Developing the Systems Engineering Experience Accelerator (SEEA) Prototype and Roadmap

This document is a summary of the work that was completed in the second increment year of the SERC Research Topic 16 Developing Systems Engineering Experience Accelerator (SEEA) Prototype and Roadmap . The major research activities in Increment 2 are as follows: 1.Update Documentation and Planning 2.Prototype Evaluation (cont.) 3.Pilot System Development: 4.Pilot System Evaluation 5.Open Source Preparation and Deployment 6.External Developers Engagement 7.Develop Multi-Learner Technology 8.Write Final Report In addition to the work activities, the following five top program risks were identified and tracked throughout Increment 2 of the program: 1.Project Management - Inability to support known and evolving customer/user feedback with current staff, budget and timeframe. 2.Configuration Management Inability to successfully manage the large number of files,configuration variables,present in the Experience Accelerator. 3.Technology Development - Inability to tradeoff long-term architecture and technology objectives (leading to successful open source support) vs. short-term prototype goals. 4.Content Development - Inability to produce a prototype that provides a compelling experience,supports the desired learning and is seen to be authentic. 5.Evaluation - Inconclusive results due to threats to validity of Experimental design(inability to generalize results),limited availability of suitable subjects and insufficient literature to support development of evaluation instruments. A set of lessons learned was compiled and categorized as noted below: Competencies, Learning and Content Complexity/Effort vs. Authenticity/Learning Technology R&D Processes Human Capital Development, Systems Engineering, Prototype Validation, The original document contains color images.