Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE)

[ other MAS courses | graduate program ]

All courses, faculty listings, and curricular and degree requirements described herein are subject to change or deletion without notice.

For course descriptions not found in the UC San Diego General Catalog 2026–27, please contact the department for more information.

Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture-based Enterprise Systems Engineering (MAS-AESE) Courses

COSE 200. Leadership Skills, Values, and Team Building (4)

The four-day workshop aims to explore and enhance the most practical aspects of leadership: mindset, skills, and behaviors. In their appointed teams, students will explore and practice given leadership frameworks and tools. Prerequisites: enrollment in MAS-CoSE.

COSE 210. Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (4)

Model-driven architecture and development concepts; business process and workflow modeling; structured analysis and IDEF modeling methods; object, component, and service orientation and the Unified Modeling Language; event and stream models; colored Petri Nets; executable architectures; distributed simulation for performance analysis. Prerequisites: enrollment in MAS-CoSE.

COSE 215. Decision and Risk Analysis (4)

Focuses on analytic techniques supporting rational business decision-making, providing systematic approaches to complex decision situations. Addresses analysis of conflicting objectives and use of tools such as value trees, decision trees, influence diagrams, and value hierarchies, Bayesian networks, and data mining. Prerequisites: enrollment in MAS-CoSE.

COSE 220. Sustainable Innovation (4)

This course combines: 1) the contextual analysis of systems thinking, 2) fundamentals of ethical sustainability, 3) a business perspective of vision and innovation, and 4) a high-level working background in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to provide the foundations for the conceptualization and engineering of innovative, ethically sustainable complex systems. Prerequisites: enrollment in MAS-CoSE.

COSE 225. Managing Stakeholder Relationships (4)

Addresses critical processes and frameworks required to build effective business relationships internally and externally. Focuses on the skills required by functional or technical leaders to envision strategic value and create business development strategies aligned with organizational needs. Prerequisites: enrollment in MAS-CoSE.

COSE 230A. Convergent Systems Engineering Quarterly Team Project (1)

Students will work collaboratively on a team project, mostly in a lab setting, to demonstrate their knowledge of leadership teams and enterprise architecting for complex systems. Prerequisites: enrollment in MAS-CoSE.

COSE 230B. Convergent Systems Engineering Capstone Team Project (4)

Students will work collaboratively on a team project, mostly in a lab setting, to demonstrate their grasp of the material in the entire project sequence. Prerequisites: enrollment in MAS-CoSE; three instances of CoSE 230A successfully completed prior to this class; department approval required.

COSE 260A. Complexity and Large-Scale Systems (4)

Comprehensive introduction to system and event complexity; software and systems engineering practices for complexity management; agile and plan-driven development; development and management processes and process models; data, information, and knowledge management; basics of distributed data and computation. Prerequisites: enrollment in MAS-CoSE.

COSE 260B. Enterprise Architecting (4)

Architectural foundations, frameworks, standards, and infrastructures with an emphasis on layered architectures, loose coupling, architecture evolution, service- and component-oriented architectures, enterprise service buses, metadata and information virtualization, ontologies, Semantic Web, policy and governance, service-level agreements, information assurance essentials. Prerequisites: enrollment in MAS-CoSE.

COSE 260C. Engineering Essentials for Open, Distributed Systems (4)

Engineering tools and their use in defining the layered and service-oriented architectures, Unified Modeling Language and enterprise architecture tools, business and process modeling tools, visualization methods, data and information management tools, comprehensive domain modeling, architecture implementation via enterprise service buses. Prerequisites: enrollment in MAS-CoSE.

COSE 260D. Patterns for Enterprise Architecting (4)

Fundamental aspects of pattern methodologies and reuse; requirements, design, and architecture patterns; patterns for service-oriented architectures; enterprise application and integration patterns; E-business patterns; event-driven architectures and patterns for complex event processing; process patterns; architecture evolution and refactoring using patterns. Prerequisites: enrollment in MAS-CoSE.