These analyses provide the decision support tools needed to assure the reliability, functionality and efficiency of many types of business, industrial and public systems. The Department of Engineering at Rensselaer at Hartford now offers a new Graduate Certificate in Systems Modeling and Analysis. The certificate is designed to provide skills in the development and interpretation of simulation models of real world systems. Discrete event models of industrial and management systems are emphasized. The Graduate Certificate in Systems Modeling and Analysis is awarded on successful completion of four graduate level courses.
Courses are available via distance delivery.
Academic credit from all courses can then be applied towards a Master's degree. Required Courses DSES-6110 Introduction to Applied Statistics. A graduate course in basic statistics. It stresses application to common tasks such as summarizing large databases, making quick estimates, establishing relationships among variables, forecasting and evaluating alternatives. Topics include probability, common discrete and continuous distributions, sampling, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, contingency tables, statistical process control and multiple regresion analysis.