The document introduces an advanced services engineering course. The course covers emerging techniques for engineering large-scale, elastic service systems for complex data analytics across clouds, IoT systems and human computation platforms. Topics include big/real-time data provisioning and analytics, quality-aware workflow design, and hybrid software/human service integration in multiple cloud environments. The course involves lectures, assignments, a mini-project and final exam. It is aimed at advanced master's and PhD students with distributed systems knowledge.