Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Hardware Systems Engineering
Certificate Level: Graduate
Admissions Requirements: Bachelor's degree
Certificate Type: Post-Baccalaureate
Minimum Number of Credits to Completion: 12.0
Instructional Delivery: Online; Face-to-face
Calendar Type: Quarter
Expected Time to Completion: 1 years
Financial Aid Eligibility: Not aid eligible
Classification of Instructional Program (CIP) Code: 14.2701
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) Code: 11-9041
About the Program
This graduate certificate will enhance the skills of engineers who work in areas of product design and development related to a variety of industries, but most relevant to Department of Defense (DoD) and related industries. In today’s environment, managing the complexity of hardware product development requires technical knowledge and know-how, as well as system engineering approaches with a focus on the product development lifecycle process. This graduate certificate program will leverage this competency to provide systems engineering thinking paired with technical depth in product development and design. This pairing will enhance the skill set and talent of engineers who work in the field of hardware product design and development.
Courses completed in this certificate program can be applied to a masters in Systems Engineering and / or most other master degree programs within the College of Engineering.
Note students that are interested in the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Systems Engineering Professional (SEP) certification should take SYSE 685 (Systems Engineering Management ) and SYSE 688 (Systems Engineering Analysis) as their required and elective courses. Completion of these two courses (SYSE 685 and SYSE 688) is required for INCOSE SEP certification. For more information about this certification refer to INCOSE SEP Certification.
Admission Requirements
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent STEM BS degree
- A GPA of 3.0 and/or significant work experience
Note, interested students can apply for admission to this program in any term (Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer).
Program Requirements
| SYSE 533 | Systems Integration and Test | 3.0 |
| SYSE 650 | Transition of the Integrated System from Design to Production | 3.0 |
| SYSE 685 | Systems Engineering Management | 3.0 |
| or SYSE 688 | Systems Engineering Analysis | |
| Technical Elective * | 3.0 | |
| Total Credits | 12.0 | |
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The Technical Elective course must be a graduate level course (500, 600 or 700 series) from ECE, ECEC, ECEE, ECEP, ECES, ECET, ENGR, ET, MATE, MEM, SYSE
Sample Plan of Study
| First Year (Part-Time) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| SYSE 685 or 688 | 3.0 | SYSE 650 | 3.0 | Technical Elective* | 3.0 | SYSE 533 | 3.0 |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Total Credits 12 | |||||||
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Technical Elective courses must be graduate level 500, 600 or 700 level courses from ECE, ECEC, ECEE, ECEP, ECES, ECET, ENGR, ET, MATE, MEM, SYSE
Additional Information
To learn more about the certificate or to apply for admission, please visit the Systems Engineering program page.