While there are no obligatory prerequisites, people with the following suggested career experience might find the course/program more relevant:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum Career Experience: 1-2 years of work experience in a technical field
- Average Career Experience: 5-15 years of work experience
- Past experience modeling, regardless of domain might be helpful. Some modeling types include for computation, physics-based simulation, testing or other. This experience will help ground you on the challenges and opportunities of modeling, but there are neither required modeling languages nor experience.
- No management experience is required. However, some class materials will require participants to write about teamwork and general management topics as relevant to architecture and complex projects.
This certificate relates to System Architecture and Model-Based Systems Engineering. Incoming learners are expected to be familiar with the following concepts:
·Systems Engineering “V” model
·Product Development Reference Models: Stage-Gate Reviews, Waterfall, Spiral, Agile
·Requirements, including principles for developing clear and concise requirements, and requirements flow down and management tools
·Identifying customer needs and voice of the customer analysis
·Spreadsheet software (such as Excel) and simple spreadsheet models
Preferred (but not obligatory) familiarity or experience in:
·Early-stage product development
·Product lifecycle, including aftermarket and maintenance
·Functional analysis
·Basic concept development methods (Morphological Matrix, QFD)
·Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE)
·Integrating or connecting models together
·Verification and validation