Systems and Industrial Engineering Minor draft
Program Overview
Systems and Industrial Engineering Minor
Overview
The minor in systems and industrial engineering offers an attractive complement to many undergraduate majors. Systems and industrial engineers define, design, develop, integrate, and test systems. Whereas other engineering disciplines concentrate on individual aspects of a system (electronics, ergonomics, software, etc.), systems engineers focus on the system as a whole. This minor provides students with the fundamentals of systems engineering and operations research. In these courses, students learn how to deal with the system life cycle and to use scientific methods for analyzing operations of a system or organization. The structured set of courses helps students across the technical fields prepare for the information technology work now common in public and private industry. This minor is open to all majors, and especially appropriate for students in the natural sciences, computational sciences, information technology, finance, economics, mathematics, engineering, or computer science programs.
Policies
- Eight credits of coursework must be unique to the minor and students must complete all coursework with a minimum GPA of 2.00.
- For policies governing all minors, see AP.5.3.4 Minors.
Minor Requirements
Total credits: 15
Required Courses
- SYST 375: Engineering Economy (3 credits)
- SYST 473: Decision and Risk Analysis (3 credits)
- Select one from the following:
- SYST 210: Systems Design 1
- SYST 101: Understanding Systems and Industrial Engineering 2
- SYST 205: Systems Engineering Principles
- Total Credits: 9
Two Additional Courses
- Select any two additional courses from the following:
- SYST 130: Introduction to Computing for Digital Systems Engineering (Mason Core)
- SYST 210: Systems Design
- SYST 220 & SYST 221: Dynamical Systems I and Systems Modeling Laboratory
- SYST 230: Object-oriented Modeling and Design
- SYST 320: Dynamical Systems II
- SYST 330: Systems Methods
- SYST 370: Systems Project Management 3
- SYST 371: Systems Engineering Management
- SYST 414: Systems Thinking
- SYST 438: Analytics for Financial Engineering and Econometrics
- SYST 440: Digital Twin for Systems and Industrial Engineering
- SYST 448: Technologies and Security for Cryptocurrencies and Financial Transactions
- SYST 460: Introduction to Air Traffic Control
- SYST 461: Air Transportation System Engineering
- SYST 468: Applied Predictive Analytics
- SYST 469: Human Computer Interaction 4
- SYST 470: Human Factors Engineering
- SYST 475: Production Systems Analysis
- SYST 478: Systems Engineering and Artificial Intelligence
- SYST 479: AI Design and Deployment Risks
- SYST 488: Financial Systems Engineering
- SYST 492: Innovation for Impact
- SYST 496: Sustainable Systems Methods Practicum
- OR 335: Discrete Systems Modeling and Simulation 5
- OR/MATH 441: Deterministic Optimization 6
- OR/MATH 442: Stochastic Models 7
- OR 481: Numerical Methods in Engineering 8
- Total Credits: 6
Prerequisites
Some of the courses listed above have additional prerequisites. Students should pay careful attention to prerequisites when selecting courses.
Program Outcomes
- This minor provides students with the fundamentals of systems and industrial engineering, and operations research. In these courses, students learn how to deal with the system life cycle and to use scientific methods for analyzing operations of a system or organization.
- The structured set of courses helps students across the technical fields prepare for the systems and industrial engineering, and operations research work such as define, design, develop, integrate, and test systems that are now common in public and private industry.
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