Engineering Acumen for Defence Professionals

Area of Interest: Capability Systems, Defence Industry, Systems Engineering,

The One Defence Capability System requires teams of specialists who operate as in an integrated way to deliver new capabilities. The complicated nature of Defence projects often results in the engineering line of effort setting the pace for the work carried out by other functional areas. Specialists in project management and controls as well as contracting may not have been exposed to engineering practices and processes, resulting in challenges when coordinating their efforts with the engineering outcomes of the project. This course aims to provide an overview of engineering, engineering practices and processes that will aid in effective communication with engineering teams. Once a foundation has been set, the course will demonstrate how these basic principles are applied through existing Defence contracting mechanisms.

• Explain core engineering processes and how they relate to the delivery of acquisition projects.
• Understand how these core engineering processes impact project management practices.
• To communicate more effectively within the project team with a common engineering taxonomy.
• Understand how their specialist input can be integrated with engineering activities included in Defence’s standard contracting formats.

Duration: 2 May

Delivery Mode: Hybrid: On-campus and remote - you choose how you would like to attend.

This course is broken into the following core learning topics:

• The engineering profession, competency levels and disciplines
• An introduction to system engineering principles
• Management of engineering designs
• Application of engineering principles through ASDEFCON, including system engineering, configuration management, contract deliverables, mandated reviews and technical data and software rights.

Anyone involved in the One Defence Capability System and delivering defence projects without engineering experience who has a desire to better understand engineering practices and processes.

Engineering professionals, or those seeking to gain a complete understanding of systems engineering should consider other shorts courses:

Core Systems Engineering

Advanced System Engineering

Prerequisites:

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Travis Hunt is a Defence Industry Specialist within the UNSW Capability Systems Centre. He holds an undergraduate degree in Aeronautical Engineering and a Master of System Engineering from UNSW. He is a Chartered Professional Engineer with Engineers Australia and was awarded Certified Practicing Project Director (CPPD) status by the Australian Institute of Project Management. Travis’ professional career has spanned engineering and project management roles across Defence and into defence industry. Projects have included organisation transformation, capability delivery and development of advanced systems.

As an Industry Specialist, his research and education interests include system engineering, mission engineering and project delivery. Travis is particularly passionate about how contemporary and emerging system engineering and modelling practices can enhance communication and collaboration within multi-disciplined project teams.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

UNSW Canberra City Campus, 37 Constitution Avenue, Reid, Australia