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The MS/SE Curriculum
Core Courses
Students must complete the following three core courses (9 credits)
- SYST 510: System Definition and Cost Modeling
- SYST 520: System Design and Integration
- SYST 530: System Management and Evaluation
Methods Courses
Students must complete two basic methods courses (6 credits), including SYST 611
System
Methodology and Modeling. The other basic methods course might depend on
the emphasis
chosen by the student and must be selected from the following list:
- OR 541 Operations Research: Deterministic Models
- OR 542 Operations Research: Stochastic Models
- OR 635 Discrete System Simulation
- SYST 563 Research Methods in Systems Engineering and Information Technology
- SYST 573 Decision and Risk Analysis
- SYST 620 Discrete Event Systems
- SYST 664 Bayesian Inference and Decision Analysis
- ECE 528 Introduction to Random Processes in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Specialization Areas
Students must complete a set of elective
courses that together with the basic methods courses constitute a clearly defined specialization within
Systems Engineering. Students pursuing the thesis option complete three concentration
area electives; students pursuing the project option complete four concentration
area electives.
Students may select one of the following six specialization areas, or may create their own specialization area with the approval of their advisor.
- Advanced Transportation Systems (ATS)
- Architecture-BAsed Systems Integration (ABSI)
- Systems Engineering of Computer Based Systems (CBS)
- Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I)
- Systems Engineering Methods (SEM)
- Systems Management (SMG)
Project or Thesis Students must complete a project (3 credit hours) or thesis (6 credit hours) under the direction of a Systems Engineering faculty member.
Under the project option, the student completes three credit hours of SYST 798 or OR 680. A project objective is selected with the approval of the faculty project advisor. A project report is submitted at the end of the semester, and must be approved by the faculty project advisor. Although a student may register for more than three semester hours of project work, only three hours will be applied toward the degree.
Under the thesis option, the student completes six credit hours of SYST 799. The master's thesis should reflect a significant independent research effort. The work is conducted under the guidance of a faculty thesis advisor, and the final written thesis and oral defense are approved by a three-member faculty committee and submitted to the School of Information Technology and Engineering. The thesis work is expected to be completed while taking six semester hours of SYST 799. Although a student may register for more than six semester hours, only six hours will be applied toward the degree.
Advising
Each student is assigned a faculty advisor; All entering systems engineering students must schedule an orientation meeting with their advisor that will culminate in the completion of a Plan of Study for the
MSSE degree. All MSSE students are required to have an approved Plan of Study
on file with the department.
Students are encouraged to seek out their advisor when questions arise and
when their Plan of Study needs to be revised. The assigned advisor can also
help each student identify the appropriate faculty member for supervising
her or his project or thesis.
Cooperative Graduate Engineering
Students may take courses through the Cooperative
Graduate Engineering Program in affiliation with the University of Virginia
and Virginia Tech. With the departmental approval, appropriate courses may
be transferred to the MSSE program.
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