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CERTIFICATION STANDARDS & CORE PLUS DEVELOPMENT GUIDE
SPRDE – SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   LEVEL2
Type of Assignment  Representative Activities
Functional Specialist   Organizes, conducts, and/or monitors engineering activities in a functional specialty relating to the design, development, fabrication, installation, modification, sustainment, and/or analysis of systems or systems components. Analyzes, conducts, and/or monitors engineering activities in a functional specialty relating to the design, development, fabrication, installation, modification, sustainment, and/or analysis of systems or systems components.
  Applies systems engineering technical and technical management processes to a functional specialty in IPT environments.
Software/IT Engineer   Organizes, conducts, and/or monitors engineering activities relating to the design, development, and/or analysis of software and information technology systems or systems components.
  Applies systems engineering technical and technical management processes to software and IT development.
Developmental Engineer   Organizes, conducts, and/or monitors engineering design and development activities for systems or systems component.
  Applies systems engineering technical and technical management processes during systems development.
Science & Technology (Research Eng or Scientist)   Organizes, conducts, and/or monitors science and technology research and engineering activities supporting acquisition programs, projects, or activities.
  Applies systems engineering technical and technical management processes to managing or conducting science and technology research and engineering activities.
 
Core Certification Standards (Required for DAWIA certification.)
 Acquisition Training   ACQ 201A  Intermediate Systems Acquisition, Part A
  ACQ 201B  Intermediate Systems Acquisition, Part B (R)
 Functional Training   SYS 202  Intermediate Systems Planning, Research, Development, and Engineering, Part I
  SYS 203  Intermediate Systems Planning, Research, Development, and Engineering, Part II (R)
  CLE 003  Technical Reviews
 Education   Baccalaureate or graduate degree in a technical or scientific field such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, or computer science
 Experience   Through 30 September 2010:
  2 years of technical experience in an acquisition position, to include government or industry equivalent, from among the following career fields/paths: SPRDE-SE, SPRDE-S&TM, IT, T&E, PQM, FE, PM, or LCL
  Effective 1 October 2010:
  2 years of technical experience in an acquisition position. Of that:
   - At least 1 year in a SPRDE-SE, SPRDE-PSE, or SPRDE-S&TM position
   - Remainder may come from IT, T&E, PQM, PM, or LCL
  Similar experience gained from other government positions or industry is acceptable as long as it meets the above standards


Core Plus Development Guide (Desired training, education, and experience) Type of Assignment
Training Func Spc Soft/IT Eng Dev Eng S&T (Res Eng/Sci)
  CLB 016 Introduction to Earned Value Management    
  CLB 017 Performance Measurement Baseline    
  CLC 041 Predictive Analysis and Systems Engineering    
  CLE 007 Lean Six Sigma for Manufacturing  
  CLE 016 Outcome-Based Performance Measures    
  CLE 017 Technical Planning
  CLE 026 Trade Studies
  CLM 029 Net-Ready Key Performance Parameter (NR-KPP)
  CLM 031 Improved Statement of Work
  CLM 032 Evolutionary Acquisition  
  CLM 101 Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) (USAF Process)  
  IRM 202 Intermediate Information Systems Acquisition (R)      
  LOG 103 Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM)    
  LOG 200 Intermediate Acquisition Logistics, Part A    
  LOG 204 Configuration Management
  PQM 201A Intermediate Production, Quality, and Manufacturing, Part A      
  STM 202 Intermediate S&T Management (R)      
  TST 203 Intermediate Test and Evaluation (R)      
Education
  Graduate degree in a discipline such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, operations research, engineering management, or computer science
Experience
  Two (2) years of technical experience (in addition to core certification experience)
Notes:
1 The Core Certification Standards section lists the training, education and experience REQUIRED for certification at this level.
2 “R” following a course title indicates the course is delivered as resident based instruction.
5 When preparing your IDP, you and your supervisor should consider the training, education and experience listed in the Core Plus Development Guide at this and the lower level(s) if not already completed.
13 Some continuous learning (CL) modules have been created by extracting lessons in their entirety from a training course. If this is the case for the CL module(s) identified in the above core certification standards, the course the CL module was extracted from is identified in the “Notes” section of the CL course description and the course can be substituted to meet the certification standard.