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​The School of Systems and Enterprises (SSE) offers 16 graduate certificates designed to meet the continuing educational and professional development needs of those who

  • are interested in improving their current skills and technical competencies;
  • are considering new career paths within industry;
  • have been out of school for some time and want to resume their studies without committing to a full 30-credit master's degree program; or who
  • already hold an advanced degree, but wish to continue their studies in a new or related area.

Certificates are offered on-campus, online and at sponsored locations. They can be completed as an individual credential or incorporated into a related master's degree for those who meet the program admission requirements. Certificates are four courses (12 credits) unless otherwise noted.

Students are encouraged to incorporate graduate certificates into their Master and PhD academic plans. Students who are pursuing a Master's or PhD can double count courses taken for their degree requirements toward multiple graduate certificates. Students in stand-alone SSE graduate certificate programs who are not also getting a Master's or PhD cannot double count their courses toward multiple certificates.

Admission into a graduate certificate program requires an undergraduate degree in engineering or a related discipline with a "B" or better average from an accredited college or university. Outstanding applicants in other areas may be conditionally admitted subject to the satisfactory completion of several ramp/introductory courses relevant to the specific program. The  requirements are determined on an individual basis depending on the student's background. 

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Students, please be aware that the graduate certificates outlined below are the only graduate certificates offered by the School of Systems & Enterprises for the 2021-2022 academic year.

Graduate Certificates

  • This graduate certificate will provide students with a solid foundation in the fundamentals and practical use of methods, processes and tools for the conception, architecture, modeling and simulation, and analysis of complex systems. The skills obtained will be applicable to the systems engineering of systems in other domains, but are focused on systems with the attributes of distributed control, complexity and evolution. Systems thinking, model-based systems engineering and simulation approaches are emphasized.

    The following two courses are required as pre-requisites:

    SYS 625 Fundamentals of Systems Engineering
    SYS 650 System Architecture and Design

    Students must also choose four of the following six courses:

    SYS 678 Agile Systems & Enterprises
    SYS 725 Advances in Systems of Systems Engineering
    SYS 684 Systems Thinking
    SYS 750 Advanced System and Software Modeling and Assessment
    SYS 611 Modeling and Simulation
    SYS 681 Dynamic Modeling of Systems and Enterprises

     Program Director: Mo Mansouri

    View more information in the academic catalog
  • By earning Stevens' computational social science graduate certificate, students will learn the tools required to meet the evolving requirements of employers related to the collection, analysis, and critique of data with applications to society. Students will demonstrate basic data cleaning, visualization, and analysis skills through the use of statistical, computational, and social science methods.

    Tne required courses are:

    EM 624 Informatics for Engineering Management

    EM 622 Data Visualizations for Decision-making

    HSS/EM 570 Data-Driven Storytelling

    HSS 517 Quantitative Social Science

    View more information in the academic catalog
  • This graduate certificate will improve students’ career toolkit to include decision making by visualizing, manipulating and extracting important concepts from data. The emphasis of this certificate is for the student to be able to understand the latest techniques in data visualization and knowledge extraction, and to leverage such understanding with the latest techniques for decision-making and risk analysis. 

    The required courses are:

    EM 622 Data Analysis and Visualization Techniques for Decision making
    EM 623 Data Science and Knowledge Discovery in Engineering Management
    EM 624 Informatics for EM
    SYS 660 Decision and Risk Analysis

    View more information in the academic catalog
  • Engineering management (EM) 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 EM concepts and tools 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 provides many of the skills necessary to be successful in the 21st-century global economy.

    The required courses are:

    EM 600 Engineering Economics and Cost Analysis
    EM 605 Elements of Operations Research
    EM 612 Project Management of Complex Systems
    EM 680 Designing and Managing the Development Enterprise

    View more information in the academic catalog
  • This graduate certificate will prepare students who intend to pursue a career in healthcare with a research-centered education that uses systems thinking to help solve some of the biggest challenges in global healthcare systems such as the organizations of people, institutions and resources that deliver healthcare services to meet the needs of target populations. The certificate program covers critical areas such as the application of systems engineering in healthcare, including decision science, systems thinking, human factors and digital/smart/mobile health, as well as the application of data science/analytics in healthcare.

    The required courses are:

    EM 533 Human Factors in Engineering 

    EM 633 Decision Sciences and Data Analytics in Healthcare

    Students must also take two of the following three courses:

    SYS 511 Systems Engineering Applications in Healthcare

    EM 624 Informatics for Engineering Management

    SYS 684 Systems Thinking

     

    View more information in the academic catalog
  • 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.

    The required courses are:

    SYS 640 System Supportability and Logistics
    EM 665 Integrated Supply Chain Management
    SYS 670 Forecasting and Demand Modeling Systems
    EM 605 Elements of Operations Research or SYS 611 Simulation and Modeling

    View more information in the academic catalog
  • This graduate program certifies that the student has a sound mastery of software development methods, processes and techniques. Students who complete the program should be well positioned to take technical leadership positions in software design and development.

    The required courses are:

    SSW 555 Agile Methods for Software Development
    SSW 565 Software Architecture and Component-Based Design
    CS 574 Object-oriented Design and Analysis
    CS 546 Web Programming or CS 548 Engineering of Enterprise Software Systems

    View more information in the academic catalog
  • Creating successful systems is more than just writing software. This introductory certificate gives you a strong foundation in the fundamentals of software engineering - the engineering that is required to create software systems that work.

    The required courses are:

    SSW 540 Fundamentals of Quantitative Software Engineering
    SSW 533 Software Estimation and Measurement 

    Electives include:
    Choose two additional Software Engineering courses (SSW Prefix)

    OR

    Select two courses from the following list:

    SSW 555 Agile Methods for Software Development 
    CS 501 Introduction to Java Programming 
    CS 546 Web Programming
    EM 612 Project Management of Complex Systems 

    View more information in the academic catalog
  • Software systems architecture is one of the most important activities in any system development project. Systems succeed or fail because of their architecture. This graduate certificate provides an intensive, in-depth study of the best practices for software systems architecture and design from the perspectives of both the software engineer and the systems engineer.

    The required courses are:

    SSW 540 Fundamentals of Software Engineering

    SSW 564 Software Requirements Analysis and Engineering

    SSW 565 Software Architecture and Component-Based Design

    SYS 650 System Architecture and Design

    View more information in the academic catalog
  • The certificate 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 systems engineering and architecture perspective.

    The required courses are:

    SYS 625 Fundamentals of Systems Engineering

    SYS 632 Designing Space Missions and Systems OR SYS 635 Human Spaceflight

    SYS 633 Mission and Systems Design Verification and Validation OR SYS 605 Systems Integration

    SYS 637 Cost-Effective Space Missions Operations

    View more information in the academic catalog
  • The topics covered and material presented in the systems engineering certificate (formerly systems engineering and architecting) 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.

    The required courses are:

    SYS 625 Fundamentals of Systems Engineering
    SYS 650 System Architecture and Design

    Select two courses from the following list:

    SYS 605 Systems Integration
    EM 612 Project Management of Complex Systems
    SYS 750 Advanced System and Software Architecture Modeling and Assessment.
    SYS 645 Design for System Reliability, Maintainability and Supportability

    • OR SYS 660 Decision and Risk Analysis
    • OR SYS 611 Modeling and Simulation
    View more information in the academic catalog
  • The systems engineering of embedded/cyber-physical systems (CPS) four-course certificate program has been designed to provide engineers with systems engineering skills such that they can be effective in small, agile teams in the development of such systems. This certificate will provide students with a solid foundation in the fundamentals and practical use of tools for the conception, design, implementation and sustainment of embedded and CPS from a systems perspective using an integrated, intensive team-based project experience throughout the life cycle. The skills obtained will be applicable to the systems engineering of systems in other domains, but are focused on systems with the attributes of embedded and cyber-physical systems.

    The required courses are:

    SYS 671 Conception of CPS: Deciding What to Build and Why

    SYS 672 Design of CPS: Ensuring Systems Work and Are Robust

    SYS 673 Implementation of CPS: Bringing Solutions to Life

    SYS 674 Sustainment of CPS: Managing Evolution

    View more information in the academic catalog
  • This four-course cluster 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.

    The required courses are:

    SYS 640 System Supportability and Logistics
    SYS 645 Design for System Reliability, Maintainability, and Supportability

    Select two electives from the following list:

    SYS 625 Fundamentals of Systems Engineering
    SYS 650 System Architecture and Design
    SYS 684 Systems Thinking
    EM 680 Designing and Managing the Development Enterprise

    View more information in the academic catalog
  • A graduate certificate in Urban Resilience that will enhance an individual’s capability to lead a multi-disciplinary, real world effort to make a city more resilient. With a future that is undeniably urban, building the resilience of the world’s urban places will be critical to address new challenges and threats – some which we have begun to plan for and many we have not. Although every city’s resilience path will be different based on the unique needs of their populations and geographies, this certificate will provide an introduction to the fundamental principles of urban analysis and complex computational modeling that are the foundations to confronting these challenges.

    The required courses are:

    EM 622Decision Making Via Data Analysis Techniques Or EM 624 Informatics for Engineering Management

    ES 640 Community and Resilience

    ES 660 Multi-Agent Socio-Technical Systems

    EM 599 Introduction to Smart Cities and Their Ecosystems

    View more information in the academic catalog
  • This Graduate Certificate will provide students with the necessary introductory educational background both to understand urban systems problems and to analyze large-scale data using a variety of tools and techniques. Upon completion, students will be able to use those tools and techniques in the context of Urban Systems, targeting issues relevant to cities, such as managing disasters, improving public health, and improving quality of life.

    The required courses are:

    EM 624Informatics for Engineering Management

    EM 622Decision Making Via Data Analysis Techniques

    EM 655Sustainable Transportation Systems: Technology, Management and Policy

    EM 599Introduction to Smart Cities and Their Ecosystems

    View more information in the academic catalog
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