About this course
The introductory course of UAH OPCE's systems engineering series, giving the foundation, processes, concepts, terms and definitions for later courses and practical use. The principles are presented in a predominantly US Department of Defense context, based on the instructor's defense career, with non-defense examples too. Topics include systems engineering roles and responsibilities, standard processes and their recursive nature, stakeholder requirements generation and specification, managing multidisciplinary products, work breakdown structures, functional and physical architectures, requirements verification and validation, risk management, and the evolution of systems engineering in enterprises.
Facilitators
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Prerequisites
- Undergraduate degree in a technical field or equivalent experience (certificate prerequisite)
Learning outcomes
- Know the roles and responsibilities of systems engineers and standard processes for engineering a system.
- Understand the requirements generation process with stakeholders and techniques for specifying requirements.
- Understand work breakdown structures and the development of feasible functional and physical architectures.
- Understand techniques for requirements verification and validation and risk management methods.
Certificate of completion
1.4 CEUs; the course counts toward UAH OPCE's Systems Engineering Certificate
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