Systematic Course Design At The Aerospace Institute

A new course design methodology has been created to aid instructors at The Aerospace Institute, the education and training division of The Aerospace Corporation. This methodology’s heritage is an approach described in "The New Professor's Handbook" by Dr. Cliff Davidson and Dr. Susan Ambrose that compares planning a course with planning a research project. 1 F r The Aerospace Institute this analogy has been modified to an analogy between course design and systems engineering, which is a concept very familiar to its instructors. This paper walks through this methodology and offers suggestions for implementation that should be useful in a variety of educational environments. Examples are provided throughout to illustrate the concepts.