2011–2012 UNIVERSITY CATALOG - Florida Institute of Technology

Graduate Certificate in Enterprise Architecture
The emerging field of enterprise architecture (EA) has become an
important area of learning for corporations and high-technology
corporations. EA deals not only with product performance and
application, but also information technology, information processing,
customers and suppliers, and financial aspects within a
corporation.
Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree in engineering, physical
science, computing or mathematics from an accredited university.
Applicants with degrees in other fields will be considered on a caseby-case
basis.
To receive the certificate, students must complete four graduatelevel
courses as listed below. Students who successfully complete
the four-course sequence to receive the certificate will be able to
move seamlessly into the Florida Tech master’s degree program in
either systems engineering or engineering management, if desired.
Required Courses
SYS 5420 System Architecture Fundamentals
SYS 5430 Enterprise Architecture Integration and Implementation
SYS 5440 Enterprise Architecture Project Planning,
Management and Documentation
SYS 5450 Service-oriented Architecture Concepts and Theory
Systems Engineering, Ph.D. ___________________
Major Code: 9097 Degree Awarded: Doctor of Philosophy
Age Restriction: N Admission Status: graduate
Delivery Mode/s: classroom only Location/s: main campus
Admission Materials: 3 letters of
recommendation, objectives, GRE
The Ph.D. program in systems engineering is designed to provide
advanced education and research opportunities to qualified students
with master’s degrees. On completion, the program prepares
students to conduct independent scholarly work, teach in academia
or pursue advanced research careers in government, commercial or
private sectors.
Admission Requirements
Admission to doctoral study is granted to applicants who have
received master’s degrees in systems engineering, engineering,
physical science, computer science or mathematics from an accredited
institution or from an international institution that provides
suitable preparation for doctoral-level studies.
The applicant must have a master’s degree GPA of at least 3.50 on
a 4.0 scale. International applicants must submit TOEFL scores of
600 or higher in addition to the GPA requirement. All students are
required to have a GRE score of 1100 or higher.
Included with the application should be undergraduate and graduate
transcripts, TOEFL scores (if required), GRE scores, three
letters of recommendation and a statement of objectives.
General admission requirements and the process for applying are
presented in the Academic Overview section.
The program is ideally suited to applicants with a master’s degree in
systems engineering. Preference will be given to these applicants.
If an applicant does not have a master’s degree in systems engineering,
five master’s-level core courses (or equivalents as determined
by the department) are required before beginning doctoral-level
coursework, as follows:
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Core Courses
SYS 5310 Systems Engineering Principles
SYS 5350 Systems Modeling and Analysis
SYS 5365 Decisions and Risk Analysis
SYS 5370 Research Methods in Systems Engineering
SYS 5385 System Life Cycle Cost Estimation
Degree Requirements
The Ph.D. in systems engineering requires a minimum of 48
semester credit hours beyond the master’s degree including 24
semester credit hours of doctoral-level coursework and 24 semester
credit hours of dissertation research.
Course Work and Dissertation Summary
Doctoral coursework minimum beyond master’s degree ............................. 24
Doctoral research and dissertation .............................................................. 24
TOTAL MINIMUM BEYOND THE MASTER’S DEGREE ................... 48
In addition to the 24 semester credit hours of coursework, the
major adviser may require additional courses to better prepare the
student for conducting research in the selected topic.
Each student must have a completed and approved program plan
within one month of acceptance into the program. Following successful
completion of the courses in the plan, the student must
pass the comprehensive examination, prepare a written dissertation
proposal and defend that proposal to a committee formed according
to graduate policy. Finally, the student must conduct the necessary
research to prepare a written dissertation satisfying the elements
agreed to by the student’s doctoral committee and defend that dissertation
before the committee.
A candidate should have at least one journal paper in review before
the dissertation defense, and have completed one conference paper
and presented their results at a recognized conference.
General degree requirements are presented in the Academic
Overview section.
Curriculum
The program of study must be approved by the student’s doctoral
committee and the department head. All prerequisite coursework
must be completed before beginning doctoral coursework. There
are no exceptions to this policy.
Required Courses
SYS 6010 Advanced Topics in Decision and Risk Analysis
SYS 6020 Advanced Topics in Systems Modeling and Analysis
SYS 6030 Advanced Topics in Process Engineering
SYS 6040 Seminar in Systems Engineering
Elective Courses
In consultation with the major adviser, the student selects four
courses applicable to the program from within the College of
Engineering or College of Science. Latitude is permitted with the
consent of the major adviser. The adviser may require the student
to take additional courses (beyond the total of eight courses) if it is
felt these courses are needed for research preparation.
ReseaRch
Research topics in systems engineering are interdisciplinary in
nature. The student may select a topic from his/her engineering
field with the acceptance of the major adviser and the committee.
Topics include, but are not limited to, system design and modeling;
simulation and analytical modeling; decision and risk modeling;
design of experiments; statistical modeling; and systems life cycle
cost estimation.