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Systems Engineering Certification Program

Location: Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona
Program Length: 15 days
Program Fee:
$6,000 - Early Registration (before December 1, 2009)
$6,450 - After December 1, 2009
$5,900 - For Organizations registering 3 or more associates
Schedule: January 7 - March 5, 2010 (Thursdays & Fridays per week, 8:30am - 4:30pm)

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Overview

This interdisciplinary program provides students the ability to engineer complex products, processes, services leveraging a systems engineering approach.

Systems engineering focuses on defining needs and customer requirements early in the development cycle. Systems engineering appears to be all things to all people. The official definition comes from INCOSE-International Council on Systems Engineering. The definition is:

"An interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems. It focuses on defining customer needs and required functionality early in the development cycle, documenting requirements, then proceeding with design synthesis and system validation."

This program was designed with input from global corporations and targets professionals leading major complex systems development or programs at their companies. The key to this program is the amalgamation of several professional association and certificate programs:

• INCOSE - International Systems Engineering Society
• CMII - Configuration Management Institute
• PMI - Program Management Institute
• Lean/Six Sigma for Systems Engineering

Who Should Attend

• Systems engineers
• Chief engineers
• Directors of engineering
• Engineering project managers
• Applications engineers
• Systems architects

Course Schedule

Introduction to Systems Engineering - SE101
January 7-8, 14-15, 21-22, 28-29

• Strategic Overview of Systems Engineering (1 Day)
  • Model Driven Enterprise
  • Strategic thinking and Strategic Technology Management
  • Time-based Competition and Competing on Time methodology
  • Modern Design process and Stage Gate process
  • Capturing of Requirements, Desired Customer Outcomes and Translating into Specifications
  • IEEE 1220, ISO 15288
• Modern Enterprise Modeling Tools (1 Day)
  • IDEF
  • UML
  • Lean methods and tools
• Advanced Six Sigma for Systems Engineering (1 Day)
  • Probability and statistics tools
• Linear Programming & Project Management (1 Day)
• Modern Software Systems Engineering Principles and Processes (2 Days)
  • Software development process and standards
  • Software requirements, methodologies and tools
  • understand software COTS
  • understand Technical Subcontractor Mgmt. roles and responsibilities
  • Software quality factors and measures
  • Software verification and validation methodologies

Advanced Systems Engineering - SE102
February 11-12, 19, 25-26 and March 4-5

• Life Cycle Analysis (1 Day)
  • Understanding Life Cycles
  • trade study tools methodology
  • modern cost / resource forecasting tools, CoCoMo, CoSysMo
• Systems Modeling (1 Day)
  • Process Modeling tools
  • Stochastic Queuing modeling techniques
  • Modern simulation techniques
• Variability & Variance Propagation (1/2 Day)
  • Simulation for modeling variability
• Trade off studies & decision trees (1/2 Day)
  • Risk management
• From FSD to O&M (2 Days)
  • "Plan the work, work the plan" paradigm
  • Production Planning and Integration
  • Test Integration process expectations
  • System Logistics process expectations
  • O & M Planning and Execution processes
  • System Disposal alternatives and trades
• Heuristic optimization tools (1 Day)
  • Scheduling
• Distributed and Collaborative Leadership (1 Day)
  • Business development and teaming
  • Communicating a vision of goals, requirements, and interfaces to a diverse group of contributors
  • Writing bullet-proof requirements
  • Collaborating effectively
  • How to Lead Customer Requirements Development

Faculty

Al Filardo, M.A.
Assistant Dean, Professor of Practice, and Chief of Staff

As the Chief of Staff at the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, Al Filardo is Professor of Practice and Six Sigma champion. Mr. Filardo provides organizational consultation throughout ASU and instructs for the Center for Professional Development at the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering.

A graduate of the University of San Francisco with a BS in Organizational Behavior, Mr. Filardo obtained his Masters degree in Human Resource Management from Webster University at Luke Air Force Base. He is also a certified instructional development specialist and a professional coach certified by the College of Executive Coaching.

Mr. Filardo began his career as an electrical engineer for TRW and transitioned to management. He has been providing coaching and leadership consulting to middle and high level leaders in the corporate sector for decades. He works with firms specializing in quality, process, and policy improvements.

Prior to joining ASU, he was the director of Motorola University for the western and pacific coast regions of the United States. In addition, Mr. Filardo deployed Six Sigma globally in China, Southeast Asia and the United States. While at Motorola, he was an award-winning executive coach, trainer and quality advocate, and a member of the team receiving the highest quality award during his tenure. Throughout his 30-year career at Motorola, he led multi million dollar organizations in manufacturing, sales, field engineering, training, customer service, and education.

Gary Waissi, Ph.D.
Professor of Technology Management

Dr. Waissi's research and teaching covers probability, statistics, operations research and systems engineering. His research has focused on probability distribution theory, linear programming- and network optimization algorithms, as well as systems analysis and modeling. He has 18 refereed publications, 12 research reports and software programs, two books, and one patent. His first book, Applied Statistical Modeling (AMS) is an electronic book available at www.public.asu.edu/~gwaissi. This book is widely used by students and practitioners around the world. The second book, Introduction to Operations Research (co-authored with Adenso Diaz, University of Oviedo, Spain) will be published as an e-book in April-May, 2009.

Waissi has given 25 presentations at national- and international conferences (INFORMS, SAE, CORS, EURO, DSI), and has served on numerous conference organizing committees globally. Waissi's teaching experience expands for 30 years as a faculty- or adjunct faculty at the University of Technology Helsinki, Finland, the University of Michigan, the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and currently at Arizona State University. He has taught regular academic courses in systems engineering, probability- and statistics, operations research/management science at both undergraduate- and graduate levels, as well as, strategic management and information systems at the undergraduate level. He has also taught several executive education seminars.

From 1998 to 2005 Waissi served as the Dean of the School of Management, University of Michigan-Dearborn, and from 2006-2008 as Dean of the School of Global Management and Leadership, Arizona State University. He is currently serving as the Associate Vice President for Global Academic Programming at ASU.

Waissi received his master degree in civil engineering-transportation (Diplom Ingenieur) from the University of Technology Darmstadt, Germany; his Licentiate of Engineering degree from the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; and his Ph.D. from the College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Dr. John Fowler
Professor, Industrial, Systems and Operations Engineering

Dr. John Fowler is a professor in the operations research and production systems group in the Department of Industrial Engineering in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at ASU. Fowler received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1982, 1986 and 1990, respectively.

Dr. Fowler came to the Fulton School in 1995 as an assistant professor. Previously, he had served as an adjunct assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department at the University of Texas and as a visiting assistant professor at Texas A&M.

Dr. Fowler began his career in industry in 1986 at Lodestone II, Inc. as a simulation analyst. He has also served as a project manager at Advanced Micro Devices, a senior member of the technical staff at SEMATECH and a consultant to Tefen, USA.

Dr. Fowler's research interests are in modeling and analysis of semiconductor manufacturing systems, scheduling of wafer fabrication facilities, and manufacturing applications of operations research and discrete event simulation.

Dr. Fowler has served as a guest editor and on the editorial board for the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics. He is currently serving as an associate editor of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Electronic Packaging Manufacturing Technology and as the manufacturing applications area editor for SIMULATION: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International.

Dr. Fowler is a member of the IIE, the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Society for Computer Simulation, Production and Operations Management Society, the IEEE, the Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturers International, the American Society for Engineering Education and the Decision Sciences Institute.

Ron Askin
Professor and Chair, Industrial Systems and Operations Engineering

Ronald G. Askin is a Professor and Department Chair of Industrial Engineering at Arizona State University. Dr. Askin received a BS in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University, an MS in Operations Research from Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Arizona State University, he served on the faculties of the University of Iowa, and the University of Arizona. He has also been a visiting professor at North Carolina State University.

He has authored or co-authored over 80 professional publications, primarily on the application of operations research and statistical methods to the design and analysis of production systems. His current research concentrates on developing integrated models for operational planning including facilities design, production planning, scheduling, material flow, and quality assurance. Other research interests include project management, team formation, and human decision making. Dr. Askin co-authored the texts Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems (1993) and Design and Analysis of Lean Production Systems (2002), both of which received the IIE Joint Publishers Book of the Year Award (1994 and 2003, respectively).

Other awards he has received include the IIE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing Best Paper Award (twice as co-author), the Shingo Award for Excellence in Manufacturing Research, IIE Transactions Development and Applications Award (co-author), the ASEE/IIE Eugene L. Grant Award (co-author), and the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. Dr. Askin has consulted with a variety of manufacturing and service industry companies in the areas of scheduling, facilities planning, inventory control, quality improvement, and performance evaluation.

Dr. Dan Shunk
Professor, Industrial, Systems and Operations Engineering

Dr. Dan Shunk is a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at ASU. Dr. Shunk received his B.S.I.E., his M.S.I.E. and his Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University in 1971, 1972 and 1976, respectively.

From 1975 to 1979, he served as the Captain and Co-Founder of the ICAM Program for the United States Air Force. From there, he moved to the Rockwell Corporation where he served as a manager in Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Systems. In 1980, he moved on to International Harvester where he served as a manager in the Planning and GT division. From 1981 until 1984, Dr. Shunk served as the Vice President and General Manager of the GCA Corporation. He has served as a consultant for Motorola, the United States Army, Digital Equipment Corporation, SUN Microsystems, Transcript Communications, Level One Communications, Intel, Oracle and Avnet.

Dr. Shunk came from industry to ASU in 1984 as an associate professor of industrial engineering. From 1984 to 1994, he served as the CIM Systems Research Center Director. He is currently serving as the Avnet Chair of Supply Network Integration. Professor Dr. Shunk also teaches courses in the areas of enterprise modeling and integration as well as formulation of strategy and policy in the organization in both the W. P. Carey MBA - Technology Program and the W. P. Carey MBA - Technology Program in China. Prof. Dr. Shunk's research and teaching interests are in the areas of computer integrated manufacturing, electronic commerce progression, time compression, cultural acceptance of change, enterprise integration and material/information/knowledge supply network integration

Dr. Shunk is a current member of the U.S. Alternate to Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Organization, a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and a senior charter member of the Computer Aided Systems Association. He is also a member of the Alpha Pi Mu and Tau Beta Pi honor societies. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Agility, Global Competition and the International Journal of Flexible Automation and Integrated Manufacturing

James Collofello
Professor and Associate Dean, Engineering Academic and Student Affairs

James Collofello joined ASU in 1979 and was instrumental in the start of the computer science degree program. Throughout his entire career, he has maintained a close relationship with software development firms in the state working on joint research projects, developing industry training programs and serving as a software engineering consultant. He is also coordinating the software engineering distance learning program. Collofello also serves as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering.

Collofello's research interests lie in the software engineering area. Within software engineering, his primary emphasis is software process modeling, software quality assurance and software project management. He is also very active in software engineering education projects and outreach to local high schools.

Education:
- Ph.D. - Northwestern University 1978

Research/Areas of Expertise:
- Software engineering
- Project management
- Quality assurance

Research Center Involvement:
- Institute for Computing and Information Science and Engineering (InCISE)

John B. Noblin
Professor for Practice, Industrial Systems and Operations Engineering

Dr. Noblin is a Professor for Practice of Industrial Engineering at Arizona State University. He received his BS, MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Mississippi State University. He has over 40 years of experience with IBM, Loral and Lockheed Martin in various engineering disciplines with over 25 years in progressively more responsible engineering management positions. He is currently the Chief Engineer for the Defender Program. For the last several years he has been a mid-level manager for Systems Engineering for Lockheed Martin Goodyear, AZ, developing and hiring Systems Engineers as well as managing engineering program support.

Dr. Noblin has represented his LM Business Unit on the Corp. Systems Engineering SubCouncil since 1998. This is the group that advances the State of the Practice of Systems Engineering for the LM Corp. This group has developed templates and training in Systems Engineering available for use across the Corp. There are several Working Groups and interaction with other subcouncils such as Software, Program Management, Test and Evaluation, etc.

Dr. Noblin has also been the chairman of the G-47 Systems Engineering Committee for the AEA/ITAA/GEIA for the last several years. This is a heritage organization formerly related to EIA (Engineering Industry Assoc) typically producing standards. The G-47 committee published documents such as EIA 731 (Systems Engineering Capability Model)and EIA 632 (Processes for Engineering a System). These standards became the bases for the ISO Standards that exist today. This group is comprised of representatives from most industries who work with the Government along with Government representatives from various branches of Office of Secretary of Defense.

Dr. Noblin spent several years managing field teams at military bases with a 4 year assignment in the UK. He has been a System Architect as well as Technical Director for programs he has managed. He has helped develop Systems Engineering Qualification Programs and led classes on the subject.

Dr. Noblin is a Tech Fellow for Systems Engineering in GEIA, Fellow in IEE in UK and Chartered Engineer, and is a member INCOSE and the Old Crows. He has served on the Advisory Board for Engineering for various universities and colleges.

Refunds and Cancellations

Should you register and then need to cancel, please note that there is a cancellation fee. The rate of the fee is determined by how far in advance of the program/module start date the written request for cancellation is received (please see below). Written requests for cancellation may be received via either mail or fax.

• Within two weeks - 50% of program fee
• Once program starts - no refund

Transfer to another program or module is subject to a $200 administrative fee if made within six weeks of the program/module start date. Registrants who do not attend and do not cancel are subject to the complete fee. Participant substitutes may be made by submitting in advance a written request. The Center reserves the right to change instructors or cancel or reschedule a program in the event of insufficient enrollment or unforeseen circumstances.

To cancel or transfer this course, please send request via email to jose.quiroga@asu.edu or fax (480) 965-8653

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Octavio Heredia
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