ENMA - Engineering Management
An introduction to principles of management and organizational behavior as they apply to the engineering profession. Special emphasis on team building, quality leadership and planning, handling personnel issues, and marketing technology. Group exercises, case studies, and extensive writing and speaking assignments.
Introduction to cost estimation, accounting and financial metrics. Valuation techniques, time value of money, and cash flow analysis. Economic analysis of engineering alternatives including depreciation effects, income taxes, inflation, engineering management capital budgeting of projects, portfolio and public sector projects.
Foundations, principles, methods, and tools for effective design and management of projects in technology-based organizations. Project organization, life cycle, planning, scheduling, implementation, control, and evaluation. Special emphasis on project leadership, problem solving in team-based projects, project failure analysis, and advanced methods. Use of case studies and applications to reinforce course concepts. Students design and plan a project from concept through completion including proposal and post-project analysis.
This course focuses the management of projects using an agile approach to respond to the continuous changes that affect project capabilities and performance. Although any project can be manage using agile project management, projects with high degree of uncertainty obtain the most benefits from this approach (e.g., R&D projects). The course covers Scrum and expands it by articulating the human and business factors that make successful agile project management. Case studies and/or short-projects are required.
Introduces the principles, concepts and process of systems engineering. Examination of problem formulation, analysis, and interpretation as they apply to the study of complex systems. Emphasizes the design nature of systems engineering problem solving, and includes case studies stressing realistic problems. Development of system requirements, system objectives, and the evaluation of system alternatives.
Introduction to concepts and techniques in probability and statistics, including descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics include fundamentals of probability, distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, regression, process control, and reliability. Applications include engineering design and analysis, manufacturing, decision aids, and quality management problems.
A systematic approach to the formulation of problems, the generation and evaluation of alternatives, and the selection and implementation of courses of action applied to engineering design, manufacturing, and management decisions. Topics include: goals and objectives; variables and relations; constraints and feasibility; uncertainty and risk; models and optimization; data and information; analysis and simulation. Case studies requiring oral presentations and written reports are used to emphasize concepts and systems analysis.
The systematic approach to analysis of risk as applied to engineering management with emphasis on cyber systems. The objectives of this course are (1) to gain an appreciation of the strategic importance of risk analysis and its relationship to other enterprise and engineering functions and (2) to develop a working knowledge of the concepts and methods in risk analysis as they may apply to cyber systems.
This course is designed to expose prospective engineering managers the theories and practices that are inherent in the ethical environment of modern organizations. Topics include definitions of ethical behavior and leadership, the history of ethical thought, moral decision-making, and the importance of values such as honesty, integrity, and trustworthiness. A full exploration of ethical autonomy, collaboration, communication and moral imagination will be conducted. A variety of methods will be used to facilitate learning, including a textbook, movie and videos, case studies, experiential activities and writing assignments. The successful student should gain a full appreciation for the value and practices of ethical leadership.
Special topics with emphasis placed on the recent developments in engineering management.
This course focuses the management of projects using an agile approach to respond to the continuous changes that affect project capabilities and performance. Although any project can be manage using agile project management, projects with high degree of uncertainty obtain the most benefits from this approach (e.g., R&D projects). The course covers Scrum and expands it by articulating the human and business factors that make successful agile project management. Case studies and/or short-projects are required.
Introduces the principles, concepts and process of systems engineering. Examination of problem formulation, analysis, and interpretation as they apply to the study of complex systems. Emphasizes the design nature of systems engineering problem solving, and includes case studies stressing realistic problems. Development of system requirements, system objectives, and the evaluation of system alternatives.
Special topics with emphasis placed on the recent developments in engineering management.
Introduction to the monetary aspects of engineering projects, including accounting principles; financial reports and analysis; capital budgeting; cost estimation and control; inventory management; depreciation; investment decisions. Knowledge of probability and statistics (ENMA 420 or equivalent) is assumed. Case studies and a term project are required.
This course introduces the student to fundamental concepts in the analysis of organizations. A systems approach is taken in the examination of social, structural, procedural and environmental aspects that are of consequence to technical professionals and managers. Modules covered include: History and Systems of Organizations and Management; Basic Organizational Systems and Models emphasizing rational, natural and open systems; Organizational Behavior Models; Organizational Structure Models; Integration of Systems Perspectives.
Students develop a comprehensive set of techniques and methods to design, maintain and evolve the systems engineering function in support of strategic enterprise objectives and operations.
Deterministic and stochastic models for decision making. Topics include: optimization methods; linear and other programming models; network analysis; inventory analysis; queuing theory. Knowledge of probability and statistics (ENMA 420 or equivalent) is assumed.
Exploration of the systems approach to planning, scheduling, control, design, evaluation, and leadership of projects in technology-based organizations. The fundamental tools and techniques of project management; role of the project manager; project management systems; project selection; project life cycle; project monitoring and control; project management evaluation and auditing; project risk and failure analysis; contextual nature of project management; project knowledge.
A written, comprehensive demonstration of the candidate's competence in the fields covered by the program of study that is intended to fulfill the non-thesis master's examination requirement.
Basic legal concepts and procedures for understanding the implications of engineering management decisions. Major emphasis on contracts and liability.
Introduction to decision analysis and stochastic models; risk and uncertainty in decision making; probabilistic inventory problems; queuing theory; Markov processes; dynamic programming; Monte Carlo simulation of dynamic systems. Knowledge of probability and statistics (ENMA 420 or equivalent) is assumed.
Studying how logistical decisions impact the performance of the firm and the entire supply chain. Topics include strategic planning, facilities location and analysis, distribution and transportation networks, forecasting, inventory management, and information systems for supply chains. Knowledge of probability and statistics (ENMA 420 or equivalent) is assumed. The course includes case studies and/or a project.
Integrated analysis of the process quality assurance and improvement function. Quality Deming's way. Scientific sampling and control charting for quality assurance and control; the quality cost concept and economic aspects of quality decisions. Organization of the quality function for process quality improvement. Knowledge of probability and statistics (ENMA 420 or equivalent) is assumed.
Globalization has increased competition among the planet's enterprises. The quality of products and services has dramatically improved while prices have plummeted. Consumer expectations have risen to very high levels. This phenomenon has accelerated the need for large technical enterprises to become more agile, flexible and responsive to consumer demands. Government agencies are not exempt form this trend: U.S. Government agencies are now required to establish strategic plans for their enterprises and to develop business plans that illustrate the future directions of the enterprise and to define the resources required to realize the vision and strategy of the enterprise. This course introduces Engineering Management students to a wide range of approaches designed to facilitate start-up, enable growth and ensure the continued capability of emerging and mature technical enterprises.
This course introduces the student to essential concepts of Homeland Security and principles of all-hazards risk management. It emphasizes understanding (1) the right balance among different hazards in mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery; (2) the impacts of illegal and legal immigration on the economic and social stability of our communities; and (3) the emergence and evolving threats in cybersecurity, averting cybercrime, and shielding critical infrastructure. Participants will learn critical decision-making concepts and tools and techniques to improve decision-making in the interinstitutional homeland security decision space.
Comprehensive treatment of the nature and utility of requirements, verification, and validation in systems engineering processes. Topics include: establishing user requirements; traceability; baseline and evolving requirements; governing standards; requirements management; issues in requirements for complex systems; role and methods for verification and validation in systems engineering; data treatment and analysis; standards, practices, and issues for verification and validation in systems engineering.
A comprehensive treatment and review of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Systems Engineering Handbook v4 in preparation for INCOSE Systems Engineering Professional (SEP) Certification. This course should be taken in the final semester in which the student will graduate.
This course aims to prepare students with the general knowledge and skills for the on-going digital transformation. The course covers: (1) preliminaries of information and informatics; (2) information and knowledge modeling; (3) fundamental concepts, models, tools, and applications of Big Data; and (4) digital mechanisms of trust and security, including: digital asset access control, digital signature, digital certification, Public Key Infrastructures, and Blockchains.
The course introduces some of the mathematical structures and methods used within systems engineering. The course will cover probability theory, scheduling, critical path analysis, systems dynamics, decision analysis, and simulation. Students will be introduced to computer programming to implement the ideas in the course using the R programming language.
Students learn the essential aspects of the systems architecture paradigm through development and analysis of multiple architecture frameworks and enterprise engineering. Emphasis is placed on systems modeling and enterprise engineering.
This course covers modern modeling paradigms for deterministic and stochastic complex and dynamic systems. This includes, but is not limited to, Discrete Simulation, Queuing Systems, and Agent-based models among others. Focus will be on system analysis using different developed models in different domains such as production, logistics, security, and service, military and social.
Available for pass/fail grading only. Student participation for credit based on academic relevance of the work experience, criteria, and evaluative procedures as formally determined by the department and the Cooperative Education program prior to the semester in which the work experience is to take place.
Academic requirements will be established by the graduate program director and will vary with the amount of credit desired. Allows students an opportunity to gain short-duration career-related experience. Meant to be used for one-time experience. Work may or may not be paid. Project is completed during the term.
Academic requirements will be established by the department and will vary with the amount of credit desired. Allows students an opportunity to gain short duration career related experience. Student is usually already employed - this is an additional project in the organization.
This course provides an overview of functioning of cyber systems including how a computer interacts with the outside world. The composition of critical infrastructure and functioning of different engineered systems that form critical infrastructure are discussed. Mutual dependence and interactions between cyber systems and other engineered and the resulting security risks are also explored.
A written, comprehensive demonstration of the candidate's competence in the fields covered by the systems engineering program that is intended to fulfill the non-thesis master's examination requirement.
Special topics of interest with emphasis placed on recent developments in engineering management.
Special topics of interest with emphasis placed on recent developments in engineering management.
Individual study selected by the student. Supervised and approved by a faculty member with the approval of the Graduate Program Director.
The master's project is guided under the supervision of the course instructor. Projects must be approved by the Graduate Program Advisor.
Research leading to a Master of Science thesis.
This course is targeted at engineering managers who actively participate in the capital budgeting process and project justification. Topics include capital budgeting techniques (including multi-attribute decision making), utility theory, justification of new technologies, and current research in engineering economics. Reading and application of current research in the field is stressed. Case studies are used. Oral presentations and term project required.
Digital systems engineering applies digital technologies to the systems engineering processes and principles. This course provides students with knowledge and skills on necessary digital technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Big Data, Blockchain, and computational modeling. The course covers: (1) preliminaries of digitalization and digital technologies; (2) data and knowledge modeling; (3) logical approach to MBSE (Model-Based Systems Engineering); (4) application of Big Data and Machine Learning in Systems Engineering; and (5) digital mechanisms of trust and security for digital engineering.
As machine age problems have given way to systems age messes, the underlying complexity associated with understanding these situations has increased exponentially. Accordingly, the methods we use to address these situations must evolve as well. This course will introduce students to a method for thinking holistically about problems and messes conceptually founded in systems theory. This paradigm, known as systemic thinking, will be contrasted with traditional systematic thinking, and practical guidelines for the deployment of a systemic thinking approach will be provided. This paradigm will increase the student's ability to make rational decisions in complex environments.
Covers advanced methods in Operations Research and Optimization. Focus will be on developing models and their applications in different domains including manufacturing and service. Modern optimization tools will be used to implement models for case studies, projects and research papers. The knowledge of programming and spreadsheets is expected. Contact instructor for more details.
This course covers concepts in complex investments, how to deal with uncertainty in today's global markets, and how to engineer and manage financial decisions. The main topics include: cash flows, portfolio theory, capital management, securities, hedge funds, optimal investment and financial engineering evaluations among others.
This course prepares engineering practitioners to produce systemic applied research or robust project solutions. In the applied research track, students will learn and apply the methods, tools, and concepts required for specifying the research purpose, proposal preparation, understanding the current state of the discipline, selecting and executing the appropriate research methodology, analyzing and synthesizing results, and preparing defensible publications. In the engineering project track, students will learn problem definition and scoping, project proposal preparation, methods for establishing the current state of the problem, analytical and experimental designs for testing proposed solutions, robust methods for solution optimization, and solution validation.
Currently, complex engineering-economic-societal decisions are made by involving numerous sometimes conflicting criteria and attributes, different decision rules and in the presence of various stakeholders with individual preferences who are willing to go into negotiation procedures. A number of multi-criteria decisions tools involving quantitative as well as qualitative methods, together with adequate decision support tools will be introduced. Case studies on a variety of engineering, environmental and security related aspects will also be considered.
The course is designed to provide an understanding of the interdisciplinary aspects of systems development, operation, and support. The course focuses on the application of scientific and engineering efforts to transform an operational need into a defined system configuration through the interactive process of design, test, and evaluation.
The course focuses on the manner in which information, knowledge, and awareness are processed to facilitate decision making, management and engineering in complex adaptive situations. Topics include: knowledge acquisition, formation of technical and contextual awareness, and the role of understanding.
Introduction to parametric cost modeling techniques and methodologies; generation and application of statistical relationships between life cycle costs and measurable attributes of complex systems; sources of supporting data; quality function deployment; technology forecasting. Special emphasis on life cycle design for cost; cost risk analysis; and design optimization on cost bases. Case studies and a semester project.
Introduction to modeling multivariate structural and residual variation, using exploratory data analysis, nonparametric regression, dependence regression, and factor analytic models, with a goal of producing robust, generalizable multivariate models that support research findings. Statistical analyses will be performed in the free general public licensed R statistical software with references to Minitab and SPSS.
This course is intended to prepare students to undertake substantiated, rigorous, scholarly research, particularly theses or dissertations. The course will focus on the approaches necessary to integrate research intent, techniques and constraints. A variety of research approaches will be investigated. Emphasis will be placed on problem formulation, literature review, proposal preparation, oral presentation, experimentation and accepted canons of research. Knowledge of probability and statistics (ENMA 420 or equivalent) is assumed. Research paper required.
Approaches to the management of risk; probability assessment methods; risk modeling; use of software packages; extensions of decision analysis, including stochastic dominance and multiattribute methods; applications to project management, scheduling, and cost estimation.
This course is about the modeling of system dependencies using functional dependency network analysis to support the design of new and failure analysis of existing engineering systems. At the end of this course, students will be able to model and measure the operability and performance of today’s highly networked and richly interconnected systems.
This course explores and models the use of teams in organizations with a specific focus on the role of teams in decision making and problem solving. Key areas include team building, assessment of team outcomes, team learning, virtual teams and team decision making. Actual work on teams is required including team deliverables.
An introduction to the theory and practice of reliability engineering, maintainability and availability. Reliability evaluation models and techniques, failure data collection and analysis, reliability testing and modeling, maintained systems, and mechanical system reliability will be discussed, culminating in a semester-length project.
Comprehensive treatment of System of Systems Engineering (SoSE), including; fundamental systems principles, concepts, and governing laws; complex and simple systems; underlying paradigms, methodologies and essential methods for SoSE analysis, design, and transformation; complex system transformation; current state of SoSE research and application challenges. Explores the range of technological, human/social, organizational/managerial, policy, and political dimensions of the SoSE problem domain.
This course examines management and engineering of complex systems as it is undertaken in complex situations. The student will develop an understanding of the unconditional attributes of complex systems and situations that become foundational in the development of robust methods to deal with the practical reality of working in dynamic, uncertain environments. Topics will include Complexity, Complex Systems, Complex Adaptive Systems, Complex Responsive Processes, Complex Adaptive Situations Methodology, SOSE, Reciprocality, and Sociotechnical Systems.
The objectives of the course are to provide fundamental knowledge and skills of Big Data for the new generation of researchers, engineers, project managers and business managers in the emerging data-driven science and engineering paradigm. Topics to be covered include data analytics, cloud platforms and tools for Big Data, and innovative applications of Big Data.
This course introduces concepts of Human System Engineering, focusing on designing systems that include human components. Human System Integration and Human Factors Engineering are discussed, as well as other human centered design approaches. The role of human data in systems and systems of systems design is explored, and methods to capture and represent human data, including architecture frameworks, are presented. Modeling and analysis of human centered systems is done through hands-on projects.
The course provides an overview of mission engineering and the role of mission engineering and the mission engineer in government acquisitions. The course presents the theoretical foundations that enable a fuller representation of complex problem as well as the required engineering and management approaches needed to deal with the high level of complexity and uncertainty. It applies the theoretical facets to specific engineering problems/cases and explores robust approaches given the conditions of the problem. Developments, on-going research, as well as gaps in knowledge and know-how are discussed.
This course is designed to expand on system architectures concepts through both theory and practice. Topics include the role of architectures in system engineering, alternative methods for architecture development, tools and techniques for architecture design, and various conceptual and technical issues in the architecture development process. Class periods are equally divided between traditional lectures and practice oriented exercises.
A robust design approach based on "Taguchi Methods," including off-line quality engineering and applied design-of-experiments methods, full factorial and fractional factorial designs, and response surface methods. The course is designed to enable engineers and engineering managers from all disciplines to recognize potential applications, formulate problems, plan experiments, and analyze data. Knowledge of probability and statistics (ENMA 420 or equivalent) is assumed. Students will engage in case studies, culminating in a semester-long project.
Seminar discussions and team projects. A systematic approach to basic principles of design, economics and management of critical infrastructure systems, including issues of risk, vulnerability and risk governance. Development of advanced methodologies, e.g. system of systems, by use of complexity analysis, dynamic/chaotic behavior, threat analysis, resilient design and management under normal and stress conditions. Adopting an agent based modeling approach under conditions of uncertainty, dysfunctionality, malicious attacks and/or presence of natural perils.
Students will be prepared to better design, execute, evaluate, and evolve governance for complex systems. This preparation includes development of marketable capabilities to more effectively deal with governance systems and their emergent problems through: (1) development of capabilities to effectively design, analyze, and execute complex system governance, (2) identification and development of more effective intervention strategies to address underlying governance problems in operational systems, (3) employment of a range of methods, tools, and techniques, and (4) development of capabilities for generating novel insights and improvements to address systemic deficiencies in governance systems.
Seminar discussions and team projects. This course is designed to expose students to the concepts, skills, characteristics and emotional composition of effective and successful leaders in the 21st century. The course is intensive and requires students to immerse themselves in the course material and classroom discussion to derive meaning and value from the topics. The course objectives will be achieved by classroom discussion of the assigned material, candid self-assessment, experiential exercises and analysis of the actions of leaders, as described in case studies and literature. Areas of exploration include the fundamentals of leadership, ethical leadership, social capital, emotional intelligence and three-dimensional leadership. Ethical leadership practices is a cross-cutting theme in this course.
Special topics of interest with emphasis placed on recent developments in engineering management.
Special topics of interest with emphasis placed on recent developments in engineering management.
Designed for advanced individualized study into an engineering management topic area. Independent study projects will be related to engineering management and completed under the supervision of a certified faculty member.
It is targeted at engineering managers who actively participate in the capital budgeting process and project justification. Topics include capital budgeting techniques (including multi-attribute decision making), utility theory, justification of new technologies, and current research in engineering economics. Reading and application of current research in the field is stressed. Case studies are used. Oral presentations and term project required.
Digital systems engineering applies digital technologies to the systems engineering processes and principles. This course provides students with knowledge and skills on necessary digital technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Big Data, Blockchain, and computational modeling. The course covers: (1) preliminaries of digitalization and digital technologies; (2) data and knowledge modeling; (3) logical approach to MBSE (Model-Based Systems Engineering); (4) application of Big Data and Machine Learning in Systems Engineering; and (5) digital mechanisms of trust and security for digital engineering.
As machine age problems have given way to systems age messes, the underlying complexity associated with understanding these situations has increased exponentially. Accordingly, the methods we use to address these situations must evolve as well. This course will introduce students to a method for thinking holistically about problems and messes conceptually founded in systems theory. This paradigm, known as systemic thinking, will be contrasted with traditional systematic thinking, and practical guidelines for the deployment of a systemic thinking approach will be provided. This paradigm will increase the student's ability to make rational decisions in complex environments.
Covers advanced methods in Operations Research and Optimization. Focus will be on developing models and their applications in different domains including manufacturing and service. Modern optimization tools will be used to implement models for case studies, projects and research papers. The knowledge of programming and spreadsheets is expected. Contact instructor for more details.
This course covers concepts in complex investments, how to deal with uncertainty in today's global markets, and how to engineer and manage financial decisions. The main topics include: cash flows, portfolio theory, capital management, securities, hedge funds, optimal investment and financial engineering evaluations among others.
This course prepares engineering practitioners to produce systemic applied research or robust project solutions. In the applied research track, students will learn and apply the methods, tools, and concepts required for specifying the research purpose, proposal preparation, understanding the current state of the discipline, selecting and executing the appropriate research methodology, analyzing and synthesizing results, and preparing defensible publications. In the engineering project track, students will learn problem definition and scoping, project proposal preparation, methods for establishing the current state of the problem, analytical and experimental designs for testing proposed solutions, robust methods for solution optimization, and solution validation.
Currently, complex engineering-economic-societal decisions are made by involving numerous sometimes conflicting criteria and attributes, different decision rules and in the presence of various stakeholders with individual preferences who are willing to go into negotiation procedures. A number of multi-criteria decisions tools involving quantitative as well as qualitative methods, together with adequate decision support tools will be introduced. Case studies on a variety of engineering, environmental and security related aspects will also be considered.
The course is designed to provide an understanding of the interdisciplinary aspects of systems development, operation, and support. The course focuses on the application of scientific and engineering efforts to transform an operational need into a defined system configuration through the interactive process of design, test, and evaluation.
The course focuses on the manner in which information, knowledge, and awareness are processed to facilitate decision making, management and engineering in complex adaptive situations. Topics include: knowledge acquisition, formation of technical and contextual awareness, and the role of understanding.
Introduction to parametric cost modeling techniques and methodologies; generation and application of statistical relationships between life cycle costs and measurable attributes of complex systems; sources of supporting data; quality function deployment; technology forecasting. Special emphasis on life cycle design for cost; cost risk analysis; and design optimization on cost bases. Case studies and a semester project.
Introduction to modeling multivariate structural and residual variation, using exploratory data analysis, nonparametric regression, dependence regression, and factor analytic models, with a goal of producing robust, generalizable multivariate models that support research findings. Statistical analyses will be performed in the free general public licensed R statistical software with references to Minitab and SPSS.
This course is intended to prepare students to undertake substantiated, rigorous, scholarly research, particularly theses or dissertations. The course will focus on the approaches necessary to integrate research intent, techniques and constraints. A variety of research approaches will be investigated. Emphasis will be placed on problem formulation, literature review, proposal preparation, oral presentation, experimentation and accepted canons of research. Research paper required.
Approaches to the management of risk; probability assessment methods; risk modeling; use of software packages; extensions of decision analysis, including stochastic dominance and multiattribute methods; applications to project management, scheduling, and cost estimation.
This course is about the modeling of system dependencies using functional dependency network analysis to support the design of new and failure analysis of existing engineering systems. At the end of this course, students will be able to model and measure the operability and performance of today’s highly networked and richly interconnected systems.
This course explores and models the use of teams in organizations with a specific focus on the role of teams in decision making and problem solving. Key areas include team building, assessment of team outcomes, team learning, virtual teams and team decision making. Actual work on teams is required including team deliverables.
An introduction to the theory and practice of reliability engineering, maintainability and availability. Reliability evaluation models and techniques, failure data collection and analysis, reliability testing and modeling, maintained systems, and mechanical system reliability will be discussed, culminating in a semester-length project.
Comprehensive treatment of System of Systems Engineering (SoSE), including; fundamental systems principles, concepts, and governing laws; complex and simple systems; underlying paradigms, methodologies and essential methods for SoSE analysis, design, and transformation; complex system transformation; current state of SoSE research and application challenges. Explores the range of technological, human/social, organizational/managerial, policy, and political dimensions of the SoSE problem domain.
This course examines management and engineering of complex systems as it is undertaken in complex situations. The student will develop an understanding of the unconditional attributes of complex systems and situations that become foundational in the development of robust methods to deal with the practical reality of working in dynamic, uncertain environments. Topics will include Complexity, Complex Systems, Complex Adaptive Systems, Complex Responsive Processes, Complex Adaptive Situations Methodology, SOSE, Reciprocality, and Sociotechnical Systems.
The objectives of the course are to provide fundamental knowledge and skills of Big Data for the new generation of researchers, engineers, project managers and business managers in the emerging data-driven science and engineering paradigm. Topics to be covered include data analytics, cloud platforms and tools for Big Data, and innovative applications of Big Data.
This course introduces concepts of Human System Engineering, focusing on designing systems that include human components. Human System Integration and Human Factors Engineering are discussed, as well as other human centered design approaches. The role of human data in systems and systems of systems design is explored, and methods to capture and represent human data, including architecture frameworks, are presented. Modeling and analysis of human centered systems is done through hands-on projects.
The course provides an overview of mission engineering and the role of mission engineering and the mission engineer in government acquisitions. The course presents the theoretical foundations that enable a fuller representation of complex problem as well as the required engineering and management approaches needed to deal with the high level of complexity and uncertainty. It applies the theoretical facets to specific engineering problems/cases and explores robust approaches given the conditions of the problem. Developments, on-going research, as well as gaps in knowledge and know-how are discussed.
This course is designed to expand on system architectures concepts through both theory and practice. Topics include the role of architectures in system engineering, alternative methods for architecture development, tools and techniques for architecture design, and various conceptual and technical issues in the architecture development process. Class periods are equally divided between traditional lectures and practice oriented exercises.
A robust design approach based on "Taguchi Methods," including off-line quality engineering and applied design-of-experiments methods, full factorial and fractional factorial designs, and response surface methods. The course is designed to enable engineers and engineering managers from all disciplines to recognize potential applications, formulate problems, plan experiments, and analyze data. Knowledge of probability and statistics (ENMA 420 or equivalent) is assumed. Students will engage in case studies, culminating in a semester-long project.
Seminar discussions and team projects. A systematic approach to basic principles of design, economics and management of critical infrastructure systems, including issues of risk, vulnerability and risk governance. Development of advanced methodologies, e.g. system of systems, by use of complexity analysis, dynamic/chaotic behavior, threat analysis, resilient design and management under normal and stress conditions. Adopting an agent based modeling approach under conditions of uncertainty, dysfunctionality, malicious attacks and/or presence of natural perils.
Students will be prepared to better design, execute, evaluate, and evolve governance for complex systems. This preparation includes development of marketable capabilities to more effectively deal with governance systems and their emergent problems through: (1) development of capabilities to effectively design, analyze, and execute complex system governance, (2) identification and development of more effective intervention strategies to address underlying governance problems in operational systems, (3) employment of a range of methods, tools, and techniques, and (4) development capabilities for generating novel insights and improvements to address systemic deficiencies in governance systems.
Seminar discussions and team projects. This course is designed to expose students to the concepts, skills, characteristics and emotional composition of effective and successful leaders in the 21st century. The course is intensive and requires students to immerse themselves in the course material and classroom discussion to derive meaning and value from the topics. The course objectives will be achieved by classroom discussion of the assigned material, candid self-assessment, experiential exercises and analysis of the actions of leaders, as described in case studies and literature. Areas of exploration include the fundamentals of leadership, ethical leadership, social capital, emotional intelligence and three-dimensional leadership. Ethical leadership practices is a cross-cutting theme in this course.
Discussion of research projects, topics, and problems of Engineering Management faculty, researchers, and students. A weekly exchange of ideas and issues between faculty and Ph.D. students focused on doctoral research.
Directed individual study applying advanced-level technical knowledge to identify, formulate, and solve a complex, novel problem in Engineering Management.
Special topics of interest with emphasis placed on recent developments in engineering management.
Special topics of interest with emphasis placed on recent developments in engineering management.
Designed for advanced individualized study into an engineering management topic area. Independent study projects will be related to engineering management and completed under the supervision of a certified faculty member.
Supervised research prior to passing Ph.D. candidacy exam.
Doctoral research hours. After successfully passing the candidacy examination, all doctoral students are required to be registered for at least one graduate credit each term until the degree is complete.
This course is a pass/fail course for master's students in their final semester. It may be taken to fulfill the registration requirement necessary for graduation. All master's students are required to be registered for at least one graduate credit hour in the semester of their graduation.
This course is a pass/fail course doctoral students may take to maintain active status after successfully passing the candidacy examination. All doctoral students are required to be registered for at least one graduate credit hour every semester until their graduation.