SE302 prepares students to effectively model, analyze, and understand complex, interdisciplinary, and ill-defined problems as systems so they can design and implement effective solutions. The course covers principles and methods for requirements management, functional and nonfunctional analysis, risk management, testing, cost estimation, and technical system architecture from industry and DoD including IDEFϕ modeling, the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), and the Department of Defense Architectural Framework (DoDAF). The Engineering Vee model is used as a framework throughout the course. The course also includes 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 written reports and presentations. 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.
