Understand. I supported a customer on a contract he had with MIT. The MIT people were very smart in their area of expertise. However, systems engineering just wasn’t one of those areas. We had one hell of a time getting them to understand what SE was and how to do it properly. And, they were working one small project of a larger program.
Well, in fairness most engineering schools don’t teach systems engineering. That’s my field as well but my degree is in electrical. And yeah, I see this is for a certificate in systems engineering and in my experience they’ll probably teach them a bunch of software processes and call it systems engineering like Carengie Mellon does. But that’s another matter....