Jeffrey O. Grady, Instructor

Summary

The management course combines two courses offered in a previous version of the program and the text is a merger of two books written by the lecturer with added material. The course provides an introduction to the training program (where this course leads off in a complete certificate program), builds needed vocabulary, gives an overview and foundation of the system engineering process, and focuses on the management aspects of system development. Students will be challenged to prepare a system engineering process document of a form encouraged by the client or provide critical review of an existing one for their company. The table below offers an outline for the course.

Instructor

Jeff Grady is the President of JOG System Engineering, Inc., a system engineering consulting firm focused on the assessment of company's current capability coupled with education initiatives leading to planned improvements. Over the past ten years Jeff has provided training and consulting services for companies producing a broad range of products to a wide range of customers. Products have included aircraft, missile, farm equipment, medical equipment, unmanned aircraft, railroad, construction equipment, radio, radar, ship, nuclear, automotive, and battlefield management systems. These firms have included DoD contractors, commercial firms, and government agencies. Formerly, the Manager of System Development for General Dynamics Space Systems Division working on space transport and energy systems. Other experience, over a period of 30 years in industry, has included: system engineer with GD Convair on cruise missiles; system engineer, project engineer, and field engineer for Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical on unmanned photo reconnaissance, SIGINT, electronic warfare, and target aircraft, and customer training instructor for Librascope on underwater fire control systems. Served in the US Marines in the aviation communications field.

Author of five books in the system engineering field (System Requirements Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1993; System Integration, CRC Press, 1994; System Engineering Planning and Enterprise Identity, CRC Press, 1994; System Validation and Verification, CRC Press, 1997; and System Engineering Deployment, CRC Press, 1999) as well as technical papers. He has lectured in system engineering at UC San Diego, Berkeley, and Irvine, University of Alabama, Huntsville, Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne, and Long Beach State. Jeff is a graduate of San Diego State University with a bachelors degree in mathematics and holds a Master of Science in system management from the University of Southern California (USC). He also has a certificate in information systems from USC.

Jeff is a member of IEEE as well as a charter member, past Secretary, and founding editor of the Journal for INCOSE. In 2001 Jeff was honored by INCOSE with the Fellow Award and in 2002 with the Founder's Award.

Course Outline

Hour 01 — Introduction to the Certificate Program and Course; Introduction to System Engineering
Hour 02 — A Generic Life Cycle Development Process
Hour 03 — A Generic Life Cycle Development Process (Continued)
Hour 04 — Organizational Structures
Hour 05 — Standards and Continuous Process Improvement
Hour 06 — Generic Development Process Workshop
Hour 07 — Generic Development Process Workshop (Continued)
Hour 08 — Generic Process Documentation
Hour 09 — Generic Process Documentation Workshop
Hour 10 — Workshop (Continued)
Hour 11 — Program Phasing and Reviews
Hour 12 — Product System Definition
Hour 13 — Program Work Definition
Hour 14 — Program Work Definition (Continued)
Hour 15 — Cost/Schedule Control System
Hour 16 — Program Risk Management
Hour 17 — Program Planning Workshop
Hour 18 — Workshop (Continued)
Hour 19 — Workshop (Continued)
Hour 20 — Baselines and Configuration Management
Hour 21 — Program Libraries and Data Management
Hour 22 — Technical and Management Tools Base
Hour 23 — System Engineering Deployment Motivation
Hour 24 — System Engineering Maturity Assessment

Tuition

Tuition for this three-day course is $1400 per person at one of our scheduled public courses. Onsite pricing is available. Please call us at 410-956-8805 or send an email to ati@ATIcourses.com.

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