Online Graduate Certificate in Systems Engineering
- Offered in an easily accessible 100% online format by UTEP’s College of Engineering
- Designed for working professionals and students who are interested in learning how to develop and manage complex systems
- Curriculum provides a solid basis in the fundamentals of systems engineering
- Provides a pathway towards a master’s degree
The online Graduate Certificate in Systems Engineering (GCSE) offered by the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is a convenient and flexible way for aspiring engineers to achieve the knowledge and credentials they need to succeed in the industry; credits earned may be applied to a master’s degree for those students interested in continuing their educations.
WHY AN ONLINE GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING?
Systems engineering is an essential part of the way the world works today. It combines several skill areas — people, facilities, policies, hardware, software and documents — into an integrated discipline that combines human factors, technology, process engineering and management.
Graduates of this program will possess the core skills needed to
- Understand the modeling, creation and analysis of systems
- Integrate studies in human factors, technology, process engineering and management into one multi-faceted discipline
- Take a project from conception to completion by assessing a problem and providing the right solution for the customer’s need
- Manage teams throughout a system lifecycle
- Apply the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) best practices for developing products and services
- Learn the concepts for the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) ASEP/CSEP certification and be better prepared to pass the exam
- Acquire the advanced interdisciplinary knowledge required for management-level positions
A graduate-level certificate in systems engineering is ideally suited to students who
- Are limited by time and resources and/or corporate sponsorship and are only able to commit to a 15 semester credit hour program
- Want to pursue systems engineering as a secondary interest
- Are getting degrees in other fields but would like to get a GCSE at the same time
Opportunities in systems engineering are available in a wide range of industries including manufacturing, aerospace, defense, healthcare, electronics, automotive, education, software, government and other sectors that have a need for people who can understand and manage complex systems.
The UTEP Career Center provides graduates with resources to help them pursue their career goals.
Expert Faculty
Because some of our faculty serve as corporate and industry consultants, our program brings that knowledge into the classroom to provide students with the skills they need to succeed in the field. Faculty also prepare students to apply new engineering models to environments that are constantly changing. Students will have a multicultural experience and access to industry partners like Lockheed Martin and Department of Defense contractors.
Why UTEP?
The University of Texas at El Paso has a 100-year history as a preferred educator for students in the U.S.-Mexico border communities. At UTEP, we believe that an accessible and affordable education should be available to all. Online degrees such as these help make higher education a possibility for those who are unable to come to campus because of other responsibilities.
- UTEP is ranked #1 in “Social Mobility” according to Washington Monthly.
- The U.S. Department of Education ranks UTEP as a great value with the lowest net tuition of all research universities in the country.
- Issues in Higher Education ranks UTEP #2 among all U.S. colleges and universities in the total number of degrees awarded to Hispanics.
- UTEP is recognized as a 2016 Military Friendly® School.
- UTEP received the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) Champion of Access and Success Award for successfully advancing strategies that increase opportunity, persistence and degree completion for low-income, first-generation, minority, adult, veteran, disabled and other underserved student populations.
- The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board ranks UTEP #3 in Texas among the 7 peer “Emerging Research Universities.”
- Washington Monthly also ranks UTEP #8 overall among “National Research Universities”—in excellent company between #6 Stanford and #10 Harvard.
- UTEP teaching has been recognized as a “Model Institution for Excellence” (one of only six in the country) by the National Science Foundation.
- UTEP is one of 11 universities nationwide to receive a $5 million “Teachers for a New Era” research grant from Carnegie Corporation.
- UTEP is regionally accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).
ONLINE GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CURRICULUM
The online systems engineering graduate certificate requires a total of 15 semester credit hours which consists of 12 semester credit hours of coursework and a three-hour project practicum in industry. Students will acquire core knowledge in key areas of Systems Engineering and the project practicum allows students to take on a project for a real customer from beginning to end. Students must complete the following core courses with a B average or better with no more than one C to be awarded the certificate. Credits may be applied towards a master’s degree if so desired.
Applicants are generally expected to have a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, computing, physical sciences or the like.
Systems Engineering Certificate Courses
| Systems Engineering Fundamentals | Study the key concepts, processes and process activities carried out by systems engineers including fundamentals of designing and engineering large and complex development projects. You will understand the architectural analysis and design, functional design alternatives and key architectural attributes of software tools. |
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| Systems Engineering Management | Practice techniques and tools for systems engineering management including technical management, organizational environments, technical team structures, time and cost estimates, cost control, resource allocation and resource management. Refine your skill by proposing project studies, approved by your professor, that you develop in phases as the course progresses. |
| Systems Requirements Analysis | Learn methodologies, approaches, and techniques associated with requirement analysis and definition; explore the process for defining requirements including feasibility studies, requirements elicitation, formal specification, modeling, validation, verification, and documentation. |
| Systems Integration, Verification & Validation | Learn verification planning, verification methods and validation methods during the development, launching and operations of a system; as well as integration tests and integration text data collection analysis and systems requirement validation. |
| Systems Engineering Project Practicum | Under a faculty member’s supervision, apply methodologies and processes to develop a real customer project from the conceptual phase to prototype definition. This course must be taken in the last term of the program. Prerequisite: Department Approval. |
