Systems Engineering

Course Descriptions

CIS 600 – Information Technology and Project Management (3 cr.)
Course topics include balancing project stakeholder requirements for scope, time, cost, quality, risk, and human factors. The course emphasizes the Project Management Institute's (PMI) body of knowledge and considers PMP/CAPM professional certifications.

CIS 610 – Software Development Methodology (3 cr.)
This course covers methods for all phases of software development focusing on the establishment of economical software that is reliable and cross platform compatible.

ENGR 501 – Foundations of Systems Engineering (3 cr.)
The Foundations of Systems Engineering course is an introductory overview of the systems engineering perspective and is presented to set the conceptual and practical framework of the entire systems engineering graduate program. The course covers the foundational components of systems engineering, the concept development stage every viable system must go through, and the process steps of the engineering development stage. Several issues related to post-development and special topics areas are presented.

ENGR 510 – Linear Programming and Network Flows (3 cr.)
Optimization methods; linear programming, simplex algorithm, duality, sensitivity analysis, minimal cost network flows, transportation problems.

ENGR 520 – Engineering Decision Support/Expert Systems (3 cr.)
Decision support systems for complex engineering problems; multicriteria decision making and optimization; hybrid knowledge-based/algorithmic methods.

ENGR 530 – Overview of Systems Engineering Processes (3 cr.)
This course helps students develop a conceptual understanding of the systems engineering life-cycle process and familiarity with analysis techniques used in that process. It also introduces concepts of reliability and robustness, and rigorous tools for analysis and design with them in mind. The course utilizes real-world experience and case studies of working with a system through all phases of the system design process. Students can participate via live web conferencing or view the recorded session at your leisure.

ENGR 531 – Engineering Risk Analysis (3 cr.)
Successful engineering project management includes estimation and proactive risk identification and development of mitigation techniques. System uncertainty is reduced when project risks are identified, quantified, and mitigation strategies implemented. Tools, techniques, and methodologies used by successful project managers will be examined. Students can participate via live web conferencing or view the recorded session at your leisure.

ENGR 532 – Dynamics of Complex Engineering Systems (3 cr.)
This course deals with understanding the higher-level behavior and issues that emerge from interaction between components in complex socio-technical systems. The course emphasizes system thinking, dynamic cause and effect relationships, and the higher-level emergent behavior that results from the interaction of many smaller effects that are individually well understood, but more difficult to grasp at a higher level.

MECH 513 – Simulation Fundamentals (3 cr.)
You will learn SIGMA for Windows, an easily learned resident entity oriented event graph simulation language that allows you to easily master the underlying structure and workings of simulation languages. You will also learn ARENA, a powerful easily learned entity flow oriented simulation language that is as powerful as and similar in organization to most commercial simulation languages. These two simulation languages will enable you to accomplish simulation studies in a matter of hours, rather than having to spend days doing it with a commercial simulation language, and they will provide you with the capability for easily mastering any other simulation language. You will learn to build simulations of many common systems, including sequential manufacturing operations, service operations, assembly operations and machine breakdown and repair. You will learn how to set up and conduct proper simulation experiments.

ENGR 597: Group Study in Systems Engineering (3 cr.)