1.0 // FOR EDUCATORS
Teach the MBSE workforce of tomorrow.
IDEA equips faculty with ready-to-deploy training materials, lesson plans, and instructor preparation — everything you need to bring Systems Engineering Technology into your classroom.
2.0 // CURRICULUM ROADMAP
Five courses, from systems thinking to a delivered model.
SET Academy develops systems modeling capability progressively across five courses. Students begin by learning how to think about and describe systems, progress into building and analyzing system models, and conclude by applying those skills to a customer-oriented capstone project.
S1
Introduction to Systems Engineering
Understand the System
Students establish the foundations needed to work with complex systems.
Key areas include
- Systems and system decomposition
- Systems thinking
- System definitions, states, interfaces, and related systems
- Engineering and systems engineering
- Requirements development and management
- Verification and validation
- System design and analysis
- Product lifecycles and technical reviews
- Risk management
- Introduction to system modeling and MBSE
Student emphasis: Understand, define, decompose, analyze, and communicate systems.
M1
Systems Modeling I
Build the Model
Students move from systems concepts into hands-on model development using SysML and MBSE tools.
Key areas include
- MBSE and SysML fundamentals
- Modeling-tool navigation
- Model organization and packages
- Blocks and Block Definition Diagrams
- Use Case Diagrams
- Requirements Diagrams
- Activity Diagrams
- State Machine Diagrams
- Sequence Diagrams
- Internal Block Diagrams
- Parametric Diagrams
- Integrated modeling project
Student emphasis: Create and manipulate system model elements and diagrams.
M2
Systems Modeling II
Integrate and Analyze the Model
Students develop more integrated models and begin using models for analysis and engineering decision support.
Key areas include
- Requirements integration
- Cross-diagram relationships
- Internal Block Diagrams
- Ports, flows, and conveyed items
- Parametric modeling
- Model simulation
- Mathematical simulation
- Simulation configuration and interfaces
- Trade studies
- Matrices, maps, and tables
- Connections with other engineering tools
- Integrated modeling project
Student emphasis: Connect, simulate, analyze, and evaluate model information.
M3
Systems Modeling III
Apply Digital Engineering Practices
Students learn to plan, organize, review, interpret, and communicate larger modeling efforts.
Key areas include
- Model purpose, inputs, and outputs
- Model scope and sizing
- Work Breakdown Structures and scheduling
- Dashboards and model navigation
- Model libraries and packages
- Model reviews
- Storyboarding and technical presentations
- Model-generated reports
- Digital engineering concepts
- Model analysis
- Regulations and standards
- Engineering profiles
- MBSE methodologies
- Other MBSE tools
- Certification preparation
Student emphasis: Plan and manage modeling work while using the model as an engineering information resource.
CAP1
Systems Engineering Technology Capstone
Deliver the Model
Students apply the skills developed throughout SET Academy to a team-based, customer-oriented modeling project.
Students:
- Assess a project and engineering data package
- Establish system boundaries and project understanding
- Develop questions for the customer
- Participate in customer discussions
- Create a modeling and work plan
- Determine model structure and required diagrams
- Develop and refine the system model
- Conduct instructor and independent model reviews
- Evaluate and respond to review comments
- Prepare technical products
- Deliver the final model and supporting products
- Present project results
Student emphasis: Perform the work of a systems modeler as part of an engineering team.
Program Progression
By the end of the sequence, students have progressed from learning systems concepts to applying MBSE methods and tools in a structured project environment — SET Academy students learn Systems Engineering by doing MBSE.
3.0 // GO FURTHER
Ready to adopt the full SET program?
Beyond individual resources, IDEA provides the complete scaffolding — curriculum, lab configurations, and instructor preparation — to stand up a Systems Engineering Technology program at your institution.