Henry, D., & Ferris, T. L., & Squires, A. F., & Towhidnejad, M. (2013, June), Organizing the Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (GRCSE) for International Relevance  Paper presented at 2013 ASEE International Forum, Atlanta, Georgia. 10.18260/1-2--17261

\bibitem{asee_peer_17261}
  Henry, D., \& Ferris, T. L., \& Squires, A. F., \& Towhidnejad, M. (2013, June), \emph{Organizing the Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (GRCSE) for International Relevance}
  Paper presented at 2013 ASEE International Forum, Atlanta, Georgia.
  10.18260/1-2--17261

Devanandham Henry, Tim L Ferris, Alice F. Squires, and Massood Towhidnejad.  "Organizing the Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (GRCSE) for International Relevance".  2013 ASEE International Forum, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2013.  https://peer.asee.org/17261 Internet.  10 Feb, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_17261}
  Devanandham Henry, Tim L Ferris, Alice F. Squires, and Massood Towhidnejad.
  "Organizing the Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (GRCSE) for International Relevance".
  \emph{2013 ASEE International Forum, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2013.
  https://peer.asee.org/17261 Internet.  10 Feb, 2025

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AB  -            Organizing the Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems               Engineering (GRCSE) for International RelevanceThe Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (GRCSE) v. 1.0, published inDecember 2012, was developed by an international author team with an explicit aim to provide asolid foundation for improving the consistency and relevance of systems engineering educationaround the world. This paper describes the different issues that the author team faced andaddressed in order to make GRCSE internationally relevant and useful.An early activity in the development of GRCSE was to conduct a survey of systems engineering(SE) graduate programs offered in about 30 universities, internationally. This exposed the authorteam to differences between these programs in a number of issues including matters arising fromlocal market conditions, jurisdictional issues, education traditions, the place of a postgraduatedegree in the education and work career of students, industry domains which needed to besupported, the types of work into which graduates would expect to proceed, and the balance ofsystems-centric and domain-centric SE needs. This diversity was recognized and accepted in theGRCSE project as the contextual facts-on-the-ground which must be accommodated to enable areference curriculum to meaningfully inform program design to an international audience.This wide range of situations existing in worldwide systems engineering education made itinappropriate for GRCSE to be designed in a prescriptive manner, especially if it were to haveinternational relevance. Therefore, it was imperative to design GRCSE in the form ofrecommendations that would be provide enough commonality among these programsirrespective of where in the world they were being offered, but at the same time allowuniversities to tailor their programs to needs and expectations specific to their environment.All these factors led to the development of the GRCSE program architecture formulated as    1.     Core material to be learned by all students    2.     Concentration material to be learned by students pursuing a particular concentration           (GRCSE presents two distinct concentrations as samples).    3.     A capstone experience (To be designed by the university, relevant to its program           objectives)    4.     Other material at the discretion of the University (which can be used to tailor learning           to suit the particular context).GRCSE is being considered by universities around the world to either evaluate their existinggraduate programs or to start a new graduate program in SE. The GRCSE authors desire toexpand their understanding of the contexts, needs, and expectations of the worldwide systemswithout losing the desired commonality. !engineering education community and to be responsive to them in future versions of GRCSE,
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