Courses at UAHuntsville
Systems Engineering Overview
Systems engineering is a primary approach to the increasing size and complexity of modern systems. This overview is designed to introduce the systems engineer and project manager to fundamental concepts and operating principles of systems engineering. Begin with basic techniques that govern the SE process and identify how SE fits into the overall project management process. Address the systems engineering problem-solving process and some of the traditional techniques used by systems engineers. Learn about analysis and control tools that provide balance to the SE process. Conclude with a discussion of current trends in SE and SE management.
Systems Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation
Develop an understanding of the objectives of systems analysis and its foundational role in systems engineering. Complementing System Validation and Verification, this course provides broad coverage of the analytical methods that, with tests, provide the basis for systems validation and verification processes and procedures. It will help you develop your skill base for the development of systems models, the integration of component models into a systems model, and model-based and hardware-in-the-loop simulation.
Test and Evaluation Principals
Learn how test and evaluation (T&E), acquisition, and requirements personnel integrate efforts to provide systems that perform as designed and required by the user. Grasp foundational concepts such as developing a team of key personnel, documents, and more. Gain an overview of system/system of systems T&E concepts and methods. Discover the importance of T&E planning early in requirements generation through integration of T&E in the acquisition cycle. Drawing from decades of accumulated knowledge and lessons learned in T&E and system development, this course provides you with practical guidelines and resources to successfully execute a T&E program. Upon completion, you will be familiar with elements of a test program, test sites that will provide you the best data to support your test requirement, and confidence to proceed with assurance in your role.
Test Evaluation Assessment
Understand the planning, process, and products of system evaluation and system assessment through testing. Learn how to build assessment plans and validation plans that map required system performance to test and analysis events. Learn to develop a functional dendritic to assess system performance based upon test results. Understand the relationship between Modeling & Simulation (M&S) and test in a Model-Test-Model approach, as well as in Live-Virtual-Constructive environments. Learn the meaning and importance of operationally relevant environments as it relates to Technical Readiness Levels (TRLs) and how to assess threat and environmental realism for test design. Put these skills into practice in the controlled environment of course example problems.
Customized Courses
UAHuntsville supports custom classes tailored to specific needs of organizations, and will work with customers to design courses to include subject matter, course length, and scheduling. Courses may be face to face at UAH or at customer facilities, live online, recorded for on demand use, or any combination of those methods. Courses taught live are recorded and made available to the customer for future reference. Minimum price/number of students apply.
Recent customized courses developed by Mr. Tackett include System Verification and Validation Using M&S and Test, offered to the US Air Force live online, and an available course on Modeling and Simulation Fundamentals.