Systems Architecting and Engineering Program

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Rapp Engineering
Building 225
(213) 821-5817
Email: info@sae.usc.edu
Website: viterbi.usc.edu/sae
Admissions: gapp.usc.edu/graduate-programs/masters/systems-architecting-and-engineering

Executive Director: Azad M. Madni, PhD
Email: azad.madni@usc.edu; (213) 740-9211

Student Services Adviser: (213) 821-4234

Faculty

A.V. “Bal” Balakrishnan Chair: Petros Ioannou, PhD (Electrical Engineering)

David Packard Chair in Manufacturing Engineering: Stephen C-Y Lu, PhD (Computer Science, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering)

John and Dorothy Shea Early Career Chair in Civil Engineering: Ketan Savla, PhD (Civil and Environmental Engineering)

Gordon S. Marshall Professor of Engineering Technology: Roger Ghanem, PhD (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering)

TRW Professor of Software Engineering: Barry Boehm, PhD (Computer Science, Industrial and Systems Engineering)

Professors: Barry Boehm, PhD (Computer Science, Industrial and Systems Engineering); Daniel Erwin, PhD (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Astronautical Engineering)*; George Friedman, PhD (Astronautical Engineering); Roger Ghanem, PhD (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering); Mike Gruntman, PhD (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Astronautical Engineering); Petros Ioannou, PhD (Electrical Engineering); Yan Jin, PhD (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering); Behrokh Khoshnevis, PhD (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering); Stephen C-Y Lu, PhD (Computer Science, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering); Edward W. Maby, PhD (Electrical Engineering); Azad M. Madni, PhD (Astronautical Engineering); James E. Moore, II, PhD (Industrial and Systems Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Public Policy); Cyrus Shahabi, PhD (Computer Science); Firdaus E. Udwadia, PhD (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Data Science and Operations, Mathematics)

Assistant Professor: Ketan Savla, PhD (Civil and Environmental Engineering)

*Recipient of university-wide or school teaching award.
**Recipient of university-wide or school research award.

Honor Societies

Omega Alpha Association

Omega Alpha Association is the systems engineering honor society. The adviser is Professor Elliot Axelband, axelband@rand.org.

Programs

• Systems Architecting and Engineering (MS)

• Network Centric Systems Graduate Certificate
• Systems Architecting and Engineering Graduate Certificate

Courses

• SAE 496 Systems Engineering Through Motorsports
• SAE 499 Special Topics
• SAE 515 Sustainable Infrastructure Systems
• SAE 541 Systems Engineering Theory and Practice
• SAE 542 Advanced Topics in Systems Engineering
• SAE 543 Case Studies in Systems Engineering and Management
• SAE 546 Engineered Resilient Systems and System-of-Systems
• SAE 547 Model-Based Systems Architecting and Engineering
• SAE 548 Systems/System-of-Systems Integration and Communication
• SAE 549 Systems Architecting
• SAE 550 Systems Architecting and the Political Process
• SAE 551 Lean Operations
• SAE 560 Economic Considerations for Systems Engineering
• SAE 574 Net-Centric Systems Architecting and Engineering
• SAE 590 Directed Research
• SAE 594a Master’s Thesis
• SAE 594b Master’s Thesis
• SAE 594z Master’s Thesis
• SAE 599 Special Topics