Curriculum Overview

The core curriculum consists of six System Engineering courses, shown below, that equip students with the processes, techniques, and tools required to practice systems engineering. The elective portion of the program is structured so that students can tailor the courses to meet their specific needs.

The Master’s of Science in Systems Engineering program is a non-thesis program.

Students must earn 30 credit hours (approximately 10 courses).

The program has a CAPSTONE project course: SYST670: Systems Engineering Project. In the project course, students complete an industry-based SE project and write a related technical report.

By the end of this program, the student will be able to:

Apply the fundamental principles of systems engineering to manage the development of products.

Develop functional, physical, and operational architectures of a system or enterprise that meets user requirements.

Construct design specifications from user and system requirements.

Formulate modeling, simulation, and analysis techniques to solve systems engineering problems.

Develop and lead the system integration process.

Develop and lead the system verification process in an operational environment.

Apply effective leadership skills for multidisciplinary system engineering teams.