IIT 345 — COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN (CUR-358)
Summary 🟢 ✓
- Resource type: course
- Owner Unit: Illinois Institute of Technology (Engineering)
- College/School: IIT Partnership
- Curriculum section: Engineering / Computer Science / CDM
- Catalog: IIT 345
- Last Verified: 2026-07-01
Course access
- Level: green (
Open Enrollment) - Rationale: No formal prerequisites listed in catalog description; open to any student meeting university registration rules.
- Prerequisites: None listed in catalog description
Verification
- Status: verified_catalog_course (
✓) - Rationale: Captured from official DePaul course catalog (2026-06-30 discovery pass).
- Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/iit
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
Catalog description
Principles of geometric modeling, finite element analysis and design optimization. Curve, surface, and solid modeling. Mesh generation, Galerkin method, and Isoparametric elements. Optimum design concepts. Numerical methods for constrained and unconstrained optimization. Applications of CAD/CAE software for mechanical design problems. (Taught at Illinois Institute of Technology as MMAE 445.) (4.5 quarter hours)
Hardware relevance
Catalog course linked to map themes/programs: cad_cam.
Documented resource links
EXT-016
- Relationship: taught_at_partner
- Rationale: DePaul catalog lists this course as taught at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) under the DePaul–IIT joint engineering programs.
- Source URLs:
- catalog.depaul.edu/student-handbooks/undergraduate/univers…
- www.iit.edu/ugaa/joint-programs/depaul-university
- catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/iit
- Resource page: EXT-016
Notes
Catalog course key: IIT 345.
Provenance (promotion record)
- Promotion date: 2026-07-01
- Promotion batch:
catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30 - Provenance kernel:
depaul/XTR-000297←depaul/SRC-000983(catalog_description)- Extraction status: linked
- Evidence packets:
2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence- Discovery themes: cad_cam
- Program tags: illinois_institute_of_technology_dual_degree
- Schedule (capture): Not offered in queried registrar terms
- Evidence captures:
- Catalog:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-IIT-345.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-IIT-345.json - Catalog:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-IIT-345.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-IIT-345.json - Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.