Five-day course in Lausanne on systems engineering for space systems: stakeholders and requirements, architecture and tradespace exploration, concurrent engineering, integration and interfaces, verification and validation, change management and operations, with a group design competition.
A one-week foundation in systems engineering grounded in standards and illustrated with real missions. Day by day it covers a systems engineering overview and stakeholder analysis; requirements definition and management, agile and product development processes, and system architecture and concept generation; tradespace exploration and concept selection, concurrent engineering and multidisciplinary optimisation, and systems integration and interface management; verification and validation, engineering change management, commissioning, operations and lifecycle management; and a final design competition built from the week's group work, followed by an assessment. The human role as designer, operator and beneficiary runs through the course.
Participants who complete the course and pass the exam receive an EPFL microcredential of 1 ECTS. Taught on the UNIL-EPFL campus in Lausanne; participants bring a laptop.
Facilitator details as listed by the provider. Assignments may vary by scheduled course.
Systems engineering overview · Stakeholder analysis · Group work
Requirements definition and management · Agile and product development processes · System architecture and concept generation
Tradespace exploration and concept selection · Concurrent engineering and multidisciplinary optimisation · Systems integration and interface management
Verification and validation · Engineering change management · Commissioning, operations and lifecycle management
Design competition from the group work · Assessment
EPFL microcredential (1 ECTS) on completing the course and passing the exam
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