lesieutre, Professor & Head, Department of Aerospace Engineering (05/02/11). The faculty of Aerospace Engineering has no objections to this streamlining. At first glance, and given the new title of the degree, the requirement to take a minimum of 3 credits in each of the areas of Engineering Science and Engineering Mechanics seems a bit low. However, a number of courses (e.g. finite element analysis) are listed in both areas, so maybe the distinction is not so clear in the first place. ESM Response: This clarification was sent to George Lesieutre on 6/20/11 following a request for similar information from the Graduate Studies & Research Committee, a standing committee of the Engineering Faculty Council. The Committee accepted the clarification (and approved the proposal unanimously) as did George Lesieutre on 6/21/11. The unified MS degree serves students specializing in one of three areas: mechanics, materials, and engineering science. All students are required to take a math course - a 3-credit mechanics course, and two credits of seminar. (Total 5 credits) For breadth and to recognize the interdisciplinarity of the engineering sciences, all students are required to take one course from each of the three areas - mechanics, materials, and engineering sciences (in addition to the math course) (Total 9 credits). Note: some courses are cross-listed in two categories. Students then take the balance of their course work (12 credits) plus conduct their thesis - 6-credits) in one of the three areas - mechanics, materials, or engineering science. All students take at least 6 credits of mechanics. 16
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time required for completion of integrated undergraduate/graduate studies is normally less than that required to complete separate<br />
degree programs. The actual time required is determined by the individual student's objectives, needs, and diligence.<br />
The IUG program promotes the interchange of ideas across all branches of the scientific and engineering disciplines<br />
from both a theoretical and experimental perspective. Students in the composite degree program are expected to pursue<br />
interdisciplinary studies in areas that encompass nano- and bionanotechnology, advanced materials, electromagnetic, mechanics,<br />
microelectronics, nanoelectronics and bioelectronics, neural engineering, photonics and photovoltaics (among others) and they<br />
are expected to embrace multidisciplinary perspectives across departmental, College, and University boundaries.<br />
Integrated Undergraduate/Graduate Study - B.S. in Engineering Science - M.S. in Engineering Mechanics<br />
Engineering Mechanics students, because of the flexibility of the curriculum and their strength in fundamentals, have a unique<br />
opportunity to take advantage of the ESM Integrated Undergraduate Graduate (IUG) program. Application for IUG status may be<br />
made in the fifth or subsequent semesters.<br />
IUG status permits students to take on the rigors and research challenges of graduate study at Penn State, coordinating and combining<br />
them with their baccalaureate studies. Because some credits earned as an undergraduate may be applied to both degree programs, the<br />
time required for completion of integrated undergraduate/graduate studies is normally less than that required to complete separate<br />
degree programs. The actual time required is determined by the individual student's objectives, needs, and diligence.<br />
Other Relevant Information<br />
Continuous registration is required for all students until the thesis or engineering report is approved.<br />
Student Aid<br />
Research and Teaching Assistantships (half time) are granted to a majority of graduate students in good academic standing. Financial<br />
support is ordinarily limited to three semesters for full-time master's degree students, and six semesters for full-time Ph.D. students.<br />
In addition to the fellowships, traineeships, graduate assistantships, or other forms of financial aid described in the STUDENT AID<br />
section of the Graduate Bulletin, the following awards typically have been available to graduate students in this program.<br />
THEODORE HOLDEN THOMAS, Jr., MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP - Available to undergraduate or graduate students who display<br />
outstanding ability and have enrolled in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics. Apply to the Department of<br />
Engineering Science and Mechanics, 212 Earth-Engineering Sciences Building. Deadline is February 1.<br />
SABIH AND GÜLER HAYEK <strong>GRADUATE</strong> SCHOLARSHIP IN ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND MECHANICS - Provides<br />
recognition and financial assistance to outstanding graduate students enrolled or planning to enroll in the Department of Engineering<br />
Science and Mechanics.<br />
DR. RICHARD LLORENS <strong>GRADUATE</strong> AWARD IN ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND MECHANICS - Provides recognition and<br />
financial assistance to graduate students pursuing a degree in Engineering Science and Mechanics who have achieved academic<br />
excellence. Apply to the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, 211 Earth-Engineering Sciences Building. Deadline is<br />
February 1.<br />
RICHARD P. MCNITT SCHOLARSHIP IN ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND MECHANICS - Available to undergraduate or graduate<br />
students enrolled in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics who have achieved superior academic records or who<br />
manifest promise of outstanding academic success. Apply to the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, 212 Earth-<br />
Engineering Sciences Building. Deadline is February 1.<br />
Courses<br />
Graduate courses carry numbers from 500 to 599 and 800 to 899. Advanced undergraduate courses numbered between 400 and 499<br />
may be used to meet some graduate degree requirements when taken by graduate students. Courses below the 400 level may not. A<br />
graduate student may register for or audit these courses in order to make up deficiencies or to fill in gaps in previous education but not<br />
to meet requirements for an advanced degree.<br />
ENGINEERING MECHANICS (E MCH) course list<br />
ENGINEERING SCIENCE (E SC) course list<br />
Last Revised by the Department: Summer Session 2005<br />
Blue Sheet Item #: 33-04-270, 33-04-271<br />
Review Date: 1/<strong>18</strong>/05<br />
Last updated by Publications: 3/25/11<br />
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