Systems Engineering

Graduate Certificate

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Quick Facts

Credits Required: 12

Cost Per Credit: $1200.00

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Program Details

The online Graduate Certificate in Systems Engineering program from the University of Arizona Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering (SIE) presents an accelerated path to refined systems development and analysis skills.

Our flexible curriculum provides a valuable opportunity for working engineers and software developers to update their expertise or pursue a new professional focus in a convenient online format. You can benefit from the decades of innovative thinking in large-scale design at a pioneering systems engineering department. Enhance your career and build on your practical experience by learning industry-standard tools and current best practices for maximizing human, technological, and informational assets. Our faculty designed the online systems engineering certificate program to help any engineer responsible for overseeing, creating, or operating a complex system. The graduate certificate program is ideal for professionals pursuing careers as systems engineers but also for those working in design, life-cycle management, and project management. You’ll complete coursework that explores the latest advances in the field and the specialized, fundamental techniques required to bring a higher level of expertise to your work.

As a student in the online systems engineering graduate certificate program, you can prepare to reach your goals in these industries by taking advantage of many valuable resources, including the same career services and technical support as our on-campus students. This program offers an accelerated yet comprehensive exploration of the technology and concepts that empower complex systems.

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*Residents of some U.S. Territories may not be eligible. Please see our Eligibility & State Authorization page for more information.

Courses

Courses depend on the program route:

Master's Report Option: 27 units of SIE Graduate Coursework & 3 units of SIE 909 Master's Report
Master’s Thesis Option: 24 units of SIE Graduate Coursework and 6 units of SIE 910 Master’s Thesis
Coursework only Option: 33 units of SIE Graduate Coursework

The following courses are required in the major:

Learn discrete event simulation, model development, statistical design and analysis of simulation experiments, variance reduction, random variate generation, Monte Carlo simulation. Graduate-level requirements include a library research report.

This program covers the process and tools for systems engineering of large-scale, complex systems: requirements, performance measures, concept exploration, multi-criteria tradeoff studies, life cycle models, system modeling, etc. Graduate-level requirements include extensive sensitivity analysis of their final projects.

This course introduces model-based systems engineering (MBSE), the formalized application of modeling to support system requirements, design, analysis, verification, and validation activities beginning in the conceptual design phase and continuing throughout development and later life cycle phases. It emphasizes the practical use of the Systems Modeling Language (SysML) and MBSE methods.

Learn the modeling and design of complex systems using the Unified Modeling Language (UML), the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), and Wymorian System Theory. Applications come from systems, hardware, and algorithm design. This course will emphasize architecture, requirements, testing, risk analysis, and use of various systems design tools.