College of Science

BE Digital Engineering

The Bachelor of Engineering in Digital Engineering 128-credit degree program seeks to prepare the workforce of the future, through an interdisciplinary curriculum based on engineering principles, computing, and artificial intelligence, and importantly the intersections between these distinct disciplines in order to innovate, design and implement technological, scalable solutions for the benefit of humanity. The program will produce students equipped to participate fully in Industry 4.0 and prepare them with the skills needed to design, fabricate, assemble, integrate hardware and software, produce innovative and intelligent system solutions to address real-world problems and challenges across various domains, especially digital health, personalized medicine, bioengineering, robotics, logistics and additive manufacturing, Internet of Things (IoTs) and unmanned vehicles (mechatronics).

The program employs a holistic approach to integrate engineering foundations, computer science, AI and computational sciences and expose students to the foundational knowledge and its applications using project-based learning in an immersive learning environment- supported by industry tools in partnership with Dassault Systèmes.

Why Digital Engineering at LIU?

  • Project-based learning and industry contexts
  • Virtual and augmented reality (Immersive Learning Experiences)
  • Cross-disciplinary learning
  • Internship opportunities with our Industrial Partners
  • Global and cultural awareness and collaboration
  • High demand jobs
Course # Course Name Credits
REQUIRED ENGINEERING MAJOR STUDIES COURSES - 87 Credits
(ALL OF THE FOLLOWING)
AI 102 Object-Oriented Programming I 4
AI 117 Object Oriented Programming II 4
ENGR 115 Introduction to Engineering Graphics 3
ENGR 121 Fundamentals of Digital Design 3
ENGR 240 Circuit Analysis and Theory 3
ENGR 241 Circuits Digital Laboratory 1
ENGR 233 Computer Communications and Networks 3
AI 162 Introductions to Artificial Intelligence 3
ENGR 251 Introduction to Signal Processing 3
ENGR 300  Physical Foundations of Digital Engineering 3
ENGR 322 Statics and Dynamics of Rigid Bodies 3
EMGR 328 Engineering and Ethics 3
ENGR 330 Biochemical Engineering 3
AI 250 Machine Learning 3
CS 164 Software Engineering 3
ENGR 323  System Dynamics 3
ENGR 341  Introduction to Vision and Robotics 3
ENGR 371  Principles and Design of IoT Systems 3
AI 260 Deep Learning 3
ENGR 400 Multiscale Modeling and Simulation 3
ENGR 402 Advanced Computer Graphics 3
ENGR 410 Computational Cognitive Sciences 3
ENGR 420 Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering 3
ENGR 450  Human Computer Interactions 3
ENGR 411 Internet of Things (IoT) and Digital Implementation 3
ENGR 421  Additive Manufacturing 3
ENGR 431 Speech Recognition 3
ENGR 441  Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine 3
ENGR 451 Capstone Design 3
REQUIRED CORE COURSES - 41 Credits
(ALL OF THE FOLLOWING)
MTH 40 Calculus and Analytic Geometry I 4
ENG 16 English Composition 3
BIO 1 General Biology 4
FYS 1 First Year Seminar 1
MTH 101 Calculus II 4
ENG 61 European Literatures I 3
MTH 100 Statistics 3
MTH 102 Calculus III 4
MTH 122 Linear Algebra 3
PHY 31 General Physics I 4
CHM 3 General Chemistry I 4
PHY 32 General Physics II 4

Mohammed Cherkaoui
Ph.D., Nuclear Engineer and VP of Research and Academic Programs at Long Island University

Mohammed Cherkaoui is an award-winning professor, author and internationally recognized researcher, and a pioneering figure in micromechanics and nuclear engineering. Stanford University Report Ranks Vice President and Provost of Academic Affairs Dr. Mohammed Cherkaoui Among the World’s Top 2% Scientists. Dr. Mohammed Cherkaoui has authored more than 200 publications including the first-ever micromechanics textbook. His international accolades include a tenured professorship at Georgia Institute of Technology, an Endowed Chair and professorship at Mississippi State University, the France Medal from the National Center for Scientific Research, the Obama Award under the Material Genome Initiative, and the Lorraine Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer.


Mohammed Ghriga
Ph.D., Associate Professor & Director of School of Engineering, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Mohammed Ghriga is an Associate Professor of Computer Science, the Chair of the Department of Computer science, and Director of the School of Engineering, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at LIU Brooklyn and LIU Post. He provides vision and leadership to position the School of Engineering as a hub of discovery and innovation to address real world problems and challenges in various domains, including digital health. He brings extensive background in building multidisciplinary teams for greater socio-economic impact. In collaboration with the College of Pharmacy and the School of Nursing, he launched the Global Social Entrepreneurship Project (GSEP), funded by a grant from Banco Santander, at LIU to create sustainable improvements in health care delivery in Sierra Leone in urban and rural settings. His research interests lie in the broad area of formal description techniques, software engineering, software testing, security, data science, and AI powered solutions/systems. Dr. Ghriga holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Ingénieur d’état from the University of Sciences and Technology, Algiers, Algeria. Dr. Ghriga is a principal investigator for a 6-year NSF S-STEM grant to provide scholarships to underprivileged students in computing at LIU.


Christopher League
Ph.D., Associate Professor Computer Science

Dr. League earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University, as well as an M.S. from University of Maryland College Park and B.S. from the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. At LIU, he teaches introductory and advanced courses in computing, programming, software engineering, and artificial intelligence.

Dr. League's research interests include tools and languages for improving the reliability of software, as well as data analysis and visualization. He works with a team of astronomers studying Fast Radio Bursts and other long-wavelength transient phenomena. His paper about 3D visualization of cyclic space-time data was honored with the Henry Johns Award for Most Outstanding Article in The Cartographic Journal in 2020.

Dr. League is a principal investigator for a 3-year award from the National Science Foundation to improve a software tool for high-throughput data acquisition and analysis used in radio telescopes and potentially other scientific instruments. He is also co-PI of an NSF S-STEM award to provide scholarships to under-privileged computing students at LIU.


Ping-Tsai Chung
Ph.D., Associate Professor Computer Science

Dr. Chung received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from NYU-Poly, where he did his Ph.D. research work on Flow Control Algorithms for Telecommunication Networks. He then worked with Bell Labs for three years for developing High Speed Network Management Systems and Services. Dr. Chung has been a faculty member at LIU Brooklyn since Fall 2000. At LIU Brooklyn, he has been teaching a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses for eighteen years; course subjects include Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Data Security and Computer Architecture. His current research interests are Intelligent Computing, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Networks, and Data Security; he has contributed about forty research papers to the International Journals and Conferences in above areas. Prof. Chung is Founding Faculty advisor for the Cybernetics Study Society (CSA) at LIU-Brooklyn and is Founding Faculty Counselor of the IEEE Student Branch at LIU-Brooklyn. Since 2012, LIU-Brooklyn IEEE Student Branch and CSA Club have been organizing over fifty successful technical seminars in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) areas for supporting “Learning Beyond the Classroom” and “Leveraging Technology for a Better Tomorrow.”


Reda El Alaoui
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Digital Engineering

Dr. El Alaoui is highly skilled in using the cutting-edge tools embedded in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Dr. Alaoui’s research focuses on simulation and modeling high strength light weights engineering materials using multiscale modeling approach at different length and time scale by focusing on Lifesciences applications, digital twin, robotics, AI, from design- prototyping, and building. Dr. Elalaoui is also contributing to digital engineering tools implementation in education curricula, academic programs and research by accelerating the implementation of DS digital tools in healthcare and life science applications using 4.0 industrial engineering tools (BIOVIA, 3DEXPERIENCE platform).

His expertise in digital and virtual twin modeling and simulation at different lengths and time scales (Multiscale Modeling and simulation approach) Virtual Twin from Molecules to organs. His research focuses and expertise in using multiscale modeling tools in investigating the studying of regenerative medicines/medical devices using Tissue engineering in sports medicine, skin care, wound healing, and cancer therapeutics solutions using the digital twin for the virtual twin (Regenlab). Dr. Elalaoui is also contributing to redesigning and modeling approaches for Medical Devices to better diagnosis and patient outreach by focusing on decentralized patient care. Dr. Elalaoui is leveraging, implementing and combining Digital Twins with Artificial Intelligence using AI, ML-trained algorithms to accelerate the medical and engineering modeling solutions using virtual twin human modeling for different organs to accelerate the diagnosis and personalized medicine (Modeling and Simulation of Patient-specific).

Dr. Elalaoui obtained his Ph.D. in Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering from Mississippi State University (MSU) in December 2020.


Nicolas Gallo
Ph.D., Assistant Professor Pharmaceutical Sciences and Digital Engineering

Dr. Gallo is an Assistant Professor at the College of Pharmacy of Long Island University with 10 years of experience in medical engineering research and education. Dr. Gallo is working to contribute to the digitalization of healthcare through the development of computational modelling to address current life science issues in our society. He is committed to innovative research by connecting multiple scientific disciplines and driving the digital revolution in Life Science education. His research focuses on Multiphysics and multiscale modelling of human systems to understand disease progression and drug metabolism for the purpose of developing adequate patient specific therapeutics and diagnostic technologies. Dr. Gallo holds a PhD from the Biomedical Engineering department of the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Dr. Gallo is a scientist with passion in bringing new science to market. He believes digital modelling to be a real differentiator in creating, validating, and marketing new scientific innovations. His work focuses on leveraging computational methods toward the digitalization of healthcare and addressing address current life science issues in our society. His research focuses on Multi-physics and Multi-scale modelling of human systems to understand disease progression and drug metabolism for the purpose of developing adequate patient specific therapeutics and diagnostic technologies.


Deepesh Giri
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Digital Engineering

Deepesh Giri is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Digital Engineering and Artificial Intelligence at Long Island University. After earning his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Mississippi State University in 2020, he started his professional journey as a postdoc from University at Buffalo, researching materials for perovskite solar cells. His areas of expertise include damage modeling using atomistic simulations and employment of computational and statistical tools to identify novel materials for use in photovoltaics, superconductors, and lightweight applications. Dr. Giri is highly driven by his passion for discovering new materials in the field of health science, energy and automotives.


Valentine Cazaubon
Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center of Excellence

Dr. Cazaubon holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on additive manufacturing jointly from the École Supérieure des Technologies Industrielles Avancées (ESTIA) and the Universite de Bordeaux in France. She currently is the main developer on the Living Heart project at LIU, working toward the integration of drug-inducing cardiotoxicity from the molecular scale to the organ scale.


Stelian Camara Dit Pinto
Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center of Excellence

Dr. Camara Dit Pinto's holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Computer Science from the École Supérieure des Technologies Industrielles Avancées (ESTIA) in France. His research interests lie in the development and application of digital twin technology for complex systems. He is the main developer on the Living Liver Project, which aims to create and develop a new digital twin for medical and personalized treatment of hepatic condition.


Maged Hemida
Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Virology Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences College of Veterinary Medicine

Dr. Hemida is a molecular virologist who received his Ph.D. from the pathobiology department of the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC), University of Guelph, Canada, in 2009. His Ph.D. studies focused on the molecular and biological characterization of the turkey coronavirus. He pursued his fellow postdoctoral training at the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, pathology, and laboratory medicine department, College of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada. He studied the roles of small RNA molecules, particularly miRNAs and other host cell transcription factors, in the molecular pathogenesis of Coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3). He identified key miRNAs that regulate CVB3 infection and pathogenesis in vitro and mouse models. He has received many prestigious awards and recognitions throughout his academic carrier (CIHR/IMPAT, HSFC, Dr. Wilson Henderson Memorial Scholarship (OVC), Soren Rosendal Memorial Research Prize, etc.). His current research area of interest is the virus/host interaction and the molecular biology of coronaviruses in the context of the One Health concept. He has been the recipient of many prestigious grants from various funding agencies. Dr. Hemida has published over 100 manuscripts in top-ranked peer-reviewed journals such as (Lancet Res Med, PNAS, EID, EMI, etc.).


Azzedine Bensalem
Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry

Dr. Bensalem holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Nantes in France. His research interests include synthesis and characterization of inorganic materials of great technological application using sol-gel method. Materials such as transition metal oxides and lithiated metal oxides in Li-battery application, that are usually prepared at high temperature, can be prepared at room temperature using sol-gel technique. Metal phosphates that have properties that range from catalysts through nuclear waste disposal to synthetic bone application that are usually prepared using hydrothermal techniques requiring special pressure and temperature, can be prepared using sol-gel technique under ambient conditions. His specialties include: Low Temperature Synthesis of Metal Nitrides, Metal Implants, and Solid-State Chemistry.


Steven Liebling
Ph.D., Professor of Physics

Dr. Liebling holds a BA in Physics from Brown University and a PhD in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin. As an assistant professor at LIU Southampton, he helped form The Technology Center with Prof. Borde, an advanced, interdisciplinary Unix computer lab. In 2004, he transferred to LIU Post where he constructed his first computational cluster using NSF funds. He has worked with a number of undergraduates and a couple postdocs in his astrophysical research. An active researcher, he has published in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Physical Review Letters. He has received a number of grants through the NSF and currently has NASA funding. He has spent time as a Guest Scientist at BNL, ITP Scholar at UCSB, and Visiting Professor at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada.

He has served on the Nominating Committee for the Topical Group in Gravitational (a group under the American Physical Society), and on review panels for the NSF. In 2013 he was elected to APS Fellowship. His specialties include: Black Holes, Numerical and Computational Modeling, Relativity.


Jozsef Losonczy
Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics

After receiving a Ph.D. in Mathematics from MIT, Jozsef Losonczy held a postdoctoral position at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and was later an Ulam Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He joined Long Island University as a full-time faculty member in 1998, and is now a Professor of Mathematics there.

Jozsef's research intersects with a number of areas of mathematics, including algebra, combinatorics, geometry, and number theory. His publications, all in peer-reviewed journals, address topics such as tableaux, Kazhdan-Lusztig Theory, canonical forms for symmetric tensors, Schubert varieties, the combinatorics of root systems and words in Coxeter Groups, connections between additive number theory and transversal theory, and generalized Temperley-Lieb algebras.

Jozsef enjoys teaching mathematics at all levels, from introductory undergraduate courses to graduate courses on specialized topics in algebra and combinatorics.


Dr. Steve Levine
Ph.D., Sr Director Human Virtual Modeling, Dassault Systèmes

Steven Levine, PhD is the Sr. Director of Virtual Human Modeling at Dassault Systèmes. Dr. Levine has more than 30 years of experience in the development and application of computational science and engineering tools. He is the founder and Executive Director of the Living Heart Project. Prior to his current role, he was Chief Strategy Officer for SIMULIA, the simulation brand within Dassault Systèmes. Dr. Levine was elected into the College of Fellows in the Ameri- can Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 2017 and holds a PhD in Materials Science from Rutgers University. He began his career in health tech at Accelrys, where he led Corporate Development prior to its acquisition by Dassault Systèmes in 2014.


Florent Salako
Academic Program Advisor NAM, Dassault Systèmes of Americas Corp.

Florent was formerly a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal, specializing in product development and the integration of business processes between Engineering and Manufacturing while concentrating on the interaction between leadership, innovation and team dynamics for Engineering students. He holds a BS degree and a Master of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering from École Polytechnique de Montréal in addition to a Masters of Business Administration from HEC Montreal. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Quebec. Mr. Florent Salako is the lead Consultative Academic Program Advisor and Ambassador for North America at Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company. Dassault Systèmes is the world leader in 3D design software, 3D digital mock up and simulation, and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, providing businesses and individuals with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations.


Jean-Phillipe Laguerre
Director, 3DEXPERIENCE-Academic North America Dassault Systems

JP Laguerre is a business executive leader with more than 20 years of experience in international consultative, strategic and enterprise Sales, and in managing enterprise accounts and strategic corporate initiatives. JP is Director for Education in North America with Dassault Systèmes (DS). He holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from The Polytech Group. He is also a graduate from UCLA Anderson. JP Laguerre is on multiple boards with a common goal to transform STEM/ STEAM education to be accessible to all, exciting and effective at all levels. He has been serving as a judge for engineering competitions and undergraduate senior design projects. He facilitated the creation of a FIRST Robotics team in Boyle Heights (East Los Angeles) volunteering his time with the i.am.angel Foundation to TRANS4M Lives in underserved communities.


Giuseppe Calloni
PhD, CEO at RegenLab USA, LLC

Doctor of Atomic and Molecular Physics, completed his studies in Physical Chemistry of Colloids and Interface Science in the United Kingdom. 11 years as a Senior Scientist in colloid chemistry, focusing primarily on oilfield chemistry and cosmetic science. Co-author of 23 scientific publications, 3 industrial patents and 2 books. During the period of 1997 through the end of 1999 was the head of the technical team at the restoration of the Façade of St’ Peter Cathedral in Rome, being an expert in Geo Radar analysis, Infra-Red analysis, and colloid chemistry. 2000 to present, employed as a Vice President, Senior Vice President, and Chief Executive Officer in numerous international organizations, achieving success in a variety of global businesses and industries including Mergers & Acquisitions, and the conversion of a start-up venture to a profitable organization.


Antoine Turzi
Founder & CEO, RegenLab USA, President, RegenLab SA Switzerland & RegenLab USA LLC

Born in Italy, with French Nationality, and US Residency. Educated in France, at the University of Law & History of Art in Paris, with further studies in Switzerland at the Geneva University under the Tissue Engineering Program in Biomaterials. With the founding of RegenLab SA in 2003, so began a push to both standardize practice and further an era of discovery for Regenerative Medicine as a field. Holding authorship on over 100 patents (either released or pending), as well as spearheading the Research & Development of Cell-Based Therapies for Tissue Regeneration, RegenPRP became a household name in the medical industry. The advent of Cellular-Matrix, a unique combination of PRP & HA, brought forth a new model for tissue engineering, all contained within a single device. From business development, all the way to clinical and regulatory advances, RegenLab sets the pace as an industry leader which holds true to the same foundational tenets upon which it was founded: Safety, Quality, Efficacy. Furthering this initiative, with the wish to provide an educational platform by which to proliferate the knowledge garnered via extensive clinical trials, Antoine also founded the BioBridge Foundation, which hosts conferences around the globe.

Dr. Surya R. Kalidindi
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Al Bunshaft
Former President
Dassault Systems Foundation

Dr. Ahmed Chenna
Principal Scientist
Monogram Biosciences, Inc.

Jean-Phillipe Laguerre
Director, 3DEXPERIENCE-Academic North America
Dassault Systems

Dr. Reza Sadeghi
CSO
Biovia, Dassault Systems

Alister A. Murray, Sr.
Director of Technology in Corporate Markets, Issuer Services Technology Division
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY Mellon)

Khalid Ayouche
Founder & CEO
FAAR Industry & Pronergy Group (France)

Antoine Turzi
Founder & CEO
RegenLab USA
Emmanuel d’ARFEUILLE, CTO and Director of Market Strategy
FAAR Industry (France)


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