The School of Systems and Enterprises offers several four course, 12 credit Graduate Certificate programs geared to practitioners and students who:
- Are interested in improving their current skills and technical competencies,
- Are considering new career paths within industry,
- Have been out of school for sometime, and want to resume their studies without committing to a full 30 credit Master's Degree program, or
- Already hold an advanced degree, but wish to continue their studies in a new or related area.
Credits earned in a Graduate Certificate can be applied toward a Master's Degree.
Admission into a Graduate Certificate program requires an undergraduate degree in engineering or related disciplines with a "B" average or better from an accredited college or university. Outstanding applicants in other areas may be conditionally admitted subject to the satisfactory completion of several ramp courses or introductory courses within the specific program. The specific requirements will be determined on an individual basis depending upon the student’s background. Applications for admission from qualified students are accepted at any time.
Graduate Certificate programs can be used a stepping-stone towards a Master’s degree in Engineering Management, Enterprise Systems, Financial Engineering, and Systems Engineering.
SSE Graduate Certificate programs include:
• Agile Systems and Enterprises
• Engineering Management
• Enterprise Architecture and Governance
• Financial Engineering
• Logistics and Supply Chain Analysis
• Space Systems Engineering
Systems-Centric Software Engineering
• Systems Engineering and Architecting
• Systems Engineering Management
• Systems and Supportability Engineering
Agile Systems and Enterprises
Required courses for this Certificate include:
The certificate in Agile Systems and Enterprises integrates four complimentary courses. One common theme throughout defines enterprise as a human activity system. Another defines agile systems as those responding effectively to unpredicted situations, at all times, within mission. These common themes facilitate a study of agility across a seemingly wide variety of interesting system types, with the lines of difference blurred as each informs the other. The frontier of systems engineering today seeks new levels of system capability and behavior, and expects to find those benefits in higher forms of systems that elude traditional control and creation concepts. This graduate certificate is relevant to engineers, managers, and decision makers in commercial, healthcare, financial and insurance, and defense domains working with systems that must thrive in a dynamic unpredictable environment - especially if they are system of systems or enterprise systems. The graduate certificate and the constituent courses first build a theoretical and philosophical basis for understanding and formulating the interactive and interdependent problem and solution spaces, and then suggest pragmatic and executable approaches to realize the enterprise potential.
Audience: relevant to Engineers, Managers and decision makers in commercial, healthcare, financial and insurance, and defense domains work with systems that must thrive in a dynamic unpredictable environment.
Engineering Management
Required courses for this Certificate include:
Engineering Management is a rapidly expanding field that combines engineering, technology, management, systems, and business. High-technology companies in the telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, consulting, information technology and other industries utilize the concepts and tools of EM such as project management, quality management, engineering economics, modeling and simulation, systems engineering and integration, and statistical tools. Given that most students will spend most of their professional careers in a management or supervisory capacity, this certificate will provide many of the skills necessary to be successful in the 21st century, global economy.
Enterprise Architecture and Governance
Required courses for this Certificate include:
The certificate in Enterprise Architecture and Governance integrates four complimentary courses focused on defining and managing large enterprises. Enterprises represent a special case of systems of systems, one with enormous economic importance. While not traditionally considered within the same domain as technical systems, enterprises are increasingly being seen as representatives of a broader class of human designed systems, of which technical systems are only one part. Certainly, as we look at extended enterprises whose elements may be independent firms widely dispersed across the globe, each with their own motivations, expertise, cultures and organizations, policy and procedures, doctrine and history, charters and resources, motivations and strategic intent, yet collectively working together to produce a product or service valued by customers, the challenge of designing, managing, evaluating and optimizing these systems is the equal of any we can find. Whether governments, large commercial organizations, government agencies, etc., governance continues to be the most critical challenge contributing to the success or failure of the enterprise. The graduate certificate and the constituent courses first build both a theoretical and philosophical basis for understanding and formulating the interactive and interdependent problem and solution spaces, and then suggest pragmatic and executable approaches to realize the enterprise potential.
Financial Engineering
Required courses for this Certificate include:
The vast complexity of financial markets compels industry to look for experts who not only understand how they work, but also posses the mathematical knowledge to uncover their patterns and the computer skills to exploit them. To achieve success, banking and securities industries must come to grips with securities valuation, risk management, portfolio structuring, and regulation-knowledge embracing applied mathematics, computational techniques, statistical analysis, and economic theory. This four-course graduate certificate in Financial Engineering is an online, instructor-led, program that provides you with what you need to know in stochastic modeling, optimization, and simulation techniques.
Logistics and Supply Chain Analysis
Required courses for this Certificate include:
The Logistics and Supply Chain Analysis certificate focuses on the theory and practice of designing and analyzing supply chains. It will provide quantitative tools to identify key drivers of supply chain performance such as inventory, transportation, information and facilities from a holistic perspective. This graduate certificate program has a "how-to" orientation and the understanding gained in the courses can be immediately applied to the solution of on-the-job problems.
Audience: Supply Chain and Logistic Professionals, including Managers and Analysts.
Space Systems Engineering
Required courses for this Certificate include:
SYS/SDOE 625 Fundamentals of Systems Engineering
SYS/SDOE 650 System Architecture and Design
SYS/SDOE 632 Designing Space Missions and Systems
SYS/SDOE 633 Mission and Systems Design Verification and Validation (V&V)
The Graduate Certificate in Space Systems Engineering integrates crucial activities spanning the entire life cycle. Information and capabilities are learned by participants in hands-on-space system and mission design assignments focusing on: operations, concept development, space system architecture, verification and validation, as well as key system engineering processes and tools. These four courses provide the backbone for the development of space systems engineers. This certificate is relevant for professionals who wish to complement their existing knowledge and skills base to include state of the art spacecraft and mission analysis design combined with a holistic system engineering and architecture perspective.
Audience: Professionals with advanced degrees who wish to complement their existing knowledge and skills base to include state of the art spacecraft systems and mission analysis design combined with a holistic systems engineering and architecture perspective.
Systems-Centric Software Engineering
Required courses for this Certificate include:
SSW/SDOE 540 Fundamentals of Software Engineering
SYS/SDOE 625 Fundamentals of Systems Engineering
EM/SDOE 612 Project Management of Complex Systems
SSW/SDOE 565 Software Architecture and Component-Based Design
Modern society depends on large-scale software-intensive systems of astonishing complexity. For almost all interesting systems, the majority of the value is delivered through software and the majority of the engineering challenges are addressed through software. Because the consequences of failure in such systems are so high, it is vital that the software be assured or trustworthy; i.e., it has the characteristics that users depend on, including correctness, security, safety, and availability. Applying best practices based on sound underlying principles is essential in building complex software-intensive systems. Such practices address ways to specify, design, implement, test, and evaluate these systems in ways that enhance their trustworthiness. The courses in the Certificate in Systems-Centric Software Engineering address software engineering in a way that integrates critical aspects of systems engineering and incorporates best practices to make those systems trustworthy.
Audience: This course sequence would be of interest to a formally educated computer professional who aspires to a managerial career and needs the skills required to understand systems aspects of software intensive systems and an integration team and evaluate the resulting software product relative to customer needs. This program is also tailored to systems engineers who need practical knowledge of software concepts and students who pursue a career in business management in software intensive industries.
Systems Engineering and Architecting
Required courses for this Certificate include:
If you're an engineer who wants to help solve today's business problems and meet your future career goals, this four-course, online graduate certificate is perfect for you. The material presented in the Systems Engineering and Architecting (SEA) certificate provides an interdisciplinary approach based on an "entire view" of missions and operational environments and combines the capabilities of platforms, systems, operators, and support to fashion solutions that meet customer needs. Our competencies in the SEA are nationally recognized for our achievements in engineering education and the research philosophy rooted in effective partnerships with industry, instructors whose broad backgrounds provide a balanced blend of academic rigor with practical experience teach the program.
Audience: Engineers, Systems Engineers, Designers and Product Engineers, System and IT Architects, System Analysts, Requirements Engineers, Business Process Analysts.
Systems Engineering Management
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The Systems Engineering Management (SEM) certificate is designed for program managers, project managers, and lead systems engineers involved with conceiving, defining, architecting, integrating and testing complex and multi-functional systems. Particular emphasis is placed on the modern engineering enterprise characterized by geographically dispersed and multi-cultural organizations. Accordingly, the role of e-collaboration is also examined, and the traditional project and program management concepts are re-examined in this context. The participating students are also introduced to the concept of the “extended” enterprise and the delivery of a value chain solution. Relevant subjects such as leadership, subcontracting, and partnering are also reviewed. Additionally, the human, financial, organizational, and systems integration skills necessary to make project teams more productive are addressed in this graduate certificate offering. With a common systems engineering process serving as the framework, courses in project management, costing and acquisition, decision and risk analysis, and the organization as a system are integrated to form a certificate that will bridge engineering, management, and systems integration.
Audience: Program Managers, Project Managers, and lead Systems Engineers involved with conceiving, defining, architecting, integrating and testing complex and multi-functional systems.
Systems and Supportability Engineering
Required courses for this Certificate include:
With an increasing percentage (often 65% or more) of the system life cycle cost (LCC) being allocated to operations and support, there is urgency about exploring "cause and effect" relationships between design decisions and their operational and support related impacts. System and product robustness and sustainability become key when systems are costed using a LCC approach. The notion of “open” system architectures becomes an imperative wit increasing use of commercial system elements and common platforms. This four-course cluster in Systems and Supportability Engineering presents innovative methods and practices to integrate system reliability, maintainability, and supportability considerations into the systems engineering process. On the other hand, methods to optimize necessary logistics resources and processes are critical and are also studied in this sequence of courses. Current business trends are discussed and assessed.
Audience: Reliability and Maintainability Engineers, ILS Engineers and Analysts, and Systems Engineers. |
"The engineers' role has changed from performing solely technical
operations to being involved in the integration of engineering,
technology and business operations. The Engineering Management
discipline fills this critical education need by graduating engineers
who understand the increasing demand for efficiency, effectiveness, and
integration in engineering and business operations across varied industries."
