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OVERVIEW

Each Fall and Spring terms, the Lyle School of Engineering offered dedicated groups just for employees of Bell Helicopter studying Systems Engineering or Security Engineering. 

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

The M.S. Systems Engineering is a requirements-driven program developed for high-potential engineers and managers with an undergraduate technical degree who are advancing in industry or government or running their own company. 

This program is designed to develop expertise for development and management of systems (products and services) that satisfy customer requirements considering engineering, technology, environmental, management, risk, and economic factors by viewing the system as a whole, over its life cycle using systems engineering principles, methods and practices.  “Systems thinking” skills are developed which foster more effective practice for the engineer or engineering manager within the business enterprise. The objective is to provide individuals with the capability to effectively manage the development of complex systems in an ever-changing environment.

New group launches are subject to sufficient enrollment requirement of at least 12 admitted students.

SECURITY ENGINEERING

Government organizations, industries, and society as a whole, are incredibly dependent on their information infrastructure, storage, and networks. Sabotage into information resources of almost any government agency, especially the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, or the Department of Commerce will compromise, if not paralyze, its functioning. Among industry, any enterprise that stores of transmits financial or personal data is most susceptible to breaches in information security – good targets with severe implications – and any transaction-based enterprise is susceptible to losing business if the transactions are compromised in any way for any length of time. Health care, financial and insurance sectors are good examples of those most effected by information safety or lack thereof. With the enormous penetration of e-commerce, even individual consumers are affected by disruptions or unauthorized access which render their information assets vulnerable.

To address these ever-increasing challenges, SMU Lyle’s degree in Security Engineering focuses on educating individuals who can design secure systems and applications, protecting both private and public information and complex communications infrastructures that demand security assurance.

New group launches are subject to sufficient enrollment requirement of at least 12 admitted students.

LOCATION

Class meetings take place at Bell Helicopter - Plant 1 in Hurst, TX, which is located centrally in the Mid-Cities area where many Bell employees live and work. 

Special Note: Bell Helicopter employees who wish to make faster degree progress may still opt to join a open enrollment cohort instead of this Bell-only group. Those cohorts take four courses per calendar year and finish their degree in five semesters.

Cohorts meet on Saturdays every two weeks from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. during the academic semester

CUSTOMIZED SCHEDULE

At Lyle, we are cognizant of students from Bell Helicopter wanting to balance the cost of a degree from SMU against the tuition assistance offered by their employer's Educational Assistance Program. To do so, the schedule of ten courses for a group of Bell employees is spread over three calendar years in order to balance the out-of-pocket expense of the student against the generous funding provided by their company.

Term	Total Course Taken	Total Tuition Cost	Paid in Current Year	Remaining EA Budget for Year	Bell Student Personal Cost
Fall 2013	2	$8,400	$8,400	$10,000	$0
Spring 2014	2	$8,400	$8,400	$10,000	$0
Fall 2014	2	$8,400	$4,200	$1,600	$2,600
Spring 2015	2	$8,400+$4,200 (carried forward from Fall 2014)	$12,600	$10,000	$2,600
Fall 2015	2	$8,400	$0	$0	$0
Spring 2016	0	$0+$8400 (carried forward from Fall 2015)	$8,400	$10,000	$0

*based on understanding of Bell Helicopter Education Assistance program and the fact that Weekend Format is deferred until about 45 days after the end of each semester.

EXAMPLE CURRICULUM

Systems Engineering

10 Courses
Course 1	Systems Analysis Methods
Course 2	Systems Engineering Process
Course 3	Integrated Risk Management
Course 4	Systems Reliability, Supportability and Availability Analysis
Course 5	Systems Integration and Test
Course 6	Systems Engineering Design*
Course 7	Software Systems Engineering*
Course 8	Systems Engineering Leadership*
Course 9	Logistics Systems Engineering*
Course 10	System Engineering Tools (SLATE, DOORS and MATLAB)

*Electives subject to change by department

Security Engineering

10 Courses
Course 1	Computer Systems Security
Course 2	Operating Systems and Systems Software
Course 3	Data And Network Security
Course 4	Software Security
Course 5	Software Testing and Quality Assurance
Course 6	Advanced Network and System Security*
Course 7	Advanced Software Security*
Course 8	Information Systems Security Engineering*
Course 9	Border and Transporation Security*
Course 10	Digital Forensics*

*Electives subject to change by department