Thirty-hour professional systems engineering certificate program covering requirements, architecture, integration, verification and validation, technical management and systems thinking across the lifecycle.
A broad professional systems engineering program designed to build practical capability across the lifecycle, from stakeholder needs and requirements through architecture, integration, verification and validation.
The program is available in live-online and self-paced formats and uses lectures, demonstrations and applied exercises drawn from aerospace, defence, energy, medical technology and other complex engineering contexts.
DBA and MBA (Project Management), Columbia Southern University · MS and BA (Physics), Hampton University · Vice-Chair, Cal State LA Mechanical Engineering Industry Advisory Board
Aerospace engineer with 35 years' industry experience, including 25 in project management, who teaches systems engineering for Caltech CTME.
The course benefits explicitly include model-based systems engineering approaches using SysML and SysML v2. No modeling software is named for this course.
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Course requirements include assignments and assessment activities. Caltech also offers an optional open-book INCOSE SEP knowledge-exam assignment. Caltech states that participants who achieve the required result may use the INCOSE Academic Equivalency pathway.
Caltech Systems Engineering Fundamentals Certificate
Caltech states that successful completion can provide an INCOSE Academic Equivalency pathway for ASEP or CSEP without sitting the separate standalone INCOSE knowledge examination, subject to completion of the program's required assessment and the applicable INCOSE certification requirements.
Certification relevance indicates subject-matter relevance only. It does not imply accreditation, formal alignment or endorsement by any certifying body.
Asynchronous access to the instructor for guidance and support is included.
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