Systems Engineering Certificate Courses

Develop rigorous systems engineering capability with the Caltech Center for Technology and Management Education (Caltech CTME). Systems engineering is the discipline of designing, integrating, and managing complex systems across their full life cycle—and for decades Caltech CTME has taught it as exactly that: a complete engineering discipline rooted in systems thinking, shaped by real aerospace, defense, and complex-product programs and taught by practicing engineers from industry, Caltech, and JPL. Our programs move from the fundamentals of requirements, architecture, and verification through the management and operating-model decisions that determine whether systems engineering actually takes hold in an organization.

Within this discipline, model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is our most widely taken track—its momentum building with the new SysML v2 and UAF standards. As a Dassault Systèmes education partner, we teach it with the industry-standard tools engineers use in practice. Explore our Model-Based Systems Engineering courses.

Across our public certificate courses and customized corporate programs, participants and teams learn to:

• Apply systems thinking as the foundation—reason about complex, interconnected systems such as vehicles, infrastructure, transport, agriculture, and connected products as wholes, not parts (ideal for engineering discipline specialists to understand how they fit in a larger systm of systems)

• Master the systems engineering process—requirements, architecture, integration, and verification across the full life cycle

• Design security in from the start—secure-by-design systems architecture for high-assurance and defense environments

• Lead engineering teams and programs—stakeholder alignment, design decisions, communication, and the operating models that make systems engineering work at scale

• Earn recognized credentials—INCOSE CSEP/ASEP certification, earned within our certificate programs, such as Systems Engineering Fundamentals. Learn more about how Caltech CTME and INCOSE team to fuse our SE Certificate Programs and SEP Certification: https://ctme.caltech.edu/systems-engineering-incose-sep-certification

For Individual Learners

A focused public certificate course that builds core systems engineering capability—available live online or on-demand—with the option to earn INCOSE SEP certification within the program.

Explore public SE & MBSE courses and certificates

For Organizations

Customized systems engineering programs built around your mission, size, and culture—from fundamentals and secure-by-design architecture to engineering management. We help you embed the right development processes and operating model, advising on “freedom in a framework” rather than imposing one-size-fits-all.

Explore customized SE & MBSE programs for your organization