Integrating Systems and Business Engineeringin an International Context:The SpaceTech Postgraduate Program

摘要

Successful education of engineers needs continuous adaptation to track the changingrnneeds of industry. The adaptation is not limited to technological advance or to the changingrnmentality of new students but also to end-to-end engineering approaches using SystemsrnEngineering. However, industries today require more and more engineers with profoundrnknowledge of business engineering to arrive at successful products – a fact which universitiesrntypically have not sufficiently taken into account yet.rnThe SpaceTech program of the Delft University of Technology is an international postgraduaternprogram for experienced high potentials seeking expertise in space systems and businessrnengineering. The program centres around a Central Case Project where a group of internationalrnparticipants exercise space systems engineering fundamentals together with marketing andrnbusiness engineering tools to create a financially viable virtual business.rnBased on more than 10 years of experience from the SpaceTech program, the learning objectivesrnof Systems Engineering and business engineering and their interrelations are analyzed. Topics ofrnpast Central Case Projects are summarized and trends are extracted. The potentials of integratingrnSystems and Business Engineering are identified and their limitations in an educationalrnenvironment are addressed.