Graduate Certificates

The School of Systems & 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 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

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.

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.

Certificates

Algorithmic Trading Strategies

Recent years have seen unprecedented change in financial systems technology. Algorithmic trading has become a dominant component of trade volumes on exchanges. The implementation of software and automatic decision support systems in dynamic markets has become part of the skills needed to succeed in the domain of algorithmic finance. This four-course certificate is designed to provide financial engineers with the necessary understanding of architecting and implementing a financial trading systems.

FE 545 Design, Patterns and Derivatives Pricing
FE 570 Market Microstructure and Trading Strategies
FE 620 Pricing and Hedging
FE 670 Algorithmic Trading Strategies

Data Exploration and Visualization for Risk and Decision-Making

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

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

Financial Computing - 15 credits

The Financial Computing certificate will enable students to operate effectively in the complex financial computing environment. Students will develop expertise in implementation of financial computing models, knowledge of financial databases, financial engineering software and specialized programming languages. The hands-on skills combined with a real-life financial computing project will enable them to compete in the financial industry.

FE 505 Technical Writing in Finance - 1 credit
FE 522 C++ Programming in Finance - 3 credits
FE 511 Introduction to Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters - 1 credit
FE 621 Computational Methods Finance - 3 credits
FE 699 Project in Financial Computing - 2 credits
Choose one elective between:
FE 543 Introduction to Stochastic Calculus for Finance - 3 credits
FE 610 Stochastic Calculus for Finance - 3 credits
Choose two electives between:
FE 513 Practical Aspects of Database Design - 1 credit
FE 514 VBA in Finance - 1 credit
FE 515 Introduction to R - 1 credit
FE 516 MATLAB for Finance - 1 credit
FE 517 SAS for Finance - 1 credit
FE 518 Mathematica for Finance
FE 519 Advanced Bloomberg
FE 520 Introduction to Python in Financial Applications
FE 521 Web Design
FE 529 GPU Computing

Financial Engineering

The components of financial problem solving are embedded in the methods of applied mathematics, computational techniques, statistical analysis and economic theory. In a financial engineering program, those components are directed towards solving problems in securities valuation, risk management, portfolio structuring and regulatory concerns with emphasis on tools and training in stochastic modeling, optimization and simulation techniques.

FE 610 Stochastic Calculus for Financial Engineers
FE 620 Pricing and Hedging
FE 621 Computational Methods in Finance
FE 630 Portfolio Theory and Applications

Financial Risk Engineering

The recent turbulence in the financial system heightened the need for a much stronger understanding of the financial system, it’s environment and the risk measures applied in the industry to quantify risk it in its multiple hierarchies. This certificate enables the graduate to fill this need and play an important role in balancing the interests of shareholders with the appropriate levels of risk taken by the managers and decision makers.

FE 535 Introduction to Risk Management
FE 610 Stochastic Calculus for Financial Engineers
FE 635 Financial Enterprise Risk Engineering
FE 655 Systemic Risk and Financial Regulation

Financial Services Analytics - 5 course, 15 credits

Financial services analytics (FSA) is the science and technology of creating data-driven insights and analytics decision-making for the financial services industry. These insights increase the effectiveness of business operations, enhance customer relationships, improve product offerings, and improve risk analysis and risk management. This certificate will prepare students with an array of statistical learning methods and database skills in order to create end-to-end business decision making data analytic tools from an enterprise level systems approach.

FE 582 Foundations of Financial Data Science - 2 credits
FE 513 Practical Aspects of Database Design (lab) - 1 credit
FE 590 Introduction to Knowledge Engineering - 3 credits
FE 595 Financial Systems Technology (Analytical Financial Systems Design) - 3 credits
FE 550 Data Visualization Applications - 3 credits
FE 800 Special Projects in Financial Engineering - 3 credits

More about the FSA Certificate

Financial Software Engineering

This graduate certificate is aimed at intra-system super structural software applications (ISSS). Retail software platforms, web trading desks, pricing software tools for new instruments including derivatives products and stochastic portfolio simulators, and cutting edge information and knowledge discovery tools in a firm are all examples of software engineering or ISSS in financial institutions. This certificate explores these applications and how they work within a financial institutions overall enterprise system.

SSW 540 Fundamentals of Software Engineering
SSW 565 Software Architecture and Component-based Design
FE 610 Stochastic Calculus for Financial Engineers
FE 620 Pricing and Hedging

Financial Statistics

In our data driven world the capability of analyzing and drawing meaningful conclusions from said data is paramount. This statement is valid to all areas of science and engineering, particularly to finance. The certificate as designed will allow a student to have all the necessary tools to be able to analyze data in a scientific and fundamentally correct way.

FE 541 Applied Statistics with Applications in Finance
FE 542 Time Series and Applications to Finance
FE 590 Introduction to Knowledge Engineering
FE 610 Stochastic Calculus for Financial Engineering

Integrated Ship Systems Engineering

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.

Logistics and Supply Chain Analysis

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

Software Design and Development

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

Software Engineering

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)

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

Software Engineering in Finance

Clearing systems, payment systems and settlement systems are all examples of inter-system infrastructural software (ISIS). For example the Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS) is a patented algorithm for payment netting whose participants must have an account with the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The FedWire, SWIFT and SunGard are at the core of ISIS where the "Buy" side of the market meets the "Sell" side of the market through intermediaries and Banks with clearinghouses and custodians. The graduate certificate in software engineering in finance explores this class of problems dealing with inter-financial systems information flows.

SSW 540 Fundamentals of Software Engineering
SSW565 Software Architecture and Component-based Design
FE 595 Financial Systems Technology
MGT 623 Financial Management or MGT 638 Corporate Finance

Software Systems Architecture

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

Space Systems Engineering

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

Systems Engineering

The topics covered and material presented in this 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.

Core Requirements:
SYS 625Fundamentals of Systems Engineering
SYS 650System 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.
A maximum of one from the following:

SYS 645 Design for System Reliability, Maintainability and Supportability
SYS 660 Decision and Risk Analysis
SYS 611 Modeling and Simulation

Systems Engineering of Embedded/Cyber-Physical Systems

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

Systems Engineering Management

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

Systems Security Engineering

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

Systems Supportability Engineering

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

Urban Resilience

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

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