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A Masters of Engineering Degree in
Systems Engineering via Distance
Learning
Peter Jackson, Director
Systems Engineering Program
6/19/2008 Distance M.Eng. (Systems Engineering) 1
Where Is Cornell University?
6/19/2008 Distance M.Eng. (Systems Engineering) 2
The Cornell Advantage
• One of top 10 engineering schools in
USA (US News & World Report)
• Cornell ranked first in National Science
Foundation funding for programs in
academic science and engineering in
2003–04 (the most recent data available)
• Long-standing commitment to
professional education
• “I would found an institution where any
person can find instruction in any
study”—Ezra Cornell
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A Cornell Degree for the Working
Professional
• Professionally-focused curriculum
• Systems engineering knowledge, skills, and
tools
• Technical and leadership development
• Project-based learning
• Cohort-based network of future industry leaders
• An Ivy League engineering degree via distance
learning
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Feedback
• “The DL program enabled me to maintain the
momentum I had built in my career and to
augment the tools and knowledge to be more
effective at the same time.”
• “Combining active technical professionals with
full time students produces the best hybrid of
industry relevance and technical aptitude.”
• “This will lead to better design, less time, less
money spent, less CIP afterward, and a better
probability of meeting customer requirements.”
• “The tool set offered I didn’t know existed. It ties
customer requirements into design and detailed
design.”
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Why Systems Engineering?
• Meeting the challenge of complex, real-
time, software-hardware-human
systems; systems of systems
• Communicating across disciplines; a
shared language of systems
• Getting the right design and getting
design right: a process
• Understanding why some projects
succeed and other projects fail
• Managing complexity, risk, and
uncertainty
• Achieving influence without authority
6/19/2008 Distance M.Eng. (Systems Engineering) 6
Mastering Complexity
• Making trade-off decisions in high-risk
environments
• Making the transition from managing
independent engineering projects to
creating globally optimized integrated
solutions to meet customer needs.
SYSTEM CONTEXT CUSTOMER ANALYSIS SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
VERIFICATION AND BEHAVIOR AND REQUIREMENTS
SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
VALIDATION TRADE-OFF ANALYSIS ALLOCATION
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Three Components to Degree
• Face-to-face modules
• 2 one-week sessions on-campus, Ithaca
• 2 credit hours
• Design project
• Geographically-distributed team
• 6 credit hours
• Distance learning courses
• 22 credit hours
6/19/2008 Distance M.Eng. (Systems Engineering) 8
Experience Cornell On-Campus
Year 1:
SYSEN 5920 ● Systems Engineering
Management for Virtual Teams
• (1 credit; On-campus Summer)
Year 2:
SYSEN 5940 ● Creativity and Innovation
within Systems Engineering
• (1 credit; On-campus Summer;
Prerequisite: SYSEN 5920)
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SYSEN 5920 ● Systems Engineering
Management for Virtual Teams
• Attend intensive one-week on-campus course
(35 hours) (1 credit; 2nd week of August)
• Form the cohort
• Lay the social groundwork to conduct projects in
geographically dispersed teams
• Engage with other students in the experiential
content of systems engineering management
• Complete a significant design challenge within
the week
• Attend a leadership laboratory simultaneously
with the design experience
• Encourage students to self-assess their
leadership style and practices in systems
engineering projects
• Meet the faculty and staff
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SYSEN 5940 ● Creativity and Innovation
within Systems Engineering
• Attend second intensive one-week on-
campus course (35 hours) (1 credit;
starting Summer 2009)
• Re-establish cohort connections
• Engage with other students in
experiential content of systems
engineering management
• Emphasize understanding individual
creativity and organizational innovation
• Develop the required systems
engineering leadership skills to foster
both
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The Master of Engineering Project
• SYSEN 5960 Systems Engineering
Project for Virtual Teams
• (Variable credit; Fall, Spring, Summer)
• Systems engineering project for small
groups or geographically dispersed
teams
• Cornell faculty oversight
• Fulfills M.Eng. degree requirement for
project
6/19/2008 Distance M.Eng. (Systems Engineering) 12
Distance Learning Courses
• SYSEN 5110 Applied Systems Engineering
• SYSEN 5210 Systems Architecture, Behavior,
and Optimization
• SYSEN 5310 Systems Engineering for the
Design and Operation of Reliable Systems
• CEE 6910 Principles of Project Leadership
• CEE 6970 Risk Analysis and Management
• ECE 4450 Computer Networks and
Telecommunications (Fall 2009)
• NBA 5070 Entrepreneurship for Scientists
and Engineers
6/19/2008 Distance M.Eng. (Systems Engineering) 13
Scheduling Your Time
Year Semester Two-Year Program Three-Year Program
1 Summer SYSEN 592 (1 credit) SYSEN 592 (1 credit)
1 Fall SYSEN 511 (3 credits) SYSEN 511 (3 credits)
1 Fall SYSEN 531 (4 credits)
1 Spring SYSEN 521 (3 credits) SYSEN 521 (3 credits)
1 Spring CEE 691 (3 credits) CEE 691 (3 credits)
2 Summer SYSEN 594 (1 credit)
2 Fall ECE 445 (3 credits) SYSEN 531 (4 credits)
2 Fall NBA 507 (3 credits) ECE 445 (3 credits)
2 Fall SYSEN 596 (3 credits)
2 Spring CEE 697 (3 credits) CEE 697 (3 credits)
2 Spring SYSEN 596 (3 credits)
2 Summer SYSEN 594 (1 credit)
3 Fall NBA 507 (3 credits)
3 Fall SYSEN 596 (3 credits)
3 Spring SYSEN 596 (3 credits)
Ithaca campus (one week)
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Costs and Benefits
• Excellent, challenging, industry-
reviewed systems engineering
curriculum
• Internationally recognized faculty
• Small, limited enrollment, student-
focused program
• Convenient distance learning with
networking cohort of professionals
• Tuition and DL Fees
• $1,513 per credit hour for 2008-09.
• Estimated $45,390 for 30 credit hours
• Competitive with peer institutions
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On- Or Off-Campus: It is the Same
Degree
• Earn the same degree as on-campus
students
• You are welcome to transfer to the on-
campus degree program at any time
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Admission Requirements
• Baccalaureate degree in engineering,
mathematics, or science conferred by
an accredited college or university.
• Applicants must document at least one
year of work experience in a relevant
field to be eligible to enroll in the
distance learning degree program.
6/19/2008 Distance M.Eng. (Systems Engineering) 17
Apply Online
• Online application:
apply.gradschool.cornell.edu.
• Statement of purpose
• Official transcripts from each
college/university previously attended
• Three letters of recommendation
• Application fee: $70.
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Contact Us
Peter Jackson, Director
Michelle Dean, Student Services
Systems Engineering Program
Office
206 Rhodes Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853
Telephone: 607.254-8998
Email: systemseng@cornell.edu
www.systemseng.cornell.edu
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Appendix: Online Course Descriptions
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SYSEN 5110 Applied Systems
Engineering
• A practical overview of the
systems engineering process
• Customer analysis, requirements
analysis, functional design, structural
design, systems analysis, tradeoff
analysis, verification, and validation.
• Numerous industrial examples,
case studies, and a term project
provide context and integration
6/19/2008 Distance M.Eng. (Systems Engineering) 21
SYSEN 5210 Systems Architecture,
Behavior, and Optimization
• An advanced course that explores
analytical tools that are used
within the systems engineering
process
• simulation, optimization, system
dynamics, network reliability, and
tools for systems architecture
• Case studies, system simulations,
and a term project provide context
and integration
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SYSEN 5310 Systems Engineering for the
Design and Operation of Reliable Systems
• An advanced course in the tools
and techniques for integrating
quality, reliability, and durability
into the design of complex
systems
• Failure mode and effects analysis,
quantifying uncertainty about modal
parameters, fault trees, event trees,
performance metrics, component
reliability and accelerated life
testing, statistical process control,
design of experiments, and response
surface methodology
6/19/2008 Distance M.Eng. (Systems Engineering) 23
CEE 6910 Principles of Project
Leadership
• Uncertainty and stakeholder management across the
project life-cycle
• Planning, scheduling and risk analysis in the face of
ambiguity
• The culture factor: culture, behavior, ethics and
project management
• The competencies of high performing leaders
• Personality as a source of uncertainty…and of
strength
• Cognitive dynamics: “How Smart People Can Do
Dumb Things?”
• Face-to-face and virtual team group dynamics
• Overcoming and preventing disconnects: the critical
interpersonal skills
• Decision making in groups
• Motivating team and individual performance
• Power, influence and leadership in project settings
• Conflict resolution
6/19/2008 Distance M.Eng. (Systems Engineering) 24
CEE 6970 Risk Analysis and
Management
• Develop a working knowledge of risk
terminology and reliability engineering,
analytic tools and models used to
analyze environmental and
technological risks, and social and
psychological risk issues
• Diverse applications: airline safety,
highway safety, food safety, public health
• Decision, sensitivity and uncertainty
analysis
• Perceptions of risk and risk
communication
• Risk in the media
• Risk management and the public
6/19/2008 Distance M.Eng. (Systems Engineering) 25
ECE 4450 Computer Networks and
Telecommunications (Fall 2009)
• A basic course in networking
• Design, analysis, and implementation of
computer and communication networks
and systems
• Emphasis is placed on performance
evaluation
• Data transmission and data encoding, data
link control, circuit vs. packet switching,
Asynchronous Transfer Mode, local area
network technology, network
interconnections, protocol design (OSE and
IP), network security, and multimedia.
6/19/2008 Distance M.Eng. (Systems Engineering) 26
NBA 5070 Entrepreneurship for
Scientists and Engineers
• Students form a start-up team, choose a
technical business idea, and develop and found
a business that can attract venture capital
investors
• Tutorial sessions with instructors apply lessons
to the team business plan
• Students learn how high-technology ideas are
converted into world-class businesses in
venture-backed start-up companies and in new
business development in existing companies
• Grading is based on a final exam focusing on the
video lectures, a written business plan, and its
final presentation to a judging panel.
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