Graduate Courses for Systems Engineering (ENSE)
Schedule of Classes:
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(Only current and next semester available)
ENSE 621 Systems Concepts, Issues, and Processes (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. 3 semester hours. Also offered
as ENPM641. Credit will be granted for only one of the following:
ENPM641 or ENSE621.
This course (along with ENSE622/ENPM642) is an introduction to the
professional and academic aspects of systems engineering. Topics incude
models of system lifecycle development, synthesisand design of
engineering systems, abstract system representations, visual modeling
and unified modeling language (UML), introduction to requirements
engineering, systems performance assessment, issues in synthesis and
design, design for system lifecycle, approaches to system redesign in
response to changes in requirements, reliability, trade-off analysis,
and optimization-based design.
ENSE 622 Systems Requirements, Design and Trade-Off Analysis (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENPM641/ENSE621 or permission of department. Also offered
as ENPM642. Credit will be granted for only one of the following:
ENPM642, ENSE602, or ENSE 622.
This course builds on material covered in ENSE621/ENPM641, emphasizing
the topics of requirements engineering and design and trade-off
analysis. The pair of courses serves as an introduction to the
professional and academic aspects of systems engineering. Liberal use
will be made of concepts from the first course, ENSE621/ENPM641,
including models of system lifecycle development, synthesis and design
of engineering systems visual modeling and unified modeling language
(UML), requirements engineering, systems performance assessment, issues
in synthesis and design, design for system lifecycle, approaches to
system redesign in response to changes in requirements, reliability,
trade-off analysis, and optimization-based design.
ENSE 623 Systems Projects, Validation and Verification (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENPM642/ENSE 622 and permission of department. Also
offered as ENPM643. Credit will be granted for only one of the
following: ENPM643, ENSE 610 or ENSE 623.
This course builds on material covered in ENSE621/ENPM641 and
ENSE622/ENPM642. Students will work in teams on semester-long projects
in systems engineering design, using the modeling framework developed in
the preceding two courses in the sequence to explore system designs that
are subjected to various forms of testing. Student will be using all of
the concepts from prior courses, as well as topics introduced in this
class including validation and verification, model checking, testing,
and integration.
ENSE 624 Human Factors in Systems Engineering (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Also offered as ENPM644. Credit
will be granted for only one of the following: ENPM644, ENSE 306 or ENSE
624.
This course covers the general principles of human factors, or
ergonomics as it is sometimes called. Human Factors (HF) is an
interdisciplinary approach for dealing with issues related to people in
systems. It focuses on consideration of the characteristics of human
beings in the design of systems and devices of all kinds. It is
concerned with the assignment of appropriate functions for humans and
machines, whether the people serve as operators, maintainers, or users
of the system or device. The goal of HF is to achieve compatibility in
the design of interactive systems of people, machines, and environments
to ensure their effectiveness, safety and ease of use.
ENSE 626 System Life Cycle Analysis and Risk Management (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Also offered as ENPM646. Credit
will be granted for only one of the following: ENSE611 or ENSE626.
This course covers topics related to estimating the costs and risks
incurred through the lifetimes of projects, products and systems. In
addition, treatment is given to methods that determine the drivers of
costs and risks and facilitate determination of the most effective
alternatives to reducing them. Also covered, are relevant analytic tools
from probability and statistics and also important managerial and
organizational concepts. Extensive use is made of case studies and
examples from industry and government.
ENSE 627 Systems Quality and Robustness Analysis (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Also offered as ENPM647. Credit
will be granted for only one of the following: ENPM647, ENSE 601, or
ENSE 627.
This course covers systems engineering approaches for creating optimal
and robust engineering systems and for quality assurance. It provides an
overview of the important tools for quality analysis and quality
management of engineering systems. These tools are commonly used in
companies and organizations. Focus is placed on the Baldrige National
Quality Program, ISO 9000 certification, six-sigma systems, and Deming
total quality management to examine how high quality standards are
sustained and customer requirements and satisfactions are ensured. The
Taguchi method for robust analysis and design is covered and applied to
case studies. Issues of flexible design over the system life cycle are
addressed. Statistical process control, international standards for
sampling, and design experimentation are also studied.
ENSE 698 Special Topics in Systems Engineering (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENSE 621 and permission of department. Repeatable to 6
credits if content differs.
ENSE 699 Directed Study in Systems Engineering (1-3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENSE621, ENSE622, ENSE623; and permission of instructor.
15 semester hours. Repeatable to 03 credits if content differs.
Directed study in Systems Engineering.
ENSE 799 Systems Engineering Thesis (1-6 credits)
Prerequisites: ENSE 621 and 6 additional credits totalling 9 credit
hours and permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits.
The application of systems engineering concepts, principles, and
theories will be applied to the Master's Thesis project. Project/thesis
work will be defined and selected early in student's program and
supervised by a university faculty mentor.
