Program Overview

Model-Based Systems Engineering Fundamentals (MBSE)

The Model-Based Systems Engineering Fundamentals (MBSE) program is designed to equip engineering professionals and teams with the skills necessary to optimize design and simulation activities. This critical capability in digital engineering integrates iterative, comprehensive design with insights into the implications of choices, changes, and system behaviors.

Program Details

• Course Code: G
• Start Date: November 3
• Time: N/A
• Duration: 48 Hours
• Program Type: Open-Enrollment/Public
• Certificate Type: Certificate
• Format: Self-Paced Online
• CEUs: 4.8
• PDUs: 48
• Fees: $3,900

Program Experience

The objective of this self-paced, open-enrollment program is to focus on systems thinking throughout the engineering process—from gathering customer needs and requirements to systems modeling to integrated design and delivery. Participants will learn through a combination of action learning and hands-on model making using real-world cases, gaining the skillset to hit the ground running in deployments. Each participant will receive a copy of the textbook A Practical Guide to SysML: The Systems Modeling Language (Third Edition).

Benefits

In this course, participants will learn how to:

• Explore MBSE in the context of model-based engineering and complex systems
• Scope and execute full lifecycle MBSE tasks
• Model structures interactions and behaviors based on requirements and constraints
• Generate appropriate systems models and effectively manage them
• Investigate internal and external interactions
• Assess trades and implications
• Evaluate, critique, and improve SysML structures and models
• Craft key representations, diagrams, and use-cases
• Build confidence in applying MBSE fundamentals to make meaningful contributions to projects
• Plan appropriate approaches for implementation and accelerated adoption

Topics

This program covers everything from gathering customer needs to integrated design and delivery, including:

• MBSE - Why we do it
• Introduction to the MagicDraw/Cameo interface
• How do we keep our workspace organized? - Package Diagrams
• How do our users interact with our system? - Use Case Diagrams
• What tasks does our system perform? - Activity Diagrams
• What does our system need to do and how well does it need to do it? - Requirements Diagrams
• What are the fundamental items in our system? - Block Definition Diagrams
• What is our system doing? - State Machine Diagrams
• How do our system’s pieces interact? - Sequence Diagrams
• How are all the pieces connected? - Internal Block Diagrams
• What happens inside the blocks? - Parametric Diagrams

Who Should Attend

This course addresses the needs of systems engineering professionals in aerospace, defense, electronics, mobility, and advanced medical devices. Senior and early-career engineers, analysts, designers, and developers will examine a structured approach to requirements analysis and systems design and will learn how to improve their planning, execution, and communications skills. Project managers and support teams will explore how MBSE disciplines can enhance enterprise and mission effectiveness and will gain an understanding of how to manage scope, digital and traditional work products, risk, and teams of diverse talents.

Schedule

• Course: Model-Based Systems Engineering Fundamentals (MBSE)
• Duration: 6 Weeks
• Self-Paced Online: Releases November 3, 2025, with work to be completed by December 14, 2025

Instructors

• Michael Brenner: Systems Engineering, Model-Based Engineering (MBSE), Aerospace Project Management