The Naval Postgraduate School Department of Systems Engineering is pleased to announce this year’s offering of the Joint Executive Systems Engineering Management (SEM) distance learning (DL) program offered in partnership with MIT’s “Educational Consortium for Leadership in Product Development in the 21st Century” (PD21).  The SEM-PD21 program is a two-year, eight-quarter, part-time master’s degree program delivered in an executive format.  Applications will be accepted through July 15, 2013.

The 2013-2015 class is limited to 25 students.  The program is open to qualified uniformed officers, federal employees, and defense contractor civilians.  Qualified active duty Navy and Marine Corps officers may be eligible for NPS mission funding but the student or their command will be responsible to purchase books and pay for all travel associated with the program.

For more information, visit the website below or contact the Program Manager, Dr. Wally Owen, wowen@nps.edu, Academic Associate, Prof.  Ron Carlson, rrcarlso@nps.edu, or the Center for Educational Design, Development & Distribution (CED3), CED3StudCoord@nps.edu. To apply, applicants should visit the DL website, select “Apply Now” in the Quick Links section.  Once in the NPS online application, select the 721 Curriculum, commencing timeframe is Academic Year 2014, Academic Quarter 1.