Dwight Look College of Engineering

Curricula in Engineering

Systems Safety Engineering Specialty Certificate

The Systems Safety Engineering Specialty prepares the graduate for positions in several areas of safety engineering. Students completing 15 semester credit hours of the following courses earn a Systems Safety Engineering Specialty Certificate and the specialty is recorded on the students’ permanent University transcript. This specialty is administered through the Office of the Dean of Engineering. The Safety Certificate has been on transcripts since Spring 1994. The Safety Program coordinator reviews each student’s course work prior to certification; both the coordinator and the Dean must then approve each student before the certificate is awarded.

To earn the certificate, students are required to take:

Course (Th-Pr) Cr
SENG 310 Industrial Hygiene Engineering (3-0) 3
SENG 312 Systems Safety Engineering (3-0) 3
SENG 321 Industrial Safety Engineering (3-0) 3

Students select one of the following:

Course (Th-Pr) Cr
CVEN 405 Environmental Protection and Public Health (3-0) 3
SENG 309 Radiological Safety (3-0) 3
SENG 313 Product Safety Engineering (3-0) 3
SENG 322 Fire Protection Engineering (3-0) 3
SENG 455 Process Safety Engineering (3-0) 3
SENG 477 Air Pollution (3-0) 3

In addition, students select:

Course (Th-Pr) Cr
SENG 424 Sys. Safety Analysis and Design (1-6) 3
or    
SENG 439 Ergonomics Design (1-6) 3
or    
Any preapproved engineering capstone design course that has a safety element in the design project. Examples include: AGEN 480, CHEN 426, CVEN 456.