System Engineering & MBSE

Caltech’s Systems Engineering Fundamentals program for organizations is designed to help engineering leaders build shared systems capability across teams working on complex products, platforms, and systems of systems. Grounded in proven systems engineering methods and aligned with INCOSE Academic Equivalency (AE), the program enables organizations to develop consistent practices while providing participants a recognized pathway to ASEP or CSEP certification—without a separate knowledge exam.

This program is ideal for organizations seeking to improve cross-functional alignment, lifecycle discipline, and technical decision-making across complex engineering environments.

When you are facing the challenge of optimizing design and simulation activities, you need the toolbox of relevant skills in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). A critical capability in digital engineering, MBSE integrates iterative, comprehensive design with insights into the implications of choices, changes, and system behaviors.

MBSE Fundamentals is a customizable certificate program for your organization.

Build your organization's digital engineering skills with Caltech's Advanced Model-Based Systems Engineering Certificate program. This interactive course builds upon a group's foundational MBSE experience and is geared toward enhancing capabilities to build complex models, integrate suppliers' models, shape modeling standards for teams, and execute sophisticated simulations. Through a customized program, your engineering leaders and Caltech CTME tailor the curricula and participant experience to fit specific needs. This flexibility extends to integrating with your frameworks, products, and contexts.

In today's high-tech industries, the demand for rigorous systems engineering combined with comprehensive management training is rapidly increasing. This is particularly crucial in organizations with interdependent locations and processes, as well as the ever-growing complexity of products. The Systems Engineering Management program is specifically designed to facilitate engineers transitioning into engineering management or program leadership roles. It equips them with the necessary mindsets, skills, and behaviors to excel as effective managers in this crucial role.

Caltech's Advanced Systems Engineering Certificate Program provides the advanced tools and methods needed to solve the challenges of designing and developing today’s complex systems. The program’s content reflects the unique needs and challenges, and covers topics critical to successful systems engineering. 

Advanced Systems Engineering is a customizable certificate program for your organization.

In aerospace and aviation, managers and engineers need to understand airworthiness and the property of an air vehicle or aircraft system configuration to safely attain, sustain, and terminate flight per approved usage limits. This course imparts concepts of both initial airworthiness certification—verifying that the design and production of a specific air vehicle system conform to its described flight envelope—and continuing airworthiness—ensuring that, at any time in its operating life, the aircraft complies with the airworthiness requirements in force and is in condition for safe operation.

Caltech CTME’s AI/ML Lab (Custom) is a customizable, team-based program for engineering and science organizations. Configure a 3–5 day format (onsite, live-online, or hybrid) and tailor the labs to your tools, data, and use cases. Expert-led sessions blend hands-on Python with core machine learning, deep learning (PyTorch), LLMs/generative AI, and MLOps—so your teams can design, deploy, and scale secure, production-grade solutions. Optional capstone using your datasets; role-based tracks for engineers, scientists, and managers.