TY - JOUR
T1 - Year one of the systems engineering experience accelerator
AU - Squires, Alice
AU - Wade, Jon
AU - Watson, Bill
AU - Bodner, Doug
AU - Reilly, Richard
AU - Dominick, Peter
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Systems engineering educators are struggling to meet the workforce development demand for senior systems engineers. Systems engineers are critical for addressing a broad set of increasingly complex systems problems faced by industry and government. However, the discipline is experiencing an outflux of senior systems engineers reaching retirement age with no ready source of systems engineers available to replace them, at a time when the demand for systems engineers is increasing (NDIA, 2010). The workforce challenge is to shorten the time it takes for a systems engineer to reach the senior level. The Systems Engineering Experience Accelerator (SEEA) research project was conceived as a critical response to these needs and challenges. The SEEA focuses on a solution that leverages technology to create an experience intended to accelerate the learning of systems engineering related competencies. This paper summarizes the operation of the preliminary version of a prototype SEEA simulator after the first year of the SEEA project. A review of the plans for future research is also included.
AB - Systems engineering educators are struggling to meet the workforce development demand for senior systems engineers. Systems engineers are critical for addressing a broad set of increasingly complex systems problems faced by industry and government. However, the discipline is experiencing an outflux of senior systems engineers reaching retirement age with no ready source of systems engineers available to replace them, at a time when the demand for systems engineers is increasing (NDIA, 2010). The workforce challenge is to shorten the time it takes for a systems engineer to reach the senior level. The Systems Engineering Experience Accelerator (SEEA) research project was conceived as a critical response to these needs and challenges. The SEEA focuses on a solution that leverages technology to create an experience intended to accelerate the learning of systems engineering related competencies. This paper summarizes the operation of the preliminary version of a prototype SEEA simulator after the first year of the SEEA project. A review of the plans for future research is also included.
KW - Prototype development
KW - Systems engineering competency development
KW - Systems engineering training
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U2 - 10.1016/j.procs.2012.01.056
DO - 10.1016/j.procs.2012.01.056
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84893664090
SN - 1877-0509
VL - 8
SP - 267
EP - 272
JO - Procedia Computer Science
JF - Procedia Computer Science
T2 - Conference on Systems Engineering Research, CSER 2012
Y2 - 19 March 2012 through 22 March 2012
ER -