Systems Engineering Management
BUSA-40066
Intended for managers, engineers, and technical specialists
who desire a broader understanding of the systems engineering process and its management applications. Students will examine typical system life cycles and acquisition processes, engineering management planning, tools for technical program planning and control, and activities within the systems engineering process.
Course Highlights
- Systems engineering defined
- System life cycle and acquisition processes
- Engineering management planning
- Technical program planning and control
- Engineering decision and control process
- Risk and margin management
- Interface, configuration and data management
- System and performance requirements
- Functional analysis
- System architecting
- Systems integration
- Logistics support analysis
- Specialty engineering integration
- Applying systems engineering principles
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Cultivate a broader understanding of systems engineering process and technical program planning and control
- Identify impacts of integrated product development and total quality management of systems engineering
- Develop a greater cross-functional awareness, understanding and appreciation of other departments contributions to any project
- Acquire skills and tools that will increase effectiveness in environments where multi-disciplined teams are developing the requirements, design, and production processes for new systems and products
Course Typically Offered: Online in Fall and Spring quarters.
Next Step: After completing this course, consider taking other courses in the Systems Engineering certificate program to continue learning.
Contact: For more information about this course please email unexengr@ucsd.edu.
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This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
Textbooks:
Combo Systems Engineering Management Reader (Digital & Print) 1st
by Muehlbach, Donald
ISBN / ASIN: 9780100728813
You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.
Policies:
- No refunds after: 9/30/2024
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Instructor:
Donald Muehlbach, Ph.D.
Professor of Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School; USN Engineering Duty Officer Captain
Donald S. Muehlbach Jr. is a professor of systems engineering for the Naval Postgraduate School. He has taught systems engineering for UC San Diego since 1995. He is also a USN Engineering Duty Officer Captain, Reserve Component. Previously, he was a senior systems engineer at SAIC for 20 years and the director of technology programs for UC San Diego for six years.
Awards:
- Recipient of the 2015 Allen Griffin Award for Excellence in Post-Secondary Teaching
- Recipient of the 2013 Rear Admiral John Jay Schieffelin Award for Teaching Excellence
- Recipient of the 2011 GSEAS Faculty Award for Extraordinary Merit in Teaching
- Fifteen-time recipient of The Wayne E. Meyer Award for Excellence in Systems Engineering: December 2010, March 2011, September 2011, December 2011 (two awards), June 2012, September 2012 (two awards), June 2013 (two awards), September 2014, March 2015, December 2015, March 2016, and December 2016
- Awarded the Legion of Merit Medal in the USN for Exceptional Meritorious Performance, 2011
Boards and Memberships:
- INCOSE
- ASNE
- USNI
