Systems Engineering Fundamentals for Nuclear Fusion
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Class Description
Date: 05 – 07 October 2026
Duration: 3 Days
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
The challenge of developing viable and economical power plants for Nuclear Fusion has eluded scientists and engineers for decades. This is largely due to engineering problems. Given the complexity of harnessing this vast source of power, applying Systems Engineering to its solution seems an obvious choice.
This course will allow you to discuss with confidence the challenge of Nuclear Fusion, to learn and practice the application of Systems Engineering methodologies. It provides Engineers and interested Scientists alike with valuable insight and know-how about structuring research and development projects, creating the required artefacts and delivering on time. The course includes an interactive workshop, in which the teams have to employ their newly gained understanding to a problem from Fusion.
The course is intended for people occupied in Fusion R&D, be it with a start-up or a well-established research lab, working on small or large machines, in a diverse spectrum of roles and technologies employed. The course attendance is strictly limited to a ratio of 8 participants per presenter to guarantee the effectiveness of the training.
The course can be attended exclusively at a customer’s site or in one of our regular external course venues, where there’s a healthy mixture of engineers from the Fusion community.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- To understand the complexities of the Fusion challenge, the origins of Systems Engineering and how the two map
- To know the role, responsibilities and skills of a Systems Engineer, the gist of ISO 15288 and how to use the INCOSE Handbook
- To have seen how Systems Engineering methodologies can and shall be applied to complex project developments.
- To conduct operational and functional analysis as the foundation of a robust and modular architecture.
- To define a customised lifecycle, plan milestones with their corresponding baseline designation and control gate criterions.
- To conduct a technical project and product risk analysis, in particular focusing on safety and security issues.
- To define appropriate, reliable, re-usable and cost-efficient Verification & Validation activities.
- To learn about key document and model templates such as the Context Diagram and the SE Management Plan