Georgia Tech: Leading Systems Engineering Teams

Leading Systems Engineering Teams

Program ID: DEF 4503P
Program type: Short Courses (weekday)
CEUs: 1.95

Location/
(Accommodations)

Program Administrator

Start

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Status

Cost

GTRI Washington Office
(Residence Inn Arlington Rosslyn)

Mr. Tom McDermott

May 11, 2010

May 13, 2010

$1,495.00

Section ID: 10261/220410400

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 11, 2010 (8:30 AM-5:00 PM)
•Wednesday, May 12, 2010 (8:30 AM-5:00 PM)
•Thursday, May 13, 2010 (8:30 AM-5:00 PM)

Course Description

Effective systems engineers excel in systems engineering and project management. What can you learn from systems engineering to become a better manager? How does a project manager manage systems engineering? Good systems engineering requires discipline in planning and organization. Learn to apply concepts to your organization and how you manage and lead. Learn to apply management and development techniques used in many successful commercial and government programs.

Who Should Attend

Professionals with several years of experience and a desire to better apply systems principles to their roles

How You Will Benefit

Understand key systems practices as applied to management
Understand team-based organizations
Established methods for leading engineers and engineering teams
Apply systems engineering to project management
Know the importance of the system life cycle and project phases
Effectively plan and organize a project
Manage and verify customer requirements
Learn practical approaches for managing risks and opportunities
Develop key aspects of integrated product development
Know how system architecture determines success of a system design
Understand the importance (and threat) of software in complex systems

What You Will Cover

Leading Engineering Teams
Systems Engineering Management

Course Materials

Participants receive a CD-ROM and notebook with lecture slides.

Prerequisites

Fundamentals of Modern Systems Engineering is recommended.

Certificate

This course is a requirement for the Systems Engineering Certificate.

Instructors

Carlee Bishop, director of the curriculum development for the professional master's in systems engineering and certificate programs, has more than 24 years of professional military and defense-related leadership and management experience that includes directing studies and analysis efforts for headquarters European Command, managing formal flight training programs for more than 800 students, and directing college-level programs in engineering. She has more than 11 years of teaching experience that includes five and half years teaching astronautical engineering at the U.S. Air Force Academy, five plus years of flight instructor and examiner experience in C-141 Flight Training Programs, and one year teaching Space Systems Design at Georgia Institute of Technology. A command pilot with approximately 3,000 hours in C-141, T-41, TG-7, T-38, and T-37 aircraft, her service medals include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Force Commendation Medal, and the National Defense Service Medal. She earned a B.S. in electrical engineering at the Air Force Academy, a M.S.E.E. at Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. at Auburn University.

Steven Cross, a Georgia Institute of Technology vice president and director of Georgia Tech Research Institute, holds faculty appointments as a professor in industrial and systems engineering and computer science. Before joining Georgia Tech in 2003, he was the director and C.E.O. of the Software Engineering Institute, a federally funded research and development center at Carnegie Mellon University. An IEEE Fellow, Cross serves on the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency Panel for Information Science and Technology. A retired officer, Cross attended the Air Force Test Pilot School (Flight Test Engineer Course) and served in various R&D assignments as a software engineer (F-16, F-15, and B-1A programs), flight test engineer (Air Launched Cruise Missile program), assistant professor, research manager (Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories), and DARPA program manager. Cross received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1983, his M.S.E.E. from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1977, and his B.S.E.E. from the University of Cincinnati in 1974.

Tom McDermott, director of research and deputy director of Georgia Tech Research Institute's Electronic Systems Laboratory and GTRI principal research engineer, has 23 years of experience in the development and management of complex systems, focusing on aircraft avionics, mission planning, and command and control. McDermott has developed a broad level of experience in many engineering disciplines in his career, including systems architecture, systems engineering process, software engineering, system simulation and modeling, computer architecture, computer network design, avionics architecture, electronics mechanical design and manufacturing, and engineering process improvement. He holds a B.S. in physics and M.S. in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.