This certificate program prepares dedicated leaders and skilled managers to make better engineering and related business decisions using enterprise data and statistical analysis. Depending on the starting semester chosen, a student can usually complete this certificate in three semesters.
The certificate includes two “breadth” courses and two “depth” courses. The Statistics for Engineering Management course provides a broad understanding of sampling, hypothesis testing and linear regression to model large populations. Similarly, the Information Systems Engineering course surveys the types and uses of data and information systems and introduces students to the various means of interacting with them effectively.
The Database Information Systems course equips students to create, fill, manage, check, lock, and query a relational database, focusing on the use of Structured Query Language (SQL). Finally, in the Data Acquisition and Predictive Analytics course, students apply various data preparation methods to verify, cleanse, and visualize data sets. They then use statistical inference, machine learning, database queries, and linear and integer programming techniques to inform decisions in the engineering management context.