Management Systems Engineering

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Management Systems Engineering is the science of designing complex management systems. This is done through the application of engineering design and analysis processes and methodologies to organizational systems involving people and technologies.

Management Systems Engineering focuses on the research, design, development, deployment, measurement, and improvement of systems comprised of decision-makers, information, organizational structures, technologies, decision tools, and work processes, with an emphasis on the interactions among these components. This graduate track provides students with the knowledge and skills to meet challenges posed by increasingly complex organizational systems in dynamic global environments.

The academic curriculum exposes students to industrial engineering topics at the graduate level and technical electives in specialized areas within industrial engineering and other areas.

Management Systems Engineers study the design, management, and sustainment of complex engineered systems, socio-technical systems, and management systems. These engineers seek to understand critical interactions and interdependencies between systems and their environments, with a particular focus on resilience of systems. They develop engineering methods informed by other scientific domains, research sponsors, and collaborators from industry, government, and academia that they apply to a diverse portfolio of scenarios with a sensitivity to societal and educational impact. Their research methods encompass a broad set of design and analysis tools, including quantitative and qualitative methods.

Management Systems Engineering faculty have extensive expertise and experience in the following topics:

Systems science, analysis, and engineering
- Complexity science, decision analysis, model-based systems engineering, problem formulation, system architecture and design, system dynamics modeling, systems thinking, and verification and validation
Enterprise systems engineering
- Enterprise design, enterprise engineering, enterprise transformation, continuous process improvement, performance measurement science, and strategic performance measurement, management, and modeling
Economic production theory
Policy analysis
Service science
Technology management.

They apply their expertise to energy and environment systems; critical, resilient, and safe infrastructure systems; manufacturing systems; service systems (with a particular focus on healthcare systems); and space systems.

Master's Level

Doctoral Level

Certificate Level

M.S. and MEng in Management Systems Engineering

The academic curriculum exposes students to a breadth of industrial engineering topics at the graduate level, management systems engineering topics, and technical electives in specialized areas within industrial engineering and other areas.

M.S. and MENg Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering is an interdisciplinary field that integrates many different engineering specialties into a total engineering effort to ensure an efficient and effective product (system) output. Systems Engineering analyzes the operational needs of industrial, business and government enterprises and by applying scientific and engineering technology develops the integrated hardware and software required to meet those needs.

Ph.D. in Management Systems Engineering

Management Systems Engineering involves the application of engineering design and analysis methodologies and tools to these management systems. One of the primary objectives of this area is to advance the theory and science of designing and understanding of complex management and engineered systems.

Mission Engineering

The graduate certificate in Mission Engineering is designed to teach students engineering methods to design, develop, and assess complex system-of-systems using mission engineering tools and practices in combination with the tactical insights of operational planning

Encompassing Enterprise Design
Enterprise Engineering
Enterprise Transformation
Continuous Process Improvement
Performance Measurement Science
Strategic Performance Measurement, Management, and Modeling
Encompassing Complexity Science
Decision Analysis
Model-based Systems Engineering
Problem Formulation
System Architecture and Design
Systems Dynamics Modeling
Systems Thinking
Verification and Validation

Affiliated faculty research and labs

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Systems Engineering, CISCO
Investment Management Systems Delivery Manager, Vanguard
Systems Engineer, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Senior Program Manager, Lockheed Martin
Program Manager, Transportation Operations Planning, Amazon
Logistics Strategy Analyst, Apple
Managing Director, Sierra Ventures

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Alkim Avsar

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Research Areas: Systems Engineering, Game Theory, Social Factors and Interactions, Collaborative Systems, Engineering Design, Behavioral Experiments

Eric Brubaker

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Research Areas: Design Theory & Methodology, Complex Systems, Human-AI Teaming, Cross-Boundary Design Work, Common Ground, Organizational Learning

Deborah Dickerson

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Research Areas: Product safety (design, warnings); system safety (risk analysis, FMEA, safety performance)

Navid Ghaffarzadegan

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Research Areas: System dynamics, systems thinking, generative agent based modeling, policy modeling

Joseph Godfrey

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Research Areas: Game Theory, Systems Theory, Machine Learning, Quantum Physics/Engineering

Niyousha Hosseinichimeh

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Research Areas: Healthcare systems engineering, Health policy modeling, System dynamics, Systems thinking

Nathan Lau

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Research Areas: Cognitive Engineering; User Interface Design; Human Performance; Human Systems Integration; Critical Infrastructure; Multiagent Systems; Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles