Combined Research and Curriculum Development in Information-Centric Systems Engineering

Presentation to INCOSE 2002, July 31, 2002 By : Mark Austin, John Baras, and Natasha Kositsyna
Table of Contents	Contact Information and Project Participants
Graduate Program in Systems Engineering Education at Maryland Master of Science in Systems Engineering (MSSE) Program Objectives and Scope of NSF CRCD Project Need for a Fresh Look at Systems Engineering Major Challenges facing the Practicing Systems Engineer Our Strategy and Approach to Systems Engineering Practice Automation of Multidisciplinary Information-Based Design Curriculum Architecture and Deliverables Key Technical Areas University, Industry and Publishing Components of NSF-CRCD Proposed Architecture for NSF-CRCD Materials Case Study Framework and Relevant UML Diagrams Motivation and Mechanisms for Web-Based Systems Engineering Mechanisms for Web-Based Systems Engineering Training Annotating Diagrams with Use Case Pathways Connecting Use-Case Pathways to Discipline-Specific Activities Java-Enabled Diagram Technology Plan of Work for Research and Software Development Phase 1 : The JaDia Markup Language Phase 2 : Simple Java-enabled Diagrams Phase 3 : Click-and-Drop Editor for Java-enabled Diagrams What's Next .... Conclusions and Future Work	Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. E-mail : austin@isr.umd.edu UMD Project Participants: Mark Austin, John Baras, Michael Casey, Bernie Frankpitt, Lee Harper, Vimal Mayank, Natasha Kositsyna, Shah-An Yang. Students in the Master of Science in Systems Engineering (MSSE) program at UMD (e.g., Scott Selberg). Industry Participants: GE Network Solutions, Lockheed Martin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.