The Master's Degree in Systems Engineering can be obtained entirely online if the student chooses. Online delivery allows for independent, self-paced learning at the desktop, plus added interactivity. The NTU Winter Quarter/Spring Semester 2003 courses listed below are available in an online format and can be applied toward the NTU Master's Degree in Systems Engineering.

Note that a number of NTU courses are also available on CD-ROM & DVD. These delivery formats offer superior portability, flexible scheduling, and reusability. NTU Winter Quarter/Spring Semester 2003 courses available on CD-ROM and on DVD.

Software Engineering
SE 710-R
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: To develop an understanding of concepts and principles underlying current and emerging methods, tools, and techniques for software development, validation, and maintenance.

Software Project Planning and Management
SE 584-N
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: To address the basic principles of planning and managing software projects, with an emphasis on practical issues. The course is centered around a process-oriented view, using the SEI software capability maturity model ... more

Business Process Innovation
SE 786-NJ
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: This course provides a set of methods to plan, organize and execute changes in business processes. It focuses on both strategic and operational aspects of business process innovation (BPI), which is needed by systems analysts, ... more

Model-Based System Design
SY 711-E
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: This is a continuation of SY 710-E. Its objective is to further explore the Systems Engineering Process.

Advanced Topics in Systems Engineering
SY 719-SC
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: Taught only by qualified academics having in-depth hands-on industrial experience in systems engineering. This course covers: a unified theory of systems engineering, breakthrough thinking about complex systems, integration ... more

Applied Systems Engineering
SY 721-U
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: Design for reliability, maintainability, usability, supportability, producibility, disposability, and life cycle costs in the context of the systems engineering process. Students will be required to apply the principles ... more

Systems Architecting
SY 723-SC
Credit Hours: 3
Course Objectives: A course introducing systems architecting to advanced students and professionals in the aerospace, commercial and governmental systems fields. Deals with complex technical systems requiring an approach beyond mathematical ... more