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Curriculum Alignment Use Case for Competency Frameworks at the Naval Postgraduate School
Author(s) -
Whitcomb Clifford A.,
Khan Rabia,
White Corina
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2016.00148.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , navy , tracking (education) , engineering management , stakeholder , medical education , engineering , competency assessment , curriculum development , management , psychology , pedagogy , medicine , political science , law , economics
The US Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, is sponsoring a strategic initiative led by a team from the Naval Postgraduate School Systems Engineering Department to implement an overall approach to study and develop a systems engineering career competency model. Competencies are defined as the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for a systems engineer to perform tasks related to the discipline. The Naval Postgraduate School has used a competency framework for educational curriculum development purposes. Each competency and the associated KSAs are partitioned into a series of typical career development points, to allow for planning and tracking of a competency‐based development of systems engineers. The focus of this paper is on use of competency frameworks for aligning curricula to meet stakeholder competency requirements, using a specific course implementation example.