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Education

Students who wish to gain a qualification in systems can do so through the departments and programs listed below. Each of these offers systems programs for both undergraduate and graduate students, with the exception of the Engineering for Professionals Program (EPP), which offers part-time masters programs only. Details of the requirements for the Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D. can be found by clicking on the links in the table. More information about each department can be found by clicking on its name. 

A list of systems courses currently available in these departments can be found here.

Masters Program Capstone Projects and Theses

Presentations of capstone projects and theses from the Engineering for Professionals Systems Engineering Masters Program can be found at this page.

Currently Available Courses and Programs in Systems
 

Civil Engineering

Geography & Environmental

Applied Math & Statistics

Engineering for Professionals
Bachelors

Focus Area:
Systems
with the
core courses
listed below

Focus Area:
Environmental
Management
and Economics
(see page 10)

Focus Area:
Optimization
(see section 3.2)

Not
Available
Masters

Broad range
of
research areas

Focus Area:
Environmental
Management
and Economics

Focus Area:
Operations
Research

Systems
Engineering
concentration:
Modeling
and Simulation
Doctorate

Research areas:
Public Health,
Disaster Planning,
Transportation,
Medicine,
Optimization,
Loss Estimation

Research areas:
Sustainability,
Energy Systems,
Risk Analysis,
Public Health,
Disaster Resilience,
Infrastructure Modeling

Research Areas:
Optimization,
Combinatorial Optimization,
Operations Research,
Graph Theory

Not
Available
Systems Courses

Below is an approximate list of systems courses available at JHU. Click on the course number to see the course description (where available). Systems is an inherently cross-disciplinary subject and students are encouraged to take courses from outside their home department. Most are available to both graduate students and upper-level undergraduates. These courses are supplemented by systems seminars, which are listed on the homepage. The departmental requirements for a masters or doctorate in systems can be found here. Links to undergraduate focus areas and concentrations are included in the table above. 

Civil Engineering

The following systems courses taught in the Department of Civil Engineering can be combined with courses in DoGEE and AMS to create a Masters curriculum in systems that suits individual research interests. 
Core, Introductory

560.442 Equilibrium Models in Systems Engineering
560.498 Survey of Systems Engineering Tools
560.xxx Infrastructure Asset Management
DoGEE

Systems courses in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering cover systems modeling of energy and environmental issues and can lead to a Masters Degree with a focus area in Environmental Management and Economics.
Core, Introductory

570.305 Environmental Engineering Systems Design
570.418 Multiobjective Programming and Planning
570.493 Economic Foundations for Public Decision Making
570.495 Mathematical Foundations for Public Decision Making
570.496 Urban and Environmental Systems
570.497 Risk and Decision Analysis

Core, Advanced

570.6XX Foundational Readings in Risk and Decision Analysis
570.607 Energy Planning and Policy Modeling
570.608 Data Analytics for Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management
570.612 Infrastructure Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis
570.618 Multiobjective Programming and Planning

Related

570.676 Stochastic Programming
570.633 Simulation and Game Theory
570.873 Public Systems and Economics Seminar
Applied Math & Statistics

Systems courses in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics cover operations research and optimization and can lead to a Masters Degree with a focus area in Operations Research.
Core, Introductory

550.361 Introduction to Optimization
550.362 Introduction to Optimization II
550.391 Dynamical Systems
550.433 Monte Carlo Methods
550.453 Mathematical Game Theory
550.457 Topics in Operations Research
550.461 Optimization in Finance
550.463 Network Models in Operations Research

Core, Advanced

550.661 Nonlinear Optimization
550.662 Optimization Algorithms
550.663 Stochastic Search and Optimization
550.666 Combinatorial Optimization

Please select from the following links for information on:

Faculty from Civil, DoGEE, or Applied Math and Statistics whose research is in systems