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Dr. Arthur Pyster from the Steven Institute of Technology spoke on creating the systems engineering body of knowledge and curriculum guidelines for graduate degree programs in systems engineering at our speaker meeting on October 29, 2009. The following information provides more insight into Dr. Pyster’s presentation. A three-year global effort to create an internationally accepted body of knowledge for systems engineering is underway. To be successful, the effort will need hundreds of reviewers that each represent one or more of the many domains and disciplines that deal with complex systems. These domains and disciplines include, but are not limited to, health/medical, entertainment, energy, telecommunications, transportation, commercial, security, and safety. If you would like to be a part of a concerted effort to build a foundational and widely accepted body of knowledge and/or a graduate level curriculum framework for systems engineering, please volunteer to become a reviewer on the Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering (BKCASE – pronounced “bookcase”) project.
Reviewers will be asked to provide comments on authored documents to the extent they are willing and able. A few dozen authors will also be invited to participate on the project, to attend quarterly workshops held around the world, and to organize and document systems engineering content. The BKCASE team, led by Stevens Institute of Technology and the Naval Postgraduate School, kicked off in September 2009. BKCASE will produce a robust Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SE BoK) and a Graduate Reference Curriculum in Systems Engineering (GRCSE – pronounced “Gracie”) in annual increments starting next year. BKCASE is endorsed by the INCOSE Board of Directors, with significant funding from the U.S. Department of Defense and support from the IEEE Systems Council. BKCASE is being generated in response to a call from government and industry for a globally recognized, community-created foundation for the SE discipline. Figure 1 above, left) describes the main purpose of BKCASE, showing the project in the upper left-hand corner, and the products—comprised of SE BoK and GRCSE—in the lower right-hand corner. As shown, the BKCASE project is supported by systems engineering experts in the community who together will create the BKCASE products. Likewise, the community that shapes and endorses the project will also be the primary users of the products. Once the 1.0 versions of the products are approved and published, professional societies will maintain the products. The development and relationships for the SE BoK and GRCSE are summarized in Figures 2 (above, right) and 3 (below, left), respectively. The complete BKCASE systems diagram is shown in Figure 4 (below, right). The BKCASE vision is that SE competency models, certification programs, textbooks, graduate programs, and related workforce development initiatives around the world will align themselves with BKCASE. If you are interested in supporting BKCASE in any capacity, or if you have source material to offer, please contact the project leader, Dr. Art Pyster, by email at:
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. For additional information on BKCASE, please see www.bkcase.org. |
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