Building a Competency Taxonomy to Guide Experience Acceleration of Lead Program Systems Engineers

Abstract

The goal for the initial phase of the systems engineering Experience Accelerator (ExpAcc) research project is to demonstrate the ability to leverage technology to accelerate the time it takes to mature a systems engineer. To demonstrate this goal, the ExpAcc team is developing a prototype simulator for demonstrating the ability to increase the learner's proficiency in a selected area of systems engineering competency. As an initial step in the project, a systems engineering competency taxonomy was built from a selected set of existing competency models combined with systems thinking research. The final competency taxonomy covers 87 unique competencies and includes a proficiency table based on the learner's level of self-assessed and demonstrated ability. This paper describes in detail the approach used to develop the competency model for the ExpAcc research project, and describes in more detail the primary areas, categories, subgroups and individual capabilities, as well as the proficiency matrix, that together form the taxonomy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA589178

Entities

People

  • Alice Squires
  • Don Gelosh
  • Jon Wade
  • Pete Dominick

Organizations

  • Stevens Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Deployment
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Information Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • Models
  • Organizational Structure
  • Project Management
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Resource Management
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Students
  • Systems Engineering
  • Taxonomy

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