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Systems Engineering

Mastering Complexity: Distance Learning Opportunities for Practicing Engineers

Cornell Systems Engineering

Cornell Systems Engineering offers practicing engineers like you a variety of advanced, high-quality, flexible educational options, including:

  • A Cornell University Certificate in Systems Engineering,
  • A Cornell University Certificate in Systems Engineering Management, and
  • Individual systems engineering core courses.

See also the Online Systems Engineering Master's Degree Program.

Program benefits:

Our outstanding faculty designed these programs to help you:

  • Become familiar with the fundamental concepts, language, notations, and value of systems engineering;
  • Develop the critical interpersonal skills necessary for managing projects that cross organizational, geographical, and cultural boundaries; and
  • Promote systems thinking throughout your organization.

Participants may include:

  • Practicing engineering professionals responsible for planning, designing, and producing engineered products;
  • Engineering professionals who have new responsibilities or are seeking career advancement; and
  • Senior managers and others who want to leverage their organization's use of systems engineering expertise.

"We strive to equip engineers and managers with tools that work and reward right away and convey to them a habit of asking the right questions, seeing the open possibilities, and planning the best path--and to do all this when the situation is still fluid."
-- Peter Jackson Director, Cornell Systems Engineering

"I really enjoyed this course and found it intellectually very stimulating."
-- Former student

"The course integrates individual engineering topics into the larger picture of systems engineering."
-- Former student

 

 

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