Beginning in fall 2012, the Penn State 十大足彩平台, 白兰地酒 and 巨大的山谷 campuses will jointly offer a bachelor of science degree in general engineering with the multidisciplinary engineering design (MED) option.
MED学位结合了电气、机械和计算机工程的高级课程，以及工程设计，以培养专门从事系统设计和集成的创新工程师。
跨学科学习与设计已被美国国家工程院确定为本科工程教育的重要组成部分。 这些技能通常与大型系统的设计有关，例如在航空航天、汽车、生物医学行业和其他复杂系统中开发的系统，这些系统需要几个工程学科的知识才能完成成功的设计。
学生可以选择在布兰迪温校区或十大足彩平台校区完成前两年的基础工程课程。 后两年的高级工程课程可以在大峡谷校区研究生专业研究学院的新工程实验室完成。
“In addition to rigorous engineering, mathematics and physics coursework, engineering students are strongly encouraged to participate in undergraduate research projects in engineering and robotics,” said Norah Shultz, associate dean at 十大足彩平台. “参加十大足彩平台和白兰地酒工程俱乐部，利用地区行业实习和国外工程机会，将为该项目的学生提供全面而实用的教育经验。”
MED课程培养学生的技术和解决问题的能力，书面和口头沟通能力，团队合作和领导能力，所有这些都将在为期两个学期的高级设计工程项目和工程行业的强制性实习中达到高潮。 医学硕士学位帮助十大足彩平台的学生为产品工程、工艺工程、制造、研发、材料工程和研究生院等令人兴奋的职业生涯做好准备。
“The MED program can prepare students to pursue a variety of areas so they can appeal to a variety of companies who might be interested in them,” Paul deGategno, director of academic affairs at Penn State 白兰地酒, said. “The flexibility and multidisciplinary nature of the program can make the students more employable.”
他说，将该项目带到费城地区，将使学生有更好的机会通过实习建立人际网络和人际关系，这两者都有助于他们在毕业后找到工作。
“The idea is to bring together the strength of the three campuses -- 白兰地酒, 十大足彩平台 and 巨大的山谷 -- and to offer a Penn State engineering degree in this region,” deGategno added. “We hope to have partnerships with key corporations, because we have so many in the area, so we can build opportunities for internships and employment for our students.”
James Nemes, director of academic affairs at Penn State 巨大的山谷, noted, “Today’s design problems don’t often fit into a single traditional engineering discipline. 为了应对这些挑战，我们需要能够跨越这些传统界限的工程师。 This program is aimed at producing engineers with the multidisciplinary background that will be needed even more to take on the design problems that we’ve only started to think about.”
