WIP: Convergent Systems Engineering: A Modular, Agile Master's Program for Multi-Scale Systems

This work in progress innovative practice paper describes a novel curriculum and pedagogy used in a systems engineering graduate program that provides ethical, innovative and sustainable solutions to important, complex societal problems using convergent transdisciplinary, collaborative, team-based approaches. Convergent engineering approaches have been applied to the program itself to foster collective learning through iterative rapid integration and testing in real world scenarios. This paper presents the motivation, approach, program, pedagogy, and curriculum for the Convergent Systems Engineering master program which supports three major systems scales from products and services, to the enterprise, and finally global value supply chains.