Master of Engineering
Area of study: Systems Engineering
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- Program Overview
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This interdisciplinary program provides students the ability to engineer complex products, processes, services leveraging a systems engineering approach.
Systems engineering focuses on defining needs and customer requirements early in the development cycle. Systems engineering appears to be all things to all people. The official definition comes from INCOSE-International Council on Systems Engineering. The definition is:
"An interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems. It focuses on defining customer needs and required functionality early in the development cycle, documenting requirements, then proceeding with design synthesis and system validation."
This flexible online "anytime, anyplace" program was designed with input from global corporations and targets professionals leading major complex systems development or programs at their companies. The key to this program is the amalgamation of several professional association and certificate programs:- INCOSE--International Systems Engineering Society
- CMII- Configuration Management Institute
- PMI- Program Management Institute
Below, a sample program of study is designed, but students can structure their electives based on interest. For example, develop electives across disciplines or concentrated in one discipline (ie: software, hardware, mechanical design, etc). Once admitted to the program, students can collaborate with their advisor on the appropriate courses to achieve their academic goals and objectives.
- Admission Requirements
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Students seeking admission into the program must hold a bachelor of science in engineering or math. Applicants must have a minimum grade point average of 3.0 in the last 60 undergraduate credit hours. No GRE is required.
- Program Requirements
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Students must complete a total of 30 credit hours equaling 10 courses to earn a Masters of Engineering Degree.
A culminating event is required and will be identified by the student’s advisory committee. It could be a final examination or the final report for a practice-oriented project (Applied Project IEE593). Additional requirements may exist for some academic units.
- Program of Study
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Seven of Nine Course Core
- IEE 505 - Database Structures
- IEE 530 - Enterprise Modeling
- IEE 545 - Simulating Stochastic Systems
- IEE 552 - Strategic Technology Management (management course meeting MEng requirements)
- IEE 572 - Design of Experiments (math course meeting MEng requirements)
- IEE 574 - Intro to Operations Research
- IEE 512 - Introduction to Financial Engineering
- IEE 598 - Rapid New Product Development
- IEE 598 - Introduction to Systems Engineering
Select two electives from one area:
Software:
- CSE 563 - Software Requirements and Specifications
- CSE 566 - Software Project, Process and Quality Management
- CSE 591 - Modeling and Simulation Theory and Application
- CSE 598 - Software Analysis and Design
- CSE 598 - Service-Oriented Computing and Information Management
Hardware:
- EEE 581 - Filtering of Stochastic Processes
- EEE 582 - Linear System Theory
- EEE 585 - Digital Control Systems
- EEE 586 - Nonlinear Control Systems
- EEE 587 - Optimal Control Systems
Required Final Project:
- IEE 593 - Systems Applied Project
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