Department of Engineering Management, Information & Systems

Systems Engineering ProgramExecutive MS SE Degree Program

A fast-track two-year program offering academically rigorous courses (same as on-campus courses) taught by industry and government professionals (SMU Adjunct Professors) and full-time SMU professors in a participatory and team-oriented classroom environment

– Students start the program as a group, take all courses as a group and graduate as a group

– Classes meet one Friday & Saturday a month during the fall and spring semesters , plus full full days during the summer semester.

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Department of Engineering Management, Information & Systems

Systems Engineering ProgramExecutive MS SE Degree Program

ObjectiveA program designed for highly motivated engineers, analysts, team leaders, and technical managers who are typically employed full-time and have one of the following objectives:

• become an entry-level systems engineer• update systems engineering skills• progress in rank as a system engineer• develop “system thinking” skills to prepare for

–a management position–progression as a design engineer or analyst–the unpredictable and ever-changing future

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Department of Engineering Management, Information & Systems

Systems Engineering ProgramExecutive MS SE Program - Overview

• The program objective is to provide education – theory and application – in systems engineering, analysis and management principles, methods and practices for development and management of systems (products and services) that satisfy customer requirements considering engineering, technology, environmental, management, risk, and economic factors by viewing the system as a whole, over its life cycle.

• Systems engineering, analysis and management courses provide principles, methods and practices that are applicable to development and management of all systems, through they are taught primarily by professors with aerospace and defense experience (Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman/Vought, Raytheon, Texas Instruments and U.S. Navy).

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Department of Engineering Management, Information & Systems

Systems Engineering ProgramExecutive MS SE Program

Core Courses

EMIS 7300: Systems Analysis Methods

EMIS 7301: Systems Engineering Process

EMIS 7303: Integrated Risk Management

EMIS 7305: Systems Analysis and Optimization

EMIS 7307: Systems Integration and Test

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Department of Engineering Management, Information & Systems

Systems Engineering Program

Elective* Courses

EMIS 7310: Systems Engineering Design

EMIS 7312: Software Systems Engineering

EMIS 7320: Systems Engineering Management

EMIS 7340: Logistics Systems Engineering

EMIS 8390: Systems Engineering Tools

* Government and industry organizations are offered some flexibility in the choice of Elective Courses for on-site delivery.

Executive MS SE Program

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Department of Engineering Management, Information & Systems

Systems Engineering ProgramExecutive MS SE Program

Admission Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in engineering, mathematics, or one of the quantitative sciences

• G.P.A. of at least 3.00 out of 4.00 scale in previous undergraduate and graduate study.

• A minimum of two years of college-level mathematics, including at least one year of calculus.

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Department of Engineering Management, Information & Systems

Systems Engineering Program

Current and Planned Courses• Proposal was presented on November 20, 2002 to offer the Southern

Methodist University’s Executive Masters Degree in Systems Engineering exclusively for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company on-site at the Ft Worth Facility.

– Agreement was reached with start-up in January 2003 of class #1 with 28 students.

– Class #2 started in August 2003.– Class #3 started in September 2003.– Class #4 started in January 2004

• Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control – Dallas– Class #1 started January 2004

• Planned Courses– Raytheon (4 Divisions in the Dallas area)

•Class #1 – June 20047

On-Site MS SE Degree Program