SYSEN 3900

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SYSEN 3900
Systems Engineering Project of Undergraduate Students

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Independent project experience for students pursuing analytical, computational, or experimental work outside of regular courses. Students define their own goals, timelines, and deliverables, which must be approved by a faculty advisor. Regular meetings with the advisor ensure guidance and feedback throughout the project. Grades are based on project planning, execution, and the quality of deliverables—rather than solely on achieving a working solution. Projects often address real-world problems with real stakeholders, and students are expected to demonstrate how their work meets stakeholder needs. A final report is required, detailing the project’s objectives, methods, design decisions, and recommendations for future work, written clearly enough for others to replicate and build upon.


Enrollment Priority Enrollment limited to: Undergraduate Sophomores/Juniors.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2026SP, 2025FA

Learning Outcomes

  • Decompose a problem into its functional requirements and prioritize a problem’s set of use cases.
  • Determine the functional and operational flow to inform system design, define subsystems and/or subteams necessary to work towards a problem, and identify, specify, and track interfaces between components, subsystems, subteams, etc. as a solution is developed.
  • Justify design trade-offs by defining objective performance criteria and communicating the value and effectiveness of solutions to both teammates and external stakeholders.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: CUSD - Sustainable Education

  •  9650 SYSEN 3900   IND 601

  •  
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Simoncini, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: technical juniors and sophomores.

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: CUSD - Sustainable Mobility

  •  9651 SYSEN 3900   IND 602

  •  
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Simoncini, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: technical juniors and sophomores.

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: CUSD - Sustainable City

  •  9652 SYSEN 3900   IND 603

  •  
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Simoncini, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: technical juniors and sophomores.

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: Cornell Cup Robotics Commercial & Robotics Project

  •  9653 SYSEN 3900   IND 606

  •  
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Schneider, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: technical juniors and sophomores.

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: Cornell Uni Sustainable Design Building Tech

  •  9654 SYSEN 3900   IND 607

  •  
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Schneider, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: technical juniors and sophomores.

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: CUSD– Alt. Eng & Carbon

  • 18275 SYSEN 3900   IND 608

  •  
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Schneider, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: technical juniors and sophomores.

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: CUSD- Smithsonian

  • 18273 SYSEN 3900   IND 609

  •  
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Schneider, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: technical juniors and sophomores.

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: CUSD Solarize: Portable Solar Power Solutions

  • 18274 SYSEN 3900   IND 610

  •  
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Schneider, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: technical juniors and sophomores.

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: CUSD- Food Sustainability

  • 19017 SYSEN 3900   IND 611

  •  

    • Schneider, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: CUSD- Aquaculture

  • 18276 SYSEN 3900   IND 612

  •  
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Schneider, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: technical juniors and sophomores.

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: AI & Data Analytics for Smart Urban Systems

  • 18948 SYSEN 3900   IND 613

  •  

    • Gao, H

      Jiang, Y

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: CUSD- Solid Waste & Recycle

  • 19018 SYSEN 3900   IND 614

  •  

    • Schneider, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: CUSD– Susb. Consultants

  • 19019 SYSEN 3900   IND 615

  •  

    • Schneider, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: CUSD- Community Farming

  • 19020 SYSEN 3900   IND 616

  •  

    • Schneider, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: CUSD- Public Awareness & Edu

  • 19021 SYSEN 3900   IND 617

  •  

    • Schneider, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: CUSD- Consulting

  • 19022 SYSEN 3900   IND 618

  •  

    • Schneider, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies