2009-2010 University Catalog

Discovery, Design, and Innovation Graduate Certificate

Banner Code: VS-CERG-DDI

School: The Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering

Department: Systems Engineering and Operations Research

This program responds to the growing need for professional knowledge in innovation. It provides a balanced understanding of the entire process: discovery of knowledge, use in inventive problem solving, development of inventions, and familiarity with using various inventive design methods and tools. The program is available to students who hold master’s degrees in engineering and scientific disciplines or who are in such graduate programs. Students may pursue the certificate concurrently with any of the graduate programs in the Volgenau School; however, the certificate is not awarded until all requirements have been completed.

Certificate Requirements

Certificate candidates must complete at least 15 credits with an average grade of B or better.

To obtain the certificate, students must take:

SYST 520 - System Engineering Design Credits: 3
IT 894 - Design and Inventive Engineering Credits: 3
IT 944 - The Process of Discovery and Its Enhancement in Engineering Applications Credits: 3

and two of the following:

CEIE 601 - Infrastructure Modeling Credits: 3
or
CEIE 670 - Civil Engineering Decision Methods and Tools Credits: 3
SYST 573 - Decision and Risk Analysis Credits: 3 (recommended if going on for MS in civil and infrastructure engineering)
SYST 664 - Bayesian Inference and Decision Theory Credits: 3
or
STAT 664 - Bayesian Inference and Decision Theory Credits: 3
SYST 781 - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Credits: 3
or
STAT 781 - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Credits: 3
STAT 652 - Statistical Inference Credits: 3
STAT 700 - Advanced Quantitative Data Analysis for Health Care Research II Credits: 3
STAT 701 - Advanced Multivariate Statistics and Data Analysis in Health Care Research Credits: 3
OR 671 - Judgment and Choice Processing and Decision Making Credits: 3
or
SYST 671 - Judgment and Choice Processing and Decision Making Credits: 3
IT 819 - Computational Models for Probabilistic Inference Credits: 3

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Discovery, Design, and Innovation Graduate Certificate

Certificate Requirements

and two of the following: