The Architecture of the Systems Engineering Experience Accelerator

Abstract

Systems engineering educators are struggling to meet the workforce development demand for senior systems engineers. The workforce challenge is to shorten the time it takes for a systems engineer to reach the senior level. The Systems Engineering Experience Accelerator research project was conceived as a critical response to these needs and challenges. The purpose of this paper is to provide a description of the Experience Accelerator architecture which will provide the foundation for post prototype development. While the prototype is only intended as a research vehicle for conceptual design and evaluation, this architectural description should address the foreseen issues for a deployable future version of the system.

The Experience Accelerator: Tools for Development and Learning Assessment

“…The SEEA consists of the following major components as shown in Figure 2: [8] -Experience Master -Maintains current value of state variables related to experience status and performance and manages the invocation of other modules as needed. The experience master controls the flow of events and provides updated information from the other modules to the presentation engine for display.…”

“…This interaction includes exploration of archived documentation on the program, querying of non-player characters about issues of interest regarding the experience, and entering decisions about the experience to correct perceived problems. [8] A single internal interface "bus" is provided to share information between these major modules. Isolation layers are provided around the Presentation Engine to facilitate support of changing engine technologies.…”

“…The client sends the server codes for authentication and file transfers. Experience Accelerator Server System Architecture [8] 2.2 learning with the SEEA…”

“…[8] The Simulation Engine uses the Simulation Models and Data along with the Experience state that resides in the Experience Master to create an Experience Scenario optimized to meet a specific set of project goals relating to schedule, cost, capabilities and quality. The Scenario contains an objective utility function of the project metrics that the Experience Master uses to determine a score for the overall success of the experience.…”

Automated Assessment of Systems Engineering Competencies

“…This exercise is based on the notion of experiential learning, and thus will be referenced as an experiential learning module. The learner engages with the experience (i.e., simulated world), makes decisions to solve problems, sees the results of those decisions, abstracts lessons learned from what was successful and what was unsuccessful, and then repeats the process in a series of cycles, simulating the evolution of the program over time [7].…”