Systems Engineering Specialist Certificate

Benefits

In a recent meeting with many of Cornell Engineering’s top alumni and industry leaders, one skill stood out as the most essential for all engineering students: a fundamental understanding of Systems Engineering. To address this need, the Cornell Systems Engineering Specialist certificate was created to equip professionals with the most in-demand and widely applicable Systems Engineering skills. This certificate enhances students’ careers, prepares them for leadership roles, and empowers them to tackle today’s most complex engineering challenges.

A key advantage of this certificate is the opportunity to earn the INCOSE ASEP or CSEP certification without taking the knowledge exam – a first for Cornell!

Curriculum

Students can choose to take the Project Management and Leadership of Complex Systems elective, which provides excellent preparation for the Project Management Institute’s PMP certification exam.

For those with a sufficient background in probability and statistics, the Systems Analysis, Behavior, and Optimization course offers advanced analytical methodologies and practical applications for optimizing systems in real-world scenarios.

Alternatively, students without a probability and statistics background can take Theory & Practice of Systems Architecture, one of the most popular electives in Cornell’s Systems Engineering program. This course focuses on solution design – an area that significantly impacts a system’s performance and lifecycle cost – making it highly relevant for professionals from a wide range of backgrounds.

Additionally, Cornell Systems Engineering certificates are stackable. If you’ve already completed any of these courses as part of another certificate program, they will also count toward earning this certificate.

Regardless of the courses you choose, the Cornell Systems Engineering Specialist certificate will help you develop world-class Systems Engineering skills, positioning you as a valuable asset in any project or career path.

Requirements

• SYSEN 5100 (required) – Model Based Systems Engineering
  • Fall
  • 4 credits
• Plus, two of the following options
  • SYSEN 5200—Systems Analysis Behavior and Optimization
    • Spring
    • 3 credits
  • SYSEN 5930, Project Management and Leadership of Complex Systems
    • Fall
    • 4 credits
  • SYSEN 5400—Theory & Practice of Systems Architecture
    • Spring
    • 3 credits