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 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

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 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/Engineering/Non-Engineering Sophomore/Junior Students.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 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/Engineering/Non-Engineering Sophomore/Junior Students.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 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/Engineering/Non-Engineering Sophomore/Junior Students.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 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/Engineering/Non-Engineering Sophomore/Junior Students.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 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/Engineering/Non-Engineering Sophomore/Junior Students.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: CUSD: Real-World Sustainable Design Projects

  • 18273 SYSEN 3900   IND 609

  •  

    • Schneider, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: Technical/Engineering/Non-Engineering Sophomore/Junior Students.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: CUSD: Real-World Sustainable Design Projects

  • 18275 SYSEN 3900   IND 608

  •  

    • Schneider, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: Technical/Engineering/Non-Engineering Sophomore/Junior Students.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: CUSD Solarize: Portable Solar Power Solutions

  • 18274 SYSEN 3900   IND 610

  •  

    • Schneider, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: Technical/Engineering/Non-Engineering Sophomore/Junior Students.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: CUSD: Real-World Sustainable Design Projects

  • 18276 SYSEN 3900   IND 612

  •  

    • Schneider, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Enrollment limited to: Technical/Engineering/Non-Engineering Sophomore/Junior Students.