Introduction to Systems Engineering
Issued by
University of Connecticut
Earners of the Introduction to Systems Engineering Badge can describe hard and soft skills that are required of good systems engineers. Earners can define and architect balanced solutions that satisfy diverse stakeholder needs for capability, dependability, sustainability, social acceptability, and ease of use, can adapt systems to evolving technology and requirements, and can describe and demonstrate systems engineering techniques to manage system complexity and technical risk.
- Type Validation
- Level Intermediate
- Time Weeks
- Cost Paid
Skills
- Capability Engineering
- Complex Systems
- Cost Analysis
- Critical Thinking
- Cyber-Physical Systems
- DFX
- Engineering
- Lifecycle Definition
- Lifecycle Design
- Meta System Modeling
- Model-based Systems Engineering
- Requirements Definition
- System Decomposition
- System Design
- System Interfaces
- Systems Analysis
- Systems Architecting
- Systems Engineering
- Systems Modeling
- Systems Thinking
- System Validation
- System Verification
- Technical Risk
Earning Criteria
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Badge earners complete SE 5000 Introduction to Systems Engineering course at the University of Connecticut, which is a hybrid-online graduate course that can be taken from anywhere in the world. Earners can take this graduate course as a matriculated UConn graduate student or as a non-degree graduate student, which does not require admission to the UConn graduate school. Badge holders complete a course-long project and must earn a B- or better on this project to earn the badge.
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Badge earners can apply fundamental concepts of systems thinking to systems engineering, can define system lifecycles in the realization of a system, and can define the role the system of interest plays in the system of which it is a part. See Standard [3] INCOSE ISECF below CORE COMPETENCIES.
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Badge earners can apply foundational concepts in mathematics, science, and engineering, can perform objective analysis and evaluation of a topic to form a judgement, and can use rigorous data and information including the use of modeling to support technical understanding and decision making. See Standard [3] INCOSE ISECF below CORE COMPETENCIES.
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Badge earners can analyze the stakeholder needs and expectations to establish the requirements for a system, can define the system structure, interfaces, and associated derived requirements to produce a solution that can be implemented and can ensure that the requirements of all lifecycle stages are addressed at the correct point in the system design. See Standard [3] INCOSE ISECF below TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES.
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Badge earners can identify, define, and control interactions across system or system element boundaries, can develop a formal verification process of obtaining objective evidence that a system fulfils its specified requirements and characteristics, and can develop a formal validation process of obtaining objective evidence that the system achieves its intended use in its intended operational environment. See Standard [3] INCOSE ISECF below TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES.
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Badge earners can describe different types of systems modeling languages, can describe different types of system modeling methods, can describe and apply the systems engineering technical processes to a real-world problem, and can model stakeholder requirements. See Standard [4] INCOSE Model-Based Enterprise Capabilities Matrix below.
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Badge earners can decompose complex systems into canonical subsystems to design and predict system behavior and elucidating the coupling between components, can optimize a complex system to meet stakeholder requirements and best engineering practice standards, and can perform modeling and analysis to quantify cost, schedule, and technical risk. See Standard [2] DOE-SIAM below.
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Badge earners can apply knowledge of how cyberphysical system methods integrate at the large, meta system level, can design and develop cyberphysical system architecture, can develop and update formal specifications for cyberphysical designs and systems, can develop and update verification and validation methods for cyberphysical designs and systems, and can apply Systems Engineering methods and principles to the design and operation of a cyberphysical system. See Standard [1] NAE-CPS below.
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Badge holders complete a course-long project consisting of a proposal, midterm and final reports, and systems model artifact. The project consists of creating and developing a systems model that represents the design of a real system using an MBSE tool and a systems modeling language. The model must be defined and simulated to solve a particular problem. The model is simulated to determine if requirements and key performance parameters are met.
Standards
A 21st Century Cyber-Physical Systems Education. Committee on 21st Century Cyber-Physical Systems Education; Computer Science and Telecommunications Board; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. ISBN 978-0-309-45163-5 | DOI: 10.17226/23686.
SIAM APPLIED MATHEMATICS AT THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Past, Present and a View to the Future. A Report by an Independent Panel from the Applied Mathematics Research Community May 2008.
INCOSE Systems Engineering Competency Framework. July 2018. INCOSE Technical Product Reference: INCOSE-TP-2018-002-01.0
INCOSE Model-Based Enterprise Capabilities Matrix 2.0b Draft June 2019 r4. Joe Hale, NASA