About this course
A five-day immersion in engineering infrastructure that delivers value to stakeholders, grounded in systems thinking and systems engineering. It covers the types of information that define an infrastructure problem, stakeholder identification and requirements capture and validation, the intended-use description (CONUSE) and operational solution description, physical and logical design and trade-off studies, and engineering management in an infrastructure context. PPI states the course was created and is presented in collaboration with Engeflux Engenharia de Sistemas.
Presented by
BEng and MSc (Industrial Engineering), University of São Paulo · PhD (Industrial and Systems Engineering), Virginia Tech · Founding member and past President, INCOSE Brasil
Systems engineer and educator who co-developed PPI's Engineering Successful Infrastructure Systems course and facilitates it worldwide, in collaboration with Engeflux.
Foundations & practitioner developmentNeeds & requirements
- Works with
- Project Performance International
- Regions
- Online / Global
Who should attend
- Sponsor, customer and contractor project and engineering managers and engineers on infrastructure programs
- Infrastructure capability developers, architects, design and systems engineers
Prerequisites
- No prior experience required; an infrastructure engineering background is an advantage.
Learning outcomes
- Apply the concepts of a systems approach to the engineering of infrastructure.
- Select between waterfall, incremental, evolutionary and spiral development.
- Identify stakeholders and capture and validate the information defining an infrastructure problem.
- Understand the role of an intended-use description (CONUSE).
- Perform physical and logical design and trade-off studies.
- Apply principles of engineering management in an infrastructure project.
Course outline
- 01
Concepts and definitions
- 02
Systems concepts and their application
- 03
Types and quality of requirements
- 04
Requirements analysis for infrastructure systems
- 05
CONUSE as a document
- 06
Operational Solution Description (OSD)
- 07
Requirements and specifications for elements of the solution
Certificate of completion
Certificate upon completion.
Certification and professional development
PPI states that the course may be credited towards maintenance of INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) certification for 40 Professional Development Units, qualifies for 40 hours of Engineers Australia and Engineering New Zealand CPD, and that PMI PDUs may be claimed.
Certification relevance indicates subject-matter relevance only. It does not imply accreditation, formal alignment or endorsement by any certifying body.
Training areas
Related discipline: Systems Thinking & Complexity
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- Access
- Public enrolment · Private / corporate
- Delivery
- Face-to-face · Live online
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- Regions
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- Access
- Public enrolment · Private / corporate
- Delivery
- Face-to-face · Live online
Technical management
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- Regions
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