Community Colleges
SET Academy Core equips community colleges with a turnkey, five-course Model-Based Systems Engineering curriculum. Developed by the Institute for Digital Enterprise Advancement with industry and academic partners, it takes students from systems thinking fundamentals through hands-on MBSE modeling and a full capstone project — preparing them for internships and entry-level digital engineering roles.
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Systems thinking, lifecycle fundamentals, and the role of the systems engineer.
Foundations of model-based practice and the SysML language — structure, requirements, and basic behavior.
Intermediate modeling — architecture, behavior, and connecting requirements to design in the model.
Advanced modeling — analysis, simulation, trade studies, and verification through the model.
A full end-to-end MBSE project modeled on real industry problems.
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.
Understand the System
Students establish the foundations needed to work with complex systems.
Student emphasis: Understand, define, decompose, analyze, and communicate systems.
Build the Model
Students move from systems concepts into hands-on model development using SysML and MBSE tools.
Student emphasis: Create and manipulate system model elements and diagrams.
Integrate and Analyze the Model
Students develop more integrated models and begin using models for analysis and engineering decision support.
Student emphasis: Connect, simulate, analyze, and evaluate model information.
Apply Digital Engineering Practices
Students learn to plan, organize, review, interpret, and communicate larger modeling efforts.
Student emphasis: Plan and manage modeling work while using the model as an engineering information resource.
Deliver the Model
Students apply the skills developed throughout SET Academy to a team-based, customer-oriented modeling project.
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.