Graduate Certificates

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.

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
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This graduate certificate will provide students with an introduction to the emerging discipline of computational social science. Students will learn the basic skills required to succeed in the further study of computational social science and tools required for 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.

EM624 Informatics for Engineering Management
EM622 Data Visualization for Decision-Making
CAL/EM 570 Data-Driven Storytelling
CAL 517 Quantitative Social Science
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
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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
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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.
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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
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This certificate prepares students to understand and develop solutions for problems involving systems and enterprises that are socio-technical in nature, i.e. including the human element in understanding the qualitative and quantitative process of evolving the enterprise/system.

The required courses are:

ES 621 Fundamentals of Enterprise Systems
ES 677 Governing Development
ES 660 Multi-Agent Socio-Technical Systems
ES 684 Systems Thinking
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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
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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
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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

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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

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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
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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
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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
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
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
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
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

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