Students in the Management Essentials Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills: 

• Management accounting (break-even analysis, profit planning, transfer pricing and more). 
• Corporate finance (asset investment, pricing theory, and capital structure). 
• Global market competition. 
• Information systems principles (personnel resources and budgets, integration of corporate and MIS plans, intermediate and long-range MIS plans, security and controls, and more).

Students in the IT Administration Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills:  

• Administration of host server systems. 
• Fundamentals of wireless network security and administration. 
• Protocols and standards of the TCP/IP suite that govern the functions of the Internet. 
• Security control risks and issues. 
• Various network architecture and protocol standards.

Students in the Instructional Design, Evaluation, and Assessment Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills: 

• Integrated curriculum, learning and assessment systems (CLAS) design. 
• Instruction and assessment-methods design. 
• Various types of technology to develop, use and process assessment results, as well as facilitate and augment instructional design. 
• Design and development of effective online and hybrid instruction. 
• Program evaluation methods and practice.

Students in the Information Security Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills: 

•  Conventional encryption and public key cryptography, and security (Kerberos, Digital Signature Standard, Pretty Good Privacy, SNMPv2). 
•  Network management and security (SNMP family of standards, OSI systems management). 
•  Computer security auditing. 
•  Transaction mining and fraud detection. 
•  Wireless networks security and administration.

Students in the Data Mining Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills: 

•  Fundamentals of relational database technology, currency, and recovery. 
•  Methods of database design and conceptual modeling. 
•  Principles of information-retrieval system design. 
• Techniques essential for building text databases, document-processing systems, office automation systems and other advanced information management systems.

Students in the Business and Information Systems Implementation Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills: 

 

 • Basic Java constructs and syntax, as well as core advanced features. 

 

 • The role of information systems in organizations, with a focus on management information systems.

Students in the Biomedical Device Development Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills: 

• Systems management for medical devices. 
• Medical device development from industry and academic perspectives. 
• Advanced medical device development, from just before design freeze up through clinical evaluation and commercial launch. 
• Biomaterials, biomechanics, and industry and market trends related to orthopedic medical devices.

Students in the Big Data Essentials Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills: 

• Mathematical properties and usage of database programming languages. 
• Methods of database design, conceptual modeling and physical storage for big data sets. 
• Fundamental notions of concurrency control and recovery in database systems. 
• Goal tree search, logic, and deduction, uncertainty, fuzzy logic, knowledge representations, machine learning, vision and action planning. 
• Methods for association and dependency analysis, classification and prediction, and clustering analysis. 
• Current trends in data mining overall as well as for scientific, medical and engineering applications.