Participants: Natasha Kositsyna, Mark Austin.
Support: NSF, Northrop Grumman, GE Research and Development.
Motivation -- Lessons Learned from Training Classes at Company XYZ (in 1999-2000)
Systems engineering training activities should mirror those
of the practising systems engineer.
This is hard!!!
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Systems engineering is a team activity -- training needs to
support multiple viewpoints, levels of experience, and backgrounds.
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Systems engineering processes make use of many different entity
types (e.g., primary and derived requirements; traceability links;
various models of system behavior and system structure),
sometimes connected in complicated ways.
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Training materials are linear -- but systems concepts are
best organized into a variety of architectures.
See the adjacent figure.
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Too many pages! Too many links! Readers feel overwhelmed.
They jump around material and gloss over content rather
than learning it.
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Students need to see how new systems engineering concepts
can be applied to applications they are familiar with.
(i.e., if you're at a company that makes trains,
you need a case study on trains).
Challenge
We need to find ways of using web technology to enhance quality of learning.
Otherwise, whole exercise is a waste of time.
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