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5.2.1 Can Systems Engineering be taught at Undergraduate Level?
Author(s) -
Goodlass Sue
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2004.tb00547.x
Subject(s) - engineering management , undergraduate student , medical education , computer science , engineering , engineering ethics , mathematics education , psychology , medicine
Everyone knows that Systems Engineering is complicated and difficult. It takes a long time to become sufficiently experienced to be a good practitioner and people need to make mistakes in order to learn from them. How successfully then, can such a difficult topic be taught at undergraduate level? In the early 1990's, BAE SYSTEMS engaged Loughborough University to develop and deliver an undergraduate systems engineering programme and has recruited engineers from it since the first cohort graduated in 1997. This paper describes how the programme was designed and developed and compares systems engineers graduating from this programme with other engineers in BAE SYSTEMS.