Program Format

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Classroom Courses (30 hours)

Classroom courses are offered in five accelerated semesters, or nine-week sessions. In each of the first five sessions of the program, two classroom courses convene every Saturday, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. The classroom courses are:

EMSE 208 Stochastic Foundations of Operations Research
EMSE 216 Research Methods for the Engineering Manager
EMSE 235 Systems Thinking & Policy Modeling I
EMSE 271 Data Analysis for Engineers and Scientists
EMSE 273 Discrete Systems Simulation
EMSE 280 Techniques of Risk Analysis and Management
EMSE 286 Applied Enterprise Systems Engineering
EMSE 288 Technology Issue Analysis
EMSE 292 Special Topics: Advanced Systems Engineering
EMSE 370 Advanced Knowledge Management

While taking the classroom courses, the student aims to bring focus and direction to the selection of a topic for the dissertation, to write the topic up into a 10- to 15-page proposal, and to prepare to defend the dissertation proposal in the doctoral qualifying examination (DQE).

Research Course

EMSE 399 Dissertation Research (24 hours)

Degree Requirements

Students applying for admission must meet the entrance requirements of the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS). A masters degree from an accredited institution is required.