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Develop the knowledge and practical skills to design, integrate, and manage complex systems with the听Master of Science in Systems Engineering (MSSE) at 糖心logo入口 (CSUDH).听
Whether you are a听recent graduate, early-career engineer, mid-career professional, or seasoned practitioner, the MSSE curriculum is听designed to support students at听various听stages听of their professional journey. The program鈥檚 practitioner-focused approach develops the knowledge and practical competencies needed to apply systems engineering in industry. Students apply systems engineering concepts to projects, case studies, and challenges that reflect industry practice across the听systems engineering life cycle.听
The curriculum includes听Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), systems architecting, modeling and simulation, System-of-Systems engineering, and complex and resilient systems, providing students with contemporary approaches for understanding and managing increasingly interconnected systems.听听
A distinctive feature of the CSUDH MSSE is the opportunity to apply these concepts through听personalized case studies focused on a system or industry relevant to your interests and career听objectives.听
A Practitioner-Focused Systems Engineering Program听
At CSUDH, students learn systems engineering听through听practical application.听
Rather than relying on conventional midterm and final examinations, MSSE courses emphasize听projects, case studies, models, and analyses听that require students to apply course concepts to systems engineering challenges.听
Students learn to translate customer needs and requirements into system solutions while considering technical performance, cost, schedule, interfaces, and risk. This applied approach听demonstrates听how systems engineering life cycle activities contribute to the development of a system.听听
Systems Engineering Across Industries听
Systems engineering provides an integrated approach to solving complex problems.听听
Systems engineers contribute听to听fields such as听aerospace and space systems, automotive and advanced manufacturing, defense and homeland security, cybersecurity, healthcare and biotechnology, critical infrastructure, energy and environmental systems, telecommunications, transportation, and supply chain systems.听
This broad applicability allows students to connect systems engineering methods to the industries, technologies, and complex systems most relevant to their professional interests.听
Connect Your Graduate Studies to Your Professional Interests听
Students have the option to听identify听a听topic, problem, system, or industry aligned with their interests and career听objectives听and develop it as a personalized case study. This case study can provide a continuous thread throughout the MSSE curriculum, allowing students to apply and build upon systems engineering concepts as they progress through the program.听
At the beginning of the program, students听identify听a system or industry of interest that serves as a continuing case study across four terms. Using a听scaffolded learning approach, students revisit and build upon听their case study/project听as they progress through the curriculum, applying increasingly advanced systems engineering methods, tools, and perspectives.听
Rather than听encountering听concepts as isolated topics, students see how systems engineering activities connect across courses and throughout the system life cycle. Projects become progressively more sophisticated and complex as students advance from foundational concepts to document-based systems engineering and, ultimately, model-based听approaches.听
This continuity creates a personalized learning experience connected to students鈥� professional interests while reinforcing the relationships among systems engineering concepts and practices. The resulting case study may also provide a foundation for the student鈥檚 culminating project or thesis.
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Systems Engineering: Industry Outlook
Systems Engineering is a holistic interdisciplinary process critical to designing, integrating and managing complex systems to maximize system quality and safety. The high-demand discipline boasts an average, entry-level salary of $92,000, and the number of professionals is projected to increase by 27% nationwide and 42% in California between 2014鈥�2024. Systems Engineers typically begin their careers in engineering, physical science or computing positions, and not only have depth in their primary field, but also develop skills and 'systems thinking' that allows them to solve problems that transcend disciplinary boundaries.
The CSUDH MSSE program draws upon case studies, methodologies and tools from several engineering industries, providing experienced professionals as well as those new to the field with exposure to real-world systems engineering case studies. Students access contextualized case studies within their industries, and complete their degree with a culminating project that prepares them for complex, real-life projects.
What Students Will Learn
Students will learn how to apply systems engineering knowledge and techniques to problems from the automotive, commercial aviation, defense, electronic communication and space industries.听They will learn the importance of implementing Model Based Systems Engineering in the development of complex, interdependent systems that may be comprised of a combination of legacy and new components.
MSSE Program Learning Outcomes
- Systems Engineering and Life Cycle Overview: Critique the strengths and weaknesses of candidate life cycle models for a project given constraints such as budget, schedule, project deliverables and performance requirements.
- Technical Processes: Critique and assess the relative merits of various architectural approaches given a specific operational scenario.
- Technical Management Processes: Understand, analyze and quantify how the Systems Engineer contributes to the Business Aspect of a system, process, or product.
- Organizational Strategy and Operation: Define, defend, and implement organizational activities that generate and support system development
- Application of System Engineering: Analyze and justify the application of a specific modeling technique to a set of design/operational scenarios
- Cross-Cutting Systems Engineering Methods: Identify and evaluate the design alternatives associated with a set of performance and operational objectives.
- Specialty Engineering: Identify, compare and contrast the roles of specialty engineering disciplines in the fulfilment of mission requirements
- Complex Systems Analysis: Analyze and describe aspects of complex systems orally and in writing.
Courses include:
- Practice of Systems Engineering
- Introduction to Systems Engineering
- Analytics in Systems Engineering
- Quantitative Methods in Systems Engineering
- Economic Factors in Systems Engineering
- Modeling and Simulation
- Model Based Systems Engineering
- Complex Systems Architecture
- Systems-of-Systems Engineering
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