Useful info for MSc/MSEM Systems students

Here’s some useful information for current and future MS & MSEM students.

• MSc/MSEM Course requirements (and lists)
  • List of Required Courses
  • List of elective Courses

• JHU Academic Calendar

• “To Do List” for 1st Year MS & MSEM Systems students
  • Visit the required and elective courses (link above).
  • Discuss intended masters’ duration with your advisor: this influences the number of courses per semester, cost of the program, etc. (INFO below).
  • Decide your technical focus(es): decision and data analysis, network analysis, natural disaster modeling, energy systems, healthcare systems.
  • Compile a list of courses in which you’re interested for the first semester and discuss with the advisor. follow a “gradualist” approach for selecting courses: start with foundational courses and in next semesters move to more advanced courses : More info HERE. Think of courses in terms of 3 “types of courses”: 1) computational/skills, 2) modeling/simulational, 3) policy design. All three areas should be covered!
  • Advisor approval is needed to course registrations in the SIS.

• Program Costs:
  • Tuition per semester: Whiting admission website and Student Accounts.
  • Living and other expenses: Whiting admission website (scroll down): typically $30K/year.
  • Financial Help: Grad Financial Aid website.

• Internships and Job search
  • JHU Life Design Lab
  • Maryland Section of ASCE
  • One Hop Online (to meet with alumni and career opportunities)
  • Daybook (through JHU)
  • Academic Keys
  • Schedule a meeting with your advisor

• Register in non-WSE courses (i.e. Krieger, Bloomberg, SAIS, or EP Courses)
  • Login to https://support.sis.jhu.edu/case/
  • Click on Browse all Topics
  • Go to Records and Registration
  • Get and Fill the IDR form from the Interdivisional Registration
  • Follow directions under ASEN Students
  • NOTE: Email from Prof. Pita is valid as signature of the IDR form for registering.

• General Help for CaSE students
  • Visit and submit your case here: https://support.sis.jhu.edu/case/

• Student Well-Being
  • Student Health & Wellness Center: 1 E 31st St, Homewood Apartments, N200, Baltimore, MD 21218. Tel: 410-516-8270
  • Student Well-Being Resources

Research Opportunities for MS/MSEM-SE’s

I have some research project opportunities for Summer semester (and maybe during the year). Topics listed below. In all cases, products must be in Jupyter. Coding skills in one of the following is needed: Matlab, R, Python, Vensim, Blender QGis. If this sounds interesting, email me ([email protected]) your updated resume.

• Spatial statistics: descriptive and predictive modeling, interpolation keeping statistical structure, etc. applied one or more types of data (damage, agricultural, etc.)
• Cartography: i.e. create nice-looking maps with R, Matlab, Blender, QGis, etc.
• Infrastructural condition assessment: work on an existing MCMC model to predict missing condition data.
• Building vulnerability studies: from data collection, literature survey, to developing system dynamics models, and/or Monte Carlo simulations.