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Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) Preparation

Guaranteed Training to Pass the Systems Engineering Certification Exam

The INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) rating is a useful and coveted milestone in the career of a systems engineer, demonstrating knowledge, education and experience that is of high value to systems organizations. The certification requires passing an extensive examination based on the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook v3.2.1. This two-day course provides you with the detailed knowledge and practice that you need to pass the CSEP examination.

This course walks through the CSEP requirements and the INCOSE Handbook to cover all topics that might be on the CSEP exam. Interactive work, study plans, and three sets of sample examination questions help you to prepare effectively for the exam. Participants leave the course with solid knowledge, a hard copy of the INCOSE Handbook, study plans, and a sample examination.

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What you will learn :

  • How to pass the CSEP examination!
  • The key processes and definitions in the INCOSE language of the exam
  • Your own strengths and weaknesses, to target your study
  • Five rules for test-taking

The course is aimed at

  • Qualified systems engineers who wish to attain the CSEP certification
  • Design engineers and systems engineers in training, who wish to attain the ASEP certification
  • (Prerequisite: This course assumes a working knowledge of systems engineering.)


Columbia, MD - 20-21 Mar 12
Orlando, FL - 20-21 Apr 12

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Course Topics

Introduction – What is the CSEP and what are the requirements to obtain it? Terms and definitions. Basis of the examination. Study plans and sample examination questions and how to use them. Plan for the course. Introduction to the INCOSE Handbook. Self-assessment quiz. Filling out the CSEP application.

Systems Engineering and Life Cycles – Definitions and origins of systems engineering, including the latest concepts of “systems of systems.” Hierarchy of system terms. Value of systems engineering. Life cycle characteristics and stages, and the relationship of systems engineering to life cycles. Development approaches. The INCOSE Handbook system development examples.

Technical Processes – The processes that take a system from concept in the eye to operation, maintenance and disposal. Stakeholder requirements and technical requirements, including concept of operations, requirements analysis, requirements definition, requirements management. Architectural design, including functional analysis and allocation, system architecture synthesis. Implementation, integration, verification, transition, validation, operation, maintenance and disposal of a system.

Project Processes – Technical management and the role of systems engineering in guiding a project. Project planning, including the Systems Engineering Plan (SEP), Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD), Integrated Product Teams (IPT), and tailoring methods. Project assessment, including Technical Performance Measurement (TPM). Project control. Decision-making and trade-offs. Risk and opportunity management, configuration management, information management.

Enterprise and Agreement Processes – How to define the need for a system, from the viewpoint of stakeholders and the enterprise. Acquisition and supply processes, including defining the need. Managing the environment, investment, and resources. Enterprise environment management. Investment management including life cycle cost analysis. Life cycle processes management standard processes, and process improvement. Resource management and quality management.

Specialty Engineering– Unique technical disciplines used in the systems engineering processes: integrated logistics support, electromagnetic and environmental analysis, human systems integration, mass properties, modeling & simulation including the system modeling language (SysML), safety & hazards analysis, sustainment and training needs.

After-Class Plan – Study plans and methods. Using the self-assessment to personalize your study plan. Five rules for test-taking. How to use the sample examinations. How to reach us after class, and what to do when you succeed.

Continuing Education: This course qualifies for 1.4 CEUs or 14 PDUs

The Instructors

Mr. Eric Honour, CSEP, has been in international leadership of the engineering of systems for a dozen years, part of a 40-year career of complex systems development and operation. His energetic and informative presentation style actively involves class participants. He was the founding Chair of the INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering) Technical Board in 1994, was elected to INCOSE President for 1997, and served as Director of the Systems Engineering Center of Excellence (SECOE). He was selected in 2000 for Who’s Who in Science and Technology and in 2004 as an INCOSE Founder. He is on the editorial board for Systems Engineering. He has been a systems engineer, engineering manager, and program manager at Harris Information Systems, E-Systems Melpar, and Singer Link, preceded by nine years as a US Naval Officer flying P-3 aircraft. He has led or contributed to the development of 17 major systems, including the Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation systems, the Battle Group Passive Horizon Extension System, the National Crime Information Center 2000, and the DDC1200 Digital Zone Control system for heating and air conditioning. Mr. Honour now heads Honourcode, Inc., a consulting firm offering effective methods in the development of system products. Mr. Honour has a BSSE (Systems Engineering) from the US Naval Academy, MSEE from the Naval Postgraduate School, and is a doctoral candidate at the University of South Australia. Mr. Michael Jones, CSEP, is an effective Program Manager and Systems Engineer with the dynamic ability to present course material in an exciting and worthwhile way. He has led teams composed of end-users, managers, programmers, engineers, technicians, and trainers to develop optimal combat systems training equipment. Mike has been a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, and he has been a Program Managaer at Applied Physics Laboratory leading a $10M program using modeling and simulation to assess undersea warfare. He was a career Naval officer, eventually serving as Commanding Officer of the Submarine Training Facility, Norfolk, VA. He has a BSCS from the US Naval Academy, MSEE and Executive MBA from the Naval Postgraduate School, and is a doctoral candidate at Old Dominion University based on work in the field of modeling and simulation. Mr. William "Bill" Fournier is a Senior Software Systems Engineer with 30 years experience, the last 11 for a major defense contractor. Mr. Fournier taught DoD Systems Engineering full time for over three years at DSMC/DAU as a Professor of Engineering Management. He has taught Systems Engineering at least part time for more than the last 20 years. Mr. Fournier holds a MBA and BS Industrial Engineering / Operations Research and is DOORS trained. He is a certified CSEP, CSEP-ACQ, and PMP. He is a contributor to DAU/DSMC, major defense contractor internal Systems Engineering courses and process, and INCOSE publications.

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