Quantitative Methods in Systems Engineering
Course Details
Registration: Summer 2016
Start Date: Dec, 2016
Duration: 4 - 5 weeks
Time commitment: 3-5 hours per week
Learning Format: Online
Cost: $750 per course / $2,200 for entire program ($800 savings when you sign up for complete program)
If you represent a corporation and would like to negotiate a bulk rate for your employees, please send an email to: professional.education@mit.edu
ABOUT THIS COURSE
This is the fourth course in the four-course program Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models and Methods to Manage Complex Systems. You may take this course separately.
This online course covers the fundamentals of quantitative methods in systems engineering and provides basic how-to instruction for implementing these methods for a variety of complex systems. The course is designed for engineering practitioners and managers looking to increase the use of quantitative information methods in existing systems engineering practices. The objective of the course is to provide learners with the basic knowledge and skills to determine when, where, and how to employ these methods and techniques. The curriculum of this course flows from architectural decisions to model dynamics and then to selection criteria, driven by stakeholders. It provides learners with an overview of design space exploration using models, as well as methods for analyzing and presenting the output of a model. A number of tradespace models will be presented and exercised as case studies.
Who is this course for?
This course is especially relevant for those in aerospace, automotive, and defense industries, and engineers at original equipment manufacturers (OEM). It’s also designed for systems engineering professionals, directors and senior managers across a number of industries looking to innovate and optimize their operational, manufacturing, and design systems. Departmental teams are encouraged to apply.
Key Features
- Differentiate between use cases and model types used in MBSE and engineering more broadly
- Structure a trade study process
- Construct an analysis storyline from a model and summarize the results of an analysis
- Identify the relevant metrics for a system
- Strength qualitative versus quantitative decision-making approaches
- Conduct sensitivity analyses
- Order architectural decisions by analyzing coupling and sensitivity in a given trade-space
- Use cost, performance, and value models
- Compare architecting approaches and articulate relative applicability to a given system
- Recommend plans based on trade-space across cost, schedule, scope and risk
- Construct a parametric cost model from a known CER
- Import models form library and run analyses using the model
- Determine architectural effects of data-dependencies and functions within a system
- Construct value hierarchies for stakeholder to inform system design decisions
- Critique decision analysis models, identify uncertainty, variation and dynamic subjectivity
Program Overview
To earn a Professional Certificate, you must complete the four courses in the program, however, you may take individual courses too.
Model-Based Systems Engineering: Documentation and Analysis
Quantitative Methods in Systems Engineering
CERTIFICATE
