Training Program Overview
Delivery Modes
Courses are generally presented by Jeff Grady in a meeting or class room in either short course or long course arrangement. Currently, a quarter or semester-length course format is only feasible when presented in close proximity to San Diego, CA. JOG System Engineering is developing a distance learning product that will permit students to attend from their home or place of work and participate in real time with the instructor on a world-wide basis. This should come about in 2011.
Certificate Programs
JOG System Engineering combines several series of courses to form certificate programs. The most common program is a System Engineering Certificate program formed by the four core courses. These programs are commonly sold to an enterprise and delivered in a room at their facility in short course format. If a client wishes to receive some kind of university credit for one of these programs JOG System Engineering sells the program through a university acceptable to the client that will offer credit. Where credit is offered by a university, it is generally necessary for students to take a final exam and receive a grade. In a commercial presentation exams are not necessary but available.
Public Program Calendar
NOTE: This section of the web site lists courses open to the public that will be offered on the dates, at the places noted, and sponsored by agents you can contact to register. This content changes periodically to reflect the passage of time.
INCOSE International Symposium, Denver, CO 19-23 June 2011
On the morning of Sunday 19 June 2011, Jeff will present a half-day tutorial titled "A Simple Prescription For Requirements Success" explaining a practical way to improve the production of good specifications in your organization. This includes the selection of a universal architecture description framework (UADF) from three discussed (functional analysis, MSA-PSARE, or UML-SysML) that will be the basis for the derivation of all requirements appearing in all specifications on all programs. These modeling collections are each comprehensive in that they can be used in the development of systems that will be implemented in some combination of hardware, software, and people doing things. The tutorial covers an improved specification format based on MIL-STD 961 but adjusted for paragraph alignment with the models employed. A means to capture and configuration manage the modeling artifacts is offered as well as the traceability between them and specification content. Finally, the tutorial will encourage linkage between the selected UADF and an architecture method employed such as DoDAF.
At 10AM on 20 June 2011 Jeff will also present a paper titled "Is Systems Engineering In Need of a Fix?"
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV 15-18 August 2011
On August 15, 2011 Jeff will present a full-day tutorial on a Universal Architecture Description Framework (UADF) that can be employed to accomplish system definition and requirements analysis work on any program no matter how the solution is to be implemented in terms of hardware, software, or people doing things. Three UADF are available and will be explained: functional analysis joined with models to support specialty engineering and environmental requirements analysis, MSA-PSARE, and UML-SysML. These are connected to a specification template with the structure coordinated with the modeling, traceability between the requirements and models from which derived, documentation of the modeling artifacts, and configuration management of the modeling work products.
On August 16th Jeff will also join a panel session where a series of experienced engineers and managers discuss areas that recently graduated engineers often did not receive instruction on in their preceding education and how these problems can be overcome in the future. Jeff’s topic will be environmental impact.
UCSD FALL QUARTER ON-CAMPUS SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS COURSE
During the 2011 Fall quarter at UC San Diego Extension, Jeff will teach a System Requirements Analysis course. The course stresses the use of modeling methods as the primary way of gaining insight into appropriate essential characteristics that should be contained in specifications. The three main modeling methods are discussed: functional analysis, MSA/PSARE, and UML/SysML. Three-dimensional traceability, trade studies, specification practices and many other facets of the process of developing and publishing good specifications are covered. Uses the lecturer's book "System Requirements Analysis", 2006, Elsevier as text extended by a paper on "Universal Architecture Description Framework". Contact UCSD Extension to attend.
APPLIED TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING - REQUIREMENTS COURSE
This course is identical to the course described above offered at UCSD but it is completed in three days, rather than three months, in a hotel conference room in Albuquerque, NM over the three-day period 10-12 January, 2012. Uses the lecturer’s book "System Requirements Analysis", 2006, Elsevier as text extended by a paper on "Universal Architecture Description Framework". Contact http://www.aticourses.com, ati@ATIcourses.com, (888) 501-2100 to attend.
APPLIED TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE TOTAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT COURSE
The product system produced by a program is but one system that must be considered during the development work. Ideally the enterprise and program would also be treated as the systems they are as well. Management science is expanded to include the systematic development of the enterprise and its readiness to form programs and the programs to form teams and proceed with program work. Offered in a hotel conference room in Chantilly, VA over the four-day period 30 January – 2 February, 2012. Uses the lecturer's book "System Management - Planning, Enterprise Identity, and Deployment", 2010, CRC press. Contact http://www.aticourses.com, ati@ATIcourses.com, (888) 501-2100 to attend.
APPLIED TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING - REQUIREMENTS COURSE
This course is identical to the course described above offered at UCSD but it is completed in three days, rather than three months, in a hotel conference room in Columbia, MD over the three-day period 20-22 March, 2012. Uses the lecturer's book "System Requirements Analysis" as text extended by a paper on "Universal Architecture Description Framework". Contact http://www.aticourses.com, ati@ATIcourses.com, (888) 501-2100 to attend.
APPLIED TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE TOTAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT COURSE
The product system produced by a program is but one system that must be considered during the development work. Ideally the enterprise and program would also be treated as the systems they are as well. Management science is expanded to include the systematic development of the enterprise and its readiness to form programs and the programs to form teams and proceed with program work. Offered in a hotel conference room in Columbia, MD over the four-day period 26 February - 2 March, 2012. Uses the lecturer's book "System Management - Planning, Enterprise Identity, and Deployment", 2010, CRC Press. Contact http://www.aticourses.com, ati@ATIcourses.com, (888) 501-2100 to attend.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO SYSTEM SYNTHESIS COURSE
Course covers the work of system engineers during the period of three transformations collectively synthesizing the requirements into a physical product: (1) transformation of the requirements into a design solution (concept development, preliminary design, and detail design), (2) transformation of the design into plans to acquire the materials needed to manufacture the product and the acquisition of those materials, and (3) manufacturing of the product. Topics covered include interface integration and ICWG, trade studies, risk, configuration management, design domain integration, and design reviews. Uses the lecture's book "System Synthesis", 2010, CRC Press. Contact UCSD Extension to attend. Course will be offered by distance learning in a quarter soon to be selected.
NDIA System Engineering Conference
Jeffrey O. Grady has submitted a tutorial proposal to National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) on universal architecture description framework (UADF) for possible selection for presentation at the annual NDIA conference on systems engineering at the Hyatt Regency Mission Bay hotel in San Diego, CA 24-27 October, 2011.
Course Numbering and Documentation
All courses in the JOG System Engineering System Development Training Program and the components of the documentation for those courses are identified with an identifying string of numbers as illustrated in Figure 3-1.
Figure 3-1 Course Numbering
All courses fall into one of four classes W: (1) core courses that form part of a certificate program that also happen to be the most popular courses, (2) other courses that have been prepared and presented to clients in the past, (3) special courses that combine parts of other courses in ways selected by prior clients, and (4) courses built for sale to a client. The latter courses are not available for access by the public, of course. Within the core and other classes a course may be in one of four categories X: (1) presentation, (2) tutorial, (3) quarter-based, or (4) semester-based. Within a category, a course will cover one of five fundamental activities Y that JOG System Engineering has chosen to partition all system development life cycle work into: (0) overview of the whole life cycle, (1) Management work, (2) requirements work, (3) synthesis work, and (4) verification work. Finally, a student manual will coordinate with a particular course within a fundamental activity Z. In Core courses there is only one course in each category but in the Other course group there can be several.
Each course has a student manual the structure of which is explained in Figure 3-2. Each manual if composed of three divisions: (1) Division 1 provides text material but in the case of the four core courses in quarter and semester based courses this function is satisfied by a published textbook, (2) Division 2 provides presentation, workshop (if included), and administrative information (including an outline, brief explanation of each period, and related reading assignments), and (3) Division 3 providing supporting materials
Figure 3-2 JOG System Engineering Student Manual Structure
Only the management course in the core quarter-based and semester-based courses includes Exhibits D, E, and F in Division 2 as they are intended to be supplied in support of a certificate program. Each course provides its own set of exhibits in Division 3 and not all courses include all of the exhibits illustrated.
JOG System Engineering Grand System Development Training Program Brief Program Overview
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