academic andindustry background and was focused on engineering education for graduate and systemsengineering programs, to lead the expansion of the academic programs and develop new courses.The PIR faculty member developed and taught the first new course, Introduction to SystemsEngineering that teaches Systems Engineering principles, practices, and methods according toISO 15288 [3] and the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook [4]. The faculty member thendeveloped and taught a second new course in model-based systems engineering (MBSE), whichintroduced students to systems modeling using descriptive modeling languages like the systemsmodeling language (SysML) and MBSE methods like the object-oriented systems engineeringmethod (OOSEM), and advanced
in a set of core courses in the second and third years of the engineering curriculum,building incremental skills across this two-year period, and leading to their application incapstone design projects in the final year. The modules are drawn from a recently implementedDigital Engineering graduate certificate for training a civilian Air Force cohort. This twelve-credit certificate included four semester-long courses in: (i) Systems, Models and Simulation forDigital Engineering; (ii) Model-Based Systems Engineering; (iii) Cyber-Physical Systems andSimulation; and (iv) Data-Driven Decision-Making and Risk Management. The modules arehosted on an online learning and course management system. Each module includes anexperiential learning project