OVERVIEW
Model-Based Systems Engineering can empower teams to work smarter. Unfortunately, teams can sometimes get lost in the complexity of the tools and lose sight of the objective—capturing and communicating key system information to stakeholders. Diagrams can multiply, but clarity and insight don’t come automatically. Applied MBSE (AMBSE) helps you harness the capability of MBSE tools by helping you hone practical skills for building and using system models to deliver real project value.

This course treats MBSE as an integrated engineering communication discipline. Rather than merely teaching how to drive a specific tool, AMBSE focuses on how to abstract real-world systems into purposeful models that improve clarity, consistency, traceability, and engineering judgment—principles that apply across tools and projects. While the approach is tool-agnostic, participants gain extensive hands-on experience using either Innoslate or Cameo, with other tools accommodated by arrangement. Emphasis is on learning how MBSE can be used throughout the lifecycle: capturing and validating design requirements, communicating solution architectures, connecting interfaces and tracing verification activities.

Participants will learn by doing. Through a progressively more complex series of exercises, you will demonstrate MBSE’s core advantages—capturing, connecting, controlling, communicating, collaborating, and cycling. Starting by creating the model for a simple system by following a detailed guided set of procedures, you’ll build on that knowledge and skill to develop and execute models for more complex systems, culminating in the creation of your own model from scratch.

WHO IS THIS FOR?
Have an MBSE tool, but not sure where to start? Are you expected to build or maintain models that actually support engineering work? AMBSE is designed for systems engineers and technical team members who need hands-on experience using models as active engineering assets.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this course participants will be able to:

• Define model-based systems engineering and discuss its value proposition across the project lifecycle.
• Recognize and explain the use of SysML as well as other commonly used systems engineering diagrams and artifacts.
• Given existing system details, apply MBSE tools and techniques to build a basic system model that captures and communicates the design solution as well as key relationships.
• Use a system model to simulate system behavior.
• Participate in a simulated model-based Design Review to explore the application of MBSE to evaluate project technical maturity.
• Using MBSE, examine details about a system's structure and behavior to identify potential issues (i.e. gaps, omissions, overlaps, missing traceability, cause and effect, etc.) and propose fixes or improvements to the model.
• Model specific systems engineering artifacts such as requirements, functional architectures, and interface architectures using diagrams and other techniques across the Design, Manage and Realize lifecycle.
• Build your own integrated model.

COURSE FEES (Sign-In To Register)
- AIAA Member Price: $995 USD
- AIAA Student Member Price: $495 USD

- Non-Member Price: $1,195 USD

Course Series:
In Fall 2026, AIAA and TSTI are offering a series of courses focused on Space Systems Engineering. While courses are completely self-contained and can be taken on their own, those students wishing to deepen their knowledge may be interested in additional course study:

• Space Systems Verification and Validation – Online Short Course (28 Sept–1 Oct 2026)
  
• Mission Design Workshop: A Hands-on Concurrent Space Systems Engineering Workshop (26–29 October 2026)
• Applied Model-Based Systems Engineering – Online Short Course (16–19 November 2026)

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COURSE TOPICS

• Foundations
• Introduction to Systems Engineering using Models
• Innoslate Quick Start Guide
• Ontologies, Languages and Frameworks
• Solar Fan Exercise
• MBSE Applications
• Design
• Manage
• Realize
• MBSE Creation
• Introduction to MBSE Simulations
• Design Patterns and Model Re-use
• Software Modeling
• Project and Configuration Management
• Digital Threads and Digital Twins
• Tool Selection Exercise
• Building Your Own Model

INSTRUCTOR

The course will be instructed by an aerospace systems expert from Teaching Science and Technology Inc. (TSTI).

Dr. Jerry Jon Sellers, is the author of Understanding Space: An Introduction to Astronautics, and is a contributing author and editor of Applied Space Systems Engineering, author of the new chapter in ASSE on Applied Model-based Systems Engineering, as well as a contributing author of Human Spaceflight Analysis and Design. He has over 30 years of space systems experience including Guidance & On-board Navigation Officer in Space Shuttle Mission Control; Assistant Professor of Astronautics at the U.S. Air Force Academy; and Chief of Astronautics for the Air Force European Office of Aerospace Research & Development. He is an Associate Fellow at AIAA and the former Chairman of the AIAA Space Systems Technical Committee. He is an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics and is a Certified Scaled-Agile Program Consultant. He is also an adjunct professor at Stevens Institute of Technology and certified Scaled-Agile Framework (SAFe) Program Consultant (SPC5). Jerry is an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics.