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​The School of Systems and Enterprises offers graduate certificates that are designed to meet the continuing educational and professional development needs of 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 some time 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

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

Students in any of the master’s and doctoral programs in the School of Systems and Enterprises are permitted to apply their courses towards one degree and also towards graduate certificate(s).  Courses taken for a graduate certificate cannot be used in more than one graduate certificate.  We encourage students to incorporate a graduate certificate in their master's study plan.  This policy is effective for enrolled and incoming students.

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 are determined on an individual basis depending upon the student's background. 

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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 choose four from the following six courses:

    SYS 678 Agile Systems & Enterprises
    SYS 725 Advances in Systems of Systems Engineering
    ES 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
  • The computational social science graduate certificate was built through a partnership between Stevens' College of Arts and Letters and School of Systems & Enterprises.

    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.

    Required Courses

    • EM 624 – Informatics for Engineering Management
    • EM 622 – Data Visualizations for Decision-making
    • CAL/EM 570 – Data-Driven Storytelling
    • CAL 517 – Quantitative Social Science* (New class!)

    Program Objectives

    • Understand the unique challenges that social data present in relation to societal issues
    • Develop data visualizations that can be used by policy-makers, journalists, academics, and industry professionals for decision-making
    • Identify, define, collect, analyze, and communicate relevant data related to computational social science
    • Gain the ability to collect, use, and analyze large-scale data and generate informatics
    • Develop basic knowledge of tools, such as Python, for computational social science applications
  • 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. 

    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

    More about the Data Exploration and Visualization Certification
  • 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.

    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 certificate provides professionals in government and industry with robust technical education in ship design and development, key ship systems engineering processes and tools, and a holistic understanding of systems engineering principles.

    SYS 625 Fundamentals of Systems Engineering
    SYS 650 Systems Architecture and Design
    OE 661 Principles of Naval Ship Systems
    OE 660 Naval Ship Acquisition Process
    OE 524 Introduction to Ship Design and Ship Building*

    *With faculty advisor's approval, OE 524 can be waived for students with naval architecture background through undergraduate academics or work experience.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    Core Requirements:
    SSW 540 Fundamentals of Quantitative Software Engineering
    SSW 533 Software Estimation and Measurement 

    Electives:
    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 is an intensive, in-depth study of the best practices of software systems architecture and design.

    SSW 540 Fundamentals of Software Engineering
    SYS 650 System Architecture and Design
    SSW 565 Software Architecture and Component-Based Design
    SYS 750 Advanced System & Software Architecture

    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.

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

     

    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.

    Core Requirements:
    SYS 625 Fundamentals of Systems Engineering
    SYS 650 System Architecture and Design

    Electives:
    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.

    SYS 671 Conception of Cyber-Physical Systems
    SYS 672 Design of Cyber-Physical Systems
    SYS 673 Implementation of Cyber-Physical Systems
    SYS 674 Sustainment of Cyber-Physical Systems

    View more information in the academic catalog
  • This 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. Students are introduced to the concept of the "extended" enterprise and the delivery of a value chain solution. Additionally, the human, financial, organizational and systems integration skills necessary to make project teams more productive are addressed in this graduate certificate offering.

    Core Requirements:
    EM 612 Project Management of Complex Systems
    SYS 625 Fundamentals of Systems Engineering
    SYS 660 Decision and Risk Analysis

    Electives (select one course from the following list):
    EM 680 Managing the Development Enterprise 
    ES 621 Fundamentals of Enterprise Systems

    View more information in the academic catalog
  • This certificate integrates crucial topics spanning the lifecycle of secure systems. Participants are provided hands-on assignments focusing on: technology governance, security requirements, secure system architecture, security system engineering and information assurance.

    Select four of the following five courses:

    SES 602 Secure Systems Foundations
    SES 622 Fundamentals of Systems Engineering Security
    SES 623 Systems Security Architecture and Design
    SYS 660 Decision and Risk Analysis
    SSW 689 Engineering of Trusted Software Systems

    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.

    Core Requirements:

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

    Electives (select two courses from the following list):

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

    View more information in the academic catalog
  • Dedicated to the proposition that coastal cities can increase their resilience to extreme weather while simultaneously improving their quality of life, this four-course certificate program will teach students and professionals of diverse backgrounds the necessary data-driven and science-based tools to make resilience in their communities a reality.

    ES 520 The Nature of Urban Design
    OE 511 Urban Oceanography
    ES 630 Modeling and Visualization of Complex Systems and Enterprises
    EM 622 Data Analysis and Visualization Techniques for Decision-Making

     

    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 624  Informatics for Engineering Management
    EM 622  Data Visualization for Decision-Making
    EM 655  Sustainable Transportation Systems
    EM 599  Introduction to Smart Cities

    View more information in the academic catalog
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