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

该项目将通过支持生产工程的基于模型的系统工程讲习班，为国家对受过良好教育的工程师和技术人员的需要作出贡献。模型是思想、关系、结构和其他构造的简化表示。模型的例子包括图形、图表、数学方程和物理表示。基于模型的系统工程帮助工程师更好地理解过程，做出决策，并预测结果。该项目将支持在德克萨斯州El Paso举行的为期两天的基于模型的系统工程训练营。训练营将包括基于模型的系统工程的行业专家，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。该训练营将制作白皮书、基于模型的系统工程培训手册、案例研究、培训示例和印刷的工作手册。它还将为如何将基于模型的系统工程纳入各级课程制定指导方针。一个网站将用于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进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侧重于在整个项目生命周期（从设计和开发到操作）中使用模型的系统工程方法论。最近，这种方法也被用于计算机仿真实验，以进一步克服系统模型规范和各自仿真软件之间的差距。在协调大型团队的工作时，基于模型的系统工程有可能通过最小化不必要的手工概念转录来提高生产力。基于模型的系统工程在生产工程系统中的应用是新颖的，随着生产系统变得越来越复杂，它的重要性也越来越大。这个项目将寻求在这个重要的工程领域提高劳动力技能。该项目由美国国家科学基金会EHR核心研究：生产工程教育与研究（ECR: PEER）项目资助，该项目旨在改善未来和当前生产工程专业人员的教育。它还旨在研究这些项目所采用的创新教育策略的有效性。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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.