Advising Information for Graduate Certificate Systems Engineering
This page provides helpful advising information for students pursuing the Graduate Certificate in Systems Engineering (GCSE) courses. Please note that planned course offerings may change due to extraordinary circumstances. For the most up-to-date information on an upcoming semester, check the U’s official course schedule for all available courses.
GCSE Eligibility
Any graduate student at the U is eligible to earn the Graduate Certificate in Systems Engineering. This creates two pathways to earn this certificate, and both are available on-campus and online.
Pursue the certificate as a nonmatriculated student (not admitted to a U graduate program)
Warning: At most 15 hours of credit as a nonmatriculated student can be applied toward the coursework requirements of a graduate degree. If continuing on to a masters or Ph.D., do not forget to apply to a graduate program prior to enrolling in the 16+ hour.
Apply and be admitted to a graduate masters or doctoral program
Transfer Coursework
At most 3 hours of courses from another institution can be transferred to fulfill the requirements. These hours will most likely satisfy the related systems engineering elective requirement. A student wishing to transfer a class from another institution should email the Program Director with the request. An affirmative response by the Program Director in an email formalizes the transfer credit applying toward the certificate requirements.
Nonmatriculated Status
The GCSE can be completed and awarded as a nonmatriculated student. However, students should be aware that at most 15 hours of nonmatriculated course work can be applied toward any masters degree. Furthermore, all nonmatriculated courses that are applied to a graduate degree must have been completed within 3 years of being admitted to the relevant graduate degree.
Prerequisites
- One year of calculus
- One semester of statistics
- It is highly encouraged that students have had at least one computer programming course.
Mastering the Prerequisite Material
Many students entering the program will have passed the prerequisite courses years in the past and may have forgotten the bulk of the material. The following advising notes provide classes where students can gain sufficient mastery of the prerequisite material. Furthermore, these graduate classes can also be used to fulfill the GCSE requirements.
- Individuals meeting the statistics requirement but feeling weak in their statistical knowledge should take either SIME 6000 - ME EN 6185 or SIME 6060 - ME EN 6183 early in their coursework.
- Individuals that have no computer coding experience or feel weak in this area should take ME EN 6185 early in their coursework.
- Any relevant calculus topics will be covered, when necessary, in their respective courses.
Course Section Numbers
The U uses standard section numbers for enrollment. These sections differ by on-campus and online, and also whether or not a student is enrolled in a graduate program or is a nonmatriculated student. While registering for courses, online students should not use the U's scheduler tools. Online courses are offered without times, and these courses may never show in the scheduling tools. Online students should search for the desired course name/number and make sure that they enroll in the correct section.
- On-campus students wishing to attend the lectures of a course should enroll in the 001-010 sections
- On-campus students wishing to enroll in a course that is offered online should enroll in the 090 sections (never have an in class lecture or activity). Many on-campus courses do not offer these sections. There is also no guarantee that a student could earn a degree using only 090 sections. Furthermore, 090 sections are not scheduled with the same regularity as the other sections on this list. See the current semester's on-campus schedule for existing 090 sections.
- Online students admitted to an online degree program (Bachelors, Masters, or Ph.D.) or as a nonmatriculated student should enroll in the 290 sections of courses.
- If your company has created a contract for online education, then the section is 030-039.
Typical courses for the GCSE along with the certificate requirement that it can satisfy
Please note that planned course offerings may change due to extraordinary circumstances. For the most up-to-date information on an upcoming semester, check the U’s official course schedule for all available courses.
| Course Number | Course Title | Semester Offered | Core GCSE class | Systems Eng Elective | Related Systems Eng Elective |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ME EN 6035* | Design of Experiments | Spring | Yes | ||
| ME EN 6100 | Ergonomics | Fall | Yes | ||
| ME EN 6110 | Introduction to Industrial Safety | Fall | Yes | ||
| ME EN 6150 | Product-Safety Eng & Eng Ethics | Fall | Yes | ||
| ME EN 6160* | Fundamentals of Systems Eng | Fall | Yes | ||
| ME EN 6165* | Requirements Eng & Management | Spring | Yes | Yes | |
| ME EN 6166* | Model-Based Systems Eng | Fall | Yes | Yes | |
| ME EN 6170* | System Engineering and Integration | Spring | Yes | ||
| ME EN 6180* | Project Management for Engineers | Spring | Yes | ||
| ME EN 6182* | Design of Production & Service Sys | Summer | Yes | Yes | |
| ME EN 6183* | Discrete Event Sys Simulation | Fall | Yes | Yes | |
| ME EN 6184* | Operations Research for Systems | Spring | Yes | ||
| ME EN 6185* | Analytics for Systems Management | Fall | Yes | ||
| ME EN 6186* | Engineering Economic Analysis | Summer | Yes | ||
| ME EN 6210 | State Space Control | Spring | Yes | ||
| ME EN 6960 | Space Mission Engineering | Fall | Yes |
*Indicated courses that are typically offered both on campus and online
Additional Advising Comments
Although not required, SIME 6400 - ME EN 6160 should be taken before SIME 6410 - ME EN 6170. However, students wanting to earn the certificate in one year and beginning in spring, should take SIME 6410 - ME EN 6170 without taking SIME 6400 - ME EN 6160.
The majority of classes have no prerequisites other than the program prerequisites. The exception is SIME 6460 - ME EN 6166: A student should have at least one of SIME 6400 - ME EN 6160, SIME 6430 - ME EN 6165 or SIME 6410 - ME EN 6170 prior to taking SIME 6460 - ME EN 6166.