Management of Systems Engineering and Integration

As complex projects (new aircraft, satellites, enterprise software applications, communications networks, energy production facilities, etc.) become even more complicated with new technologies and interfaces, managers and engineering team leaders face increased quality, scheduling, cost, and performance  risks that can affect customer and shareholder value.

To enhance your management capabilities and leadership in the arena of Systems Engineering, this program will show you how to:

• Take a strategic view of programs and the ipact on the overall business
• Lead more effectively
• Build high performance project teams Understand customer needs and value propositions
• Communicate to lead
• Forecast and measure the success of a program
• Continually increase customer satisfaction

This unique program is a collaboration between the Tepper School of Business,the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon, and YOU. Your hands-on experience and the select network of participants in the classroom will be a valuable contribution to the program sessions. We will ask you to bring one of your most challenging systems engineering problems for analysis to the program.

Program Content

Week A

• Current State of Systems Engineering
• Assessing Your Team's Capabilities
• Engineering Measurement & Metric
• Building the Team for High Performance
• Communicating the Correct Message to All Stakeholders
• Counteracting Risks and Capitalizing on Opportunities
• Analyzing the Tasks of Complex Systems Integration
• Identifying Customer Needs and Customer Value
• Creating Confidence in Program Execution & Cost Credibility

Week B

• A Business Mindset and Engineering Discipline
• How to Be a Star Engineer
• Managing the Customer Relationship
• Requirements Engineering and Scope Creep
• Agile Development and Software Engineering
• Negotiating, Conflict and Perceptual Gaps in Teams
• Getting to Customer Value When Negotiating Specifications
• The Engineer of the Future
• The Risks of Better Faster Cheaper
• Extreme Systems Engineering Paradigms
• Managing Different Types of Meetings
• Managing Collaborative Problem Solving
• Achieving Desired Behaviors of Self-Directed Team