The Division of Systems Engineering (SE) is a unique interdisciplinary graduate program with select faculty from different engineering departments. It offers PhD, as well as MS and MEng degrees, to graduate students with interests in information, decision, and control sciences, and in all application areas encompassing the modeling, analysis, simulation, control, optimization, and management of complex systems.

The Division offers research opportunities through the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE). The cross-disciplinary SE curriculum, together with the CISE, leverage the expertise of Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Management faculty from the College of Engineering, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Management. Research activities focus on automation, control and robotics, communication and networking, computational and systems biology, information sciences, production, service, and energy systems and supply chain management.

Systems Engineering cuts across the traditional engineering departments as a discipline that enables building, analyzing, or managing a system be it electrical, mechanical, chemical, biological or one involving business processes and logistics. Our graduates are equipped with the unique skills to adapt their knowledge and expertise to different application domains with this flexibility placing them in high demand.

Read about the growing importance of Systems Engineering and its rewards as a career in the IEEE USA Today’s Engineer – Career Focus:  Systems Engineering.