Paper ID #38917Applying a Competency-Based Education Approach for Designing a UniqueInterdisciplinary Graduate Program: A Case Study for a SystemsEngineering ProgramDr. Amy Thompson, University of Connecticut Dr. Amy Thompson joined UConn in August 2017 as an Associate Professor-In-Residence of Systems Engineering and as the Associate Director for the Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering at the University of Connecticut. She currently teaches graduate-level engineering courses in model-based sys- tems engineering and systems engineering fundamentals, and coordinates the online graduate programs in Advanced Systems