Course Description
This course in Systems Engineering Advanced Concepts aims to inspire systems engineering and provide skills for both product and project success. This course presents systems engineering advanced concepts, principles, standards, processes, and tools to help better understand system complexity, and improve decision-making and ability to adapt to change. In this course, systems engineering principles and tools are applied through a class project concerning a practical physical system. Short readings and videos are provided throughout the course. Throughout your learning, you will come to realize that systems engineering provides a structured, standardized, and proven approach to ensure systems are designed efficiently, risks are mitigated, and project goals are achieved.
Course Outline
- Module 1: Systems Engineering Recap, Applications, and Integrated Teams
- Module 2: Systems Engineering Design Development and Group Projects
- Module 3: Systems Engineering Processes
- Module 4: Systems Engineering Design Principles, MBSE, and Systems Thinking
- Module 5: Group Project Presentations
What You Will Learn
The main objective of this course is to provide students with systems engineering knowledge and skills to effectively contribute to product, service and project success. This course benefits engineers, project managers, and those in the value chain who are involved with aspects of the development and delivery of products and services, and by the end of the course, learners will be able to:
- identify Systems Engineering knowledge including processes, roles, and responsibilities.
- apply systems engineering to complex product and system development.
- analyze system architecture variants, optimization, and trade-offs.
- recognize systems engineering documents including the systems engineering management plan
Notes
By enrolling in this course, you will be automatically enrolled in the Certificate in Systems Engineering and Complex Project Management.Recommended For
- Project managers
- Junior engineers (both pre and post-graduation)
- Senior engineers looking to broaden their breadth of knowledge
- Junior and senior technicians/technologists
- analysts, innovators, technologists, designers, developers, project managers, system thinkers, and leaders from various fields where understanding complex systems is important to product and project success
Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Certificate in Systems Engineering and Complex Project Management : Electives (Choose one)
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Ray Jonkers, Ph.D., PEng, PMP served in the Canadian Navy for 22 years as a Marine Systems Engineer, Project Officer, and Lecturer at the Royal Military College of Canada. In the last 17 years, Ray has worked in the aerospace and marine industry in various leadership roles. Ray currently works part-time as a senior engineer, lecturer, and as the principal consultant at Merlantec Management and Engineering Inc. Ray's work is focused on connecting systems and people through best practices and integrated models and tools. His research has appeared in several publications, and he has been invited to speak at several forums and events. Ray currently lives in Nova Scotia Canada with his wife, two children, and beloved lab.
Patrick Sweet, P.Eng., MBA, PMP, CSEP is an educator, consultant, and researcher with expertise in systems engineering, engineering management, and leadership. He is the president of The Engineering & Leadership Project, which specializes in leadership and management development, training, and consulting for engineers and engineering firms. He also hosts the popular Engineering & Leadership Podcast, a show dedicated to helping engineering leaders thrive.