Education is an important focus subject for the Systems Engineering Technical Committee. The 1st Systems Engineering Course was taught internally within the SETC by Rich Harwell in October 1999 concurrent with the SETC Quarterly meeting held in conjunction with the NDIA Systems Engineering Conference in San Diego. The short course “Overview of ANSI/EIA-632-1998, Processes for Engineering a System” was taught as a process support class for an SETC Project called Sharing Knowledge Across TCs (SKATC). The course was repeated in January 2000 at Reno for the AIAA Engineering and Technology Management Directorate to support the SKATC project. The training provided practical process knowledge for the project team during the development of an internal AIAA staff requirements definition document that was used to develop the AIAA website.

Our committee has been tasked by the AIAA Technical Activities Committee to develop a series of ‘applied systems engineering’ courses that can be taught at various AIAA conferences. “Resolving Requirements Conflicts” will be the 1st in the Applied Systems Engineering Course Series offered by the SETC at the Aerospace Science Conference held at RENO in January 2002.

SETC plans regional quarterly meetings held in conjunction with external systems engineering liaisons like the NDIA Systems Engineering Conference, AIAA Conferences like Aerospace Sciences, Joint Propulsion, and regional AIAA Section activities. Our committee is dedicated to providing technical services that support membership professional development and guidance in advanced formal education.