Georgia Tech: Test & Evaluation Using Modeling & Simulation

Test & Evaluation Using Modeling & Simulation

Program ID: DEF 5002P
Program type: Short Courses (weekday)
CEUs: 1.4

Location/
(Accommodations)

Program Administrator

Start

End

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Cost

Georgia Tech Global Learning Center
(Georgia Tech Hotel)

Dr. Steve Gordon

May 4, 2010

May 5, 2010

$995.00

Section ID: 10193/220410355

NOTES:
-- On the first day, check in at least 30 minutes before the class start time.
-- Discount available for companies that send 3 or more people to this course. Call 404-385-3501 to register your group.

-- Georgia Tech employees should call 404-385-3501 to register by phone, and have their PeopleSoft number ready.

Meeting time(s):
•Tuesday, May 4, 2010 (8:00 AM-5:00 PM)
•Wednesday, May 5, 2010 (8:00 AM-5:00 PM)

Course Description

Review the basics of test & evaluation and modeling & simulation. Modeling & simulation basics include model construction, model taxonomy, the availability of modeling & simulation resources, and model verification, validation, and accreditation. Examine examples of traditional applications of modeling & simulation to test & evaluation. Explore the development of new applications to streamline the product development and test & evaluation processes, along with their effects on test & evaluation, M&S, and their relationships.

Who Should Attend

Technicians
Managers

How You Will Benefit

Understand the range of modeling & simulation applications to test & evaluation
Select and accredit modeling & simulation for test & evaluation applications
Know where to find resources to aid in the process

What You Will Cover

Test & Evaluation as part of Systems Engineering
Test & Evaluation Approach Derived from Mission
Modeling & Simulation Overview
Applications of Modeling & Simulation to Test & Evaluation

Course Materials

Participants will receive a notebook of course materials.

Certificates

This course is a requirement for the Test & Evaluation Certificate.

Instructors

Dana Stocks, director of education and training at Georgia Tech Test & Evaluation Research and Education Center, has been heavily involved in modeling & simulation as it applies to test & evaluation. She served as software lead for the development of the MARION tool while under contract with the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center and performed an accreditation study for a test & evaluation application of modeling & simulation for the Army Operational Test and Evaluation Command. Stocks also helped produce a handbook on target location system test & evaluation. She has been a research scientist for Georgia Institute of Technology since 1990.

George A. "Fred" Wright, principal research engineer and chief engineer for the Systems Evaluation Division at Georgia Tech Research Institute, received a B.S. in 1986 from Memphis State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1987 and 1996. He focuses on technology support for novel C2 paradigms and has developed network-centric test and evaluation concepts and systems for all of the services and is supporting testing for the Marine Corps, Army, and Air National Guard. In addition, he works within the Joint System Integration Command at Joint Force Command to devise approaches to operational picture utilization and development.

Course Administrator

For more information about this course or an offering at your location, contact the course administrator:

Steve "Flash" Gordon
407-482-1423
steve.gordon@gtri.gatech.edu

Steve "Flash" Gordon is the GTRI Orlando Field Office manager and Georgia Tech's director of the Test and Evaluation Research and Education Center. He served more than 26 years in the U.S. Air Force as an aircrew member in the F-111, director of Air Operations Centers in Pacific Command, Air Staff division chief for Modeling & Simulation, and professor and head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Air Force Academy. He also served five years as the technical director for the Air Force Agency for Modeling & Simulation.