SE302 prepares students to model, analyze, and understand complex, interdisciplinary, and ill-defined problems using a systems approach in order to design and implement effective solutions. The course emphasizes designing solutions that integrate in the broader operational and organizational context across the system?s lifecycle. It further emphasizes making system design decisions using both analytic techniques and ethical considerations. It introduces fundamental principles and methods of systems engineering, including: model-based systems engineering (MBSE); system architecture; requirements, functional, and nonfunctional analysis; system design, integration, testing, and evaluation; the
management of cost, schedule, and risk during system development; and written and oral communication of technical information. Students apply these methods to conceptualize, design, and test a prototype complex engineered system in a course project focused on a real-world, complex problem spanning political, military, economic, social, cultural, and informational contexts. *Pending ABET-PEV review of ET=3.5CR. The ET credit is proposed and will be validated through Academy processes.*
