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The Systems Engineering Experience Accelerator (SEEA) is a new approach to developing the systems engineering and technical leadership workforce. The project is aimed at accelerating experience assimilation through immersive, simulated learning situations where learners solve realistic problems. A prototype of the technology infrastructure and experience content has been developed, piloted, and evaluated. While the prototype has proved useful, its ability to support a community of educators and developers is limited by the challenges in creating or changing experiences. This paper proposes an initial taxonomy of experience archetypes to help development and reuse of experiences, and describes the experience design and development process using the SEEA tool suite. This is followed by an application case study: an experience developed by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence to accelerate the maturity of reliability engineers and their role in identifying and resolving safety issues.

Systems engineering educators are struggling to meet the workforce development demand for senior systems engineers. The workforce challenge is to shorten the time it takes for a systems engineer to reach the senior level. The Systems Engineering Experience Accelerator research project was conceived as a critical response to these needs and challenges. The purpose of this paper is to provide a description of the Experience Accelerator architecture which will provide the foundation for post prototype development. While the prototype is only intended as a research vehicle for conceptual design and evaluation, this architectural description should address the foreseen issues for a deployable future version of the system.