With the rapid acceleration of technology through innovation on a global basis, industries recognize the need for young engineers who possess base line knowledge in areas of data system management and an understanding of the system level of complex data center processing systems. In both government and industry there is a growing need for undergraduate engineering students that possess the requisite knowledge and skill sets pertaining to complex data systems management and this certificate program includes a set of courses to assure students develop this knowledge and skill set. Completion of this certificate requires completion of the following educational outcomes:

1. to know and apply principles of engineering management
2. to understand principles of systems level engineering and their application to specific data center system operations
3. to be able to go beyond understanding concepts and demonstrate appropriate usage of systems engineering principles in a design context

Course List

Code	Title	Semester Credit Hours
ISEN 440	Systems Thinking	3
Select one of the following:		4
CSCE 110	Programming I
CSCE 111	Introduction to Computer Science Concepts and Programming
CSCE 206	Structured Programming in C
Select two of the following:		6
CSCE 438	Distributed Systems
CSCE 444	Structures of Interactive Information
CSCE 470	Information Storage and Retrieval
ECEN 455	Digital Communications
ISEN 340	Operations Research II
ISEN 350	Quality Engineering
ISEN 411	Engineering Management Techniques
ISEN 413	Advanced Data Analytics for Industry
ISEN 414	Total Quality Engineering
ISEN 442	Organizational Systems
MEEN 421	Thermal-Fluids Analysis and Design
MEEN 436	Principles of Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning
MEEN 461	Heat Transfer
Total Semester Credit Hours		13

Students must make a grade of C or better in all courses.