Digital Engineering Fundamentals For Leadership
Examine the importance of digitally connected systems and knowing how to create complex, interconnected systems of products, services, and capabilities more quickly and effectively.
L. Dale Thomas
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Description
The adoption of Digital Engineering across a product’s lifecycle can be a transformative step in optimizing today’s engineering and production processes. Digital business demands system and system-of systems thinking.
In this course, which is focused primarily on DoD topics, learn both the strategic goals of Digital Engineering and the institutional, cultural, and technical barriers, to attainment of those goals. Examine the importance of digitally connected systems and knowing how to create complex, interconnected systems of products, services, and capabilities more quickly and effectively. Discuss the importance of leveraging data and technology to produce improvements in applications and solutions. Understand how digitization allows teams to rapidly manipulate system designs and architectures to study resulting strengths and weaknesses, while unlocking ideas that lead to innovation, and be ready to employ these strategies back at your workplace.
- Online
- Intakes: On Demand
This is a self study course.
Meet your Instructor
Dr. L. Dale Thomas joined ISEEM in fall 2015 as a full professor and was Board-appointed as the Eminent Scholar in Systems Engineering. Within a year, he established the UAH Complex Systems Integration Laboratory (CSIL), UAH’s advanced systems engineering research facility focusing on Model-Based Systems Engineering.
Among several projects, the lab is assisting the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) with a CubeSat to be deployed during the second Space Launch System in 2022.
In July 2017, he was appointed as the Deputy Director of the UAH Propulsion Research Center (PRC). In that role, he leads the Propulsion Systems Engineering research team and engages in strategic planning activities. In July 2017, Dr. Thomas was appointed Director of the Alabama Space Grant Consortium, the Congress created body that implements a portfolio of programs in research, education, and public service projects in science and engineering. Dr. Thomas’ core objective in assuming the role is to strengthen ties between academic researchers and industry.
Dr. Thomas earned his PH.D. in Engineering from The University of Alabama in Huntsville.