ü From March 14 – April 6, 2022 (4 Weeks, 8 Classes, 16 Hours)
ü Every Monday and Wednesday at 1300-1500 Eastern Time (all sessions will be recorded and available for replay; course notes will be available for download)
ü Learn how to deal with scale, interdependencies, and interconnectedness in large aerospace systems
ü All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course
Overview
This comprehensive 16-hour course covers systems thinking for addressing complexity in the development of modern aerospace systems. Applying a systems approach provides insight into the unexpected ways a system will behave due to complexity. Learning how to deal with scale, interdependencies, and interconnectedness in large systems uncovers leverage points for managing complexity. The course covers complexity management from a number of perspectives, including organizational learning, quantitative metrics and system visualization techniques.
Learning Objectives
- Explain the causes of emergent behavior
- Determine whether a problem is in the simple, complicated, complex or chaotic domain
- Compare systems thinking and systems engineering historically and currently
- Apply Senge's Five Disciplines to engineering problem-solving methodology
- Demonstrate how feedback mechanisms highlight how delays cause system oscillations
- Synthesize methods used in other industries that are compatible with hardware focused engineered systems
- See detailed outline below
Intended participants are engineers and aerospace professionals in technical fields who work on large system development. It is not geared toward a specific technical field, rather to engineers and leaders that could use a bigger picture perspective on system interactions. The course benefits anyone interested in understanding and managing complexity within aerospace.
Course Fees (Sign-In To Register)
- AIAA Member Price: $845 USD
- Non-Member Price: $1045 USD
- AIAA Student Member Price: $495 USD
- How Complexity Affects Aerospace
- Griffin’s Elegant Design
- Definition of Complexity and Emergent Behavior
- Linear vs. Non-linear Thinking
- Development of Systems Engineering and Systems Thinking
- Thinking in Systems
- How Perspective Influences your Decisions
- Meadows Systems Approach to Problem Solving
- Systems Thinking for Learning Organizations
- Double Loop Learning and System Traps
- Transformation Engineering
- Guiding Principles for Complexity
- INCOSE Primer
- Underlying Systemic Structure Models
- Cynefin Domain Categories for Problems and Types of Solutions
- Complex Adaptive Systems
- Addressing Emergent Behavior and Self-Organization
- Organizations as Complex Adaptive Systems
- Collaborative Systems Thinking and Sensemaking
- Complexity Measurement and Risk Assessment
- Complexity Induced Vulnerabilities
- Complexity Metrics and Visualization
- Circuit Breaker Interventions
- Coupling and Modularity Aspects of Complexity
- Case Studies in Aerospace
- Agile for Aircraft Systems Integration
- Four Frame Model Case Studies
- Space Shuttle Accident Investigations
- Engineering Problem Solving Strategies
- Summary and Further Learning Opportunities
Dr. Dianne DeTurris is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, CA. She has taught propulsion courses for 20 years, with a research specialization in hypersonic airbreathing propulsion, and teaches complexity in engineered systems. She is an academic scholar for the AIAA Complex Aerospace Systems Exchange and written extensively on complexity in aerospace. She also researches global competency for engineers.
Dr. Shannon Flummerfelt is an Endowed Professor at Oakland University in Organizational Leadership. She specializes in organizational and employee development, including systems competency and Lean. She is editor of AIAA Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics volume 256, Complex Systems Engineering: Theory and Practice.
Course Delivery and Materials
- The course classes will be delivered via Zoom. You can test your connection here: https://zoom.us/test
- Access to the Zoom classroom will be provided to registrants near the course start date.
- All slides will be available for download.
- No part of these materials may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted, unless for course participants. All rights reserved.
- Between lectures during the course, the instructors will be available via email for technical questions and comments.
Contact: Please contact Lisa Le or Customer Service if you have questions about the course or group discounts (for 5+ participants).