TY - GEN
T1 - Integrating systems and business engineering in an international context
T2 - 19th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, INCOSE 2009
AU - Gill, E.
AU - Kreisel, J.
AU - Verma, D.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Successful education of engineers needs continuous adaptation to track the changing needs of industry. The adaptation is not limited to technological advance or to the changing mentality of new students but also to end-to-end engineering approaches using Systems Engineering. However, industries today require more and more engineers with profound knowledge of business engineering to arrive at successful products - a fact which universities typically have not sufficiently taken into account yet. The SpaceTech program of the Delft University of Technology is an international postgraduate program for experienced high potentials seeking expertise in space systems and business engineering. The program centres around a Central Case Project where a group of international participants exercise space systems engineering fundamentals together with marketing and business engineering tools to create a financially viable virtual business. Based on more than 10 years of experience from the SpaceTech program, the learning objectives of Systems Engineering and business engineering and their interrelations are analyzed. Topics of past Central Case Projects are summarized and trends are extracted. The potentials of integrating Systems and Business Engineering are identified and their limitations in an educational environment are addressed.
AB - Successful education of engineers needs continuous adaptation to track the changing needs of industry. The adaptation is not limited to technological advance or to the changing mentality of new students but also to end-to-end engineering approaches using Systems Engineering. However, industries today require more and more engineers with profound knowledge of business engineering to arrive at successful products - a fact which universities typically have not sufficiently taken into account yet. The SpaceTech program of the Delft University of Technology is an international postgraduate program for experienced high potentials seeking expertise in space systems and business engineering. The program centres around a Central Case Project where a group of international participants exercise space systems engineering fundamentals together with marketing and business engineering tools to create a financially viable virtual business. Based on more than 10 years of experience from the SpaceTech program, the learning objectives of Systems Engineering and business engineering and their interrelations are analyzed. Topics of past Central Case Projects are summarized and trends are extracted. The potentials of integrating Systems and Business Engineering are identified and their limitations in an educational environment are addressed.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84878156551
SN - 9781615674398
T3 - 19th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, INCOSE 2009
SP - 1457
EP - 1470
BT - 19th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE 2009) in conjunction with the 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Systems Engineering APCOSE 2009
Y2 - 20 July 2009 through 23 July 2009
ER -