Systems Engineering (ENSE)
Graduate Degree Program
College: Engineering
Abstract
Students in the broadly-based, cross-disciplinary Master of Science in Systems Engineering (ENSE) program at ISR benefit both academically and professionally by:
- Being exposed to a wide range of systems engineering principles and software tools tailored toward support for visual modeling of systems, requirements engineering, system-level modeling, optimization and trade-off analysis, and human factors engineering.
- Becoming familiar with the financial and management issues associated with complex engineering systems.
- Acquiring a deep understanding of one particular application area.
- Becoming familiar for opportunities for leadership within the systems engineering profession.
- Designed with substantial industry input, the ENSE curriculum represents the University of Maryland’s first multi-college graduate degree program involving the A. James Clark School of Engineering.
In addition to the technical management of systems projects, the ENSE program covers a wide range of topics, from systems definition, requirements and specifications, to systems design, implementation, and operation. Students specialize in one technical area, selected from computer and software systems, communication and networking systems, signal processing systems, control systems, manufacturing systems, operations research, transportation systems, and robotics. The ENSE program draws upon the extensive engineering, computer science and management experience of the of University of Maryland faculty. The program makes optimum use of the university’s advanced facilities, including extensive libraries of numerical, symbolic, and visualization software, engineering workstations, and wireless communication networks.
Financial Assistance
Prospective and current students may seek support for their studies through graduate research assistantships with ISR faculty or graduate fellowships. Students currently working in industry, the military, or the government, who plan to pursue their graduate studies part-time, might ask their employers about tuition assistance. All applicants are encouraged to explore sources of external funding; a number of comprehensive Internet sites, such as fastweb.com, offer detailed information and application instructions.
Contact
Master of Science in Systems Engineering (ENSE) Program
Institute for Systems Research
2175 A.V. Williams Building
8223 Paint Branch Drive
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Telephone: 301.405.4419
Fax: 301.314.9920
Email: jmaccart@umd.edu
Website: http://www.isr.umd.edu/education/systems-engineering-education
Courses: ENSE
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
- Statement of Purpose
- Transcript(s)
- TOEFL/IELTS/PTE (international graduate students)
PROGRAM-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS
- Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
- Letters of Recommendation (3)
- CV/Resume
- Description of Research/Work Experience
Application Deadlines
| Type of Applicant | Fall Deadline | Spring Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| Domestic Applicants | ||
| US Citizens and Permanent Residents | March 14, 2025 | January 10, 2025 |
| International Applicants | ||
| F (student) or J (exchange visitor) visas; A,E,G,H,I and L visas and immigrants | February 7, 2025 | September 26, 2024 |
RESOURCES AND LINKS:
Program Website: http://www.isr.umd.edu/education/systems-engineering-education
Application Process: gradschool.umd.edu/admissions/application-process/step-step-guide-applying
Modern laboratory, computation, and networking environments play an indispensable role in both the development and day-to-day operation of the research and education programs at the Institute for Systems Research. In all of the ISR laboratories, real-life experiments and associated research studies are enabled through the integrated design of automation and information engineering systems. Computational environments support advanced numerical simulation, sensing and control, and automated design of complex heterogeneous engineering systems. Networking environments play an indispensible role in enabling of interdisciplinary teams of faculty and students to work together. Prototype designs in both hardware and software have led to technological discoveries and patentable inventions.
ISR was established in 1985 as one of the first six National Science Foundation Engineering Research Centers (ERCs). Now a self-sustaining ERC, it is a permanent state-supported institute of the University of Maryland, within the A. James Clark School of Engineering. ISR faculty and graduate students perform basic and applied research with an emphasis on six major research directions: systems engineering methodologies and tools, global communications systems, sensor-actuated networks, next generation product-realization systems, societal infrastructure systems, and cross-disciplinary systems engineering education. ISR seeks a cohesive and balanced approach to the modeling, design, and control of large heterogeneous systems, bringing together a diversified team of outstanding engineers, scientists, and students to research, develop, and implement advances in systems engineering.
| Last Name | First/Middle Name | Graduate Faculty Status | Academic Credentials | Positions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abed | Eyad | Full Member | B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979; M.S., University of California-Berkeley, 1981; Ph.D., 1982. GCEN Academic Advisor for Systems Engineering | Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Abshire | Pamela | Full Member | B.S., California Institute of Technology, 1992; M.S., The Johns Hopkins University, 1997; Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 2001. | Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor, Neurosciences and Cognitive Science Associate Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Adomaitis | Raymond A. | Full Member | B.S., Illinois Institute of Technology, 1984;Ph.D., 1988. | Professor, Systems Engineering Professor, Chemical Engineering |
| Austin | Mark A. | Full Member | B.E., University of Canterbury, 1980; M.S. University of California-Berkeley, 1982; Ph.D., 1985. | Director, Systems Engineering Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Associate Professor, Systems Engineering Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Ball | Michael O. | Full Member | B.E.S., Johns Hopkins University, 1972; M.S.E., 1972; Ph.D., Cornell University, 1977. | Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Baras | John S. | Full Member | B.S.,National Technical University of Athens, 1970; S.M., Harvard University, 1971; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1973. | Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Professor, Systems Engineering Affiliate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Affiliate Professor, Bioengineering |
| Barg | Alexander | Full Member | Ph.D.,Moscow Russia,1983-1987;M.Sc, Moscow Russia,1976-1981 | Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Professor, Systems Engineering Affiliate Professor, Computer Science |
| Barua | Rajeev K. | Full Member | B.S., Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi,1992; M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994; Ph.D., 2000. | Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Bergbreiter | Sarah E. | Full Member | B.E., Princeton University, 1999; M.S., University of California-Berkeley, 2004; Ph.D., University of California, 2007 | Assistant Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Chopra | Nikhil | Full Member | Ph.D. degree in Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering in 2006 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor, Systems Engineering Affiliate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Cleaveland | Walter Rance | Full Member | B.S., Duke University, 1982; M.S., Cornell University, 1985; Ph.D., Cornell University, 1987. | Professor, Systems Engineering Professor, Computer Science |
| Cukier | Michel | Full Member | Ph.D., National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France, 1996 | Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor, Reliability Engineering Associate Professor, Systems Engineering Affiliate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Affiliate Associate Professor, Computer Science |
| Dhulipala | Laxman | Full Member | Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2020 | Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Professor, Systems Engineering Assistant Professor, Computer Science |
| Ephremides | Anthony | Full Member | B.S., National Technical University of Athens, 1967; M.A., 1969; Ph.D.,Princeton University, 1971. | Distinguished University Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Distinguished University Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Professor, Systems Engineering Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Espy-Wilson | Carol Y. | Full Member | B.S., Stanford University, 1979; M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981; M. Elect. Eng., 1984; Ph.D., 1987 | Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Fu | Michael C. | Full Member | S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985; S.M., 1985; S.M., Harvard University, 1986; Ph.D., 1989. | Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Professor, Systems Engineering Affiliate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Ghodssi | Reza | Full Member | B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990; M.S., 1992; Ph.D., 1996. | Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Systems Engineering Affiliate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Affiliate Professor, Bioengineering |
| Gupta | Satyandra K. | Full Member | B.E., University of Roorkee, 1988; M. Technology, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, 1989; Ph.D.,University of Maryland-College Park, 1994. | Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Herrmann | Jeffrey W. | Full Member | B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990; Ph.D., University of Florida, 1993. | Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Horiuchi | Timothy | Full Member | B.S., California Institute of Technology, 1989 Ph.D., 1997. | Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor, Neurosciences and Cognitive Science Associate Professor, Systems Engineering |
| La | Richard | Full Member | B.S., University of Maryland-College Park, 1994; M.S., University of California-Berkeley, 1997; Ph.D., 2000 | Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Associate Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Lovell | David J. | Full Member | B.A.,Portland State University, 1990; M.S., University of California-Berkeley, 1993 Ph.D., 1997. | Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Professor, Systems Engineering Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Makowski | Armand M. | Full Member | B.S., Universite Libre de Bruxelles-Belgium, 1975; M.S., University of California-Los Angeles, 1976; Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1981. | Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Marcus | Steven I. | Full Member | B.A., Rice University, 1971; S.M.,Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972; Ph.D., 1975. | Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Professor, Systems Engineering Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Martins | Nuno M. L. C. | Full Member | B.S./M.S. - Combined Bachelor's/Master's Program, Electrical Engr. & Computer Science, University of Lisbon, 5/97; Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 9/04 | Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Narayan | Prakash | Full Member | B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, 1976; M.S., Washington University, 1978; Ph.D., 1981. | Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Nau | Dana S. | Full Member | B.S., University of Missouri-Rolla, 1974; A.M., Duke University, 1976; Ph.D., 1979. | Professor, Systems Engineering Professor, Computer Science |
| Qu | Gang | Full Member | B.S., Hefei University of Technology/China University of Science and Technology, 1992; M.S., 1994; M.A., University of Oklahoma, 1996; M.S., University of California--Los Angeles, 1998; Ph.D., 2000 | Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Raghavan | Subramanian | Full Member | B.E., Indian Institute of Technology, 1987; M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,1988; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. | Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Rubloff | Gary W. | Full Member | B.A., Dartmouth College, 1966; M.S., University of Chicago, 1967; Ph.D., 1971. | Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Ryzhov | Ilya | Full Member | B.S., Cornell University, 2004; M.Eng., Cornell University, 2005; M.S., Stanford University, 2006; Ph.D., Princeton University, 2011 | Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Associate Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Shamma | Shihab | Full Member | B.S., Imperial College, 1976; M.S.,Stanford University, 1977; M.A., 1980; Ph.D., 1980. | Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Professor, Neurosciences and Cognitive Science Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Shapiro | Benjamin | Full Member | B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1999. | Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Associate Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Srivastava | Ankur | Full Member | B.Elect. E., IIT-Delhi, 1998; MS, Northwestern Univ. 2000; Ph.D., UCLA, 2002. | Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Ulukus | Sennur | Full Member | B.S., Bilkent University, 1991; M.S., 1993; Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1998 | Associate Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor, Systems Engineering |
| Zhang | Guangming | Full Member | B.S., Tianjin University-P.R.C., 1966; M.S., 1981; M.S., University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, 1983; Ph.D., 1986. | Associate Professor, Systems Engineering |