Bachelor of Science in
Systems Engineering

The Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering provides the technical background needed to communicate appropriately across engineering disciplines and the decision-analysis skills needed to secure, operate and optimize engineering resources. Students will learn to use systems thinking and analysis techniques to improve complex system performance.

The B.S. in Systems Engineering provides a holistic understanding of engineering systems and prepares students to contribute to innovation across a variety of industries including aviation, aerospace and defense.

Through coursework in systems engineering, design, optimization, risk and decision analysis, systems modeling and simulation and a capstone course, graduates have strong strategic decision-making and engineering management skills, ready to make a difference.

Notable Employers of Alumni

  • The Boeing Company
  • Collins Aerospace
  • Northrop Grumman

125 credits

Transfer Credit

Estimated Costs

Campuses Offering Degree

  • Daytona Beach, FL

Specializations

  • Aerospace Systems
  • Enterprise Systems
  • Circuits, Sensor and Instrumentation Laboratory – This lab allows students to design sensor components and integrated systems capable of meeting research needs, fabricate precision circuit components and perform assembly in-house and enable precision measurements to characterize sensors and electronics.
  • Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Capstone Design Lab – Recent projects have included:
    • The Birdinator, an autonomous vehicle that scares wildlife away from airport runways
    • Eagle Eye, a tracking antenna for low earth orbit satellites
    • Several IEEE SoutheastCon Hardware Competition entrants; a mobile robot controlled by a virtual reality headset
    • A search-and-rescue system involving a quadcopter and an autonomous ground vehicle.

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