SE302 focuses on preparing students to effectively model, analyze, and understand complex, interdisciplinary, and ill-defined problems as systems in an effort to design and implement effective solutions. The course covers principles and methods for Requirements Management, Functional Analysis, and technical System Architecture from industry and DoD including IDEFϕ modeling, the Unified Modeling Language, and the Department of Defense Architectural Framework (DoDAF). The course will also include a review of Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodologies. The techniques taught in this course have been applied to an increasingly wide variety of complex, ill-defined problems in business, government, military, health care, and national capacity development. Ethical responsibilities in describing the results of analyses to decision makers are integrated throughout the course. Cadets develop communication skills through two written reports and make innovative use of modeling packages to develop and analyze systems. A course project will challenge cadets to apply their modeling and analysis skills to a real world complex, ill-defined problem in political, military, economic, social, cultural, and informational contexts. Cadets will spend eight to twelve lessons in a computer lab environment.
