Fentiman, A., & Sutherland, J., & Delaurentis, D., & Douglas, K., & Dorribo Camba, J., & Kenley, C. R., & Raz, A., & Koehler, A., & Huang, W., & Hurt, A., & Richardson, J. (2022, August), Work in Progress:  Aligning a Professional Development Program with Industry Needs  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40647

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  Fentiman, A., \& Sutherland, J., \& Delaurentis, D., \& Douglas, K., \& Dorribo Camba, J., \& Kenley, C. R., \& Raz, A., \& Koehler, A., \& Huang, W., \& Hurt, A., \& Richardson, J. (2022, August), \emph{Work in Progress:  Aligning a Professional Development Program with Industry Needs}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--40647

Audeen Fentiman, John Sutherland, Daniel Delaurentis, Kerrie Douglas, Jorge Dorribo Camba, C. Robert Kenley, Ali Raz, Adrie Koehler, Wanju Huang, Andrew Hurt, and Jennifer Richardson.  "Work in Progress:  Aligning a Professional Development Program with Industry Needs".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/40647 Internet.  16 May, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_40647}
  Audeen Fentiman, John Sutherland, Daniel Delaurentis, Kerrie Douglas, Jorge Dorribo Camba, C. Robert Kenley, Ali Raz, Adrie Koehler, Wanju Huang, Andrew Hurt, and Jennifer Richardson.
  "Work in Progress:  Aligning a Professional Development Program with Industry Needs".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/40647 Internet.  16 May, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - A multidisciplinary team of eighteen faculty, staff, and students at a large Midwestern University is preparing online instructional materials on model-based systems engineering (MBSE) for current and potential employees of organizations that are either transitioning to model-based systems engineering or planning to do so in the near future.  Our goal is to design, develop, deploy, and evaluate a suite of instructional modules, making them as effective and flexible as possible for employees with a wide variety of education, experience, and job responsibilities. It is essential for us to prepare materials that are well-aligned with the needs of organizations whose employees will be working in the digital environment using model-based systems engineering.  This paper outlines the actions we are finding to be effective in aligning our modules with organizations’ needs.
The effort to align our materials with industry needs began before the project was officially launched.  Some of our team members with MBSE expertise had industry connections and were able to identify people in several organizations who were either experts in, or advocates for adoption of, MBSE.  Our team developed a series of questions for those industry contacts and held hour-long conversations with representatives of eleven organizations. We asked a series of questions ranging from which categories of employees would require training in MBSE and what topics should be covered to how employees are accustomed to receiving training and what technology they would have available to them for MBSE training.  The questions were often open-ended, allowing us to gather information beyond what we knew to ask about. 
Some of the key contacts at organizations agreed to serve on an advisory board which meets semi-annually.  At those meetings, we ask board members to give us more detailed, and current, information on MBSE topics to be covered, ways employees prefer to interact with instructional materials, and how we can best integrate our materials into an organization’s ongoing training program.  Those responses are influencing the development and deployment of our instructional modules.  As each module is completed, it is sent to a subgroup of the advisory board (or their designees) for a thorough review.  Reviewers, who participate in the process voluntarily, are asked questions about content quality, how well the modules motivate learners, instructional design, and so on.  Typically, three to five reviewers provide feedback, with detailed comments as well as ratings on a Likert-like scale.  Finally, a few employees with varied amounts of MBSE experience take the completed module and provide feedback on their level of satisfaction with the module and their thoughts on its value and effectiveness.
The purpose of this paper is to describe the actions we have taken to align our instructional modules with employers’ needs and to discuss the lessons we have learned so far.

AU  - Audeen Fentiman
AU  - John Sutherland
AU  - Daniel Delaurentis
AU  - Kerrie Douglas
AU  - Jorge Dorribo Camba
AU  - C. Robert Kenley
AU  - Ali Raz
AU  - Adrie Koehler
AU  - Wanju Huang
AU  - Andrew Hurt
AU  - Jennifer Richardson
CY  - Minneapolis, MN
DA  - 2022/08/23
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TI  - Work in Progress:  Aligning a Professional Development Program with Industry Needs
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