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Quantifying the Ability of the Digital Engineering Factory to Address the Digital Engineering Competency Framework

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Portland, Oregon

Publication Date

June 23, 2024

Start Date

June 23, 2024

End Date

July 12, 2024

Conference Session

Systems Thinking

Tagged Division

Systems Engineering Division (SYS)

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Joe Gregory The University of Arizona

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Dr. Joe Gregory is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona. His research interests include engineering education, digital engineering, model-based systems engineering, and the application of semantic web technologies to support engineering. In 2022, he received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Bristol for his development of the SysML-based ‘Spacecraft Early Analysis Model’. He is the co-chair of the Digital Engineering Information Exchange (DEIX) Taxonomy Working Group.

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Alejandro Salado The University of Arizona Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-9378-0795

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Dr. Alejandro Salado is an associate professor of systems engineering with the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on unveiling the scientific foundations of systems engineering a

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Abstract

It has been argued that higher education environments around the world have a responsibility to reevaluate their role in the education of future engineers as the engineering discipline undergoes significant change. The Digital Engineering Factory (DEF) is being developed by the University of Arizona (UA) to support the latest developments in digital engineering. The DEF is a collaborative digital engineering environment at the heart of the engineering curriculum. It comprises a tool suite that spans multiple engineering disciplines, thus supporting multiple courses across the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering (SIE), which houses the systems engineering, industrial engineering, engineering management, and software engineering (SFWE) programs. In this paper, we evaluate the degree to which the DEF has the potential to address the competencies outlined by the System Engineering Research Center (SERC) in their Digital Engineering Competency Framework (DECF). The DECF has been developed to provide the Department of Defense (DoD) with a set of well-defined competencies comprising the knowledge, skills, abilities and behaviors (KSABs) that are required of the digital engineering workforce.

Gregory, J., & Salado, A. (2024, June), Quantifying the Ability of the Digital Engineering Factory to Address the Digital Engineering Competency Framework Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/47911

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