Courses

SYSE 591 - Systems Engineering Approach

Engineering of complex hardware, software systems encompasses quantitative methods to understand vague problem statements, determine what a proposed product/system must do (functionality), generate measurable requirements, decide how to select the most appropriate solution design, integrate the hardware and software subsystems and test the finished product to verify it satisfies the documented requirements. Additional topics that span the entire product life cycle include interface management and control, risk management, tailing of process to meet organizational and project environments, configuration management, test strategies and trade-off studies. [more course details...]

Fall 2008 - 4 Credits - Link to Registration - Online Course

SYSE 575 - Reducing Risk In Decision Making

This course examines the concepts, techniques and tools for managing risk and making decision as key components of the systems engineering process. In this course, risk connotes a measure of the probability and severity of an undesired event. This course begins with an overview of the risk management (identifying, assessing, monitoring, and mitigating) and decision process. Differences between mission critical and non-mission critical programmatic risk will be emphasized. Other topics include the limits of expected value-based risk analysis, decision making strategies such a max/min, min/max and regrets. Formal methods in risk analysis, elementary decision analysis and decision trees, multi-objective decision making, pareto techniques, optimality, and trade-off analysis will be covered. Risk and decision techniques will be contrasted with the interfacing processes of program management and software engineering, from both the government (DOD) and industrial perspectives. [more course details...]

Winter 2009 - 4 Credits - Link to Registration - Online Course

 

EAS 561 - Reliability Engineering

Design of reliable components and systems for engineering fields. Includes elements of probability and statistics, reliability, mathematics, failure modes and effect analysis; and design for given reliabilities under constraints. [more course details...]

Spring 2009 - 4 Credits - Online Course

 

EAS399US - Problems, Solutions, and Systems Thinking

This course, currently, is open only to students attending the joint degree program with the International Institute for Information Science and Technology (IIIST) in Shanghai, China.

This course provides the knowledge and skills necessary to plan, organize, perform, solve, control and verify the engineering and design of complex systems and solutions.

As Scheduled- 4 Credits - Online Course