Systems Engineering, M.S.

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Students normally develop individual programs of study in service and enterprise systems, and manufacturing systems. In addition, there are also opportunities for interdisciplinary programs such as logistics, supply chain management, health care systems, transportation, human factors, material science, ocean engineering, and biomedical engineering.

Joint International Programs

Administered in collaboration with the Technische Universität (TU) Braunschweig and the Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt in Germany, The University of Cantabria (UNICAN) in Santander, Spain, and Parthenope University in Naples, Italy, these dual master programs enable students to complete simultaneous engineering master’s degrees from both institutions over a two-year period.

Under this plan, University of Rhode Island master’s degree students in any engineering graduate program (Germany), in Ocean Engineering (Spain) and in Mechanical/Industrial & Systems (Italy) complete the first full year, or approximately one half of the master’s program, in Rhode Island, and then spend the second year of the program as a full-time student at the partner institution abroad. All work completed satisfactorily abroad is recognized by both the host and home universities, thus enabling students to complete degree requirements in Germany, Spain or Italy and in Rhode Island.

*As of Spring 2023, the German partnership program is available to all MS programs, the Spanish partnership is available for the OCE MS program and the Italian partnership is available for the MCE/ISE MS programs.

– Contact for TU Braunschweig and TU Darmstadt dual master programs: Sigrid Berka, sigrid_berka@uri.edu; +1 401.874.4700

– Contact for the UNICAN program in OCE: Stephen Licht, slicht@uri.edu +1 401.874.6028

– Contact for the Parthenope Program in MCE/ISE: David Chelidze, chelidze@uri.edu, +1 401.874.2356 ; Michelangelo La Luna, laluna@uri.edu; +1 401.874.5968

Areas of Concentration

Department of Mechanical & Industrial Systems Engineering

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Service and Enterprise Systems: Project planning and management in systems engineering; systems simulation; quality systems; lean systems; design and analysis of experiments; nonlinear systems optimization.

Manufacturing Systems: Computer-aided manufacturing systems; manufacturing systems: analysis, design, and simulation; product design for manufacture; quality systems; design and analysis of experiments; production control and inventory systems; lean systems.

Admission Requirements

B.S. degree in engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, or management science.