Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum and Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Harmon, Colorado Technical University; John M Santiago Jr, Colorado Technical University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

, improvements to reflect updates to industry-academic curriculumrecommendations subsequently published by IEEE Computer Society, INCOSE (International Council onSystems Engineering), and others as well as improvements to better address faculty and student inputssuch as a richer treatment of Bayesian, and future plans to embrace industry advisory board inputs suchas treatment of Big Data Analytics.In the BeginningBoeing approached us in 2002 with the observation that the US defense and aerospace industry wouldbe experiencing a large number of retirements of systems engineers in the very near future and thatAcademia needed to step up to the challenge and provide the education needed by their replacements.Conversations were held then with representatives