Associate Relationships
JOG System Engineering delivers some courses through relationships with other organizations. University of California San Diego (UCDS), Applied Technology Institute (ATI) based in Riva, MD, and Execuspec based in Phoenix, AZ are three such organizations.
University of California San Diego Courses
Jeff Grady was instrumental in the initiation of the UCSD System Engineering program bringing the recommendation to the Director of Engineering at the Extension while Manager of Systems Development at General Dynamics Space Systems Division. His motivation was that it was difficult at the time to gain access to budget to cover training for department personnel. He noticed, however, it was very seldom that an employee request for reimbursement for the cost of a training course completed at a university. So, he wanted to provide a local source for system engineering training that would qualify for tuition reimbursement. Jeff taught the first course in the program and continues to teach at UCSD Extension. In addition to the current courses he teaches listed below, he has taught System Management, Concept Development, and System Verification.
System Requirements Analysis
This was the first course offered in the UCSD System Engineering Certificate program and has been offered at least once a year ever since. It is coordinated with Jeff Grady’s “System Requirements Analysis” published by Elsevier Academic Press in 2006. This course is described on web site core quarter based courses section 321-321.
System Integration
This course began as a System Integration course first taught at the UCSD System Engineering Certificate program by Mr. G.D.H. (Dan) Cunha, Captain, USN retired who was at the time the Chief of the Reliability Department for General Dynamics Convair Division. After his untimely death in an auto accident, Jeff Grady taught several of these courses and wrote a book for the course. Later, he realized that the integration perspective was a view too narrow for a system engineer and re-wrote his book that was published by CRC Press as “System Synthesis – Product and Process Design”. The course covers the design, procurement, and manufacturing activity occurring in what JOG system Engineering refers to as system synthesis. It is the complete swath of activity intervening between completion of the product design work and beginning of the verification work though in reality there commonly is not a clear dividing line in time separating all of the preceding and subsequent work on a program relative to the synthesis. Refer to course 321-331 for a course description.
Universal Architecture Description Framework
This course give the student insight into every method of modeling applied over the past 50 years to understand requirements and identify product entities that a system must include. It recognizes the reality that all of the very smart people who developed these models failed to integrate and optimize across the models to gain a condition of comprehensiveness. Thee comprehensive UADF models are offered that are truly comprehensive in that they can be applied to any system development activity no matter how they will be implemented in hardware, software, and people doing things such that every requirements recognized in every specification will have been identified through the models employed. Refer to course 322-328 for course details.
Applied Technology Institute Courses
Jeff Grady has presented several system engineering courses for Applied Technology Institute (ATI) based in Riva, MD. At present he commonly presents two courses once on each coast each year. Those who wish to attend should register through ATI at (888) 501-2100. ATI can also arrange for presentation of any of the courses identified on this web site at the client’s facility. 3321 Total Systems Engineering and Management This course covers each of the four system development program fundamentals from a system engineering perspective, one per day for four days: (1) system management, (2) system requirements, (3) system synthesis, and (4) system verification. Refer to course 321-401 for course details. 3322 System Engineering – Requirements This JOG System Engineering course 321-321 that encourages the use of modeling as the basis for identification of requirements that will appear in program specifications. This course has been presented over 120 times in the last 20 years all over the country. Both requirements analysis and management aspects are covered.
Execuspec Courses
Mr. Warren Smith, President of Execuspec based in Scottsdale, AZ and Jeff Grady maintain an understanding to cooperate in consulting and training opportunities where a mutual benefit is perceived.