This certificate program provides you with the critical skills and knowledge essential for successful systems engineering. The 40-hour curriculum focuses on practical methods and tools for eliciting user needs and requirements, defining robust system architectures and designs, and effectively verifying and validating that your product works as intended. The course covers current industry best practices to ensure vital, cost-effective designs that meet stringent functional, performance, and cost requirements.
This certificate program provides you with the critical skills and knowledge essential for successful systems engineering. The 40-hour curriculum focuses on practical methods and tools for eliciting user needs and requirements, defining robust system architectures and designs, and effectively verifying and validating that your product works as intended. The course covers current industry best practices to ensure vital, cost-effective designs that meet stringent functional, performance, and cost requirements.
Program Experience
This 40-hour program is designed to enhance your systems thinking perspective throughout the engineering process, covering everything from gathering customer requirements to systems design and integrated verification and validation. Additionally, you will learn the topics and approaches necessary for the INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP).
Caltech's expert instructors and engineering fellows are skilled practitioners in aerospace, defense, energy, and medical devices, and bring a precision-fit, personalized approach to this certificate program. Students appreciate our action-learning approach of lectures, hands-on exercises, demonstrations, and real-world examples, providing a comprehensive overview of today's systems engineering industry. You’ll experience a deeper understanding of the principles and processes required to design robust systems that allow you to thrive in the face of new challenges.
Our flexible, open-enrollment certificate program is available in two online formats: On-Demand and Live-Online, which run concurrently. The OnDemand option is pre-recorded, optimal for participants throughout the US and internationally.
Benefits
Gain mastery over the systems engineering methods you need for creating complex, technology-driven products. The focus of this certificate program is on fundamental applications of proven methods that will help you take your customer’s requirements and operational needs and turn them into effective solutions that meet goals for cost, schedule, and performance.
Participants will learn to:
Conduct mission analysis and articulate a Concept of Operations
Assess requirements through Context Diagrams, Functional Block Diagrams, and Design Structure Matrices (DSM)
Architect systems, sub-systems, interfaces and interactions, hierarchies and hand-offs
Evolve innovative design approaches for performance, trade-offs, and managing change
Engineer for specialized outcomes, Design for Manufacturing, Design-to-Cost, Maintainability
Define cost-effective verification and validation plans
Effectively manage cost, schedule, risk, and accountability in engineering tasks and digital methods
Plan, assess, and control traditional and Agile-driven technical programs spanning hardware and software
Examine Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methods and approaches that use SysML
Analyze customer needs and develop clearly-stated requirements
Apply systems thinking to optimize product design and development
Develop innovative approaches for systems design and integration
Produce robust designs of complex products
Prepare for CSEP certification from INCOSE
Additional certificate programs that may be of interest:
Model-Based Systems Engineering Program (MBSE): Gain an understanding of how to manage scope, digital and traditional work products, risk and teams of diverse talents.
Advanced Project Management (APM): Build upon previous project management learning and be prepared for the challenges that senior practitioners face most-complexity, change leadership, and more.
Topics
Introduction to Systems Engineering
Defining System Requirements
Functional Analysis
System Specifications
System Architecture
Decision Analysis
Design and Integration
Verification and Validation
Engineering Specialties
System Engineering Management
Technical Reviews and Audits
Risk Management
Quality Management
Creating a High-Performance Team
Minimizing and Resolving Team Conflicts
Who Should Attend
Component/subsystems engineers, software/hardware engineers, systems engineers, project managers, business analysts, and technical support personnel who want a comprehensive understanding of the breadth of systems engineering activities and their interconnections across the lifecycle.
Additional certificate programs that may be of interest:
Model-Based Systems Engineering Program (MBSE): Gain an understanding of how to manage scope, digital and traditional work products, risk and teams of diverse talents.
Advanced Project Management (APM): Build upon previous project management learning and be prepared for the challenges that senior practitioners face most-complexity, change leadership, and more.
Schedule
Course
Duration
Live Online (via Zoom)
Systems Engineering Fundamentals 29.0
Course # 3211024
6 Weeks
October 19, 26, November 2, 9, 16, 2024 Sat 8 AM - 5 PM Pacific Time
This certificate program provides you with the critical skills and knowledge essential for successful systems engineering. The 40-hour curriculum focuses on practical methods and tools for eliciting user needs and requirements, defining robust system architectures and designs, and effectively verifying and validating that your product works as intended. The course covers current industry best practices to ensure vital, cost-effective designs that meet stringent functional, performance, and cost requirements.
