Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Systems Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder

The design process every engineer needs to know. Master techniques for designing, implementing, and managing complex systems.

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Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Risk management
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Alternatives analysis
  • System life cycle
  • Requirements analysis
  • Program Management
  • Test plan
  • Systems Engineering

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Systems Engineer
  • Engineering Project Manager
  • Product Manager
  • Management Engineer
  • Technology Manager
  • Systems Engineering Specialist
  • Engineering Team Manager
  • Engineering consultant
  • Product Development Manager
  • Engineering Risk Manager

Expertise – a three-part course series

Introduction to Systems Engineering

Introduction to Systems Engineering introduces you to the holistic and interdisciplinary approach to systems engineering, designed for the design, implementation, and management of complex systems. In this three-part course series, you will learn how to develop a project from concept to field instrumentation, tailored to customer needs, while effectively managing costs, lead times, and limiting risks.

  • Identify and define a system and its components.
  • Model a system life cycle
  • Apply systems engineering methods through real-world examples

The knowledge and terminology you will acquire here will allow you to work effectively with your project team and allow you to understand and speak the specialized language of systems engineering.

Master’s Degree Program in Engineering Management (ME-EM)

This specialization can be taken for academic credit as part of CU Boulder’s Master of Engineering Management (ME-EM) program offered on the Coursera platform. ME-EM is designed to help engineers, scientists, and technical professionals advance to management and leadership roles in engineering and technology.

  • Performance-based admission without an application process
  • Ideal for people with a wide range of academic studies and professional experience

Learn more about the ME-EM program at https://www.coursera.org/degrees/me-engineering-management-boulder .

Hands-on Learning Project

During the specialization, you will have the opportunity to practice systems engineering technologies on real-world engineering systems. At the end of the specialization, you will create a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for a real-world system, giving you the opportunity to practice some of the skills you learned during the specialization.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Need for systems engineering

Course 1

  • 22 hours
  • 4.9 (40 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • Define systems engineering and approach to systems engineering
  • Describe a system and identify the stages of a system’s development life cycle.
  • Evaluate the application of systems engineering throughout the system life cycle
Skills you will gain
  • Category: System Requirements
  • Category: Systems Definition
  • Category: Functional Analysis
  • Category: Systems Thinking
  • Category: System Testing

Applying systems engineering to the design process

Course 2

  • 21 hours
  • 4.9 (19 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • Describe the key roles and responsibilities of a systems engineer.
  • Define a system including specifications, requirements and functions
  • Identify decision support approaches
Skills you will gain
  • Category: Design Reviews
  • Category: Reliability Engineering
  • Category: Requirements Analysis
  • Category: Functional Analysis
  • Category: Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering and Software Management

Course 3

  • 15 hours
  • 5.0 (23 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • Describe the relationship between systems engineering and project management
  • Identify risks and risk mitigation strategies
  • Describe the three basic types of government contracts and their impact on program execution.
Skills you will gain
  • Category: Risk Management
  • Category: Systems Engineering Planning
  • Category: Testing plan
  • Category: Systems Engineering
  • Category: Cost estimation