Overview

This Engineering Systems program at Pennsylvania State University prepares students to meet the challenges, problems, and opportunities of the twenty-first century.

The Ph.D. program intends to provide new pathways for interdisciplinary engineering education and research that focuses on the understanding and development of next-generation systems.

Features

As its defining characteristic, the Ph.D. program will offer an interdisciplinary education that combines course work and doctoral research that cut across disciplines with a focus on topics such as those defined by the National Science Foundation as “Engineered Systems.”

More specifically, students may develop expertise in the traditional civil, environmental, electrical, mechanical engineering, and computational systems; however, they will apply their doctoral research to engineering systems.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

The Smart City
Interdisciplinary Research Methods in Engineering
Systems Thinking
Engineering Systems

Key information

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-24 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-04-24 00:00:00 , International

Language

English

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Credits

36 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Middletown, United States

Disciplines

Industrial & Systems Engineering General Engineering & Technology View 116 other PhDs in General Engineering & Technology in United States

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Academic requirements

GPA

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Required

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Other requirements

General requirements

Applicants to the Ph.D. program in Engineering Systems are required to have completed a bachelor's degree in engineering, with a minimum 3.0 grade-point average (on a 4.0 scale), and a master’s degree in engineering or another STEM field.
Students with a master’s degree in engineering or other STEM field, but with a bachelor’s degree from a non-engineering STEM field, may be admitted on a provisional basis pending successful completion of specific engineering core courses per recommendation of the admissions committee for the Ph.D. in Engineering Systems.

Applicants are required to submit:

Scores from the GRE General Test
Three letters of reference
A personal statement sharing relevant experience and goals
A resume
Official transcripts from all post-secondary institutions attended

Tuition Fees

Living costs

Middletown

United States

1000 - 1500 USD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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