Program Overview

Healthcare Systems Engineering, Master of Science

The Master of Science in Healthcare Systems Engineering is a graduate program offered by the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. This program is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to analyze, design, and improve healthcare systems.

Admission Requirements

To be admitted to the program, applicants must have a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university, with a prior educational experience that includes an undergraduate major in engineering, the sciences, or in healthcare. Admitted students typically have earned a grade point average of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale (B or above) in the latter half of their undergraduate studies. Transcripts from all college studies must be submitted, and applicants will typically have at least two years of experience in engineering or the healthcare field. A detailed professional experience rťsumť must be submitted.

Program Requirements

In order to earn a Master of Science in Healthcare Systems Engineering, the student must complete 30 credits within five years. The curriculum consists of seven required core courses (21 credits) and three elective courses (9 credits). Students must take EN.655.662 Intro to Healthcare Systems Engineering first and should take EN.655.771 Healthcare Systems either concurrently or immediately after. The remaining core courses should be taken in sequential order and must be completed prior to taking an elective.

Core Courses

• EN.655.662: Intro to Healthcare Systems Engineering (3 credits)
• EN.655.667: Management of Healthcare Systems Projects (3 credits)
• EN.655.767: Healthcare System Conceptual Design (3 credits)
• EN.655.768: Healthcare System Design & Integration (3 credits)
• EN.655.769: Healthcare System Test and Evaluation (3 credits)
• EN.655.771: Healthcare Systems (3 credits)
• EN.655.800: Healthcare Systems Engineering Capstone Project (3 credits)

Electives

Students must select 9 credits from the following elective courses:

• Healthcare Systems Engineering:
  • EN.655.705: Transformational Capabilities in Health (3 credits)
• Applied Biomedical Engineering:
  • EN.585.613: Medical Sensors & Devices (3 credits)
  • EN.585.619: Regulation of Medical Devices (3 credits)
  • EN.585.770: Global Health Engineering (3 credits)
• Systems Engineering:
  • EN.645.631: Introduction to Model Based Systems Engineering (3 credits)
  • EN.645.650: Foundations of Human Systems Engineering (3 credits)
  • EN.645.651: Integrating Humans and Technology (3 credits)
  • EN.645.742: Management of Complex Systems (3 credits)
  • EN.645.755: Methods in Human-System Performance Measurement and Analysis (3 credits)
  • EN.645.757: Foundations of Modeling and Simulation in Systems Engineering (3 credits)
  • EN.645.761: Systems Architecting (3 credits)
  • EN.645.764: Software Systems Engineering (3 credits)
  • EN.645.771: System of Systems Engineering (3 credits)
  • EN.645.781: Systems Thinking and Systems Dynamics (3 credits)
• Bloomberg School of Public Health online offerings:
  • PH.140.611: Statistical Reasoning in Public Health I (3 credits)
  • PH.140.612: Statistical Reasoning in Public Health II (3 credits)
  • PH.140.621: Statistical Methods in Public Health I (4 credits)
  • PH.140.622: Statistical Methods in Public Health II (4 credits)
  • PH.309.631: Population Health Informatics (3 credits)
  • PH.309.730: Patient Safety and Medical Errors (3 credits)
  • PH.312.633: Health Management Information Systems (3 credits)
• School of Medicine:
  • ME.250.950: Health Information Systems: Design to Deployment (credits vary)