NASA awards contract to Stevens to deliver Space Systems Engineering Graduate Certificate to JSC employees

HOBOKEN , N.J. – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology a contract to provide the school’s Graduate Certificate program in Space Systems Engineering to NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) engineers and employees.

The contract recognizes the value of the Stevens Space Systems Engineering curricula to the practical knowledge and hands-on skills development of JSC engineers and employees, and supports the continued delivery of the university’s program held on-site at NASA in Houston, Tex., since October 2007.

From the first JSC course offering in 2007, more than 21 students have completed coursework leading to the Graduate Certificate. Eight have completed the entire four-course sequence, and all have elected to continue on into the Stevens master’s degree program in Systems Engineering.

Endorsed by consistently high-ranking course assessments and student feedback, a new cohort of twenty-six JSC engineers will begin the program this November.

The Space Systems Engineering program is led by Dr. Wiley Larson, renowned Space Systems expert and author, and Distinguished Service Professor at the School of Systems and Enterprises. The program focuses on the applied learning of space operations, the design of space missions, space systems architecture, verification and validation, as well as key systems engineering processes and tools.

Delivered in partnership with Teaching Science and Technology, Inc., TSTI, the Graduate Certificate is comprised of the following courses:

• Designing Space Missions and Systems
• Mission and Systems Design Verification and Validation (V&V)
• Fundamentals of Systems Engineering
• System Architecture and Design

Credits earned in the Graduate Certificate can be applied toward a Stevens’ 10-course master’s degree in Space Systems Engineering or a master’s degree in Systems Engineering.

Held in intensive module formats, and taught by veteran space systems practitioners and industry professors, NASA students attend classes on-site, in two and three day class sessions, for a total of five instructional days. Following the instructor-led portion of the course, students are given eight weeks to submit a final course project, applying the concepts learned in class, together with their real-world NASA work projects.

Recognized by industry and government practitioners and sponsors as one of the top Space Systems Engineering programs in the nation, Stevens’ graduate courses are also delivered on-site at ATK, and Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), and are available online via Stevens award-winning WebCampus.

To learn more about the Space Systems Engineering program at Stevens, visit www.Stevens. edu/SPACE.

About the School of Systems and Enterprises

The School of Systems and Enterprises (SSE) at Stevens Institute of Technology is the largest provider of systems engineering and systems related education to industry and government sponsors worldwide. Utilizing an Open Academic Model, SSE leverages its global partnerships in industry, government and academia to deliver Graduate Certificate, Master's and Doctoral programs that are highly relevant to the education and skill competency needs of today's working professionals. 

SSE courses are offered in convenient, flexible delivery formats, including traditional semesters and intensive one-week modules, held on-site at corporate and government sponsor locations, online via Stevens award-winning WebCampus, and at the university’s campus in Hoboken, N.J.

SSE's corporate and government sponsors worldwide include: NASA, FAA, IBM, DoD, Sandia National Laboratories, Lockheed Martin, and L3 Communications to name a few. 

To learn more about the School of Systems and Enterprises, please visit www.stevens. edu/SSE.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,040 undergraduate and 3,085 graduate students, and a worldwide online enrollment of 2,250, with a full-time tenured/tenure-track faculty of 140 and more than 200 full-time special faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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