Model-based Systems Engineering Boot Camp: An Initiative to Integrate Current Systems Engineering Transformations into Workforce Development

该项目将通过支持一个关于生产工程的基于模型的系统工程的讲习班，帮助满足国家对受过良好教育的工程师和技术人员的需求。 模型是思想、关系、结构和其他构造的简化表示。 模型的示例包括图形、图表、数学方程和物理表示。基于模型的系统工程可以帮助工程师更好地理解流程，做出决策并预测结果。 该项目将支持在德克萨斯州埃尔帕索举行的为期两天的基于模型的系统工程训练营。该训练营将包括基于模型的系统工程行业专家，来自全国各地的两年制和四年制学院和大学的教师，来自国家实验室的科学家以及将促进训练营活动的培训师。为了吸引更多的参与者，研究人员将通过系统工程专业协会宣传训练营。 训练营将制作白色文件、基于模型的系统工程培训手册、案例研究、培训示例和印刷工作簿。它还将制定如何将基于模型的系统工程纳入各级课程的指导方针。将利用一个网站向任何感兴趣的个人或组织提供由此产生的开放获取材料。 预计该训练营将为改善和扩大基于模型的系统工程教育奠定基础，以提高国家STEM劳动力的能力。基于模型的系统工程是一种系统工程方法，侧重于在整个项目生命周期中使用模型，从设计和开发到运营。 最近，这种方法也被用于计算机模拟实验，以进一步克服系统模型规范和相应的模拟软件之间的差距。基于模型的系统工程有可能通过在协调大型团队的工作时最大限度地减少不必要的概念手动转录来提高生产力。基于模型的系统工程的应用，生产工程系统是新颖的，越来越重要的生产系统变得越来越复杂。该项目将寻求提高这一重要工程领域的劳动力技能。 该项目由NSF的EHR核心研究：生产工程教育和研究（ECR：PEER）计划资助，该计划旨在改善未来和当前生产工程专业人员的教育。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated engineers and technicians by supporting a workshop on model-based systems engineering for production engineering. Models are simplified representations of ideas, relationships, structures, and other constructs. Examples of models include graphs, diagrams, mathematical equations, and physical representations. Model-based systems engineering helps engineers better understand processes, make decisions, and predict outcomes. This project will support a two-day bootcamp on model-based systems engineering that will be held in El Paso, Texas. The bootcamp will include industry experts on model-based systems engineering, faculty from two- and four-year colleges and universities across the country, scientists from national laboratories, and trainers who will facilitate the bootcamp activities. To attract additional participants, the investigators will advertise the bootcamp through systems engineering professional societies. The bootcamp will produce white papers, model-based systems engineering training manuals, case studies, training examples, and printed workbooks. It will also develop guidelines for how to incorporate model-based systems engineering into curricula at all levels. A website will be used to provide the resulting open-access materials to any interested individual or organization. It is expected that this bootcamp will lay a foundation for improving and expanding model-based systems engineering education to enhance the capabilities of the Nation's STEM workforce.Model-based systems engineering is a systems engineering methodology that focuses on using models throughout a project life cycle, from design and development through operations. More recently, this approach has also been useful for computer simulation experiments, to further overcome the gap between the system model specification and the respective simulation software. Model-based systems engineering has the potential to increase productivity by minimizing unnecessary manual transcription of concepts when coordinating the work of large teams. The application of model-based systems engineering to production engineering systems is novel and of increasing importance as production systems become more complex. This project will seek to increase workforce skills in this important area of engineering. This project is funded by NSF's EHR Core Research: Production Engineering Education and Research (ECR: PEER) program, which seeks to improve the education of future and current professionals in production engineering. It also aims to study the effectiveness of the innovative educational strategies adopted by these projects.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.