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Course Descriptions

Courses for the Master of Engineering in Systems Engineering program are hyperlinked below to the University Bulletin. Please refer to the prerequisites mentioned on this page as those listed on the University Bulletin may differ from Penn State Great Valley. All courses offered are three credits unless otherwise indicated.

A-I 500 - Quantitative Methods

A-I 801 - Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
Prerequisite: A-I 500

DAAN 846 - Network and Predictive Analytics for Socio-Technical Systems

DAAN 862 - Analytics Programming in Python
Prerequisite: A-I 500

DAAN 871 - Data Visualization for Analytics

DAAN 881 - Data-Driven Decision Making (Prerequisite: A-I 500. DAAN 501 is NOT a prerequisite)

ENGMT 501 Engineering Management Science

ENGMT 510 - Economics and Financial Studies for Engineers

ENGMT 520 - Systems Optimization

IE 575 Foundations of Predictive Analytics
Prerequisite: A-I 500

INSC 831 - Contemporary Information Systems Architecture

S T S 589 - Ethics and Values in Science and Technology

SWENG/SYSEN 886 - Requirements Engineering

SYSEN 507 - Systems Thinking

SYSEN 520 - Systems Engineering

SYSEN 522 - Systems Verification Validation & Testing

SYSEN 532 - Simulation in Systems Engineering: Discrete-Time Systems

SYSEN 534 - Simulation in Systems Engineering: Continuous-Time Systems

SYSEN 536 - Decision and Risk Analysis in Engineering

SYSEN 555 - Invention and Creative Design
Taking SYSEN 850 prior to SYSEN 555 is recommended but not required.

SYSEN 594 - Master’s Research Paper
Capstone course must be taken near the end of the program.

SYSEN 594 - Advanced Systems Engineering Studio
Capstone course must be taken near the end of the program.

SYSEN 805 - Technical Project Management

SYSEN 850 - Creativity and Problem Solving I

SYSEN 880 - Systems Architecture and Models

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