Overview

Systems Engineering and Engineering Management is a non-traditional engineering program, emphasizing an integration of engineering and management. The SEEM philosophy is to offer its students a well-rounded education so that they acquire both in-depth mastery of cutting-edge technical skills and a broad perspective on systems and management principles. Our undergraduate program that leads to Bachelor of Engineering in Systems Engineering and Engineering Management is currently organized around three streams:

• Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• Financial Engineering
• Business Information Systems

Under this program, you will first study a set of well-designed foundation courses. After that, you will choose one of the four streams as your specialty, and take the prescribed courses for your stream accordingly. The idea is to offer you an engineering program at the junction of technology and management. You not only study advanced information systems technologies and quantitative decision methodologies, but also receive basic training to enrich your perspective in investment, management, and operations of enterprises of the 21st century.

Business Information Systems — In the knowledge-based economy of the new millennium, Business Information Systems are at the core of any enterprise.  The stream in Business Information Systems offers courses on the fundamentals in information systems analysis, design, and management. Students can also explore the latest advances in multi-lingual speech processing, artificial intelligence, data-mining and knowledge engineering.  Graduates are equipped with useful concepts and techniques to analyze, design, and develop information systems for business management and industrial applications.

Financial Engineering — Hong Kong is one of the major financial centers in the world.  With the advent of merging markets and round-the-clock trading, financial markets are increasingly complex.  This complexity has made investment and risk analysis heavily rely on quantitative methods and information technology.  In this stream students learn fundamental finance concepts, and obtain advanced training in quantitative techniques, decision models and information systems technologies.

Logistics and Supply Chain Management — Globalization is a trend of today's enterprises. To train talents to meet the needs of these enterprises, Logistics and Supply Chain Management has recently become an important subject offered in many leading universities in the world.  By considering and treating the whole operations process of an enterprise as an integrated supply chain.  In this stream, studies focus on the co-ordination, sharing, and management of the material flow, financial flow, and information flow during the whole process of an enterprise's operations.  Students will gain comprehensive knowledge of the operations and management of a supply chain, spanning from order acceptance, material sourcing, resource allocation, production planning and manufacturing, to product delivery and marketing.  This specialization particularly fits Hong Kong which has emerged as the regional centre for industrial investment and management, and a major international hub of logistics and transportation.

In your final year of study, you will be required to complete a one-year project in your chosen area, under a close supervision of one or more professors from our Department. This project will allow you to apply what you have learnt to real-world problems such as development of a real information system, in-depth analysis of cases occurred in industrial and business operations, study and development of modeling and quantitative decision methods and techniques etc.

Finance, logistics, tourism, and services for trade and industry are four pillars of Hong Kong's economy. Being the pioneer in Hong Kong with its educational and research programs focused on these areas, our program has positioned itself well to take this great opportunity and to meet the challenge for talents in this respect. Our graduates will be competitive globally, possessing vision and entrepreneurial spirit, and equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to be leaders in their fields. To fulfill our vision for our graduates, our program emphasizes an integration of technology and management.  This unique combination of in-depth skills, broad perspective and flexibility is much sought after in the job market. In our interaction with employers, we find that our graduates are quite popular among them. All our graduates found jobs soon after their graduation. Training in systems engineering enables employability in various functional divisions and in all industries and government agencies, exposure to both technical and non-technical aspects of complicated systems and interdisciplinary problems, and career paths close to senior management.