Architecture-Based Systems Integration - George Mason University

Architecture-Based Systems Integration from George Mason University is a Campus Certificate Systems Engineering degree that prepares you for a Engineering career. There is much interest today in the engineering of systems that are themselves comprised of other component systems, and where each of the component systems serves organizational and human purposes. These systems families are often categorized as systems-of-systems, or federations of systems . The design of architectures is a major ingredient in the design of systems families and provides the conceptual basis for achieving system integration. Towards this end, the Department of Defense has issued new regulations for acquisition of systems . These require an architecture-based approach and focus on how a proposed system will be integrated with other existing or planned systems. Industry is expected to follow the new guidelines. The Architecture-Based System Integration Certificate was created to prepare system engineers for these new demands. Studies cover: formulation of the system integration problem, definition of architecture frameworks, use of structured analysis and object oriented methodologies for the design of architectures, modeling and simulation for evaluation of architectures and approaches to integration. Both defense and industrial applications are considered. Students may pursue the certificate as apart of the MS in Systems Engineering degree program or as a stand-alone graduate certificate in Architecture-Based Systems Integration. View more details on George Mason University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Systems Engineering courses.