About

The Division of Systems Engineering (SE) is based on a rather unique interdisciplinary graduate program with select faculty from different engineering departments. The creation of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) in 2003 brought together these faculty, all committed to cutting-edge research on analytical and computational methods aiming to design and manage human-made and physical systems spanning a broad range of applications. The growing activities of the CISE have naturally led to the establishment of a graduate program that emphasizes the common themes of Systems Engineering across departments and application areas. The Division includes affiliated faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Management.

The SE program leads graduate students to post-Bachelor’s Ph.D. and Post-Master’s Ph.D. degrees. Research activities focus on automation, control and robotics, communication and networking, computational and systems biology, information sciences, and production, service systems and supply chain management. The Division is also developing a M.S. degree program with concentrations in Computational and Systems Biology, Control Systems, Network Systems, Financial Engineering Systems, Manufacturing Systems and Supply Chains, and Operations Research.

The 13 participating faculty members currently in the Division, along with several affiliates from within the College of Engineering, as well as the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Management, supervise dozens of Ph.D. students working on projects funded by several federal agencies and private companies