Systems Engineering Courses and Certificate Training Program

Reducing Cycle Time, Meeting Complex Systems Requirements, and Ensuring Project Success

The California Institute of Technology Industrial Relations Center can provide you with a company specific certificate in systems engineering to meet your business needs. Our goal is to help enable your teams to:

	Produce designs and cost estimates of complex products up to four times faster and cheaper
	Work with customers to better translate user needs into outstanding delivered products
	Define optimal verification and validation programs tailored to your company and your customer’s risk threshold
	Effectively use advanced information systems technology to increase product development productivity and effectively manage design data and interfaces
	Optimize designs based on Cost As an Independent Variable (CAIV) and related methods
	Manage risk in a cost constrained environment
	Trade systems resources including technical, cost, and schedule

Key Topics

Understanding Systems and Systems Engineering
	Systems and systems engineering in the project/program environment
	The system development life cycle
	The systems engineering process

Creating a High-Performing Team for Systems Engineering
	Conducting effective communications
	Identifying group decision making processes
	Adapting to work style differences
	Effectively resolving team conflicts
	Giving and receiving feedback

Constructing Systems Engineering Requirements
	Understanding user requirements
	Defining requirements
	Specifications
	Guidelines and lessons learned

Performing a Functional Analysis
	Functional analysis process
	Example: functional analysis
	Functional requirements

Developing a Systems Architecture
	Selecting the system architecture
	Example: system architecture
	Software architecture
	Defining, controlling, and managing interfaces
	The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Performing System Design and Development
	Hardware and software design
	System modeling and effectiveness
	Defining and managing system performance parameters
	Trade-off analyses

Conducting Technical Reviews and Audits
	Types of technical reviews
	Planning technical reviews
	Conducting technical reviews

Using Configuration Management
	Configuration identification and change control
	Configuration status accounting and audits

Verification and Validation Testing
	Test and evaluation requirements
	The verification process and software testing

Managing Risk
	Risk management methodology
	Cost/schedule risk analysis
	The risk management plan

Managing System Cost and Schedule Estimation
	Estimating system cost and development time
	Cost control approaches
	Life cycle cost, schedule control, and earned value management

Producing the System
	The concept of producibility
	Producibility implementation
	The cost of production
	Examples of volume production

Systems Engineering Management and Planning
	Management responsibilities
	Organizing systems engineering
	Selecting and using metrics
	Assessing systems engineering capability
	Planning systems engineering

When you work with us, we:
	Listen to your needs and build a training solution based upon your specific requirements.
	Register your participants and send them course confirmations.
	Ship complete notebooks and materials to your location.
	Provide completion letters/certificates from the California Institute of Technology Industrial Relations Center.
	Track participant attendance.
	Provide and gather course evaluations to validate the curriculum.

Instructors: Phil Allen, PhD; Tony Freeman, PhD; Kent Frewing; Rick Hefner, PhD; Rob Renner; Joel Sercel, PhD; Stephen Wall; Doug Westphal; Mark K. Wilson; Doug Wood

For more information, contact Anne Campbell, 626 395-4046 or via email at cstprg@caltech.edu.

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