TY - GEN
T1 - Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Engineering Simulation Curriculum Development
AU - See Tao, Hoong Yan
AU - Hutchison, Nicole
AU - Clifford, Megan
AU - Kerr, Geoffrey
AU - Beling, Peter
AU - Sherburne, Tim
AU - Wach, Paul
AU - Long, David
AU - Arndt, Craig
AU - Verma, Dinesh
AU - Mcdermott, Thomas A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This paper presents the ongoing Year 2 of digital engineering (DE) simulation curriculum development by a research team from the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC). This task, sponsored by the Defense Acquisition University (DAU), builds on the extensive DE research portfolio in SERC and leverages the existing literature in the systems engineering and DE communities. The goal of the research is to create a robust learning platform with relevant hands-on modeling and simulation experience that can be used to improve students' DE proficiency levels across the workforce. Part of this research effort includes DAU's partnership with SERC to develop a Simulation Training Environment for Digital Engineering (STEDE), which is intended to provide infrastructure and example case studies that allow DAU students to interact directly with models. The paper describes the curriculum development and modeling efforts to-date and addresses challenges associated with the development of the learning materials. An Advisory Board was established to provide guidance and expert knowledge in DE as the team is developing the DE curriculum. Working with the Advisory Board, the team discovered some critical skill gaps in DE which provide an opportunity for the team to further enhance the training and curriculum development to modernize the defense acquisition workforce.
AB - This paper presents the ongoing Year 2 of digital engineering (DE) simulation curriculum development by a research team from the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC). This task, sponsored by the Defense Acquisition University (DAU), builds on the extensive DE research portfolio in SERC and leverages the existing literature in the systems engineering and DE communities. The goal of the research is to create a robust learning platform with relevant hands-on modeling and simulation experience that can be used to improve students' DE proficiency levels across the workforce. Part of this research effort includes DAU's partnership with SERC to develop a Simulation Training Environment for Digital Engineering (STEDE), which is intended to provide infrastructure and example case studies that allow DAU students to interact directly with models. The paper describes the curriculum development and modeling efforts to-date and addresses challenges associated with the development of the learning materials. An Advisory Board was established to provide guidance and expert knowledge in DE as the team is developing the DE curriculum. Working with the Advisory Board, the team discovered some critical skill gaps in DE which provide an opportunity for the team to further enhance the training and curriculum development to modernize the defense acquisition workforce.
KW - and cyber resilience
KW - architecture
KW - curriculum development
KW - digital engineering
KW - digital engineering competencies
KW - digital transformation
KW - modeling and simulation
KW - simulation training environment
KW - workforce development
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U2 - 10.1109/SysCon53073.2023.10131107
DO - 10.1109/SysCon53073.2023.10131107
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85161895031
T3 - SysCon 2023 - 17th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference, Proceedings
BT - SysCon 2023 - 17th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference, Proceedings
T2 - 17th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference, SysCon 2023
Y2 - 17 April 2023 through 20 April 2023
ER -