SE Fundamentals Certificate (282)

For NPS students from other departments, the Systems Engineering Department offers a four-course Systems Engineering Fundamentals Certificate (282).

282: Systems Engineering Fundamentals Certificate
This certificate is designed to provide graduate level foundation courses in systems engineering to anyone interested in deepening their understanding of how DoD designs, develops and produces large complex systems. Students learn a disciplined approach to finding the right solution to the right problem: on-time, on-budget, supportable, and with minimal risk.

Courses

Requirements for Entry

• Baccalaureate degree with a minimum undergraduate GPA of 2.6.
• To qualify for OS3111, a student must have at least one college level mathematics course.
• To qualify for OS3180, a student must have completed a college level calculus sequence of at least one year.

Entry Dates: October and March (based on seat availability)
Program Officer: Joseph Sweeney III
Academic Associate: Dr. Joseph Klamo

Learning Outcomes

After completion of this certificate, students should be able to:

• Apply advanced mathematics including probability and statistics.
• Create basic system functional and physical architectures that represent a balanced approach to meeting stakeholder needs, derived system requirements, and suitability objectives. Understand basic system architecture frameworks and their role in architecture development. Apply basic model-based systems engineering techniques, based on UML or SySML, to create, define, and develop system architectures. Create, analyze, and evaluate alternative architectures against appropriate, system-level evaluation criteria and select the best system design based on quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Apply the basic system design process in a holistic context to include defining system requirements; conducting functional analysis and allocation to hardware, software, and human elements; designing a system; deriving and defining requirement specifications; allocating requirement specifications to sub-systems; designing for suitability, including reliability, maintainability, availability, supportability, producibility, usability, survivability, and interoperability; evaluating the system cost and risk; and incorporating risk mitigation strategies.
• Apply basic qualitative and quantitative methods of engineering design analysis to include problem formulation, alternatives development, systems analysis, alternatives comparison, cost analysis, failure analysis, and risk analysis. Mathematical techniques include probabilistic analyses.
• Demonstrate competence in the planning and management of a complex defense-related systems engineering project. Demonstrate an understanding of basic project management principles including project planning, organizational structures, cost estimating, project scheduling, time-phased budgets, earned-value management, risk and configuration management, and contracts.