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, and optimal for participants throughout the US and internationally.

Beneficios

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:

1. Conduct mission analysis and articulate a Concept of Operations
2. Assess requirements through Context Diagrams, Functional Block Diagrams, and Design Structure Matrices (DSM)
3. Architect systems, sub-systems, interfaces and interactions, hierarchies and hand-offs
4. Evolve innovative design approaches for performance, trade-offs, and managing change
5. Engineer for specialized outcomes, Design for Manufacturing, Design-to-Cost, Maintainability
6. Define cost-effective verification and validation plans
7. Effectively manage cost, schedule, risk, and accountability in engineering tasks and digital methods
8. Plan, assess, and control traditional and Agile-driven technical programs spanning hardware and software
9. Examine Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methods and approaches that use SysML
10. Analyze customer needs and develop clearly stated requirements
11. Apply systems thinking to optimize product design and development
12. Develop innovative approaches for systems design and integration
13. Produce robust designs of complex products
14. Prepare for CSEP certification from INCOSE

Additional certificate programs that may be of interest:

1. 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.
2. 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.

Who Should Attend

Component/subsystem 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:

1. 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.
2. Advanced Project Management (APM): Build upon previous project management learning and be prepared for the challenges that senior practitioners face, such as complexity, change leadership, and more.

Start Date: July 13
Time: Sat 8:00 am - 5:00 pm (PDT)