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Defense, Missiles, & Radar 

Combat Systems Engineering UPDATED! 

Feb 28-Mar 1, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 

Cyber Warfare - Theory & Fundamentals NEW! 

Apr 3-4, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 

Explosives Technology and Modeling 

Jun 25-28, 2012 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 

Fundamentals of Rockets & Missiles 

Jan 31-Feb 2, 2012 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 

Mar 6-8, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 

GPS and Other Radionavigation Satellites 

Jan 30-Feb 2, 2012 • Cape Canaveral, Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 

Mar 12-15, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 

Apr 16-19, 2012 • Colorado Springs, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 

Link 16 / JTIDS / MIDS - Intermediate / Joint Range Extension 

Apr 2-4, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 

Jun 25-27, 2012 • Chantilly, Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 

Missile System Design 

Mar 26-28, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 

May 1-3, 2012 • Laurel, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 

Modern Missile Analysis 

Mar 19-22, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 

Multi-Target Tracking & Multi-Sensor Data Fusion 

Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 

May 29-31, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 

Network Centric Warfare - An Introduction NEW! 

Mar 6-8, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 

Radar 101 / Radar 201 

Apr 16-17, 2012 • Laurel, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 

Radar Systems Design & Engineering 

Feb 28 - Mar 2, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 

Space-Based Radar 

Mar 5-8, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 

Strapdown & Integrated Navigation Systems 

Feb 27-Mar 1, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 

Synthetic Aperture Radar - Fundamentals 

May 7-8, 2012 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 

Jun 4-5, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 

Synthetic Aperture Radar - Advanced 

May 9-10, 2012 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 

Tactical Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) NEW! 


Unmanned Aircraft Systems Overview 

Mar 19, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 

Unmanned Aircraft System Fundamentals NEW! 


Engineering & Communications 

Antenna & Array Fundamentals 

Feb 28-Mar 1, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 

Computational Electromagnetics NEW! 


Designing Wireless Systems for EMC NEW! 

Mar 6-8, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 

Digital Signal Processing System Design 


Fundamentals of Engineering Probability: Visualization NEW! 

Apr 9-12, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 

Fundamentals of RF Technology 


Grounding & Shielding for EMC 

Jan 31-Feb 2, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 

May 1-3, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 

Instrumentation for Test & Measurement NEW! 


Introduction to EMI/EMC 

Feb 28 - Mar 1, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 

Kalman, H-Infinity, & Nonlinear Estimation 

Jun 12-14, 2012 • Laurel, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 

Practical Design of Experiments 


Signal & Image Processing & Analysis for Scientists & Eng 


Wavelets: A Conceptual, Practical Approach 

Feb 28-Mar 1, 2012 • San Diego, California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 

Jun 12-14, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 

Wireless Sensor Networking NEW! 


Table of Contents 

Systems Engineering & Project Management 

Agile Boot Camp Practitioner's Real-World Solutions NEW! 

Feb - Jun 2012 • (Please See Page 36 For Available Dates) . . . . . . . 36 

Agile Project Management Certification Workshop NEW! 

Feb - May 2012 • (Please See Page 37 For Available Dates) . . . . . . 37 

Applied Systems Engineering 

Apr 16-19, 2012 • Orlando, Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 

Architecting with DODAF 


Jun 4-5, 2012 • Denver, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 

Cost Estimating NEW! 

Feb 22-23, 2012 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 

Jul 17-18, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 

CSEP Preparation 


Apr 20-21, 2012 • Orlando, Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 

Fundamentals of COTS-Based Systems Engineering NEW! 

May 8-10, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 

Fundamentals of Systems Engineering 

Feb 14-15, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 

Jun 6-7, 2012 • Denver, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 

Model Based Systems Engineering NEW! 


Principles of Test & Evaluation 


Requirements Engineering with DEVSME NEW! 

Apr 24-26, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 

Technical CONOPS & Concepts Master's Course NEW! 

Mar 13-15, 2012 • Virginia Beach, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

Apr 3-5, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

Apr 10-12, 2012 • Virginia Beach, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

May 8-10, 2012 • Virginia Beach, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

Acoustic & Sonar Engineering 

Acoustics Fundamentals, Measurements & Applications 

Apr 10-12, 2012 • Silver Spring, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

Jul 17-19, 2012 • Bremmerton, Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

Advanced Undersea Warfare 

May 1-3, 2012 • Newport, Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

Applied Physical Oceanography Modeling and Acoustics 

Jun 5-7, 2012 • Slidell, Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 

Fundamentals of Passive & Active Sonar NEW! 

Jul 16-19, 2012 • Newport, Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 

Fundamentals of Random Vibration & Shock Testing 

Mar 20-22, 2012 • College Park, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 

May 8-10, 2012 • Boxborough, Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 

Jul 9-11, 2012 • Boulder, Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 

Fundamentals of Sonar Transducers Design 

Apr 10-12, 2012 • Newport, Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 

Mechanics of Underwater Noise 

May 1-3 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 

Military Standard 810G Testing NEW! 

Mar 19-22, 2012 • Boxborough, Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 

Apr 2-5, 2012 • Jupiter, Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 

Jun 18-21, 2012 • Detroit, Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 

Ocean Optics: Fundamentals & Naval Applications NEW! 


Sonar Principles & ASW Analysis 


Sonar Signal Processing 

May 15-17, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 

Underwater Acoustics 201 

Apr 24-25, 2012 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 

Underwater Acoustics for Biologists and Conservation Managers NEW! 

Apr 17-19, 2012 • Silver Spring, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 

Underwater Acoustics, Modeling and Simulation 

Jun 11-14, 2012 • Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 

Vibration & Noise Control 

Apr 30 - May 3, 2012 • Newport, Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 


Topics for On-site Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 

Popular “On-site” Topics & Ways to Register. . . . . . . . . . 64 

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Combat Systems Engineering 

February 28 - March 1, 2012 

Columbia, Maryland 

$1690 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 

Register 3 or More & Receive $100 00 Each 

Off The Course Tuition. 

Video! 

www.aticourses.com/combat_systems_engineering.html 

Summary 

The increasing level of combat system integration 

and communications requirements, coupled with 

shrinking defense budgets and shorter product life 

cycles, offers many challenges and opportunities in the 

design and acquisition of new combat systems. This 

three-day course teaches the systems engineering 

discipline that has built some of the modern military’s 

greatest combat and communications systems, using 

state-of-the-art systems engineering techniques. It 

details the decomposition and mapping of war-fighting 

requirements into combat system functional designs. A 

step-by-step description of the combat system design 

process is presented emphasizing the trades made 

necessary because of growing performance, 

operational, cost, constraints and ever increasing 

system complexities. 

Topics include the fire control loop and its closure by 

the combat system, human-system interfaces, 

command and communication systems architectures, 

autonomous and net-centric operation, induced 

information exchange requirements, role of 

communications systems, and multi-mission 

capabilities. 

Engineers, scientists, program managers, and 

graduate students will find the lessons learned in this 

course valuable for architecting, integration, and 

modeling of combat system. Emphasis is given to 

sound system engineering principles realized through 

the application of strict processes and controls, thereby 

avoiding common mistakes. Each attendee will receive 

a complete set of detailed notes for the class. 

Instructor 

Robert Fry works at The Johns Hopkins University 

Applied Physics Laboratory where he is 

a member of the Principal Professional 

Staff. Throughout his career he has 

been involved in the development of 

new combat weapon system concepts, 

development of system requirements, 

and balancing allocations within the fire 

control loop between sensing and weapon kinematic 

capabilities. He has worked on many aspects of the 

AEGIS combat system including AAW, BMD, AN/SPY- 

1, and multi-mission requirements development. 

Missile system development experience includes SM- 

2, SM-3, SM-6, Patriot, THAAD, HARPOON, 

AMRAAM, TOMAHAWK, and other missile systems. 

Updated! 

Course Outline 

1. Combat System Overview. Combat 

system characteristics. Functional description for 

the combat system in terms of the sensor and 

weapons control, communications, and 

command and control. Anti-air Warfare. Antisurface 

Warfare. Anti-submarine Warfare. 

2. Combat System Functional 

Organization. Combat system layers and 

operation. 

3. Sensors. Review of the variety of multiwarfare 

sensor systems, their capability, 

operation, management, and limitations. 

4. Weaponry. Weapon system suites 

employed by the AEGIS combat system and their 

capability, operation, management, and 

limitations. Basics of missile design and 

operation. 

5. Fire Control Loops. What the fire control 

loop is and how it works, its vulnerabilities, 

limitations, and system battlespace. 

6. Engagement Control. Weapon control, 

planning, and coordination. 

7. Tactical Command and Contro. Humanin-the-loop, 

system latencies, and coordinated 

planning and response. 

8. Communications. Current and future 

communications systems employed with combat 

systems and their relationship to combat system 

functions and interoperability. 

9. Combat System Development. Overview 

of the combat system engineering and acquisition 

processes. 

10. Current AEGIS Missions and Directions. 

Performance in low-intensity conflicts. Changing 

Navy missions, threat trends, shifts in the 

defense budget, and technology growth. 

11. Network-Centric Operation and Warfare. 

Net-centric gain in warfare, network layers and 

coordination, and future directions. 

What You Will Learn 

• The trade-offs and issues for modern combat 

system design. 

• The role of subsystem in combat system operation. 

• How automation and technology impact combat 

system design. 

• Understanding requirements for joint warfare, netcentric 

warfare, and open architectures. 

• Lessons learned from AEGIS development. 


Cyber Warfare – Theory & Fundamentals 

NEW! 

Summary 

This two-day course is intended for 

technical and programmatic staff involved in 

the development, analysis, or testing of 

Information Assurance, Network Warfare, 

Network-Centric, and NetOPs systems. The 

course will provide perspective on emerging 

policy, doctrine, strategy, and operational 

constraints affecting the development of 

cyber warfare systems. This knowledge will 

greatly enhance participants’ ability to 

develop operational systems and concepts 

that will produce integrated, controlled, and 

effective cyber effects at each warfare level. 

Instructor 

Al Kinney is a retired Naval Officer and 

holds a Masters Degree in electrical 

engineering. His professional experience 

includes more than 20 years of experience in 

research and operational cyberspace 

mission areas including the initial 

development and first operational 

employment of the Naval Cyber Attack 

Team. 


• What are the relationships between cyber warfare, 

information assurance, information operations, 

and network-centric warfare 

• How can a cyber warfare capability enable freedom 

of action in cyberspace 

• What are legal constraints on cyber warfare 

• How can cyber capabilities meet standards for 

weaponization 

• How should cyber capabilities be integrated with 

military exercises 

• How can military and civilian cyberspace 

organizations prepare and maintain their workforce 

to play effective roles in cyberspace 

• What is the Comprehensive National 

Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) 

From this course you will obtain in-depth 

knowledge and awareness of the cyberspace 

domain, its functional characteristics, and its 

organizational inter-relationships enabling your 

organization to make meaningful contributions in 

the domain of cyber warfare through technical 

consultation, systems development, and 

operational test & evaluation. 

April 3-4, 2012 


$1090 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 




1. Cyberspace as a Warfare Domain. Domain 

terms of reference. Comparison of operational 

missions conducted through cyberspace. 

Operational history of cyber warfare. 

2. Stack Positioning as a Maneuver Analog. 

Exploring the space where tangible cyber warfare 

maneuver really happens. Extend the network stack 

concept to other elements of cyberspace. 

Understand the advantage gained through 

proficient cyberscape navigation. 

3. Organizational Constructs in Cyber 

Warfare. Inter-relationships between traditional and 

emerging warfare, intelligence, and systems policy 

authorities. 

4. Cyberspace Doctrine and Strategy. National 

Military Strategy for Cyberspace Operations. 

Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative 

(CNCI). Developing a framework for a full spectrum 

cyberspace capabilities. 

5. Legal Considerations for Cyber Warfare. 

Overview of pertinent US Code for cyberspace. 

Adapting the international Law of Armed Conflict to 

cyber warfare. Decision frameworks and metaphors 

for making legal choices in uncharted territory. 

6. Operational Theory of Cyber Warfare. 

Planning and achieving cyber effects. 

Understanding policy implications and operational 

risks in cyber warfare. Developing a cyber 

deterrence strategy. 

7. Cyber Warfare Training and Exercise 

Requirements. Understanding of the depth of 

technical proficiency and operational savvy required 

to develop, maintain, and exercise integrated cyber 

warfare capabilities. 

8. Cyber Weaponization. Cyber weapons 

taxonomy. Weapon-target interplay. Test and 

Evaluation Standards. Observable effects. 

9. Command & Control for Cyber Warfare. 

Joint Command & Control principles. Joint 

Battlespace Awareness. Situational Awareness. 

Decision Support. 

10. Survey of International Cyber Warfare 

Capabilities. Open source exploration of cyber 

warfare trends in India, Pakistan, Russia, and 

China. 



June 25-28, 2012 

Albuquerque, New Mexico 

$1995 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 

4 Day Course! 



Summary 

This four-day course is designed for scientists, 

engineers and managers interested in the current state 

of explosive and propellant technology. After an 

introduction to shock waves, the current explosive 

technology is described. Numerical methods for 

evaluating explosive and propellant sensitivity to shock 

waves are described and applied to vulnerability 

problems such as projectile impact and burning to 

detonation. 

Instructor 

Charles L. Mader, Ph.D.,is a retired Fellow of the 

Los Alamos National Laboratory and President of a 

consulting company. Dr. Mader authored the 

monograph Numerical Modeling of Detonation, and 

also wrote four dynamic material property data 

volumes published by the University of California 

Press. His book and CD-ROM entitled Numerical 

Modeling of Explosives and Propellants, Third Edition, 

published in 2008 by CRC Press will be the text for the 

course. He is the author of Numerical Modeling of 

Water Waves, Second Edition, published in 2004 by 

CRC Press. He is listed in Who's Who in America and 

Who's Who in the World. He has consulted and guest 

lectured for public and private organizations in several 

countries. 

Who Should Attend 

This course is suited for scientists, engineers, and 

managers interested in the current state of explosive 

and propellant technology, and in the use of numerical 

modeling to evaluate the performance and vulnerability 

of explosives and propellants. 


• What are Shock Waves and Detonation Waves 

• What makes an Explosive Hazardous 

• Where Shock Wave and Explosive Data is available. 

• How to model Explosive and Propellant 

Performance. 

• How to model Explosive Hazards and Vulnerability. 

• How to use the furnished explosive performance and 

hydrodynamic computer codes. 

• The current state of explosive and propellant 

technology. 

From this course you will obtain the knowledge to 

evaluate explosive performance, hazards and 

understand the literature. 


1. Shock Waves. Fundamental Shock Wave 

Hydrodynamics, Shock Hugoniots, Phase Change, 

Oblique Shock Reflection, Regular and Mach Shock 

Reflection. 

2. Shock Equation of State Data Bases. Shock 

Hugoniot Data, Shock Wave Profile Data., 

Radiographic Data, Explosive Performance Data, 

Aquarium Data, Russian Shock and Explosive Data. 

3. Performance of Explosives and Propellants. 

Steady-State Explosives. Non-Ideal Explosives – 

Ammonium Salt-Explosive Mixtures, Ammonium 

Nitrate-Fuel Oil (ANFO) Explosives, Metal Loaded 

Explosives. Non-Steady State Detonations – Build- 

Up in Plane, Diverging and Converging Geometry, 

Chemistry of Build-Up of Detonation. Propellant 

Performance. 

4. Initiation of Detonation. Thermal Initiation, 

Explosive Hazard Calibration Tests. Shock Initiation 

of Homogeneous Explosives. Shock Initiation of 

Heterogeneous Explosives – Hydrodynamic Hot Spot 

Model, Shock Sensitivity and Effects on Shock 

Sensitivity of Composition, Particle Size and 

Temperature. The FOREST FIRE MODEL – Failure 

Diameter, Corner Turning, Desensitization of 

Explosives by Preshocking, Projectile Initiation of 

Explosives, Burning to Detonation. 

5. Modeling Hydodynamics on Personal 

Computers. Numerical Solution of One-Dimensional 

and Two-Dimensional Lagrangian Reactive Flow, 

Numerical Solution of Two-Dimensional and Three- 

Dimensional Eulerian Reactive Flow. 

6. Design and Interpretation of Experiments. 

Plane-Wave Experiments, Explosions in Water, Plate 

Dent Experiments, Cylinder Test, Jet Penetration of 

Inerts and Explosives, Plane Wave Lens, Regular 

and Mach Reflection of Shock and Detonation 

Waves, Insensitive High Explosive Initiators, Colliding 

Detonations, Shaped Charge Jet Formation and 

Target Penetration. 

7. NOBEL Code and Proton Radiography. AMR 

Reactive Hydrodynamic code with models of both 

Build-up TO and OF Detonation used to model 

oblique initiation of Insensitive High Explosives, 

explosive cavity formation in water, meteorite and 

nuclear explosion generated cavities, Munroe jets, 

Failure Cones, Hydrovolcanic explosions. 

Course Materials 

Participants will receive a copy of Numerical Modeling 

of Explosives and Propellants, Third Edition by Dr. Charles 

Mader, 2008 CRC Press. In addition, participants will 

receive an updated CD-ROM. 


Fundamentals of Rockets and Missiles 

January 31 - February 2, 2012 


March 6-8, 2012 


$1690 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 



Summary 

This three-day course provides an overview of rockets and 

missiles for government and industry officials with limited 

technical experience in rockets and missiles. The course 

provides a practical foundation of knowledge in rocket and 

missile issues and technologies. The seminar is designed for 

engineers, technical personnel, military specialist, decision 

makers and managers of current and future projects needing 

a more complete understanding of the complex issues of 

rocket and missile technology The seminar provides a solid 

foundation in the issues that must be decided in the use, 

operation and development of rocket systems of the future. 

You will learn a wide spectrum of problems, solutions and 

choices in the technology of rockets and missile used for 

military and civil purposes. 

Attendees will receive a complete set of printed notes. 

These notes will be an excellent future reference for current 

trends in the state-of-the-art in rocket and missile technology 

and decision making. 

Instructor 

Edward L. Keith is a multi-discipline Launch Vehicle System 

Engineer, specializing in integration of launch 

vehicle technology, design, modeling and 

business strategies. He is currently an 

independent consultant, writer and teacher of 

rocket system tec hnology. He is experienced 

in launch vehicle operations, design, testing, 

business analysis, risk reduction, modeling, 

safety and reliability. He also has 13-years of government 

experience including five years working launch operations at 

Vandenberg AFB. Mr. Keith has written over 20 technical 

papers on various aspects of low cost space transportation 

over the last two decades. 


• Aerospace Industry Managers. 

• Government Regulators, Administrators and 

sponsors of rocket or missile projects. 

• Engineers of all disciplines supporting rocket and 

missile projects. 

• Contractors or investors involved in missile 

development. 

• Military Professionals. 


• Fundamentals of rocket and missile systems. 

• The spectrum of rocket uses and technologies. 

• Differences in technology between foreign and 

domestic rocket systems. 

• Fundamentals and uses of solid and liquid rocket 

systems. 

• Differences between systems built as weapons and 

those built for commerce. 


1. Introduction to Rockets and Missiles. The Classifications 

of guided, and unguided, missile systems is introduced. The 

practical uses of rocket systems as weapons of war, commerce 

and the peaceful exploration of space are examined. 

2. Rocket Propulsion made Simple. How rocket motors and 

engines operate to achieve thrust. Including Nozzle Theory, are 

explained. The use of the rocket equation and related Mass 

Properties metrics are introduced. The flight environments and 

conditions of rocket vehicles are presented. Staging theory for 

rockets and missiles are explained. Non-traditional propulsion is 

addressed. 

3. Introduction to Liquid Propellant Performance, Utility 

and Applications. Propellant performance issues of specific 

impulse, Bulk density and mixture ratio decisions are examined. 

Storable propellants for use in space are described. Other 

propellant Properties, like cryogenic properties, stability, toxicity, 

compatibility are explored. Mono-Propellants and single 

propellant systems are introduced. 

4. Introducing Solid Rocket Motor Technology. The 

advantages and disadvantages of solid rocket motors are 

examined. Solid rocket motor materials, propellant grains and 

construction are described. Applications for solid rocket motors as 

weapons and as cost-effective space transportation systems are 

explored. Hybrid Rocket Systems are explored. 

5. Liquid Rocket System Technology. Rocket Engines, from 

pressure fed to the three main pump-fed cycles, are examined. 

Engine cooling methods are explored. Other rocket engine and 

stage elements are described. Control of Liquid Rocket stage 

steering is presented. Propellant Tanks, Pressurization systems 

and Cryogenic propellant Management are explained. 

6. Foreign vs. American Rocket Technology and Design. 

How the former Soviet aerospace system diverged from the 

American systems, where the Russians came out ahead, and 

what we can learn from the differences. Contrasts between the 

Russian and American Design philosophy are observed to provide 

lessons for future design. Foreign competition from the end of the 

Cold War to the foreseeable future is explored. 

7. Rockets in Spacecraft Propulsion. The difference 

between launch vehicle booster systems, and that found on 

spacecraft, satellites and transfer stages, is examined The use of 

storable and hypergolic propellants in space vehicles is explained. 

Operation of rocket systems in micro-gravity is studied. 

8. Rockets Launch Sites and Operations. Launch Locations 

in the USA and Russia are examined for the reason the locations 

have been chosen. The considerations taken in the selection of 

launch sites are explored. The operations of launch sites in a more 

efficient manner, is examined for future systems. 

9. Rockets as Commercial Ventures. Launch Vehicles as 

American commercial ventures are examined, including the 

motivation for commercialization. The Commercial Launch Vehicle 

market is explored. 

10. Useful Orbits and Trajectories Made Simple. The 

student is introduced to simplified and abbreviated orbital 

mechanics. Orbital changes using Delta-V to alter an orbit, and 

the use of transfer orbits, are explored. Special orbits like 

geostationary, sun synchronous and Molnya are presented. 

Ballistic Missile trajectories and re-entry penetration is examined. 

11. Reliability and Safety of Rocket Systems. Introduction 

to the issues of safety and reliability of rocket and missile systems 

is presented. The hazards of rocket operations, and mitigation of 

the problems, are explored. The theories and realistic practices of 

understanding failures within rocket systems, and strategies to 

improve reliability, is discussed. 

12. Expendable Launch Vehicle Theory, Performance and 

Uses. The theory of Expendable Launch Vehicle (ELV) 

dominance over alternative Reusable Launch Vehicles (RLV) is 

explored. The controversy over simplification of liquid systems as 

a cost effective strategy is addressed. 

13. Reusable Launch Vehicle Theory and Performance. 

The student is provided with an appreciation and understanding of 

why Reusable Launch Vehicles have had difficulty replacing 

expendable launch vehicles. Classification of reusable launch 

vehicle stages is introduced. The extra elements required to bring 

stages safely back to the starting line is explored. Strategies to 

make better RLV systems are presented. 

14. The Direction of Technology. A final open discussion 

regarding the direction of rocket technology, science, usage and 

regulations of rockets and missiles is conducted to close out the 

class study. 


GPS and Other Radionavigation Satellites 

International Navigation Solutions for Military, Civilian, and Aerospace Applications 

Each Student will 

receive a free GPS 

receiver with color map 

displays! 

Summary 

If present plans materialize, 128 radionavigation 

satellites will soon be installed along the space frontier. 

They will be owned and operated by six different 

countries hoping to capitalize on the financial success 

of the GPS constellation. 

In this popular four-day short course Tom Logsdon 

describes in detail how these various radionavigation 

systems work and reviews the many practical benefits 

they are slated to provide to military and civilian users 

around the globe. Logsdon will explain how each 

radionavigation system works and how to use it in 

various practical situations. 

Instructor 

Tom Logsdon has worked on the GPS 

radionavigation satellites and their 

constellation for more than 20 years. He 

helped design the Transit Navigation 

System and the GPS and he acted as a 

consultant to the European Galileo 

Spaceborne Navigation System. His key 

assignment have included constellation 

selection trades, military and civilian applications, force 

multiplier effects, survivability enhancements and 

spacecraft autonomy studies. 

Over the past 30 years Logsdon has taught more 

than 300 short courses. He has also made two dozen 

television appearances, helped design an exhibit for 

the Smithsonian Institution, and written and published 

1.7 million words, including 29 non fiction books. 

These include Understanding the Navstar, Orbital 

Mechanics, and The Navstar Global Positioning 

System. 

"The presenter was very energetic and truly 

passionate about the material" 

" Tom Logsdon is the best teacher I have ever 

had. His knowledge is excellent. He is a 10!" 

"Mr. Logsdon did a bang-up job explaining 

and deriving the theories of special/general 

relativity–and how they are associated with 

the GPS navigation solutions." 

"I loved his one-page mathematical derivations 

and the important points they illustrate." 


Cape Canaveral, Florida 

March 12-15, 2012 


April 16-19, 2012 

Colorado Springs, Colorado 

$1995 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 



Video! 

www.aticourses.com/gps_technology.htm 


1. Radionavigation Concepts. Active and passive 

radionavigation systems. Position and velocity solutions. 

Nanosecond timing accuracies. Today’s spaceborne 

atomic clocks. Websites and other sources of information. 

Building a flourishing $200 billion radionavigation empire 

in space. 

2. The Three Major Segments of the GPS. Signal 

structure and pseudorandom codes. Modulation 

techniques. Practical performance-enhancements. 

Relativistic time dilations. Inverted navigation solutions. 

3. Navigation Solutions and Kalman Filtering 

Techniques. Taylor series expansions. Numerical 

iteration. Doppler shift solutions. Kalman filtering 

algorithms. 

4. Designing Effective GPS Receivers. The functions 

of a modern receiver. Antenna design techniques. Code 

tracking and carrier tracking loops. Commercial chipsets. 

Military receivers. Navigation solutions for orbiting 

satellites. 

5. Military Applications. Military test ranges. Tactical 

and strategic applications. Autonomy and survivability 

enhancements. Smart bombs and artillery projectiles.. 

6. Integrated Navigation Systems. Mechanical and 

strapdown implementations. Ring lasers and fiber-optic 

gyros. Integrated navigation systems. Military 

applications. 

7. Differential Navigation and Pseudosatellites. 

Special committee 104’s data exchange protocols. Global 

data distribution. Wide-area differential navigation. 

Pseudosatellites. International geosynchronous overlay 

satellites. The American WAAS, the European EGNOS, 

and the Japanese QZSS.. 

8. Carrier-Aided Solution Techniques. Attitudedetermination 

receivers. Spaceborne navigation for 

NASA’s Twin Grace satellites. Dynamic and kinematic 

orbit determination. Motorola’s spaceborne monarch 

receiver. Relativistic time-dilation derivations. Relativistic 

effects due to orbital eccentricity. 

9. The Navstar Satellites. Subsystem descriptions. 

On-orbit test results. Orbital perturbations and computer 

modeling techniques. Station-keeping maneuvers. Earthshadowing 

characteristics. The European Galileo, the 

Chinese Biedou/Compass, the Indian IRNSS, and the 

Japanese QZSS. 

10. Russia’s Glonass Constellation. Performance 

comparisons. Orbital mechanics considerations. The 

Glonass subsystems. Russia’s SL-12 Proton booster. 

Building dual-capability GPS/Glonass receivers. Glonass 

in the evening news. 


Link 16 / JTIDS / MIDS - Intermediate / Joint Range Extension 

Link 16 / JTIDS / MIDS 

Intermediate (L16 / F Level-3) 

Instructor 

Patrick Pierson is president of a training, 

consulting, and software development company with 

offices in the U.S. and U.K. Patrick has more than 23 

years of operational experience, and is internationally 

recognized as a Tactical Data Link subject matter 

expert. Patrick has designed more than 30 Tactical 

Data Link training courses and personally trains 

hundreds of students around the globe every year. 

Summary 

The Link 16 / JTIDS / MIDS Intermediate Course is a 

two-day training course that covers the most important 

topics effecting Link 16 / JTIDS / MIDS. The course 

includes 22 instructional modules and is one of our most 

popular courses. This course is instructional in nature 

and does not involve hands-on training. 

Link 16 / JTIDS / MIDS 


Day 1 

Introduction to Link 16 

Link 16 / JTIDS / MIDS Documentation 

Link 16 Enhancements 

System Characteristics 

Time Division Multiple Access 

Network Participation Groups 

J-Series Messages 

JTIDS / MIDS Pulse Development 

JTIDS / MIDS Time Slot Components 

JTIDS / MIDS Message Packing and Pulses 

JTIDS / MIDS Networks / Nets 

Day 2 

Access Modes 

JTIDS / MIDS Terminal Synchronization 

JTIDS / MIDS Network Time 

JTIDS / MIDS Network Roles 

JTIDS / MIDS Terminal Navigation 

JTIDS / MIDS Relays 

Communications Security 

JTIDS / MIDS Pulse Deconfliction 

JTIDS / MIDS Terminal Restrictions 

Time Slot Duty Factor 

JTIDS / MIDS Terminals 


• The course is designed to enable the student to be 

able to speak confidently and with authority about all 

of the subject matter on the right. 

The course is suitable for: 

• Operators 

• Engineers 

• Consultants 

• Sales staff 

• Software Developers 

• Business Development Managers 

• Project / Program Managers 

Link 16 / JTIDS / MIDS - Intermediate 

April 2-3, 2012 


June 25-26, 2012 

Chantilly, Virginia 

$1750 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 

Joint Range Extension Applications Protocol 

April 4, 2012 


June 27, 2012 

Chantilly, Virginia 

$500 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 

Joint Range Extension 

Applications 

Protocol (JRE / A Level-1) 

Summary 

The Joint Range Extension Applications Protocol 

(JREAP) Introduction course is a one-day training 

course being offered to students that complete the 

JTIDS / MIDS Intermediate course. The course explains 

the JREAP technology, message components, JREAP 

protocols, operational procedures, as well as 

operational support and planning requirements. Link 16 

/ JTIDS / MIDS is a prerequisite. 


Day 3 

Joint Range Extension Applications Protocol 

Topics Include: 

JREAP History 

JREAP Documentation 

JREAP Introduction 

Common Message Elements 

JREAP Full Stack 

Transmission Block Headers 

Message Group Headers 

JREAP Application Block 

JREAP Receipt Compliance 

JREAP Management Messages 

MIL-STD 3011 Appendix-B 

MIL-STD 3011 Appendix-C 

General Forwarding Requirements 

JREAP Planning Considerations 


March 26-28, 2012 


May 1-3, 2012 

Laurel, Maryland 

$1795 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 



Summary 

This three-day short course covers the fundamentals of 

missile design, development, and system engineering. The 

course provides a system-level, integrated method for missile 

aerodynamic configuration/propulsion design and analysis. It 

addresses the broad range of 

alternatives in meeting cost, 

performance and risk requirements. The 

methods presented are generally 

simple closed-form analytical 

expressions that are physics-based, to 

provide insight into the primary driving 

parameters. Configuration sizing 

examples are presented for rocketpowered, 

ramjet-powered, and turbo-jet 

powered baseline missiles. Typical 

values of missile parameters and the 

characteristics of current operational missiles are discussed as 

well as the enabling subsystems and technologies for missiles 

and the current/projected state-of-the-art. Sixty-six videos 

illustrate missile development activities and missile 

performance. Daily roundtable discussion. Attendees will vote 

on the relative emphasis of the material to be presented. 

Attendees receive course notes as well as the textbook, 

Tactical Missile Design, 2nd edition. 

Instructor 

Eugene L. Fleeman has 47 years of government, 

industry, academia, and consulting 

experience in missile system and 

technology development. Formerly a 

manager of missile programs at Air Force 

Research Laboratory, Rockwell 

International, Boeing, and Georgia Tech, 

he is an international lecturer on missiles 

and the author of over 100 publications, including the AIAA 

textbook, Tactical Missile Design. 2nd Ed. 


• Key drivers in the missile design and system engineering 

process. 

• Critical tradeoffs, methods and technologies in subsystems, 

aerodynamic, propulsion, and structure sizing. 

• Launch platform-missile integration. 

• Robustness, lethality, guidance navigation & control, 

accuracy, observables, survivability, reliability, and cost 

considerations. 

• Missile sizing examples. 

• Missile development process. 


The course is oriented toward the needs of missile 

engineers, systems engineers, analysts, marketing 

personnel, program managers, university professors, and 

others working in the area of missile systems and technology 

development. Attendees will gain an understanding of missile 

design, missile technologies, launch platform integration, 

missile system measures of merit, and the missile system 

development process. 

Missile System Design 

Video! 

www.aticourses.com/tactical_missile_design.htm 


1. Introduction/Key Drivers in the Missile Design and 

System Engineering Process: Overview of missile design 

process. Examples of system-of-systems integration. Unique 

characteristics of missiles. Key aerodynamic configuration sizing 

parameters. Missile conceptual design synthesis process. Examples 

of processes to establish mission requirements. Projected capability 

in command, control, communication, computers, intelligence, 

surveillance, reconnaissance (C4ISR). Example of Pareto analysis. 

Attendees vote on course emphasis. 

2. Aerodynamic Considerations in Missile Design and 

System Engineering: Optimizing missile aerodynamics. Shapes for 

low observables. Missile configuration layout (body, wing, tail) 

options. Selecting flight control alternatives. Wing and tail sizing. 

Predicting normal force, drag, pitching moment, stability, control 

effectiveness, lift-to-drag ratio, and hinge moment. Maneuver law 

alternatives. 

3. Propulsion Considerations in Missile Design and 

System Engineering: Turbojet, ramjet, scramjet, ducted rocket, 

and rocket propulsion comparisons. Turbojet engine design 

considerations, prediction and sizing. Selecting ramjet engine, 

booster, and inlet alternatives. Ramjet performance prediction and 

sizing. High density fuels. Solid propellant alternatives. Propellant 

grain cross section trade-offs. Effective thrust magnitude control. 

Reducing propellant observables. Rocket motor performance 

prediction and sizing. Motor case and nozzle materials. 

4. Weight Considerations in Missile Design and System 

Engineering: How to size subsystems to meet flight performance 

requirements. Structural design criteria factor of safety. Structure 

concepts and manufacturing processes. Selecting airframe 

materials. Loads prediction. Weight prediction. Airframe and motor 

case design. Aerodynamic heating prediction and insulation trades. 

Dome material alternatives and sizing. Power supply and actuator 

alternatives and sizing. 

5. Flight Performance Considerations in Missile Design 

and System Engineering: Flight envelope limitations. Aerodynamic 

sizing-equations of motion. Accuracy of simplified equations of 

motion. Maximizing flight performance. Benefits of flight trajectory 

shaping. Flight performance prediction of boost, climb, cruise, coast, 

steady descent, ballistic, maneuvering, and homing flight. 

6. Measures of Merit and Launch Platform Integration / 

System Engineering: Achieving robustness in adverse weather. 

Seeker, navigation, data link, and sensor alternatives. Seeker range 

prediction. Counter-countermeasures. Warhead alternatives and 

lethality prediction. Approaches to minimize collateral damage. 

Fusing alternatives and requirements for fuze angle and time delay. 

Alternative guidance laws. Proportional guidance accuracy 

prediction. Time constant contributors and prediction. 

Maneuverability design criteria. Radar cross section and infrared 

signature prediction. Survivability considerations. Insensitive 

munitions. Enhanced reliability. Cost drivers of schedule, weight, 

learning curve, and parts count. EMD and production cost 

prediction. Designing within launch platform constraints. Internal vs. 

external carriage. Shipping, storage, carriage, launch, and 

separation environment considerations. Launch platform interfaces. 

Cold and solar environment temperature prediction. 

7. Sizing Examples and Sizing Tools: Trade-offs for extended 

range rocket. Sizing for enhanced maneuverability. Developing a 

harmonized missile. Lofted range prediction. Ramjet missile sizing 

for range robustness. Ramjet fuel alternatives. Ramjet velocity 

control. Correction of turbojet thrust and specific impulse. Turbojet 

missile sizing for maximum range. Turbojet engine rotational speed. 

Computer aided sizing tools for conceptual design. Soda straw 

rocket design-build-fly competition. House of quality process. 

Design of experiment process. 

8. Missile Development Process: Design 

validation/technology development process. Developing a 

technology roadmap. History of transformational technologies. 

Funding emphasis. Alternative proposal win strategies. New missile 

follow-on projections. Examples of development tests and facilities. 

Example of technology demonstration flight envelope. Examples of 

technology development. New technologies for missiles. 

9. Summary and Lessons Learned. 



Propulsion, Guidance, Control, Seekers, and Technology 

March 19-22, 2012 


$1890 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 



Video! 

www.aticourses.com/missile_systems_analysis.htm 

Summary 

This four-day course presents a broad introduction to 

major missile subsystems and their integrated performance, 

explained in practical terms, but including relevant analytical 

methods. While emphasis is on today’s homing missiles and 

future trends, the course includes a historical perspective of 

relevant older missiles. Both endoatmospheric and 

exoatmospheric missiles (missiles that operate in the 

atmosphere and in space) are addressed. Missile propulsion, 

guidance, control, and seekers are covered, and their roles 

and interactions in integrated missile operation are explained. 

The types and applications of missile simulation and testing 

are presented. Comparisons of autopilot designs, guidance 

approaches, seeker alternatives, and instrumentation for 

various purposes are presented. The course is recommended 

for analysts, engineers, and technical managers who want to 

broaden their understanding of modern missiles and missile 

systems. The analytical descriptions require some technical 

background, but practical explanations can be appreciated by 

all students. 

Instructor 

Dr. Walter R. Dyer is a graduate of UCLA, with a Ph.D. 

degree in Control Systems Engineering and Applied 

Mathematics. He has over thirty years of 

industry, government and academic 

experience in the analysis and design of 

tactical and strategic missiles. His experience 

includes Standard Missile, Stinger, AMRAAM, 

HARM, MX, Small ICBM, and ballistic missile 

defense. He is currently a Senior Staff 

Member at the Johns Hopkins University 

Applied Physics Laboratory and was formerly the Chief 

Technologist at the Missile Defense Agency in Washington, 

DC. He has authored numerous industry and government 

reports and published prominent papers on missile 

technology. He has also taught university courses in 

engineering at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. 


You will gain an understanding of the design and analysis 

of homing missiles and the integrated performance of their 

subsystems. 

• Missile propulsion and control in the atmosphere and in 

space. 

• Clear explanation of homing guidance. 

• Types of missile seekers and how they work. 

• Missile testing and simulation. 

• Latest developments and future trends. 


1. Introduction. Brief history of Missiles. Types of 

guided missiles. Introduction to ballistic missile defense. - 

Endoatmospheric and exoatmospheric missile operation. 

Missile basing. Missile subsystems overview. Warheads, 

lethality and hit-to-kill. Power and power conditioning. 

2. Missile Propulsion. The rocket equation. Solid and 

liquid propulsion. Single stage and multistage boosters. 

Ramjets and scramjets. Axial propulsion. Divert and 

attitude control systems. Effects of gravity and 

atmospheric drag. 

3. Missile Airframes, Autopilots And Control. 

Phases of missile flight. Purpose and functions of 

autopilots. Missile control configurations. Autopilot design. 

Open-loop autopilots. Inertial instruments and feedback. 

Autopilot response, stability, and agility. Body modes and 

rate saturation. Roll control and induced roll in high 

performance missiles. Radomes and their effects on 

missile control. Adaptive autopilots. Rolling airframe 

missiles. 

4. Exoatmospheric Missiles For Ballistic Missile 

Defense. Exoatmospheric missile autopilots, propulsion 

and attitude control. Pulse width modulation. Exoatmospheric 

missile autopilots. Limit cycles. 

5. Missile Guidance. Seeker types and operation for 

endo- and exo-atmospheric missiles. Passive, active and 

semi active missile guidance. Radar basics and radar 

seekers. Passive sensing basics and passive seekers. 

Scanning seekers and focal plane arrays. Seeker 

comparisons and tradeoffs for different missions. Signal 

processing and noise reduction 

6. Missile Seekers. Boost and midcourse guidance. 

Zero effort miss. Proportional navigation and augmented 

proportional navigation. Biased proportional navigation. 

Predictive guidance. Optimum homing guidance. 

Guidance filters. Homing guidance examples and 

simulation results. Miss distance comparisons with 

different homing guidance laws. Sources of miss and miss 

reduction. Beam rider, pure pursuit, and deviated pursuit 

guidance. 

7. Simulation And Its Applications. Current 

simulation capabilities and future trends. Hardware in the 

loop. Types of missile testing and their uses, advantages 

and disadvantages of testing alternatives. 


Multi-Target Tracking and Multi-Sensor Data Fusion 



May 29-31, 2012 


$1690 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 

Revised With 

Newly Added 

Topics 



Video! 

www.aticourses.com/radar_tracking_kalman.htm 

Summary 

The objective of this course is to introduce 

engineers, scientists, managers and military 

operations personnel to the fields of target 

tracking and data fusion, and to the key 

technologies which are available today for 

application to this field. The course is designed 

to be rigorous where appropriate, while 

remaining accessible to students without a 

specific scientific background in this field. The 

course will start from the fundamentals and 

move to more advanced concepts. This course 

will identify and characterize the principle 

components of typical tracking systems. A 

variety of techniques for addressing different 

aspects of the data fusion problem will be 

described. Real world examples will be used to 

emphasize the applicability of some of the 

algorithms. Specific illustrative examples will 

be used to show the tradeoffs and systems 

issues between the application of different 

techniques. 

Instructor 

Stan Silberman is a member of the Senior 

Technical Staff at the Johns Hopkins Univeristy 

Applied Physics Laboratory. He has over 30 

years of experience in tracking, sensor fusion, 

and radar systems analysis and design for the 

Navy,Marine Corps, Air Force, and FAA. 

Recent work has included the integration of a 

new radar into an existing multisensor system 

and in the integration, using a multiple 

hypothesis approach, of shipboard radar and 

ESM sensors. Previous experience has 

included analysis and design of multiradar 

fusion systems, integration of shipboard 

sensors including radar, IR and ESM, 

integration of radar, IFF, and time-difference-ofarrival 

sensors with GPS data sources. 


1. Introduction. 

2. The Kalman Filter. 

3. Other Linear Filters. 

4. Non-Linear Filters. 

5. Angle-Only Tracking. 

6. Maneuvering Targets: Adaptive Techniques. 

7. Maneuvering Targets: Multiple Model 

Approaches. 

8. Single Target Correlation & Association. 

9. Track Initiation, Confirmation & Deletion. 

10. Using Measured Range Rate (Doppler). 

11. Multitarget Correlation & Association. 

12. Probabilistic Data Association. 

13. Multiple Hypothesis Approaches. 

14. Coordinate Conversions. 

15. Multiple Sensors. 

16. Data Fusion Architectures. 

17. Fusion of Data From Multiple Radars. 

18. Fusion of Data From Multiple Angle-Only 

Sensors. 

19. Fusion of Data From Radar and Angle-Only 

Sensor. 

20. Sensor Alignment. 

21. Fusion of Target Type and Attribute Data. 

22. Performance Metrics. 


• State Estimation Techniques – Kalman Filter, 

constant-gain filters. 

• Non-linear filtering – When is it needed Extended 

Kalman Filter. 

• Techniques for angle-only tracking. 

• Tracking algorithms, their advantages and 

limitations, including: 

- Nearest Neighbor 

- Probabilistic Data Association 

- Multiple Hypothesis Tracking 

- Interactive Multiple Model (IMM) 

• How to handle maneuvering targets. 

• Track initiation – recursive and batch approaches. 

• Architectures for sensor fusion. 

• Sensor alignment – Why do we need it and how do 

we do it 

• Attribute Fusion, including Bayesian methods, 

Dempster-Shafer, Fuzzy Logic. 


NEW! 

Network Centric Warfare – An Introduction 

Compressing the Kill Chain 

Summary 

This 3 day course will cover a variety of Network Centric 

Warfare (NCW) related topics. You will learn the concepts, 

theories and principles of how networking sensors, 

shooters and decision makers can improve warfighting 

capabilities. The various elements and enabling 

technologies for NCW are discussed. You will learn how 

sensors, precision weapons, data links and command and 

control systems are connected together to provide the right 

information to the right warfighter at the right time. 

Additionally, you will learn how to develop models to 

simulate the performance of a network centric architecture. 

You will learn about the metrics, MOPs, MOEs, KPPs, 

KIPS and the network centric checklist that are all used for 

test and evaluation. You will view examples of various 

NCW systems for the US Army (Warrior Information 

Network) and the US Navy (FORCEnet). Finally, case 

studies will be presented on Enduring Freedom, Iraqi 

Freedom, Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below 

Blue Force Tracking, Air Combat w & without Link 16, 

Close Air Support & US/UK Coalition Operations during 

OIF. 

Instructor 

Jerry LeMieux, PhD is a pilot and engineer with over 

40 years and 10,000 hours of aviation experience. He has 

over 30 years of experience in operations, 

program management, systems 

engineering, R&D and test and evaluation 

for AEW, fighter and tactical data link 

acquisition programs. He led 1,300 

personnel and managed 100 network and 

data link acquisition programs with a five 

year portfolio valued at more than $22 

billion. He served at the numbered Air Force Level, 

responsible for the development, acquisition and 

sustainment of over 300 information superiority, combat 

ops and combat support programs that assure integrated 

battlespace dominance for the Air Force, DoD, US 

agencies and Allied forces. In civilian life he has consulted 

on numerous airspace issues for the US Federal Aviation 

Administration, Air Force, Army, Navy, NASA and DARPA 

. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering and is a 

graduate of Air War College and Defense Acquisition 

University. 


• Concepts, NCW Principles, Network Centric 

Operations. 

• How NCW can Compress the Kill Chain. 

• Sensors & Precision Weapons as Network Elements. 

• Data Links used for NCW Communications. 

• Networked Command & Control, Australia Boeing 

NC3S. 

• Network Centric Enabling Technologies. 

• NCW Frameworks & Architectures. 

• NCW Modeling & Simulation and Test & Evaluation. 

• NCW Implementation Including Army WIN & Navy 

FORCEnet. 

• Case Studies from Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, 

Air Combat, Army Force Tracking and US/UK Coalition 

Operations. 

March 6-8, 2012 


$1690 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 




1. Introduction. Definition, concept, tenants & principles, 

benefits, platform vs. network, origins, theories, domains of 

conflict, common operational picture example, net centricity, 

network centric operations. 

2. Networking the Kill Chain Target characteristics. 

Targeting process, deliberate targeting, dynamic targeting, 

time sensitive targets, the find, fix, target, track, engage, and 

assess (F2T2EA) cycle, NCW kill chain. 

3. Sensors & Precision Weapons. Sensors: Optical, 

thermal, SAR, AMTI, GMTI. Weapons: JDAM, LGB, JSOW 

and GAM precision weapons. 

4. Networks and Data Links. Global information grid & 

mobile ad-hoc networking, TADIL A, C & J, common data link, 

improved data modem, Army Tactical Data Link 1, Patriot 

Digital Information Link, Tactical Information Broadcast 

System, EPLRS/SADL, Joint Tactical Radios. 

5. Networked Command and Control. Joint Battle 

Management Command and Control, definition, core 

warfighting capabilities, operational concept, mission threads, 

integrated architecture, Australia Boeing NC3S. 

6. NCW Enabling Technologies. Key issues, sensors, 

precision weapons & information processing technologies, 

ultra-wideband optical communications, software and 

programmable radios, RF beam forming, IP networking, 

upgraded embedded computers & displays, FPGA, Ethernet 

switch boards, distributed processing, reconfigurable 

networking, distributed resource management, 

transformational satellite communications, GIG bandwidth 

expansion. 

7. Network Centric Frameworks Zachman framework. 

Dept of Defense Architecture Framework, The Open Group 

Architecture Framework, IEEE 1471 Standard & conceptual 

frameworks. 

8. Network Centric Architectures client server 

architecture. Two & three tier client server, thin client, thick 

client, distributed objects architecture, Common Objects 

Request Broker Architecture (COBRA), peer to peer 

architecture, service oriented architecture, Network Centric 

Enterprise Services and Network Centric Service Oriented 

Enterprise. 

9. NCW Modeling and Simulation. Complexity theory, 

nonlinear interaction, decentralized control, self organization, 

nonequilibrium order, adaptation, collective dynamics, entropy 

based modeling, OSI Model, Amdahls Law, and agent based 

modeling & simulation. 

10. NCW Test and Evaluation. Reason metrics, physical 

metrics, measures of performance, measures of effectiveness, 

net ready KPP, key interface profiles (KIPs), information 

assurance, net centric checklist. 

11. NCW Implementation. Key elements, horizontal 

fusion, sense and respond logistics, cultural change and 

education, Standing Joint Force Headquarters, collaborative 

information environment, distributive common ground/surface 

system, dynamic Joint ISR concept, Joint Interagency 

Coordination Group, Army Warrior Information Network, Navy 

FORCEnet, Air Force: parallel warfare, effect based 

operations, command and control constellation, network 

centric collaborative targeting. Allied implementations: 

Australia, Canada, New Zealand & UK. 

12. Case Studies. Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, 

Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below Blue Force 

Tracking, Air Combat with and without Link 16, Close Air 

Support, US/UK Coalition Operations during Operation Iraqi 

Freedom. 


RADAR 101 

Fundamentals of Radar 

April 16, 2012 


$650 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 

"Register 3 or More & Receive $50 00 each 

Off The Course Tuition." 

Dr. Menachem Levitas received his BS, maxima cum laude, 

from the University of Portland and his Ph.D. from the 

University of Virginia in 1975, both in physics. He has forty one 

years experience in science and engineering, thirty three of 

which in radar systems analysis, design, development, and 

testing for the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and FAA. His 

experience encompasses many ground based, shipboard, and 

airborne radar systems. He has been technical lead on many 

Radar 101/201 

Instructor 

RADAR 201 

Advances in Modern Radar 

April 17, 2012 


$650 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 



radar efforts including Government source selection teams. He 

is the author of multiple radar based innovations and is a 

recipient of the Aegis Excellence Award for his contribution 

toward the AN/SPY-1 high range resolution (HRR) 

development. For many years, prior to his retirement in 2011, 

he had been the chief scientist of Technology Service 

Corporation / Washington. He continues to provide radar 

technical support under consulting agreements. 

ATTEND EITHER OR BOTH RADAR COURSES! 

Summary 

This concise one-day course is intended for those with 

only modest or no radar experience. It provides an 

overview with understanding of the physics behind radar, 

tools used in describing radar, the technology of radar at 

the subsystem level and concludes with a brief survey of 

recent accomplish-ments in various applications. 

Summary 

This one-day course is a supplement to the basic 

course Radar 101, and probes deliberately deeper into 

selected topics, notably in signal processing to achieve 

(generally) finer and finer resolution (in several 

dimensions, imaging included) and in antennas wherein 

the versatility of the phased array has made such an 

impact. Finally, advances in radar's own data processing 

- auto-detection, more refined association processes, 

and improved auto-tracking - and system wide fusion 

processes are briefly discussed. 


1. Introduction. The general nature of radar: 

composition, block diagrams, photos, types and functions 

of radar, typical characteristics. 

2. The Physics of Radar. Electromagnetic waves and 

their vector representation. The spectrum bands used in 

radar. Radar waveforms. Scattering. Target and clutter 

behavior representations. Propagation: refractivity, 

attenuation, and the effects of the Earth surface. 

3. The Radar Range Equation. Development from 

basic principles. The concepts of peak and average 

power, signal and noise bandwidth and the matched filter 

concept, antenna aperture and gain, system noise 

temperature, and signal detectability. 

4. Thermal Noise and Detection in Thermal Noise. 

Formation of thermal noise in a receiver. System noise 

temperature (Ts) and noise figure (NF). The role of a lownoise 

amplifier (LNA). Signal and noise statistics. False 

alarm probability. Detection thresholds. Detection 

probability. Coherent and non-coherent multi-pulse 

integration. 

5. The sub-systems of Radar. Transmitter (pulse 

oscillator vs. MOPA, tube vs. solid state, bottled vs. 

distributed architecture), antenna (pattern, gain, 

sidelobes, bandwidth), receiver (homodyne vs. super 

heterodyne), signal processor (functions, front and backend), 

and system controller/tracker. Types, issues, 

architectures, tradeoff considerations. 

5. Current Accomplishments and Concluding 

Discussion. 


1. Introduction. Radar’s development, the 

metamorphosis of the last few decades: analog and digital 

technology evolution, theory and algorithms, increased 

digitization: multi-functionality, adaptivity to the environment, 

higher detection sensitivity, higher resolution, increased 

performance in clutter. 

2. Modern Signal Processing. Clutter and the Doppler 

principle. MTI and Pulse Doppler filtering. Adaptive 

cancellation and STAP. Pulse editing. Pulse Compression 

processing. Adaptive thresholding and detection. Ambiguity 

resolution. Measurement and reporting. 

3. Electronic Steering Arrays (ESA): Principles of 

Operation. Advantages and cost elements. Behavior with 

scan angle. Phase shifters, true time delays (TTL) and array 

bandwidth. Other issues. 

4. Solid State Active Array (SSAA) Antennas (AESA). 

Architecture. Technology. Motivation. Advantages. Increased 

array digitization and compatibility with adaptive pattern 

applications. Need for in-place auto-calibration and 

compensation. 

5. Modern Advances in Waveforms. Pulse compression 

principles. Performance measures. Some legacy codes. 

State-of-the-art optimal codes. Spectral compliance. Temporal 

controls. Orthogonal codes. Multiple-input Multiple-output 

(MIMO) radar. 

6. Data Processing Functions. The conventional 

functions of report to track correlation, track initiation, update, 

and maintenance. The new added responsibilities of 

managing a multi-function array: prioritization, timing, 

resource management. The Multiple Hypothesis tracker. 

7. Concluding Discussion. Today’s concern of 

mission and theatre uncertainties. Increasing 

requirements at constrained size, weight, and cost. Needs 

for growth potential. System of systems with data fusion 

and multiple communication links. 


Radar Systems Design & Engineering 

Radar Performance Calculations 



$1890 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 



Summary 

This four-day course covers the fundamental principles 

of radar functionality, architecture, and performance. 

Diverse issues such as transmitter stability, antenna 

pattern, clutter, jamming, propagation, target cross 

section, dynamic range, receiver noise, receiver 

architecture, waveforms, processing, and target detection, 

are treated in detail within the unifying context of the radar 

range equation, and examined within the contexts of 

surface and airborne radar platforms. The fundamentals of 

radar multi-target tracking principles are covered, and 

detailed examples of surface and airborne radars are 

presented. This course is designed for engineers and 

engineering managers who wish to understand how 

surface and airborne radar systems work, and to 

familiarize themselves with pertinent design issues and 

with the current technological frontiers. 

Instructors 

Dr. Menachem Levitas is the Chief Scientist of 

Technology Service Corporation (TSC) / 

Washington. He has thirty-eight years of 

experience, thirty of which include radar 

systems analysis and design for the Navy, 

Air Force, Marine Corps, and FAA. He 

holds the degree of Ph.D. in physics from 

the University of Virginia, and a B.S. 

degree from the University of Portland. 

Stan Silberman is a member of the Senior Technical 

Staff of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics 

Laboratory. He has over thirtyyears of experience in radar 

systems analysis and design for the Navy, Air Force, and 

FAA. His areas of specialization include automatic 

detection and tracking systems, sensor data fusion, 

simulation, and system evaluation. 


• What are radar subsystems. 

• How to calculate radar performance. 

• Key functions, issues, and requirements. 

• How different requirements make radars different. 

• Operating in different modes & environments. 

• Issues unique to multifunction, phased array, radars. 

• How airborne radars differ from surface radars. 

• Today's requirements, technologies & designs. 


1. Radar Range Equation. Radar ranging principles, 

frequencies, architecture, measurements, displays, and 

parameters. Radar range equation; radar waveforms; 

antenna patterns types, and parameters. 

2. Noise in Receiving Systems and Detection 

Principles. Noise sources; statistical properties; noise in a 

receiving chain; noise figure and noise temperature; false 

alarm and detection probability; pulse integration; target 

models; detection of steady and fluctuating targets. 

3. Propagation of Radio Waves in the Troposphere. 

Propagation of Radio Waves in the Troposphere. The pattern 

propagation factor; interference (multipath) and diffraction; 

refraction; standard and anomalous refractivity; littoral 

propagation; propagation modeling; low altitude propagation; 

atmospheric attenuation. 

4. CW Radar, Doppler, and Receiver Architecture. 

Basic properties; CW and high PRF relationships; the Doppler 

principle; dynamic range, stability; isolation requirements; 

homodynes and superheterodyne receivers; in-phase and 

quadrature; signal spectrum; matched filtering; CW ranging; 

and measurement accuracy. 

5. Radar Clutter and Clutter Filtering Principles. 

Surface and volumetric clutter; reflectivity; stochastic 

properties; sea, land, rain, chaff, birds, and urban clutter; 

Pulse Doppler and MTI; transmitter stability; blind speeds and 

ranges,; Staggered PRFs; filter weighting; performance 

measures. 

6. Airborne Radar. Platform motion; iso-ranges and iso- 

Dopplers; mainbeam and sidelobe clutter; the three PRF 

regimes; ambiguities; real beam Doppler sharpening; 

synthetic aperture ground mapping modes; GMTI. 

7. High Range Resolution Principles: Pulse 

Compression. The Time-bandwidth product; the pulse 

compression process; discrete and continuous pulse 

compression codes; performance measures; mismatched 

filtering. 

8. High Range Resolution Principles: Synthetic 

Wideband. Motivation; alternative techniques; cross-band 

calibration. 

9. Electronically Scanned Radar Systems. Beam 

formation; beam steering techniques; grating lobes; phase 

shifters; multiple beams; array bandwidth; true time delays; 

ultralow sidelobes and array errors; beam scheduling. 

10. Active Phased Array Radar Systems. Active vs. 

passive arrays; architectural and technological properties; the 

T/R module; dynamic range; average power; stability; 

pertinent issues; cost; frequency dependence. 

11. Auto-Calibration and Auto-Compensation 

Techniques in Active Phased. Arrays. Motivation; calibration 

approaches; description of the mutual coupling approach; an 

auto-compensation approach. 

12. Sidelobe Blanking. Motivation; principle; implementation 

issues. 

13. Adaptive Cancellation. The adaptive space 

cancellation principle; broad pattern cancellers; high gain 

cancellers; tap delay lines; the effects of clutter; number of 

jammers, jammer geometries, and bandwidths on canceller 

performance; channel matching requirements; sample matrix 

inverse method. 

14. Multiple Target Tracking. Definition of Basic terms. 

Track Initiation, State Estimation & Filtering, Adaptive and 

Multiple Model Processing, Data Correlation & Association, 

Tracker Performance Evaluation. 


Summary 

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is the most 

versatile remote sensor. It is an all-weather sensor that 

can penetrate cloud cover and operate day or night 

from space-based or airborne systems. This 4.5-day 

course provides a survey of synthetic aperture radar 

(SAR) applications and how they influence and are 

constrained by instrument, platform (satellite) and 

image signal processing and extraction 

technologies/design. The course will introduce 

advanced systems design and associated signal 

processing concepts and implementation details. The 

course covers the fundamental concepts and 

principles for SAR, the key design parameters and 

system features, space-based systems used for 

collecting SAR data, signal processing techniques, and 

many applications of SAR data. 

Instructors 

Bart Huxtable has a Ph.D. in Physics from the 

California Institute of Technology, and a B.Sc. 

degree in Physics and Math from the University of 

Delaware. Dr. Huxtable is President of User 

Systems, Inc. He has over twenty years 

experience in signal processing and numerical 

algorithm design and implementation 

emphasizing application-specific data processing 

and analysis for remote sensor systems including 

radars, sonars, and lidars. He integrates his 

broad experience in physics, mathematics, 

numerical algorithms, and statistical detection 

and estimation theory to develop processing 

algorithms and performance simulations for many 

of the modern remote sensing applications using 

radars, sonars, and lidars. 

Dr. Keith Raney has a Ph.D. in Computer, 

Information and Control Engineering from the 

University of Michigan, an M.S. in Electrical 

Engineering from Purdue University, and a B.S. 

degree from Harvard University. He works for the 

Space Department of the Johns Hopkins 

University Applied Physics Laboratory, with 

responsibilities for earth observation systems 

development, and radar system analysis. He 

holds United States and international patents on 

the Delay/Doppler Radar Altimeter. He was on 

NASA’s Europa Orbiter Radar Sounder 

instrument design team, and on the Mars 

Reconnaissance Orbiter instrument definition 

team. Dr. Raney has an extensive background in 

imaging radar theory, and in interdisciplinary 

applications using sensing systems. 


• Basic concepts and principles of SAR and its 

applications. 

• What are the key system parameters. 

• How is performance calculated. 

• Design implementation and tradeoffs. 

• How to design and build high performance signal 

processors. 

• Current state-of-the-art systems. 

• SAR image interpretation. 


March 5-8, 2012 


$1990 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 

(Last Day 8:30am - 12:30pm) 




1. Radar Basics. Nature of EM waves, Vector 

representation of waves, Scattering and Propagation. 

2. Tools and Conventions. Radar sensitivity and 

accuracy performance. 

3. Subsystems and Critical Radar Components. 

Transmitter, Antenna, Receiver and Signal Processor, 

Control and Interface Apparatus, Comparison to 

Commsats. 

4. Fundamentals of Aperture Synthesis. 

Motivation for SAR, SAR image formation. 

5. Fourier Imaging. Bragg resonance condition, 

Born approximation. 

6. Signal Processing. Pulse compression: range 

resolution and signal bandwidth, Overview of Strip- 

Map Algorithms including Range-Doppler algorithm, 

Range migration algorithm, Chirp scaling algorithm, 

Overview of Spotlight Algorithms including Polar format 

algorithm, Motion Compensation, Autofocusing using 

the Map-Drift and PGA algorithms. 

7. Radar Phenomenology and Image 

Interpretation. Radar and target interaction including 

radar cross-section, attenuation & penetration 

(atmosphere, foliage), and frequency dependence, 

Imagery examples. 

8. Visual Presentation of SAR Imagery. Nonlinear 

remapping, Apodization, Super resolution, 

Speckle reduction (Multi-look). 

9. Interferometry. Topographic mapping, 

Differential topography (crustal deformation & 

subsidence), Change detection. 

10. Polarimetry. Terrain classification, Scatterer 

characterization. 

11. Miscellaneous SAR Applications. Mapping, 

Forestry, Oceanographic, etc. 

12. Ground Moving Target Indication (GMTI). 

Theory and Applications. 

13. Image Quality Parameters. Peak-to-sidelobe 

ratio, Integrated sidelobe ratio, Multiplicative noise ratio 

and major contributors. 

14. Radar Equation for SAR. Key radar equation 

parameters, Signal-to-Noise ratio, Clutter-to-Noise 

ratio, Noise equivalent backscatter, Electronic counter 

measures and electronic counter counter measures. 

15. Ambiguity Constraints for SAR. Range 

ambiguities, Azimuth ambiguities, Minimum antenna 

area, Maximum area coverage rate, ScanSAR. 

16. SAR Specification. System specification 

overview, Design drivers. 

17. Orbit Selection. LEO, MEO, GEO, Access 

area, Formation flying (e.g., cartwheel). 

18. Example SAR Systems. History, Airborne, 

Space-Based, Future. 


Strapdown & Integrated Navigation Systems 

Guidance, Navigation & Control Engineering 

Summary 

In this highly structured 4-day short course – 

specifically tailored to the needs of busy engineers, 

scientists, managers, and aerospace professionals – 

Thomas S. Logsdon will provide you with new insights 

into the modern guidance, navigation, and control 

techniques now being perfected at key research 

centers around the globe. 

The various topics are illustrated with powerful 

analogies, full-color sketches, block diagrams, simple 

one-page derivations highlighting their salient features, 

and numerical examples that employ inputs from 

today’s battlefield rockets, orbiting satellites, and deepspace 

missions. These lessons are carefully laid out to 

help you design and implement practical performanceoptimal 

missions and test procedures. 

Instructor 

Thomas S. Logsdon has accumulated more than 

30 years experience with the Naval 

Ordinance Laboratory, McDonnell 

Douglas, Lockheed Martin, Boeing 

Aerospace, and Rockwell International. 

His research projects and consulting 

assignments have included the Tartar 

and Talos shipboard missiles, Project 

Skylab, and various deep space interplanetary probes 

and missions. 

Mr. Logsdon has also worked extensively on the 

Navstar GPS, including military applications, 

constellation design and coverage studies. He has 

taught and lectured in 31 different countries on six 

continents and he has written and published 1.7 million 

words, including 29 technical books. His textbooks 

include Striking It Rich in Space, Understanding the 

Navstar, Mobile Communication Satellites, and Orbital 

Mechanics: Theory and Applications. 


• What are the key differences between gimballing 

and strapdown Intertial Navigation Systems 

• How are transfer alignment operations being 

carried out on modern battlefields 

• How sensitive are today’s solid state 

accelerometers and how are they currently being 

designed 

• What is a covariance matrix and how can it be 

used in evaluating the performance capabilities of 

Integrated GPS/INS Navigation Systems 

• How do the Paveway IV smart bombs differ from 

their predecessors 

• How are MEMS devices manufactured and what 

practical functions do they perform 

• What is the deep space network and how does it 

handle its demanding missions 



$1890 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 




1. Inertial Navigation Systems. Fundamental 

Concepts. Schuller pendulum errors. Strapdown 

implementations. Ring laser gyros. The Sagnac effect. 

Monolithic ring laser gyros. Fiber optic gyros. Advanced 

strapdown implementations. 

2. Radionavigation’s Precise Position-Fixing 

Techniques. Active and passive radionavigation systems. 

Pseudoranging solutions. Nanosecond timing accuracies. 

The quantum-mechanical principles of cesium and 

rubidium atomic clocks. Solving for the user’s position. 

3. Integrated Navigation Systems. Intertial 

navigation. Gimballing and strapdown navigation. Openloop 

and closed-loop implementations. Transfer alignment 

techniques. Kalman filters and their state variable 

selections. Test results. 

4. Hardware Units for Inertial Navigation. Solid-state 

accelerometers. Initializing today’s strapdown inertial 

navigation systems. Coordinate rotations and direction 

cosine matrices. "MEMS devices." and "The beautiful 

marriage between MEMS technology and the GPS." 

Spaceborne inertial navigation systems. 

5. Military Applications of Integrated Navigation. 

Translator implementations at military test ranges. Military 

performance specifications. Military test results. Tactical 

applications. The Trident Accuracy Improvement Program. 

Tomahawk cruise missiles. 

6. Navigation Solutions and Kalman Filtering 

Techniques. Ultra precise navigation solutions. Solving 

for the user’s velocity. Evaluating the geometrical dilution 

of precision. Kalman filtering techniques. The covariance 

matrices and their physical interpretations. Typical state 

variable selections. Monte Carlo simulations. 

7. Smart bombs, Guided Missiles, and Artillery 

Projectiles. Beam-riders and their destructive potential. 

Smart bombs and their demonstrated accuracies. Smart 

and rugged artillery projectiles. The Paveway IV smart 

bombs. 

8. Spaceborne Applications of Integrated 

Navigation Systems. On-orbit position-fixing on early 

satellites. The Twin Grace satellites. Guiding tomorrow’s 

booster rockets. Attitude determinations for the 

International Space Station. Cesium fountain clocks in 

space. Relativistic corrections for radionavigation 

satellites. 

9. Today’s Guidance and Control for Deep Space 

Missions. Putting ICBM’s through their paces. Guiding 

tomorrow’s highly demanding missions from the Earth to 

Mars. JPL’s awesome new interplanetary pinball 

machines. JPL’s deep space network. Autonomous robots 

swarming along the space frontier. Driving along 

tomorrow’s unpaved freeways in the sky. 


Fundamentals 

May 7-8, 2012 


June 4-5, 2012 


Instructor: 

Dr. Keith Raney 

$1090 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 

Synthetic Aperture Radar 

Advanced 

May 9-10, 2012 


Instructor: 

Bart Huxtable 

$1090 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 


• Basic concepts and principles of SAR. 

• What are the key system parameters. 

• Design and implementation tradeoffs. 

• Current system performance. Emerging 

systems. 


1. SAR Imagery: Mechanisms and Effects. Backscatter. SAR, 

from backscatter through the radar and processor to imagery. Side- 

(and down-) looking geometry. Slant-range to ground-range 

conversion. The microwave spectrum. Frequency and wavelength. 

Effects of wavelength. Specular (forward and backward), discrete, and 

diffuse scattering. Shadowing. Cardinal effect. Bragg scattering. 

Speckle; its cause and mitigation. The Washington Monument. 

2. Applications Overview. SAR milestones and pivotal 

contributions. Typical SAR designs and modes, ranging from 

pioneering classic, single channel, strip mapping systems to more 

advanced wide-swath, polarimetric, spotlight, and interferometric 

designs. A survey of important applications and how they influence the 

SAR system. Examples will be drawn from SeaSat, Radarsat-1/2, 

ERS-1/2, Magellan (at Venus), and TerraSAR-X, among others. 

3. System Design Principles. Part I, Engineering Perspective: 

System design of an orbital SAR depends on classical electromagnetic 

and related physical principles, which will be concisely reviewed. The 

SAR radar equation. Sampling, which leads to the dominant SAR 

design constraint (the range-Doppler ambiguity trade-off) impacts 

fundamental parameters including resolution, swath width, signal-to- 

(additive) noise ratio, signal-to-speckle (a multiplicative noise) ratio, 

and ambiguity ratios. Part II, User Perspective: Complex vs real 

(power or square-root power) imagery. Noise-equivalent sigma-zero. 

The SAR Greed Factor. The six Axioms that describe top-level SAR 

properties from the user’s perspective. The SAR Image Quality 

parameter (the fundamental resolution-multi-look metric of interest to 

the user) will be described, and its influence will be reviewed on 

system design and image utility.. 

4. SAR Polarimetry. Electromagnetic polarimetric basics. A review 

of the polarimetric combinations available for SAR architecture, 

including single-polarization, dual polarization, compact polarimetry, 

and full (or quadrature) polarimetry. Benefits and disadvantages of 

polarimetric SARs. Hybrid-polarimetric radars. Examples of typical 

applications. “Free” applications and analysis tools. Future outlook. 

5. SAR Interferometry. Electromagnetic polarimetric basics. A 

review of the polarimetric combinations available for SAR architecture, 

including single-polarization, dual polarization, compact polarimetry, 

and full (or quadrature) polarimetry. Benefits and disadvantages of 

polarimetric SARs. Hybrid-polarimetric radars. Examples of typical 

applications. “Free” applications and analysis tools. Future outlook. 

6. Current Orbital SARs. These include Europe’s ENVISAT, 

Canada’s Radarsat-2, Germany’s TerraSAR-X and Tandem-X. With 

requests from students in advance, any (unclassified) orbital SAR may 

be presented as a case study. 

7. Future Orbital SARs. Important examples include ALOS-2 

(Japan), RISAT-1 (India), SAOCOM (Argentina), and the Radarsat 

Constellation Mission (Canada). With advance notice from prospective 

students, any known forthcoming mission could be presented as a 

case study. 

8. Open Questions and Discussion. Overview of the best 

professional SAR conferences. Topics raised by participants will be 

discussed, as interest and curiosity indicate. 


• How to process data from SAR systems for 

high resolution, wide area coverage, 

interferometric and/or polarimetric applications. 

• How to design and build high performance 

SAR processors. 

• Perform SAR data calibration. 

• Ground moving target indication (GMTI) in a 

SAR context. 

• Current state-of-the-art. 


1. SAR Review Origins. Theory, Design, 

Engineering, Modes, Applications, System. 

2. Processing Basics. Traditional strip map 

processing steps, theoretical justification, 

processing systems designs, typical processing 

systems. 

3. Advanced SAR Processing. Processing 

complexities arising from uncompensated motion 

and low frequency (e.g., foliage penetrating) SAR 

processing. 

4. Interferometric SAR. Description of the stateof-the-art 

IFSAR processing techniques: complex 

SAR image registration, interferogram and 

correlogram generation, phase unwrapping, and 

digital terrain elevation data (DTED) extraction. 

5. Spotlight Mode SAR. Theory and 

implementation of high resolution imaging. 

Differences from strip map SAR imaging. 

6. Polarimetric SAR. Description of the image 

information provided by polarimetry and how this 

can be exploited for terrain classification, soil 

moisture, ATR, etc. 

7. High Performance Computing Hardware. 

Parallel implementations, supercomputers, compact 

DSP systems, hybrid opto-electronic system. 

8. SAR Data Calibration. Internal (e.g., caltones) 

and external calibrations, Doppler centroid 

aliasing, geolocation, polarimetric calibration, 

ionospheric effects. 

9. Example Systems and Applications. Spacebased: 

SIR-C, RADARSAT, ENVISAT, TerraSAR, 

Cosmo-Skymed, PalSAR. Airborne: AirSAR and 

other current systems. Mapping, change detection, 

polarimetry, interferometry. 


Tactical Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) System Engineering 

Overview of leading-edge, ISR system-of-systems 

Summary 

This three-day course addresses System Engineering 

aspects associated with Intelligence, Surveillance & 

Reconnaissance (ISR) programs and. Application to 

security, target acquisition and tracking, terminal guidance 

for weapon systems, and seamless integration of 

distributed sensor heterogeneous systems with intuitive 

situational display is provided. The course is designed for 

the lead engineers; systems engineers, researchers, 

program managers, and government directors who desire 

a framework to solve the competing objectives relating to 

ISR & security missions relating to regional force 

protection, asset monitoring, and/or targeting. The course 

presents an overview of tactical scale ISR systems (and 

missions), requirements definition and tracking, and 

provides technical descriptions relating to underlying 

sensor technologies, ISR platform integration (e.g., UAVbased 

sensor systems), and measures of system 

performance with emphasis on system integration & test 

issues. Examples are given throughout the conduct of the 

course to allow for knowledgeable assessment of sensor 

systems, ISR platform integration, data exfiltration and 

network connectivity, along with discussion of the 

emerging integration of sensors with situational analyses 

(including sensor web enablement), application of open 

geospatial standards (OGC), and attendant enabling 

capabilities (consideration of sensor modalities, adaptive 

processing of data, and system “impact” considerations). 

Strategic and classified ISR aspects are not presented 

within this unclassified course. 


• How to analyze and implement ISR & security concerns 

and requirements with a comprehensive, state-of-theart 

ISR system response. 

• Understanding limitations and major issues associated 

with ISR systems. 

• ISR & security requirement development and tracking 

pertaining to tactical ISR systems, how to audit top-level 

requirements to system element implementations. 

• Sensor technologies and evaluation techniques for 

sensor modalities including: imagers (EO/IR), radar, 

laser radar, and other sensor modalities associated with 

tactical ISR missions. 

• Data communications architecture and networks; how to 

manage the distributed ISR assets and exfiltrate the 

vital data and data. 

• ISR system design objectives and key performance 

parameters. 

• Situational analyses and associated common operating 

display approaches; how best to interact with human 

decision makers. 

• Integration of multi-modal data to form comprehensive 

situational awareness. 

• Emerging standards associated with sensor integration 

and harmonization afforded via sensor web enablement 

technology. 

• Examples of effective tactical ISR systems. 

• Tools to support evaluation of ISR components, 

systems, requirements verification (and validation), and 

effective deployment and maintenance. 

• Modeling & simulation approaches to ISR requirements 

definition and responsive ISR system design(s); how to 

evaluate aspects of an ISR system prior to deployment 

and even prior to element development – how to find the 

ISR “gaps”. 

NEW! 

March 19-21, 2012 


$1690 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 



Instructor 

Timothy D. Cole is president of a consulting firm. Mr. 

Cole has developed sensor & data 

exfiltration solutions employing EO/IR 

sensors with augmentation using low-cost 

wireless sensor nets. He has worked 

several sensor system programs that 

addressed ISR including military-based 

cuing of sensors, intelligence gathering, first 

responders, and border protection. Mr. Cole 

holds multiple degrees in Electrical Engineering as well as 

in Technical Management. He has been awarded the NASA 

Achievement Award and was a Technical Fellow at Northrop 

Grumman. He has authored over 25 papers associated with 

ISR sensors, signal processing, and modeling. 


1. Overview of ISR Systems. including definitions, 

approaches, and review of existing unclassified systems. 

2. Requirement Development, Tracking, and 

Responsive Design Implementation(s). 

3. Real-time Data Processing Functionality. 

4. Data Communication Systems for Tactical ISR. 

5. ISR Functionality. Target acquisition and tracking, 

including ATR. Target classification. Targeting systems 

(e.g., laser-guided ordnance). 

6. Tactical ISR Asset Platforms. Air-based (includes 

UAVs). Ground-based. Vehicle-based. 

7. Sensor Technologies, Capabilities, Evaluation 

Criteria, and Modeling Approach. Electro-optical 

imagers (EO/IR). Radar (including ultrawideband, UWB). 

Laser radar. Biochemical sensing. Acoustic monitoring. Ad 

hoc wireless sensor nodes (WSN). Application of sensor 

modalities to ISR. Tagging, tracking & Locating targets of 

interest (TTL). Non-cooperative target identification 

(NCID). 

8. Concurrent Operation and Cross-correlation of 

ISR Sensor Data Products to Form Comprehensive 

Evaluation of Current Status. 

9. Test & Evaluation Approach. 

10. Human Systems Integration and Human Factors 

Test & Evaluation. 

11. Modeling & Simulation of ISR System 

Performance. 

12. Service Oriented Architectures and IP 

Convergence. Sensor web enablement. Use of metadata. 

Sensor harmonization. Re-use and cooperative integration 

of ISR assets. 

13. Situational Analysis and Display. Standardization. 

Heuristic manipulation of ISR system operation and 

dataflow/processing. 

14. Case Studies: Tactical ISR System 

Implementation and Evaluation. 


Unmanned Aircraft Systems Overview 

Engineering, Spectrum, and Regulatory Issues Associated with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 

Summary 

This one-day course is designed for engineers, 

aviation experts and project managers who wish to 

enhance their understanding of UAS. The course 

provides the "big picture" for those who work outside of 

the discipline. Each topic addresses real systems 

(Predator, Shadow, Warrior and others) and real-world 

problems and issues concerning the use and 

expansion of their applications. 

Instructor 

Mark N. Lewellen has nearly 25 years of experience 

with a wide variety of space, satellite and aviation 

related projects, including the 

Predator/Shadow/Warrior/Global Hawk 

UAVs, Orbcomm, Iridium, Sky Station, 

and aeronautical mobile telemetry 

systems. More recently he has been 

working in the exciting field of UAS. He is 

currently the Vice Chairman of a UAS 

Sub-group under Working Party 5B 

which is leading the US preparations to find new radio 

spectrum for UAS operations for the next World 

Radiocommunication Conference in 2011 under 

Agenda Item 1.3. He is also a technical advisor to the 

US State Department and a member of the National 

Committee which reviews and comments on all US 

submissions to international telecommunication 

groups, including the International Telecommunication 

Union (ITU). 


• Categories of current UAS and their aeronautical 

capabilities. 

• Major manufactures of UAS. 

• The latest developments and major components of 

a UAS. 

• What type of sensor data can UAS provide. 

• Regulatory and spectrum issues associated with 

UAS 

• National Airspace System including the different 

classes of airspace. 

• How will UAS gain access to the National Airspace 

System (NAS). 

Video! 

March 19, 2012 


$700 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 



www.aticourses.com/unmanned_aircraft_systems.html 


1. Historic Development of UAS Post 1960’s. 

2. Components and latest developments of a 

UAS. Ground Control Station, Radio Links (LOS 

and BLOS), UAV, Payloads. 

3. UAS Manufacturers. Domestic, International. 

4. Classes, Characteristics and Comparisons 

of UAS. 

5. Operational Scenarios for UAS. Phases of 

Flight, Federal Government Use of UAS, State 

and Local government use of UAS. Civil and 

commercial use of UAS. 

6. ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and 

Reconnaissance) of UAS. Optical, Infrared, 

Radar. 

7. Comparative Study of the Safety of UAS. 

In the Air and On the ground. 

8. UAS Access to the National Airspace 

System (NAS). Overview of the NAS, Classes of 

Airspace, Requirements for Access to the NAS, 

Issues Being Addressed, Issues Needing to be 

Addressed. 

9. Bandwidth and Spectrum Issues. Bandwidth 

of single UAV, Aggregate bandwidth of UAS 

population. 

10. International UAS Issues. WRC Process, 

Agenda Item 1.3 and Resolution 421. 

11. UAS Centers of Excellence. North Dakota, 

Las Cruses, NM, DoD. 

12. Worked Examples of Channeling Plans 

and Link/Interference Budgets. Shadow, Predator/Warrior. 

13. UAS Interactive Deployment Scenarios. 


Unmanned Aircraft System Fundamentals 

Design, Weaponization, & Future Capabilities 

Instructor 

Jerry LeMieux, PhD is an International lecturer and 

consultant with over 40 years and 

10,000 hours of aviation experience. He 

has over 30 years of experience in 

operations, program management, 

systems engineering, R&D and test and 

evaluation for AEW, fighter and tactical 

data link acquisition programs. As the 

Network Centric Systems Wing 

Commander he led 1,300 personnel and managed 100 

network and data link acquisition programs with a five 

year portfolio valued at more than $22 billion. In civilian 

life he has consulted on numerous airspace issues for 

the US FAA, USAF, Army, Navy, NASA and DARPA. He 

holds a PhD in electrical engineering and is a graduate 

of Air War College and Defense Acquisition University. 

He has over 20 years experience lecturing at major 

Universities including MIT, Boston University, 

University of Maryland, Daniel Webster College and 

Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. Dr LeMieux is a 

National expert on sense and avoid systems for UAS 

and is currently working with the FAA and RTCA to 

integrate UAS into USNational Airspace. 


• Basic Definitions, Attributes and Components. 

• Military & Space Missions and Future Civilian Roles. 

• Characteristics of UAS Sensors. 

• UAS Communications and Data Links. 

• NATO Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 4586. 

• UAS Weapon Design Process and Current Weapons. 

• Need for Regulation and Problems with Airspace 

Integration. 

• Ground and Airborne Sense & Avoid Systems. 

• Lost Link and ATC Communication/Management 

Procedures. 

• Principles of UAS Design & Alternative Power. 

• Improving Reliability with Fault Tolerant Control Systems. 

• Principles of Autonomous Control & Alternative 

Navigation. 

• Future Capabilities Including Space Transport, 

Hypersonic, UCAS, Pseudo-satellites and Swarming. 

NEW! 

Summary 

This 3-day, classroom and practical instructional 

program provides individuals or teams entering the 

unmanned aircraft system (UAS) market with the need 

to ‘hit the ground running’. Delegates will gain a 

working knowledge of UAS system classification, 

payloads, sensors, communications and data links. 

You will learn the UAS weapon design process and 

UAS system design components. The principles of 

mission planning systems and human factors design 

considerations are described. The critical issue of 

integrating UAS in the NAS is addressed in detail along 

with major considerations. Multiple roadmaps from all 

services are used to explain UAS future missions. 

March 20-22, 2012 


$1690 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 




1. UAS Basics. Definition, attributes, manned vs unmanned, 

design considerations, life cycle costs, air vehicle, payload, data 

link, ground control station, communications, payload, mission 

profiles, survivability. 

2. UAS Types & Civilian Roles. Type: By military group, size, 

endurance, altitude, wing loading, performance, and capabilities, 

small, MALE, HALE, UK & International classifications, law enforcement, 

disaster relief, fire detection & assessment, customs 

& border patrol, nuclear inspection. 

3. UAS Military Operations: Intelligence, Surveillance Reconnaissance 

(ISR), Global Hawk, Small UAS & Tactical Missions, 

Precision Strike, Predator, Reaper, UAS for Close Air 

Support (CAS), Armed UAS CAS, Other Military Missions, UAS 

Airspace Integration, 1st Air-to-Air Combat. 

4. Sensor s & Characteristics: Sensor Resolution, Target Acquisition, 

Atmospheric Absorption, Black Body Radiation, Electro 

Optical (EO), Infrared (IR), Multi Spectral Imaging (MSI), 

Hyper Spectral Imaging (HSI) Light Detection & Ranging 

(LIDAR), Chemical, Biological, Radiological & Nuclear (CBRN) 

Detection, Laser Range Finder, EO/IR Gimbal Packages Radar 

Basics, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), SAR Packages, Signals 

Intelligence (SIGINT), Atmospheric Weather Effects, Space 

Weather Effects, Sensor Data Rates, Sensor Technology Trends. 

5. Communications & Data Links. Current State of Data 

Links, Future Data Link Needs, Line of Sight Fundamentals, 

Beyond Line of Sight Fundamentals, UAS Communications 

Failure, Link Enhancements, Common Data Link (CDL), Tactical 

Common Data link (TCDL), STANAG 4586, VCS 4586, VMF 

and Link 16 Integration, Multi UAS Control, UGCS. 

6. UAS Weaponization. UAS Design Process,Airframe 

Design, Considerations, Launch & Recovery Methods, 

Propulsion Considerations, Communications, Navigation, 

Control & Stability, Ground Control Station, Support Equipment, 

Transportation. 

7. Improving UAS Reliability. Causes of Failures, Reliability 

Calculations, Mishap Rates, Predator Case Study, Failure Mode 

Findings, Fault Tolerance, Redundancy, Fault Tolerant Control 

Architecture, Fault Detection & Identification, Reconfigurable 

Flight Controllers. 

8. Federal Regulation & DoD Operations. UAS Demand, 

UAS Regulation Problems, Lost Link & Air Traffic Management, 

Spectrum Protection, Airspace Categories, UAS Operations, 

Airspace Problems. 

9. Civil Airspace Integration and Sense and Avoid. Civil 

UAS News, Capability Needs, Technology Requirements, RTCA 

SC-203, Civil Requirements: Equivalent Level of Safety, System 

Safety Analysis, TCAS ADS-B, EO, Acoustic & Microwave Sensors. 

10. UAS Autonomous Control & Alternatives to GPS 

Navigation. Vision, Definitions, Automatic Control, Automatic 

Air-to-Air Refueling, Intelligent Control, Intelligent Control 

Techniques, Alternatives to GPS Navigation Systems. 

11. Case Studies. (1) Alternative Power: Solar Cells, Solar 

Wing Design, Energy Balance, Energy Storage, Fuel Cell 

Operation (2) Multiple UAS Swarming: Multiple UAS Control, 

Swarming Characteristics & Concepts, Emergent Behavior, 

Swarming Algorithms, Swarm Communications. 

12. Future Capabilities. Space UAS & Global Strike, Advanced 

Hypersonic Weapon, Submarine Launched UAS, UCAS, 

Pseudo-satellites, Future Military Missions & Technologies. 


Antenna and Array Fundamentals 

Basic concepts in antennas, antenna arrays, and antennas systems 



$1795 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 



Summary 

This three-day course teaches the basics of 

antenna and antenna array theory. Fundamental 

concepts such as beam patterns, radiation resistance, 

polarization, gain/directivity, aperture size, reciprocity, 

and matching techniques are presented. Different 

types of antennas such as dipole, loop, patch, horn, 

dish, and helical antennas are discussed and 

compared and contrasted from a performanceapplications 

standpoint. The locations of the reactive 

near-field, radiating near-field (Fresnel region), and farfield 

(Fraunhofer region) are described and the Friis 

transmission formula is presented with worked 

examples. Propagation effects are presented. Antenna 

arrays are discussed, and array factors for different 

types of distributions (e.g., uniform, binomial, and 

Tschebyscheff arrays) are analyzed giving insight to 

sidelobe levels, null locations, and beam broadening 

(as the array scans from broadside.) The end-fire 

condition is discussed. Beam steering is described 

using phase shifters and true-time delay devices. 

Problems such as grating lobes, beam squint, 

quantization errors, and scan blindness are presented. 

Antenna systems (transmit/receive) with active 

amplifiers are introduced. Finally, measurement 

techniques commonly used in anechoic chambers are 

outlined. The textbook, Antenna Theory, Analysis & 

Design, is included as well as a comprehensive set of 

course notes. 

Instructor 

Dr. Steven Weiss is a senior design engineer with 

the Army Research Lab. He has a 

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical 

Engineering from the Rochester 

Institute of Technology with Master’s 

and Doctoral Degrees from The George 

Washington University. He has 

numerous publications in the IEEE on 

antenna theory. He teaches both 

introductory and advanced, graduate level courses at 

Johns Hopkins University on antenna systems. He is 

active in the IEEE. In his job at the Army Research Lab, 

he is actively involved with all stages of antenna 

development from initial design, to first prototype, to 

measurements. He is a licensed Professional Engineer 

in both Maryland and Delaware. 


1. Basic Concepts In Antenna Theory. Beam 

patterns, radiation resistance, polarization, 

gain/directivity, aperture size, reciprocity, and matching 

techniques. 

2. Locations. Reactive near-field, radiating nearfield 

(Fresnel region), far-field (Fraunhofer region) and 

the Friis transmission formula. 

3. Types of Antennas. Dipole, loop, patch, horn, 

dish, and helical antennas are discussed, compared, 

and contrasted from a performance/applications 

standpoint. 

4. Propagation Effects. Direct, sky, and ground 

waves. Diffraction and scattering. 

5. Antenna Arrays and Array Factors. (e.g., 

uniform, binomial, and Tschebyscheff arrays). 

6. Scanning From Droadside. Sidelobe levels, 

null locations, and beam broadening. The end-fire 

condition. Problems such as grating lobes, beam 

squint, quantization errors, and scan blindness. 

7. Beam Steering. Phase shifters and true-time 

delay devices. Some commonly used components and 

delay devices (e.g., the Rotman lens) are compared. 

8. Measurement Techniques Ised In Anechoic 

Chambers. Pattern measurements, polarization 

patterns, gain comparison test, spinning dipole (for CP 

measurements). Items of concern relative to anechoic 

chambers such as the quality of the absorbent 

material, quiet zone, and measurement errors. 

Compact, outdoor, and near-field ranges. 

9. Questions and Answers. 


• Basic antenna concepts that pertain to all antennas 

and antenna arrays. 

• The appropriate antenna for your application. 

• Factors that affect antenna array designs and 

antenna systems. 

• Measurement techniques commonly used in 

anechoic chambers. 

This course is invaluable to engineers seeking to 

work with experts in the field and for those desiring 

a deeper understanding of antenna concepts. At its 

completion, you will have a solid understanding of 

the appropriate antenna for your application and 

the technical difficulties you can expect to 

encounter as your design is brought from the 

conceptual stage to a working prototype. 


NEW! 

Computational Electromagnetics 

Summary 

This 3-day course teaches the basics of CEM with 

electromagnetics review and application examples. 

Fundamental concepts in the solution of EM radiation 

and scattering problems are presented. Emphasis is 

on applying computational methods to practical 

applications. You will develop a working knowledge of 

popular methods such as the FEM, MOM, FDTD, FIT, 

and TLM including asymptotic and hybrid methods. 

Students will then be able to identify the most relevant 

CEM method for various applications, avoid common 

user pitfalls, understand model validation and correctly 

interpret results. Students are 

encouraged to bring their laptop to 

work examples using the provided 

FEKO Lite code. You will learn the 

importance of model development 

and meshing, post-processing for 

scientific visualization and 

presentation of results. Participants 

will receive a complete set of notes, a copy of FEKO 

and textbook, CEM for RF and Microwave 

Engineering. 

Instructor 

Dr. Keefe Coburn is a senior design engineer with 

the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. 

He has a Bachelor's degree in Physics 

from the VA Polytechnic Institute with 

Masters and Doctoral Degrees from 

the George Washington University. In 

his job at the Army Research Lab, he 

applies CEM tools for antenna design, 

system integration and system performance analysis. 

He teaches graduate courses at the Catholic University 

of America in antenna theory and remote sensing. He 

is a member of the IEEE, the Applied Computational 

Electromagnetics Society (ACES), the Union of Radio 

Scientists and Sigma Xi. He serves on the 

Configuration Control Board for the Army developed 

GEMACS CEM code and the ACES Board of Directors. 


• A review of electromagnetic, antenna and scattering 

theory with modern application examples. 

• An overview of popular CEM methods with 

commercial codes as examples. 

• Tutorials for numerical algorithms. 

• Hands-on experience with FEKO Lite to demonstrate 

wire antennas, modeling guidelines and common 

user pitfalls. 

• An understanding of the latest developments in CEM, 

hybrid methods and High Performance Computing. 

From this course you will obtain the knowledge 

required to become a more expert user. You will 

gain exposure to popular CEM codes and learn 

how to choose the best tool for specific 

applications. You will be better prepared to 

interact meaningfully with colleagues, evaluate 

CEM accuracy for practical applications, and 

understand the literature. 

May 16-18, 2012 


$1795 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 




1. Review of Electromagnetic Theory. 

Maxwell’s Equations, wave equation, Duality, 

Surface Equivalence Principle, boundary 

conditions, dielectrics and lossy media. 

2. Basic Concepts in Antenna Theory. 

Gain/Directivity, apertures, reciprocity and phasors. 

3. Basic Concepts in Scattering Theory. 

Reflection and transmission, Brewster and critical 

angles, RCS, scattering mechanisms and canonical 

shapes, frequency dependence. 

4. Antenna Systems. Various antenna types, 

feed systems, array antennas and beam steering, 

periodic structures, electromagnetic symmetry, 

system integration and performance analysis. 

5. Overview of Computational Methods in 

Electromagnetics. Introduction to frequency and 

time domain methods. Compare and contrast 

differential/volume and integral/surface methods 

with popular commercial codes as examples 

(adjusted to class interests). 

6. Finite Element Method Tutorial. 

Mathematical basis and algorithms with application 

to electromagnetics. Time domain and hybrid 

methods (adjusted to class background). 

7. Method of Moments Tutorial. Mathematical 

basis and algorithms (adjusted to class 

mathematical background). Implementation for wire 

antennas and examples using FEKO Lite. 

8. Finite Difference Time Domain Tutorial. 

Mathematical basis and numerical algorithms, 

parallel implementations (adjusted to class 

mathematical background). 

9. Transmission Line Matrix Method. Overview 

and numerical algorithms. 

10. Finite Integration Technique. Overview. 

11. Asymptotic Methods. Scattering 

mechanisms and high frequency approximations. 

12. Hybrid and Advanced Methods. Overview, 

FMM, ACA and FEKO examples. 

13. High Performance Computing. Overview of 

parallel methods and examples. 

14. Summary. With emphasis on practical 

applications and intelligent decision making. 

15. Questions and FEKO examples. Adjusted 

to class problems of interest. 


NEW! 

Designing Wireless Systems for EMC 

Summary 

In order to permit efficient use of the radio frequency (RF) 

spectrum, engineers and technicians responsible for the 

planning, design, development, installation and operation of 

wireless systems must have a methodology for achieving 

electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). 

This 3-day course provides a methodology for using EMC 

analysis techniques and tools for planning, designing, 

installing and operating wireless systems that are free from 

EMI problems. Careful application of these techniques at 

appropriate stages in the wireless system life cycle will ensure 

EMC without either the wasteful expense of over-engineering 

or the uncertainties of under-engineering. This course 

discusses the basic EMI problems and describes the role and 

importance of analysis in achieving EMC in the co-site or coplatform 

electromagnetic environment. It introduces the 

student to the basic co-site/co-platform EMC analysis 

techniques. 

The EMI interactions that can occur between a transmitter 

and a receiver are identified and analysis techniques and 

tools that may be used in the planning, design, development, 

installation and operation of wireless systems that are free of 

EMI are provided. The course is specifically directed toward 

EMI signals that are generated by potentially interfering 

transmitters, propagated and received via antennas and 

cause EMI in RF receivers. Mathematical models for the 

overall transmitter receiver EMI interactions and the EMI 

characteristics of transmitters, receivers, antennas, 

propagation and system performance are presented. 

Instructor 

Dr. William G. Duff (Bill) received a BEE degree from 

George Washington University in 1959, a 

MSEE degree from Syracuse University in 

1969, and a DScEE degree from Clayton 

University in 1977. 

Bill is an independent consultant 

specializing in EMI/EMC. He worked for 

SENTEL and Atlantic Research and taught 

courses on electromagnetic interference 

(EMI) and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). He is 

internationally recognized as a leader in the development of 

engineering technology for achieving EMC in communication 

and electronic systems. He has more than 40 years of 

experience in EMI/EMC analysis, design, test and problem 

solving for a wide variety of communication and electronic 

systems. He has extensive experience in assessing EMI at 

the circuit, equipment and/or the system level and applying 

EMI mitigation techniques to "fix" problems. Bill has written 

more than 40 technical papers and five books on EMC. He is 

a NARTE Certified EMC Engineer. 

Bill has been very active in the IEEE EMC Society. He 

served on the Board of Directors, was Chairman of the Fellow 

Evaluation Committee and is an Associate Editor for the 

Newsletter. He is an IEEE Fellow, a past president of the IEEE 

EMC Society and a past Director of the Electromagnetics and 

Radiation Division of IEEE. 


• Awareness of EMI as a potentially severe problem 

area associated with wireless electronic equipment 

and systems. 

• Understanding of the electromagnetic interference 

(EMI) interactions between transmitters and 

receivers Analysis techniques that will identify, 

localize and define (EMI) problem areas before 

rather than after time, effort and dollars are wasted. 

• More timely and economical corrective measures. 

March 6-8, 2012 


$1690 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 




Day 1 

Introduction 

Wireless Systems 

Types of Service 

System Design Considerations 

System Design Example 

Spectrum Management 

Transmitter and Receiver EMI Interactions 

Definition of EMC/EMI Terms and Units 

EMC Requirements for RF Systems 

Wireless System EMC 

Major EMC Considerations 

System Specific EMC Considerations 

Day 2 

Transmitter Considerations for EMC Design 

Fundamental Emission Characteristics. 

Harmonic Emission Characteristics. 

Nonharmonic Emission Characteristics. 

Transmitter Emission Noise. 

Transmitter lntermodulation. 

Receiver Considerations for EMC Design. 

Co-Channel Interference. 

Fundamental Susceptibility. 

Adjacent-Signal Susceptibility. 

Out-of-Band Susceptibility 

Receiver Performance Threshold. 

Antenna Considerations for EMC 

Classes of Antennas 

Intentional-Radiation Region Characteristics 

Unintentional - Radiation Region Characteristics 

Near-Field Characteristics 

Day 3 

Propagation Modes 

Characteristics of Free Space Propagation. 

Plane Earth Model. Okumura Model. Egli Model. 

Complex Cosite / Coplatform Coupling. 

System Electromagnetic Effectiveness. 

EMI Performance of Spread-Spectrum Systems. 

Modulation Considerations for EMC (AM, FM, FSK, PSK, 

etc.) 

Signal Format for EMC Single Channel and Multiple 

Users. 

EMI Mitigation (Antenna Decoupling. Frequency 

Management. Interference Cancellation). 

System Design Tradeoffs. 

Sample Problems. 

For more outline details please visit: 

www.aticourses.com/Designing_Wireless_Systems_For_ 

EMC.htm 


Students are assumed to have an engineering 

background. In this course mathematical concepts are 

presented only as an aid to understanding of the various 

physical phenomena. Several years of education for a 

Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Engineering Degree or 

several years experience in the engineering community is 

desirable. 


Digital Signal Processing System Design 

With MATLAB Code and Applications to Sonar and other areas of client interest 

May 21-24, 2012 


$1890 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 



Summary 

This four-day course is intended for engineers and 

scientists concerned with the design and performance 

analysis of signal processing applications. The course 

will provide the fundamentals required to develop 

optimum signal processing flows based upon 

processor throughput resource requirements analysis. 

Emphasis will be placed upon practical approaches 

based on lessons learned that are thoroughly 

developed using procedures with computer tools that 

show each step required in the design and analysis. 

MATLAB code will be used to demonstrate concepts 

and show actual tools available for performing the 

design and analysis. 

Instructor 

Joseph G. Lucas has over 35 years of 

experience in DSP techniques and applications 

including EW, sonar and radar applications, 

performance analysis, digital filtering, spectral 

analysis, beamforming, detection and tracking 

techniques, finite word length effects, and adaptive 

processing. He has industry experience at IBM and 

GD-AIS with radar, sonar and EW applications and 

has taught classes in DSP theory and applications. 

He is author of the textbook: Digital Signal 

Processing: A System Design Approach (Wiley). 


• What are the key DSP concepts and how do they 

relate to real applications 

• How is the optimum real-time signal processing flow 

determined 

• What are the methods of time domain and 

frequency domain implementation 

• How is an optimum DSP system designed 

• What are typical characteristics of real DSP 

multirate systems 

• How can you use MATLAB to analyze and design 

DSP systems 

From this course you will obtain the knowledge 

and ability to perform basic DSP systems 

engineering calculations, identify tradeoffs, 

interact meaningfully with colleagues, evaluate 

systems, and understand the literature. Students 

will receive a suite of MATLAB m-files for direct 

use or modification by the user. These codes are 

useful to both MATLAB users and users of other 

programming languages as working examples of 

practical signal processing algorithm 

implementations. 


1. Discrete Time Linear Systems. A review of the 

fundamentals of sampling, discrete time signals, and 

sequences. Develop fundamental representation of discrete 

linear time-invariant system output as the convolution of the 

input signal with the system impulse response or in the 

frequency domain as the product of the input frequency 

response and the system frequency response. Define general 

difference equation representations, and frequency response 

of the system. Show a typical detection system for detecting 

discrete frequency components in noise. 

2. System Realizations & Analysis. Demonstrate the 

use of z-transforms and inverse z-transforms in the analysis 

of discrete time systems. Show examples of the use of z- 

transform domain to represent difference equations and 

manipulate DSP realizations. Present network diagrams for 

direct form, cascade, and parallel implementations. 

3. Digital Filters. Develop the fundamentals of digital 

filter design techniques for Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) 

and Develop Finite Impulse Response filter (FIR) types. 

MATLAB design examples will be presented. Comparisons 

between FIR and IIR filters will be presented. 

4. Discrete Fourier Transforms (DFT). The 

fundamental properties of the DFT will be presented: linearity, 

circular shift, frequency response, scallo ping loss, and 

effective noise bandwidth. The use of weighting and 

redundancy processing to obtain desired performance 

improvements will be presented. The use of MATLAB to 

calculate performance gains for various weighting functions 

and redundancies will be demonstrated. . 

5. Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). The FFT radix 2 and 

radix 4 algorithms will be developed. The use of FFTs to 

perform filtering in the frequency domain will be developed 

using the overlap-save and overlap-add techniques. 

Performance calculations will be demonstrated using 

MATLAB. Processing throughput requirements for 

implementing the FFT will be presented. 

6. Multirate Digital Signal Processing. Multirate 

processing fundamentals of decimation and interpolation will 

be developed. Methods for optimizing processing throughput 

requirements via multirate designs will be developed. 

Multirate techniques in filter banks and spectrum analyzers 

and synthesizers will be developed. Structures and Network 

theory for multirate digital systems will be discussed. 

7. Detection of Signals In Noise. Develop Receiver 

Operating Charactieristic (ROC) data for detection of 

narrowband signals in noise. Discuss linear system 

responses to discrete random processes. Discuss power 

spectrum estimation. Use realistic SONAR problem. MATLAB 

to calculate performance of detection system. 

8. Finite Arithmetic Error Analysis. Analog-to-Digital 

conversion errors will be studied. Quantization effects of finite 

arithmetic for common digital signal processing algorithms 

including digital filters and FFTs will be presented. Methods of 

calculating the noise at the digital system output due to 

arithmetic effects will be developed. 

9. System Design. Digital Processing system design 

techniques will be developed. Methodologies for signal 

analysis, system design including algorithm selection, 

architecture selection, configuration analysis, and 

performance analysis will be developed. Typical state-of-theart 

COTS signal processing devices will be discussed. 

10. Advanced Algorithms & Practical Applications. 

Several algorithms and associated applications will be 

discussed based upon classical and recent papers/research: 

Recursive Least Squares Estimation, Kalman Filter Theory, 

Adaptive Algorithms: Joint Multichannel Least Squares 

Lattice, Spatial filtering of equally and unequally spaced 

arrays. 


NEW! 

Fundamentals of Engineering Probability 

Visualization Techniques & MATLAB Case Studies 

April 9-12, 2012 


$1895 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 



Summary 

This four-day course gives a solid practical and 

intuitive understanding of the fundamental concepts of 

discrete and continuous probability. It emphasizes 

visual aspects by using many graphical tools such as 

Venn diagrams, descriptive tables, trees, and a unique 

3-dimensional plot to illustrate the behavior of 

probability densities under coordinate transformations. 

Many relevant engineering applications are used to 

crystallize crucial probability concepts that commonly 

arise in aerospace CONOPS and tradeoffs. 

Instructor 

Dr. Ralph E. Morganstern is an Adjunct Lecturer 

in Applied Mathematics at Santa Clara University 

where he teaches graduate-level sequences in 

Probability and Numerical Analysis. Dr. Morganstern 

received a Ph.D. in Physics from the State 

University of New York at Stony Brook. He has 

published papers on general relativity, astrophysics, 

and cosmology and served as a referee on The 

Physical Review and The Astrophysical Journal. Dr. 

Morganstern has worked in the Aerospace Industry 

in Silicon Valley California for over 30 years. He has 

applied fundamental physics concepts to formulate 

mathematical models and develop efficient 

algorithms in many engineering areas including 

image enhancement, atmospheric optics, data 

fusion, satellite tracking, communications, and SAR 

and FMCW radar processing. 


• How to compute joint, conditional, and marginal 

probability densities. 

• How to compute & visualize probability densities of 

transformed RVs. 

• How to sum dB-scaled measurements to make 

sequential Bayesian updates. 

• How to compute approximations/upper bounds on 

sums of many RVs using Gaussian and Poisson 

distributions. 

• How the bivariate Gaussian is totally characterized 

by its mean vector and the covariance matrix 

between its two independent RVs. 

• How the Gauss-Markov theorem yields a conditional 

mean estimator for vector measurements and 

vector states. 

This course will de-mystify the computational 

aspects associated with the transformation of 

multivariate probability densities and give you the 

confidence to analyze the random variable effects 

that arise in engineering scenarios. 


1. Probability and Counting. Visualizations via 

coordinate graphs, tables, trees, and Venn diagrams. Set 

theory concepts. DeMorgans Rules. Role of Mutually 

Exclusive (ME) and Collectively Exhaustive (CE) event 

spaces. Sample Space with equally likely outcomes. 

Probability computed via combinatorial analysis. 

2. Fundamentals of Probability. Axioms of 

probability. Classical, Frequentist, Bayesian, and ad hoc 

probability frameworks. Mutually exclusive versus 

independent events. Inclusion/Exclusion concepts and 

applications. Comparison of tree, tabular, Venn, and 

algebraic representations (Man-Hat problem). Conditional 

probability and its tree interpretation. Repeated 

independent trials. Binomials, Trinomials, Multinomials. 

System reliability analysis. 

3. Random Variables and Probability Distributions. 

Random variable probability mass functions (PMFs) and 

cumulative distribution functions (CDFs). Joint, marginal, 

and conditional distributions. Discrete RVs under a 

transformation of coordinates. Distributions for derived 

RVs. 4-sided dice sum/difference coordinates. Min & max 

coordinates and order statistics. Mean variance, 

covariance and linear transformations. 

4. Common PMFs. Pairs: {Bernoulli, Binomial} & 

{Geometric, Negative Binomial}. Common Characteristics: 

{Hyper-geometric, Poisson, Zeta(Zipf)}. Properties, 

relationships, plots, and trees. Statistical analysis of 

Bernoulli Trials. Sum of RVs, convolution. Moment 

generating function. Engineering examples. 

5. Transition to Continuous Probability Concepts. 

Continuous & mixed probability densities in 1 & 2 

dimensions. Dirac delta function and Heaviside step 

function. Probability Density Function (PDF) and 

Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) for continuous 

and mixed distributions. Density transformation 

techniques: Jacobian Method. CDF method. 3- 

dimensional visualizations of density transformations. 

Order statistics for continuous variables. DSP chip with 

uniform interrupts. Generating Function, RV Sums, and 

Convolution. 

6. Random Processes. Taxonomy of random 

processes. Bernoulli to Gaussian & Poisson. Sum of 

Bernoulli RVs to Binomial. Sum of Geometric RVs to 

Negative Binomial. Discrete Poisson & continuous r- 

Erlang relationship. Gaussian distribution & standardized 

variable. Normal Distribution standard table. Continuous 

PDFs: Uniform, Exponential, Gamma(r-Erlang), Normal, 

Rayleigh. Properties, relationships, plots, and examples. 

7. Approximations & Bounds. Central Limit 

Theorem, Approximation Techniques for Binomial & 

Poisson Distributions. DeMoivre-Laplace approximation. 

Markov & Chebyshev Bounds. Law of Large Numbers. 

8. Bivariate & Multivariate Gaussian Distributions. 

Matrix form of bivariate Gaussian distribution. 

Transformation of coordinates & covariance matrix. 

Ellipses of concentration. Standardized look-up table for 

2d Gaussians. Covariance Matrix eigenvector-eigenvalue 

problem. Canonical coordinates & independence. 

Bayesian update - conditional mean interpretation and 

visualization. Multivariate Gaussian. Canonical Block 

diagonal form. Channel & inverse-channel 

representations. Gauss-Markov theorem for vectorized 

conditional mean. 

9. MatLab Case Studies. Line of sight error analysis 

for satellite and ocean sensors. Effects of long-tailed 

duration distributions on Internet Flows. Statistical air 

traffic pattern generator. 


Fundamentals of RF Technology 

NEW! 

March 20-21, 2012 


$1150 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 



Summary 

This two-day course is designed for engineers 

that are non specialists in RF engineering, but are 

involved in the design or analysis of 

communication systems including digital 

designers, managers, procurement engineers, 

etc. The course emphasizes RF fundamentals in 

terms of physical principles behavioral concepts 

permitting the student to quickly gain an intuitive 

understanding of the subject with minimal 

mathematical complexity. These principles are 

illustrated using modern examples of wireless 

components such as Bluetooth, Cell Phone and 

Paging, and 802.11 Data Communications 

Systems. 

Instructor 

Dr. M. Lee Edwards is a private RF 

Engineering Consultant since January 2007 

when he retired from The Johns Hopkins 

University Applied Physics Laboratory 

(JHU/APL). He served for 15 years the 

Supervisor of the RF Engineering Group in APL’s 

Space Department. Dr. Edwards’ leadership 

introduced new RF capabilities into deep space 

communications systems including GaAs 

technology and phased array antennas, etc. For 

two decades Dr. Edwards was also the Chairman 

of the JHU Masters program in Electrical and 

Computer Engineering and pioneered many of 

the RF Engineering courses and laboratories. He 

is a recipient of the JHU excellence in teaching 

award and is known for his fundamental 

understanding of RF Engineering and his creative 

and insightful approach to teaching. 


Day One: Circuit Considerations 

1. Physical Properties of RF circuits 

2. Propagation and effective Dielectric 

Constants 

3. Impedance Parameters 

4. Reflections and Matching 

5. Circuit matrix parameters (Z,Y, & S 

parameters) 

6. Gain 

7. Stability 

8. Smith Chart data displays 

9. Performance of example circuits 

Day Two: System considerations 

1. Low Noise designs 

2. High Power design 

3. Distortion evaluation 

4. Spurious Free Dynamic Range 

5. MATLAB Assisted Assessment of state-ofthe-art 

RF systems 


• How to recognize the physical properties that 

make RF circuits and systems unique 

• What the important parameters are that 

characterize RF circuits 

• How to interpret RF Engineering performance 

data 

• What the considerations are in combining RF 

circuits into systems 

• How to evaluate RF Engineering risks such as 

instabilities, noise, and interference, etc. 

• How performance assessments can be enhanced 

with basic engineering tools such as MATLAB. 

From this course you will obtain the 

knowledge and ability to understand how RF 

circuits functions, how multiple circuits 

interact to determine system performance, to 

interact effectively with RF engineering 

specialists and to understand the literature. 



Summary 

Grounding and shielding are two of the most 

effective techniques for combating EMI. 

This three-day course is designed for engineers, 

technicians, and operators, who need an 

understanding of all facets of grounding and shielding 

at the circuit, PCB, box, equipment and/or system 

levels. The course offers a discussion of the trade-offs 

for EMI control through grounding and shielding at all 

levels. Hardware demonstrations of the effect of 

various compromises and resulting grounding and 

shielding effectiveness are provided. The 

compromises that are demonstrated include aperture 

and seam leakage, and conductor penetrating the 

enclosure. The hardware demonstrations also include 

incorporating various "fixes" and illustrating their 

impact. Each attendee will receive a copy of Bill Duff’s 

new text, Designing Electronic Circuits for EMC. 

Instructor 

Dr. William G. Duff (Bill) received a BEE degree 

from George Washington University, a 

MSEE degree from Syracuse University, 

and a DScEE degree from Clayton 

University. 

He is internationally recognized as a 

leader in the development of engineering 

technology for achieving EMC in 

communication and electronic systems. He has more 

than 40 years of experience in EMI/EMC analysis, 

design, test and problem solving for a wide variety of 

communication and electronic systems. He has 

extensive experience in applying EMI mitigation 

techniques to "fix" EMI problems at the circuit, 

equipment and system levels. 

Bill is a past president of the IEEE EMC Society and 

a past Director of IEEE Division IV, Electromagnetics 

and Radiation. He served a number of terms on the 

EMC Society Board of Directors. Bill has received a 

number of IEEE awards including the Lawrence G. 

Cumming Award for Outstanding Service, the Richard 

R. Stoddard Award for Outstanding Performance and a 

"Best Paper" award. He was elected to the grade of 

IEEE Fellow in 1981 and to the EMC Hall of Fame in 

2010. Bill has written more than 40 technical papers 

and 5 books on EMC. He also regularly teaches 

seminar courses on EMC. He is a NARTE Certified 

EMC Engineer. 


• Examples Of Potential EMI Threats. 

• Safety Grounding Versus EMI Control. 

• Common Ground Impedance Coupling. 

• Field Coupling Into or out of Ground Loops. 

• Coupling Relationships. 

• EMI Coupling Reduction Methods. 

• Victim Sensitivites. 

• Shielding Theory. 

• Electric vs Magnetic Field Shielding. 

• Shielding Compromises. 

• Trade-offs Between Shielding, Cost, Size, 

Weight,etc. 



May 1-3, 2012 


$1795 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 




1. Introduction. A Discussion Of EMI Scenarios, 

Definition Of Terms, Time To Frequency Conversion, 

Narrowband-Vs-Broadband, System Sensitivities. 

2. Potential EMI Threats (Ambient). An Overview 

Of Typical EMI Levels. A Discussion Of Power Line 

Disturbances And A Discussion Of Transients, 

Including ESD, Lightning And EMP. 

3. Victim Sensitivities And Behavior. A 

Discussion Of Victim Sensitivities Including Amplifier 

Rejection, Out-Of-Band Response, Audio Rectification, 

Logic Family Susceptibilities And Interference- To- 

Noise Versus Signal-To-Noise Ratios. 

4. Safety Earthing/Grounding Versus Noise 

Coupling. An Overview Of Grounding Myths, Hard 

Facts And Conflicts. A Discussion Of Electrical Shock 

Avoidance (UL, IEC Requirements), Lightning 

Protection And Lightning Rods And Earthing. 

5. Ground Common Impedance Coupling 

(GCM). A Discussion Of Practical Solutions, From PCB 

To Room Level. An Overview Of Impedance Of 

Conductors (Round, Flat, Planes), Class Examples, 

GCM Reduction On Single Layer Cards, Impedance 

Reduction, DC Bus Decoupling And Multilayer Boards. 

6. GLC Reduction Methods. A Discussion Of 

Floating And Single-Point Grounds, Balanced Drivers 

And Receivers, RF Blocking Chokes, Signal 

Transformers And Baluns, Ferrites, Feed-Through 

Capacitors And Opto-Electronics. 

7. Cable Shields, Balanced Pairs And Coax. A 

Discussion Of Cable Shields And Compromising 

Practices, Shielding Effectiveness, Field Coupling, 

Interactions Of Ground Loops With Balanced Pair 

Shields, Comprehensive Grounding Rules For Cable 

Shields, Flat Cables And Connector And Pigtail 

Contributions To Shielding Effectiveness. 

8. Cable-To-Cable Coupling (Xtalk). A Discussion 

Of The Basic Model, Capacitive And Magnetic 

Couplings, A Class Example And How To Reduce 

Xtalk. 

9. Understanding Shielding Theory. An Overview 

Of Near-Field E And H, Far-Field, How A Metal Barrier 

Performs And Reflection And Absorption. 

10. Shielding Effectiveness (SE) Of Barriers. A 

Discussion Of Performance Of Typical Metals, Low- 

Frequency Magnetic Shields, Conductive 

Coatings/Metallized Plastics And Aircraft Composites 

(CFC). 

11. Box Shielding. Leakage Reduction., Calculation 

Of Apertures SE, Combination Of Multiple Leakages, 

SE Of Screen Mesh, Conductive Glass, Honeycombs, 

Component Penetrations (Fuses, Switches, Etc.), And 

EMI Gaskets. 


Instrumentation for Test & Measurement 

Understanding, Selecting and Applying Measurement Systems 

Summary 

This three day course, based on the 690-page Sensor 

Technology Handbook, published by Elsevier in 2005 and 

edited by the instructor, is designed for engineers, 

technicians and managers who want to increase their 

knowledge of sensors and signal conditioning. It balances 

breadth and depth in a practical presentation for those 

who design sensor systems and work with sensors of all 

types. Each topic includes technology fundamentals, 

selection criteria, applicable standards, interfacing and 

system designs, and future developments. 

NEW! 

March 27-29, 2012 


$1795 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 



Instructor 

Jon Wilson is a Principal Consultant. He holds degrees 

in Mechanical, Automotive and Industrial Engineering. His 

45-plus years of experience include Test Engineer, Test 

Laboratory Manager, Applications Engineering Manager 

and Marketing Manager at Chrysler Corporation, ITT 

Cannon Electric Co., Motorola Semiconductor Products 

Division and Endevco. He is Editor of the Sensor 

Technology Handbook published by Elsevier in 2005. He 

has been consulting and training in the field of testing and 

instrumentation since 1985. He has presented training for 

ISA, SAE, IEST, SAVIAC, ITC, & many government 

agencies and commercial organizations. He is a Fellow 

Member of the Institute of Environmental Sciences and 

Technology, and a Lifetime Senior Member of SAE and 

ISA. 


• How to understand sensor specifications. 

• Advantages and disadvantages of different sensor 

types. 

• How to avoid configuration and interfacing problems. 

• How to select and specify the best sensor for your 

application. 

• How to select and apply the correct signal conditioning. 

• How to find applicable standards for various sensors. 

• Principles and applications. 

From this course you will learn how to select and 

apply measurement systems to acquire accurate data 

for a variety of applications and measurands 

including mechanical, thermal, optical and biological 

data. 

1. Sensor Fundamentals. Basic Sensor Technology, Sensor 

Systems. 

2. Application Considerations. Sensor Characteristics, 

System Characteristics, Instrument Selection, Data Acquisition & 

Readout. 

3. Measurement Issues & Criteria. Measurand, Environment, 

Accuracy Requirements, Calibration & Documentation. 

4. Sensor Signal Conditioning. Bridge Circuits, Analog to 

Digital Converters, Systems on a Chip, Sigma-Delta ADCs, 

Conditioning High Impedance Sensors, Conditioning Charge 

Output Sensors. 

5. Acceleration, Shock & Vibration Sensors. Piezoelectric, 

Charge Mode & IEPE, Piezoelectric Materials & Structures, 

Piezoresistive, Capacitive, Servo Force Balance, Mounting, 

Acceleration Probes, Grounding, Cables & Connections. 

6. Biosensors. Bioreceptor + Transducer, Biosensor 

Characteristics, Origin of Biosensors, Bioreceptor Molecules, 

Transduction Mechanisms. 

7. Chemical Sensors. Technology Fundamentals, Applications, 

CHEMFETS. 

8. Capacitive & Inductive Displacement Sensors. Capacitive 

Fundamentals, Inductive Fundamentals, Target Considerations, 

Comparing Capacitive & Inductive, Using Capacitive & Inductive 

Together. 

9. Electromagnetism in Sensing. Electromagnetism & 

Inductance, Sensor Applications, Magnetic Field Sensors. 

10. Flow Sensors. Thermal Anemometers, Differential 

Pressure, Vortex Shedding, Positive Displacement & Turbine 

Based Sensors, Mass Flowmeters, Electromagnetic, Ultrasonic & 

Laser Doppler Sensors, Calibration. 

11. Level Sensors. Hydrostatic, Ultrasonic, RF Capacitance, 

Magnetostrictive, Microwave Radar, Selecting a Technology. 

12. Force, Load & Weight Sensors. Sensor Types, Physical 

Configurations, Fatigue Ratings. 

13. Humidity Sensors. Capacitive, Resistive & Thermal 

Conductivity Sensors, Temperature & Humidity Effects, 


Condensation & Wetting, Integrated Signal Conditioning. 

14. Machinery Vibration Monitoring Sensors. Accelerometer 

Types, 4-20 Milliamp Transmitters, Capacitive Sensors, Intrinsically 

Safe Sensors, Mounting Considerations. 

15. Optical & Radiation Sensors. Photosensors, Quantum 

Detectors, Thermal Detectors, Phototransistors, Thermal Infrared 

Detectors. 

16. Position & Motion Sensors. Contact & Non-contact, Limit 

Switches, Resistive, Magnetic & Ultrasonic Position Sensors, 

Proximity Sensors, Photoelectric Sensors, Linear & Rotary Position 

& Motion Sensors, Optical Encoders, Resolvers & Synchros. 

17. Pressure Sensors. Fundamentals of Pressure Sensing 

Technology, Piezoresistive Sensors, Piezoelectric Sensors, 

Specialized Applications. 

18. Sensors for Mechanical Shock. Technology 

Fundamentals, Sensor Types-Advantages & Disadvantages, 

Frequency Response Requirements, Pyroshock Measurement, 

Failure Modes, Structural Resonance Effects, Environmental 

Effects. 

19. Test & Measurement Microphones. Measurement 

Microphone Characteristics, Condenser & Prepolarized (Electret), 

Effect of Angle of Incidence, Pressure, Free Field, Random 

Incidence, Environmental Effects, Specialized Types, Calibration 

Techniques. 

20. Introduction to Strain Gages. Piezoresistance, Thin Film, 

Microdevices, Accuracy, Strain Gage Based Measurements, 

Sensor Installations, High Temperature Installations. 

21. Temperature Sensors. Electromechanical & Electronic 

Sensors, IR Pyrometry, Thermocouples, Thermistors, RTDs, 

Interfacing & Design, Heat Conduction & Self Heating Effects. 

22. Nanotechnology-Enabled Sensors. Possibilities, 

Realities, Applications. 

23. Wireless Sensor Networks. Individual Node Architecture, 

Network Architecture, Radio Options, Power Considerations. 

24. Smart Sensors – IEEE 1451, TEDS, TEDS Sensors, Plug 

& Play Sensors. 




$1795 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 



Summary 

This three-day course is designed for technicians, 

operators and engineers who need an understanding 

of Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)/Electromagnetic 

Compatibility (EMC) methodology and concepts. The 

course provides a basic working knowledge of the 

principles of EMC. 

The course will provide real world examples and 

case histories. Computer software will be used to 

simulate and demonstrate various concepts and help 

to bridge the gap between theory and the real world. 

The computer software will be made available to the 

attendees. One of the computer programs is used to 

design interconnecting equipments. This program 

demonstrates the impact of various EMI “EMI 

mitigation techniques" that are applied. Another 

computer program is used to design a shielded 

enclosure. The program considers the box material; 

seams and gaskets; cooling and viewing apertures; 

and various "EMI mitigation techniques" that may be 

used for aperture protection. 

There are also hardware demonstrations of the effect 

of various compromises on the shielding effectiveness 

of an enclosure. The compromises that are 

demonstrated are seam leakage, and a conductor 

penetrating the enclosure. The hardware 

demonstrations also include incorporating various "EMI 

mitigation techniques" and illustrating their impact. Each 

attendee receives a copy of the instructor’s text, 

Designing Electronic Circuits for EMC. 

Instructor 

Dr. William G. Duff (Bill) is an independent 

consultant. Previously, he was the Chief 

Technology Officer of the Advanced 

Technology Group of SENTEL. Prior to 

working for SENTEL, he worked for 

Atlantic Research and taught courses on 

electromagnetic interference (EMI) and 

electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). He 

is internationally recognized as a leader 

in the development of engineering technology for 

achieving EMC in communication and electronic 

systems. He has 42 years of experience in EMI/EMC 

analysis, design, test and problem solving for a wide 

variety of communication and electronic systems. He 

has extensive experience in assessing EMI at the 

equipment and/or the system level and applying EMI 

suppression and control techniques to "fix" problems. 

Bill has written more than 40 technical papers and 

four books on EMC. He also regularly teaches seminar 

courses on EMC. He is a past president of the IEEE 

EMC Society. He served a number of terms as a 

member of the EMC Society Board of Directors and is 

currently Chairman of the EMC Society Fellow 

Evaluation Committee and an Associate Editor for the 

EMC Society Newsletter. He is a NARTE Certified EMC 

Engineer. 

Introduction to EMI / EMC 


1. Examples Of Communications System. A 

Discussion Of Case Histories Of Communications 

System EMI, Definitions Of Systems, Both Military 

And Industrial, And Typical Modes Of System 

Interactions Including Antennas, Transmitters And 

Receivers And Receiver Responses. 

2. Quantification Of Communication System 

EMI. A Discussion Of The Elements Of Interference, 

Including Antennas, Transmitters, Receivers And 

Propagation. 

3. Electronic Equipment And System EMI 

Concepts. A Description Of Examples Of EMI 

Coupling Modes To Include Equipment Emissions 

And Susceptibilities. 

4. Common-Mode Coupling. A Discussion Of 

Common-Mode Coupling Mechanisms Including 

Field To Cable, Ground Impedance, Ground Loop 

And Coupling Reduction Techniques. 

5. Differential-Mode Coupling. A Discussion 

Of Differential-Mode Coupling Mechanisms 

Including Field To Cable, Cable To Cable And 

Coupling Reduction Techniques. 

6. Other Coupling Mechanisms. A Discussion 

Of Power Supplies And Victim Amplifiers. 

7. The Importance Of Grounding For 

Achieving EMC. A Discussion Of Grounding, 

Including The Reasons (I.E., Safety, Lightning 

Control, EMC, Etc.), Grounding Schemes (Single 

Point, Multi-Point And Hybrid), Shield Grounding 

And Bonding. 

8. The Importance Of Shielding. A Discussion 

Of Shielding Effectiveness, Including Shielding 

Considerations (Reflective And Absorptive). 

9. Shielding Design. A Description Of 

Shielding Compromises (I.E., Apertures, Gaskets, 

Waveguide Beyond Cut-Off). 

10. EMI Diagnostics And Fixes. A Discussion 

Of Techniques Used In EMI Diagnostics And Fixes. 

11. EMC Specifications, Standards And 

Measurements. A Discussion Of The Genesis Of 

EMC Documentation Including A Historical 

Summary, The Rationale, And A Review Of MIL- 

Stds, FCC And CISPR Requirements. 


• Examples of Communications Systems EMI. 

• Quantification of Systems EMI. 

• Equipment and System EMI Concepts. 

• Source and Victim Coupling Modes. 

• Importance of Grounding. 

• Shielding Designs. 

• EMI Diagnostics. 

• EMC/EMI Specifications and Standards. 


Kalman, H-Infinity, and Nonlinear Estimation Approaches 

Summary 

This three-day course will introduce Kalman 

filtering and other state estimation algorithms in a 

practical way so that the student can design and 

apply state estimation algorithms for real 

problems. The course will also present enough 

theoretical background to justify the techniques 

and provide a foundation for advanced research 

and implementation. After taking this course the 

student will be able to design Kalman filters, H- 

infinity filters, and particle filters for both linear 

and nonlinear systems. The student will be able 

to evaluate the tradeoffs between different types 

of estimators. The algorithms will be 

demonstrated with freely available MATLAB 

programs. Each student will receive a copy of Dr. 

Simon’s text, Optimal State Estimation. 

Instructor 

Dr. Dan Simon has been a professor at 

Cleveland State University since 1999, and is 

also the owner of Innovatia Software. He had 14 

years of industrial experience in the aerospace, 

automotive, biomedical, process control, and 

software engineering fields before entering 

academia. While in industry he applied Kalman 

filtering and other state estimation techniques to 

a variety of areas, including motor control, neural 

net and fuzzy system optimization, missile 

guidance, communication networks, fault 

diagnosis, vehicle navigation, and financial 

forecasting. He has over 60 publications in 

refereed journals and conference proceedings, 

including many in Kalman filtering. 


• How can I create a system model in a form that 

is amenable to state estimation 

• What are some different ways to simulate a 

system 

• How can I design a Kalman filter 

• What if the Kalman filter assumptions are not 

satisfied 

• How can I design a Kalman filter for a nonlinear 

system 

• How can I design a filter that is robust to model 

uncertainty 

• What are some other types of estimators that 

may do better than a Kalman filter 

• What are the latest research directions in state 

estimation theory and practice 

• What are the tradeoffs between Kalman, H- 

infinity, and particle filters 

June 12-14, 2012 


$1795 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 




1. Dynamic Systems Review. Linear 

systems. Nonlinear systems. Discretization. 

System simulation. 

2. Random Processes Review. Probability. 

Random variables. Stochastic processes. 

White noise and colored noise. 

3. Least Squares Estimation. Weighted 

least squares. Recursive least squares. 

4. Time Propagation of States and 

Covariances. 

5. The Discrete Time Kalman Filter. 

Derivation. Kalman filter properties. 

6. Alternate Kalman filter forms. 

Sequential filtering. Information filtering. 

Square root filtering. 

7. Kalman Filter Generalizations. 

Correlated noise. Colored noise. Steady-state 

filtering. Stability. Alpha-beta-gamma filtering. 

Fading memory filtering. Constrained filtering. 

8. Optimal Smoothing. Fixed point 

smoothing. Fixed lag smoothing. Fixed interval 

smoothing. 

9. Advanced Topics in Kalman Filtering. 

Verification of performance. Multiple-model 

estimation. Reduced-order estimation. Robust 

Kalman filtering. Synchronization errors. 

10. H-infinity Filtering. Derivation. 

Examples. Tradeoffs with Kalman filtering. 

11. Nonlinear Kalman Filtering. The 

linearized Kalman filter. The extended Kalman 

filter. Higher order approaches. Parameter 

estimation. 

12. The Unscented Kalman Filter. 

Advantages. Derivation. Examples. 

13. The Particle Filter. Derivation. 

Implementation issues. Examples. Tradeoffs. 

14. Applications. Fault diagnosis for 

aerospace systems. Vehicle navigation. Fuzzy 

logic and neural network training. Motor 

control. Implementations in embedded 

systems. 



March 20-21, 2012 


$1150 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 



Summary 

This two-day course will enable the participant to 

plan the most efficient experiment or test which will 

result in a statistically defensible conclusion of the test 

objectives. It will show how properly designed tests are 

easily analyzed and prepared for presentation in a 

report or paper. Examples and exercises related to 

various NASA satellite programs will be included. 

Many companies are reporting significant savings 

and increased productivity from their engineering, 

process control and R&D professionals. These 

companies apply statistical methods and statisticallydesigned 

experiments to their critical manufacturing 

processes, product designs, and laboratory 

experiments. Multifactor experimentation will be shown 

as increasing efficiencies, improving product quality, 

and decreasing costs. This first course in experimental 

design will start you into statistical planning before you 

actually start taking data and will guide you to perform 

hands-on analysis of your results immediately after 

completing the last experimental run. You will learn 

how to design practical full factorial and fractional 

factorial experiments. You will learn how to 

systematically manipulate many variables 

simultaneously to discover the few major factors 

affecting performance and to develop a mathematical 

model of the actual instruments. You will perform 

statistical analysis using the modern statistical 

software called JMP from SAS Institute. At the end of 

this course, participants will be able to design 

experiments and analyze them on their own desktop 

computers. 

Instructor 

Dr. Manny Uy is a member of the Principal 

Professional Staff at The Johns Hopkins 

University Applied Physics Laboratory 

(JHU/APL). Previously, he was with 

General Electric Company, where he 

practiced Design of Experiments on 

many manufacturing processes and 

product development projects. He is 

currently working on space environmental monitors, 

reliability and failure analysis, and testing of modern 

instruments for Homeland Security. He earned a Ph.D. 

in physical chemistry from Case-Western Reserve 

University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Rice 

University and the Free University of Brussels. He has 

published over 150 papers and holds over 10 patents. 

At the JHU/APL, he has continued to teach courses in 

the Design and Analysis of Experiments and in Data 

Mining and Experimental Analysis using SAS/JMP. 


1. Survey of Statistical Concepts. 

2. Introduction to Design of Experiments. 

3. Designing Full and Fractional Factorials. 

4. Hands-on Exercise: Statapult Distance 

Experiment using full factorial. 

5. Data preparation and analysis of 

Experimental Data. 

6. Verification of Model: Collect data, analyze 

mean and standard deviation. 

7. Hands-on Experiment: One-Half Fractional 

Factorial, verify prediction. 

8. Hands-on Experiment: One-Fourth Fractional 

Factorial, verify prediction. 

9. Screening Experiments (Trebuchet). 

10. Advanced designs, Methods of Steepest 

Ascent, Central Composite Design. 

11. Some recent uses of DOE. 

12. Summary. 

Testimonials ... 

“Would you like many times more 

information, with much less resources used, 

and 100% valid and technically defensible 

results If so, design your tests using 

Design of Experiments.” 

Dr. Jackie Telford, Career Enhancement: 

Statistics, JHU/APL. 

“We can no longer afford to experiment 

in a trial-and-error manner, changing one 

factor at a time, the way Edison did in 

developing the light bulb. A far better 

method is to apply a computer-enhanced, 

systematic approach to experimentation, 

one that considers all factors 

simultaneously. That approach is called 

"Design of Experiments..” 

Mark Anderson, The Industrial 

Physicist. 


• How to design full and fractional factorial 

experiments. 

• Gather data from hands-on experiments while 

simultaneously manipulating many variables. 

• Analyze statistical significant testing from hands-on 

exercises. 

• Acquire a working knowledge of the statistical 

software JMP. 


Signal & Image Processing And Analysis For Scientists And Engineers 

All Students Receive 500-page Slide Set and 

Complete Set of Interactive Software Examples That 

Can Be Used On Their Data on a CD. 

NEW! 

Recent attendee comments ... 

“This course provided insight and 

explanations that saved me hours of 

reading – and time is money” 

Summary 

Whether working in the scientific, medical, 

security, or NDT field, signal and image processing 

and analysis play a critical role. This three-day 

course is designed is designed for engineers, 

scientists, technicians, implementers, and 

managers in those fields who need to understand 

applied basic and advanced methods of signal and 

image processing and analysis techniques. The 

course provides a jump start for utilizing these 

methods in any application. 

Instructor 

Dr. Donald J. Roth is the Nondestructive Evaluation 

(NDE) Team Lead at a major research 

center as well as a senior research 

engineer and consultant with 28 years of 

experience in NDE, measurement and 

imaging sciences, and software design. 

His primary areas of expertise over his 

career include research and 

development in the imaging modalities 

of ultrasound, infrared, x-ray, computed tomography, 

and terahertz. He has been heavily involved in the 

development of software for custom data and control 

systems, and for signal and image processing software 

systems. Dr. Roth holds the degree of Ph.D. in 

Materials Science from the Case Western Reserve 

University and has published over 100 articles, 

presentations, book chapters, and software products. 


• Terminology, definitions, and concepts related 

to basic and advanced signal and image 

processing. 

• Conceptual examples. 

• Case histories where these methods have 

proven applicable. 

• Methods are exhibited using live computerized 

demonstrations. 

• All of this will allow a better understanding of 

how and when to apply processing methods in 

practice. 


knowledge and ability to perform basic and 

advanced signal and image processing and 

analysis that can be applied to many signal 

and image acquisition scenarios in order to 

improve and analyze signal and image data. 

May 22-24, 2012 


$1690 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 




1. Introduction. Basic Descriptions, Terminology, 

and Concepts Related to Signals, Imaging, and 

Processing for science and engineering. Analog and 

Digital. Data acquisition concepts. Sampling and 

Quantization. 

2. Signal Processing. Basic operations, 

Frequency-domain filtering, Wavelet filtering, Wavelet 

Decomposition and Reconstruction, Signal 

Deconvolution, Joint Time-Frequency Processing, 

Curve Fitting. 

3. Signal Analysis. Signal Parameter Extraction, 

Peak Detection, Signal Statistics, Joint Time – 

Frequency Analysis, Acoustic Emission analysis, 

Curve Fitting Parameter Extraction. 

4. Image Processing. Basic and Advanced 

Methods, Spatial frequency Filtering, Wavelet filtering, 

lookup tables, Kernel convolution/filtering (e.g. Sobel, 

Gradient, Median), Directional Filtering, Image 

Deconvolution, Wavelet Decomposition and 

Reconstruction, Edge Extraction,Thresholding, 

Colorization, Morphological Operations, Segmentation, 

B-scan display, Phased Array Display. 

5. Image Analysis. Region-of-interest Analysis, 

Line profiles, Edge Detection, Feature Selection and 

Measurement, Image Math, Logical Operators, Masks, 

Particle analysis, Image Series Reduction including 

Images Averaging, Principal Component Analysis, 

Derivative Images, Multi-surface Rendering, B-scan 

Analysis, Phased Array Analysis. Introduction to 

Classification. 

6. Integrated Signal and Image Processing and 

Analysis Software and algorithm strategies. The 

instructor will draw on his extensive experience to 

demonstrate how these methods can be combined and 

utilized in a post-processing software package. 

Software strategies including code and interface 

design concepts for versatile signal and image 

processing and analysis software development will be 

provided. These strategies are applicable for any 

language including LabVIEW, MATLAB, and IDL. 

Practical considerations and approaches will be 

emphasized. 



“This course uses very little math, yet provides an indepth 

understanding of the concepts and real-world 

applications of these powerful tools.” 

Summary 

Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) are in wide use and work 

very well if your signal stays at a constant frequency 

(“stationary”). But if the signal could vary, have pulses, “blips” 

or any other kind of interesting behavior then you need 

Wavelets. Wavelets are remarkable tools that can stretch and 

move like an amoeba to find the hidden “events” and then 

simultaneously give you their location, frequency, and shape. 

Wavelet Transforms allow this and many other capabilities not 

possible with conventional methods like the FFT. 

This course is vastly different from traditional mathoriented 

Wavelet courses or books in that we use examples, 

figures, and computer demonstrations to show how to 

understand and work with Wavelets. This is a comprehensive, 

in-depth. up-to-date treatment of the subject, but from an 

intuitive, conceptual point of view. 

We do look at some key equations but only AFTER the 

concepts are demonstrated and understood so you can see 

the wavelets and equations “in action”. 

Each student will receive extensive course slides, a CD 

with MATLAB demonstrations, and a copy of the instructor’s 

new book, Conceptual Wavelets. 

If convenient we recommend that you bring a laptop to this 

class. A disc with the course materials will be provided and 

the laptop will allow you to utilize the materials in class. Note: 

the laptop is NOT a requirement. 

Instructor 

D. Lee Fugal is the Founder and President of an 

independent consulting firm. He has 

over 30 years of industry experience in 

Digital Signal Processing (including 

Wavelets) and Satellite 

Communications. He has been a fulltime 

consultant on numerous 

assignments since 1991. Recent 

projects include Excision of Chirp Jammer Signals 

using Wavelets, design of Space-Based Geolocation 

Systems (GPS & Non-GPS), and Advanced Pulse 

Detection using Wavelet Technology. He has taught 

upper-division University courses in DSP and in 

Satellites as well as Wavelet short courses and 

seminars for Practicing Engineers and Management. 

He holds a Masters in Applied Physics (DSP) from the 

University of Utah, is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a 

recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. 


• How to use Wavelets as a “microscope” to analyze 

data that changes over time or has hidden “events” 

that would not show up on an FFT. 

• How to understand and efficiently use the 3 types of 

Wavelet Transforms to better analyze and process 

your data. State-of-the-art methods and 

applications. 

• How to compress and de-noise data using 

advanced Wavelet techniques. How to avoid 

potential pitfalls by understanding the concepts. A 

“safe” method if in doubt. 

• How to increase productivity and reduce cost by 

choosing (or building) a Wavelet that best matches 

your particular application. 


San Diego, California 

June 12-14, 2012 


$1795 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 



"Your Wavelets course was very helpful in our Radar 

studies. We often use wavelets now instead of the 

Fourier Transform for precision denoising." 

–Long To, NAWC WD, Point Wugu, CA 

"I was looking forward to this course and it was very rewarding–Your 

clear explanations starting with the big picture 

immediately contextualized the material allowing us 

to drill a little deeper with a fuller understanding" 

–Steve Van Albert, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research 

"Good overview of key wavelet concepts and literature. 

The course provided a good physical understanding of 

wavelet transforms and applications." 

–Stanley Radzevicius, ENSCO, Inc. 


1. What is a Wavelet Examples and Uses. “Waves” that 

can start, stop, move and stretch. Real-world applications in 

many fields: Signal and Image Processing, Internet Traffic, 

Airport Security, Medicine, JPEG, Finance, Pulse and Target 

Recognition, Radar, Sonar, etc. 

2. Comparison with traditional methods. The concept 

of the FFT, the STFT, and Wavelets as all being various types 

of comparisons (correlations) with the data. Strengths, 

weaknesses, optimal choices. 

3. The Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT). 

Stretching and shifting the Wavelet for optimal correlation. 

Predefined vs. Constructed Wavelets. 

4. The Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). Shrinking 

the signal by factors of 2 through downsampling. 

Understanding the DWT in terms of correlations with the data. 

Relating the DWT to the CWT. Demonstrations and uses. 

5. The Redundant Discrete Wavelet Transform (RDWT). 

Stretching the Wavelet by factors of 2 without downsampling. 

Tradeoffs between the alias-free processing and the extra 

storage and computational burdens. A hybrid process using 

both the DWT and the RDWT. Demonstrations and uses. 

6. “Perfect Reconstruction Filters”. How to cancel the 

effects of aliasing. How to recognize and avoid any traps. A 

breakthrough method to see the filters as basic Wavelets. 

The “magic” of alias cancellation demonstrated in both the 

time and frequency domains. 

7. Highly useful properties of popular Wavelets. How 

to choose the best Wavelet for your application. When to 

create your own and when to stay with proven favorites. 

8. Compression and De-Noising using Wavelets. How 

to remove unwanted or non-critical data without throwing 

away the alias cancellation capability. A new, powerful method 

to extract signals from large amounts of noise. 

Demonstrations. 

9. Additional Methods and Applications. Image 

Processing. Detecting Discontinuities, Self-Similarities and 

Transitory Events. Speech Processing. Human Vision. Audio 

and Video. BPSK/QPSK Signals. Wavelet Packet Analysis. 

Matched Filtering. How to read and use the various Wavelet 

Displays. Demonstrations. 

10. Further Resources. The very best of Wavelet 

references. 


Wireless Sensor Networking (WSN) 

Motes, Relays & the C4I Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) 

NEW! 

Summary 

This 4-day course is designed for remote sensing 

engineers, process control architects, security system 

engineers, instrumentation designers, ISR developers, 

and program managers who wish to enhance their 

understanding of ad hoc wireless sensor networks 

(WSN) and how to design, develop, and implement 

these netted sensors to solve a myriad of applications 

including: smart building installation, process control, 

asset tracking, military operations and C4I 

applications, as well as energy monitoring. The 

concept of low-cost sensors, structured into a large 

network to provide extreme fidelity with an extensive 

capability over a large-scale system is described in 

detail using technologies derived from robust radiostacked 

microcontrollers, cellular logic, SOA-based 

systems, and adroit insertion of adaptive, and 

changeable, middleware. 

Instructor 

Timothy D. Cole is president of a leading edge 

consulting firm. Mr. Cole has 

developed sensor & data exfiltration 

solutions employing WSN under the 

auspices of DARPA and has applied 

the underlying technologies to 

various problems including: military 

based cuing of sensors, intelligence 

gathering, first responders, and border 

protection. Mr. Cole holds degrees in Electrical 

Engineering (BES, MSEE) and Technical 

Management (MS). He also has been awarded 

the NASA Achievement Award and was a 

Technical Fellow for Northrop Grumman. He has 

authored over 25 papers. 


• What can robust, ad hoc wireless sensing provide 

beyond that of conventional sensor systems. 

• How can low-cost sensors perform on par with 

expensive sensors. 

• What is required to achieve comprehensive 

monitoring. 

• Why is multi-hopping “crucial” to permit effective 

systems. 

• What ‘s required from the power management 

systems. 

• What are WSN characteristics. 

• What do effective WSN systems cost. 

From this course you will obtain knowledge and 

ability to perform wireless sensor networking 

design & engineering calculations, identify 

tradeoffs, interact meaningfully with ISR, security 

colleagues, evaluate systems, and understand the 

literature. 

June 11-14, 2012 


$1890 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 




1. Introduction To Ad HOC Mesh Networking 

and The Advent of Embedded Middleware. 

2. Understanding the Wireless Ad HOC 

Sensor Network (WSN) and Sensor Node 

(“Mote”) Hardware. Mote core (fundamental 

consists of): radio-stack, low-power microcontroller, 

‘GPS’ system, power distribution, memory (flash), 

data acquisition microsystems (ADC). Sensor 

modalities. Design goals and objectives. 

Descriptions and examples of mote passive and 

active (e.g., ultra wideband, UWB) sensors. 

3. Reviewing The Software Required 

Including Orotocols. Programming environment. 

Real-time, event-driven, with OTA programming 

capability, deluge implementation, distributed 

processing (middleware). Low-power. Mote design, 

field design, overall architecture regulation & 

distribution. 

4. Reviewing Principles of The Radio 

Frequency Characterization & Propagation 

At/Near The Ground level. RF propagation, Multipath, 

fading, Scattering & attenuation, Link 

calculations & Reliability. 

5. Network Management Systems (NMS). Selforganizing 

capability. Multi-hop capabilities. Lowpower 

media Access Communications, LPMAC. 

Middleware. 

6. Mote Field Architecture. Mote field logistics & 

initialization. Relay definition and requirements. 

Backhaul data communications: Cellular, SATCOM, 

LP-SEIWG-005A. 

7. Mission Analysis. Mission definition and 

needs. Mission planning. Interaction between mote 

fields and sophisticated sensors. Distribution of 

motes. 

8. Deployment Mechanisms. Relay statistics, 

Exfiltration capabilities, Localization. Including 

Autonomous (iterative) solutions, direct GPS 

chipset, and/or referenced. 

9. Situational Awareness. Common Operating 

Picture, COP. GUI displays. 

10. Case Studies. DARPA’s ExANT experiment, 

The use of WSN for ISR, Application to IED, 

Application towards 1st Responders (firemen), 

Employment of WSN to work process control, Asset 

tracking. 


Agile Boot Camp 

Practitioner's Real-World Solutions 

NEW! 

Summary 

Planning, roadmap, backlog, estimating, user 

stories, and iteration execution. Bring your team 

together & jump start your Agile practice 

There’s more to Agile development than simply a 

different style of programming. That’s often the easy 

part. An effective Agile implementation changes your 

methods for: requirements gathering, project 

estimation and planning, team leadership, producing 

high-quality software, working with your stakeholders 

and customers and team development. While not a 

silver bullet, the Agile framework is quickly becoming 

the most practical way to create outstanding software. 

We’ll explore the leading approaches of today’s most 

successful Agile teams. You’ll learn the basic premises 

and techniques behind Agile so you can apply them to 

your projects. 

Hands-on team exercises follow every section of 

this class. Learn techniques and put them into 

practice before you get back to the office. 

February 22-24, 2012 

Omaha, NE 

March 7-9, 2012 

Baltimore, MD 

March 19-21, 2012 

Des Moines, IA 

March 28-30, 2012 

Columbus, OH 

April 4-6, 2012 

Denver, CO 

April 9-11, 2012 

Minneapolis, MN 

April 18-20, 2012 

Reston, VA 

April 23-25, 2012 

Raleigh, NC 

May 2-4, 2012 

San Diego, CA 

May 9-11, 2012 

Philadelphia, PA 

May 14-16, 2012 

Phoenix, AZ 

May 23-25, 2012 

Houston, TX 

June 6-8, 2012 

Cleveland, OH 

June 13-15, 2012 

Chicago, IL 

June 18-20, 2012 

Columbia, MD 

June 27-29, 2012 

Kansas City, MO 

$1695 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 




1. Agile Introduction and Overview. 

• Why Agile 

• Agile Benefits 

• Agile Basics - Understanding the lingo 

2. Forming the Agile Team. 

• Team Roles 

• Process Expectations 

• Self-Organizing Teams 

• Communication - inside and out 

3. Product Vision. 

• Five Levels of Planning in Agile 

• Importance of Product Vision 

• Creating and Communicating Vision 

4. Focus on the Customer. 

• User Roles 

• Customer Personas and Participation 

5. Creating a Product Backlog. 

• User Stories 

• Acceptance Tests 

• Story Writing Workshop 

6. Product Roadmap. 

• Product Themes 

• Creating the Roadmap 

• Maintaining the Roadmap 

7. Prioritizing the Product Backlog. 

• Methods for Prioritizing 

• Expectations for Prioritizing Stories 

8. Estimating. 

• Actual vs. Relative Estimating 

• Planning Poker 

9. Release Planning. 

• Utilizing Velocity 

• Continuous Integration 

• Regular Cadence 

10. Story Review. 

• Getting to the Details 

• Keeping Cadence 

11. Iteration Planning. 

• Task Breakdown 

• Time Estimates 

• Definition of “Done” 

12. Iteration Execution. 

• Collaboration 

• Cadence 

13. Measuring/Communicating Progress. 

• Actual Effort and Remaining Effort 

• Burndown Charts 

• Tools and Reporting 

• Your Company’s Specific Measures 

14. Iteration Review and Demo. 

• Team Roles 

• Iteration Review 

• Demos - a change from the past 

15. Retrospectives. 

• What We Did Well 

• What Did Not Go So Well 

• What Will We Improve 

16. Bringing It All Together. 

• Process Overview 

• Transparency 


Agile Project Management Certification Workshop 

NEW! 

Summary 

Prepare for your Agile Certified Practitioner 

(PMI-ACP) certification while learning to lead 

Agile software projects that adapt to change, drive 

innovation and deliver on-time business value in 

this Agile PM training course. 

Agile has made its way into the mainstream — 

it's no longer a grassroots movement to change 

software development. Today, more organizations and 

companies are adopting this approach over a more 

traditional waterfall methodology, and more are 

working every day to make the transition. To stay 

relevant in the competitive, changing world of project 

management, it's increasingly important that project 

management professionals can demonstrate true 

leadership ability on today's software projects. The 

Project Management Institute's Agile Certified 

Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification clearly illustrates to 

colleagues, organizations or even potential employers 

that you're ready and able to lead in this new age of 

product development, management and delivery. This 

class not only prepares you to lead your next Agile 

project effort, but ensures that you're prepared to pass 

the PMI-ACP certification exam. Acquiring this 

certification now will make you one of the first software 

professionals to achieve this valuable industry 

designation from PMI. 

1. Understanding Agile Project Management. 

• What is Agile 

• Why Agile 

• Agile Manifesto 

• Agile Principles and project management 

• Agile Benefits 

Class Exercise: How an iterative Agile approach 

provides results sooner & more effectively. 

2. The Project Schedule. 

• Managing change while delivering the product 

• Project schedule and release plan 

• Identifying a team’s “velocity” 

• The Five Levels of Agile planning 

Class Exercise: Triple Constraints. 

3. The Project Scope. 

• How to conquer Scope Creep 

• Consistently delivering 

• Understanding complex environments 

• Customer in charge of the project scope 

4. The Project Budget. 

• Maximize ROI after delivery 

• Earned value delivery 

• Methods for partnering with your customer 

5. The Product Quality. 

• Employing product demonstrations 

• Applying Agile testing techniques 

• How to write effective acceptance criteria 

• Code reviews, paired programming and test driven 

development 

Class Exercise: A customer-identified product 

over the course of three iterations. 


February 15-17, 2012 

Atlanta, GA 

February 27-29, 2012 

Indianapolis, IN 

March 7-9, 2012 

Reston, VA 

March 12-14, 2012 

Detroit, MI 

March 21-23, 2012 

San Francisco, CA 

March 26-28, 2012 

Minneapolis, MN 

April 4-6, 2012 

Phoenix, AZ 

April 9-11, 2012 

Omaha, NE 

April 11-13, 2012 

Portland, OR 

April 16-18, 2012 

Washington, DC 

April 18-20, 2012 

St Louis, MO 

April 25-27, 2012 

Seattle, WA 

May 2-4, 2012 

Milwaukee, WI 

May 9-11, 2012 

Tampa, FL 

May 14-16, 2012 

Tallahassee, FL 

May 23-25, 2012 

Columbia, MD 

LIVE VIRTUAL 

ONLINE 

January 23-26, 2012 

February 21-24, 2012 

March 27-30, 2012 

April 16-18, 2012 

$1695 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 



6. The Project Team. 

• Collaboration essentials 

• Managing individual personalities 

• Understanding your coaching style 

• The Agile project team roles 

Class Exercise: Team dynamics. 

7. Project Metrics. 

• Review of common Agile metrics 

• Taskboards as tactical metrics for the team 

• Effectively utilizing metrics 

8. Continuous Improvement. 

• Continuous and Agile Project Management 

• Empowering continuous improvement 

• How to effectively use retrospectives 

• Why every team member should care 

9. Project Leadership. 

• Project leadership 

• Command and control versus servant 

• Insulating the team from disruption 

• Matching needs to opportunities 

Class Exercise: How self-organization quickly 

yields impressive results. 

10. Successfully Transitioning to Agile. 

• Project Management 

• Correlating challenges to possible solutions 

• How corporate culture affects team ability 

• Overcoming resistance to Agile 

• Navigating around popular Agile myths 

11. A Full Day of Preparation for the Agile Certified Practitioner. 

• (PMI-ACP) Certification Exam 


Applied Systems Engineering 

A 4-Day Practical 

Workshop 

Planned and Controlled 

Methods are Essential to 

Successful Systems. 

Participants in this course 

practice the skills by designing and building 

interoperating robots that solve a larger problem. 

Small groups build actual interoperating robots to 

solve a larger problem. Create these interesting and 

challenging robotic systems while practicing: 

• Requirements development from a stakeholder 

description. 

• System architecting, including quantified, 

stakeholder-oriented trade-offs. 

• Implementation in software and hardware 

• Systm integration, verification and validation 

Summary 

Systems engineering is a simple flow of concepts, 

frequently neglected in the press of day-to-day work, 

that reduces risk step by step. In this workshop, you 

will learn the latest systems principles, processes, 

products, and methods. This is a practical course, in 

which students apply the methods to build real, 

interacting systems during the workshop. You can use 

the results now in your work. 

This workshop provides an in-depth look at the 

latest principles for systems engineering in context of 

standard development cycles, with realistic practice on 

how to apply them. The focus is on the underlying 

thought patterns, to help the participant understand 

why rather than just teach what to do. 

Instructor 

Eric Honour, CSEP, international consultant and 

lecturer, has a 40-year career of 

complex systems development & 

operation. Founder and former 

President of INCOSE. He has led the 

development of 18 major systems, 

including the Air Combat Maneuvering 

Instrumentation systems and the Battle 

Group Passive Horizon Extension System. BSSE 

(Systems Engineering), US Naval Academy, MSEE, 

Naval Postgraduate School, and PhD candidate, 

University of South Australia. 

This course is designed for systems engineers, 

technical team leaders, program managers, project 

managers, logistic support leaders, design 

engineers, and others who participate in defining 

and developing complex systems. 


• A leader or a key member of a complex system 

development team. 

• Concerned about the team’s technical success. 

• Interested in how to fit your system into its system 

environment. 

• Looking for practical methods to use in your team. 

April 16-19, 2012 

Orlando, Florida 

$1890 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 




1. How do We Work With Complexity Basic 

definitions and concepts. Problem-solving 

approaches; system thinking; systems 

engineering overview; what systems engineering 

is NOT. 

2. Systems Engineering Model. An 

underlying process model that ties together all 

the concepts and methods. Overview of the 

systems engineering model; technical aspects of 

systems engineering; management aspects of 

systems engineering. 

3. A System Challenge Application. 

Practical application of the systems engineering 

model against an interesting and entertaining 

system development. Small groups build actual 

interoperating robots to solve a larger problem. 

Small group development of system 

requirements and design, with presentations for 

mutual learning. 

4. Where Do Requirements Come From 

Requirements as the primary method of 

measurement and control for systems 

development. How to translate an undefined 

need into requirements; how to measure a 

system; how to create, analyze, manage 

requirements; writing a specification. 

5. Where Does a Solution Come From 

Designing a system using the best methods 

known today. System architecting processes; 

alternate sources for solutions; how to allocate 

requirements to the system components; how to 

develop, analyze, and test alternatives; how to 

trade off results and make decisions. Getting 

from the system design to the system. 

6. Ensuring System Quality. Building in 

quality during the development, and then 

checking it frequently. The relationship between 

systems engineering and systems testing. 

7. Systems Engineering Management. How 

to successfully manage the technical aspects of 

the system development; virtual, collaborative 

teams; design reviews; technical performance 

measurement; technical baselines and 

configuration management. 


Architecting with DODAF 

Effectively Using The DOD Architecture Framework (DODAF) 

The DOD Architecture Framework (DODAF) 

provides an underlying structure to work with 

complexity. Today’s systems do not stand alone; 

each system fits within an increasingly complex 

system-of-systems, a network of interconnection 

that virtually guarantees surprise behavior. 

Systems science recognizes this type of 

interconnectivity as one essence of complexity. It 

requires new tools, new methods, and new 

paradigms for effective system design. 

Summary 

This course provides knowledge and exercises at 

a practical level in the use of the DODAF. You will 

learn about architecting processes, methods and 

thought patterns. You will practice architecting by 

creating DODAF representations of a familiar, 

complex system-of-systems. By the end of this 

course, you will be able to use DODAF effectively in 

your work. This course is intended for systems 

engineers, technical team leaders, program or 

project managers, and others who participate in 

defining and developing complex systems. 

Practice architecting on a creative “Mars Rotor” 

complex system. Define the operations, 

technical structure, and migration for this future 

space program. 


• Three aspects of an architecture 

• Four primary architecting activities 

• Eight DoDAF 2.0 viewpoints 

• The entire set of DoDAF 2.0 views and how they 

relate to each other 

• A useful sequence to create views 

• Different “Fit-for-Purpose” versions of the views. 

• How to plan future changes. 

Instructor 

Dr. Scott Workinger has led projects in 

Manufacturing, Eng. & Construction, 

and Info. Tech. for 30 years. His projects 

have made contributions ranging from 

increasing optical fiber bandwidth to 

creating new CAD technology. He 

currently teaches courses on 

management and engineering and 

consults on strategic issues in 

management and technology. He holds a Ph.D. in 

Engineering from Stanford. 

March 15-16, 2012 


June 4-5, 2012 

Denver, Colorado 

$1150 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 




1. Introduction. The relationship between 

architecting and systems engineering. Course 

objectives and expectations.. 

2. Architectures and Architecting. Fundamental 

concepts. Terms and definitions. Origin of the terms 

within systems development. Understanding of the 

components of an architecture. Architecting key 

activities. Foundations of modern architecting. 

3. Architectural Tools. Architectural frameworks: 

DODAF, TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF. Why frameworks 

exist, and what they hope to provide. Design patterns 

and their origin. Using patterns to generate 

alternatives. Pattern language and the communication 

of patterns. System architecting patterns. Binding 

patterns into architectures. 

4. DODAF Overview. Viewpoints within DoDAF (All, 

Capability, Data/Information, Operational, Project, 

Services, Standards, Systems). How Viewpoints 

support models. Diagram types (views) within each 

viewpoint. 

5. DODAF Operational Definition. Describing an 

operational environment, and then modifying it to 

incorporate new capabilities. Sequences of creation. 

How to convert concepts into DODAF views. Practical 

exercises on each DODAF view, with review and 

critique. Teaching method includes three passes for 

each product: (a) describing the views, (b) instructorled 

exercise, (c) group work to create views. 

6. DODAF Technical Definition Processes. 

Converting the operational definition into serviceoriented 

technical architecture. Matching the new 

architecture with legacy systems. Sequences of 

creation. Linkages between the technical viewpoints 

and the operational viewpoints. Practical exercises on 

each DODAF view, with review and critique, again 

using the three-pass method. 

7. DODAF Migration Definition Processes. How 

to depict the migration of current systems into future 

systems while maintaining operability at each step. 

Practical exercises on migration planning. 


Cost Estimating 

NEW! 

Summary 

This two-day course covers the primary methods for 

cost estimation needed in systems development, including 

parametric estimation, activity-based costing, life cycle 

estimation, and probabilistic modeling. The estimation 

methods are placed in context of a Work Breakdown 

Structure and program schedules, while explaining the 

entire estimation process. 

Emphasis is also placed on using cost models to 

perform trade studies and calibrating cost models to 

improve their accuracy. Participants will learn how to use 

cost models through real-life case studies. Common 

pitfalls in cost estimation will be discussed including 

behavioral influences that can impact the quality of cost 

estimates. We conclude with a review of the state-of-theart 

in cost estimation. 

Instructor 

Ricardo Valerdi, is an Associate Professor of Systems 

& Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona and a 

Research Affiliate at MIT. He developed the COSYSMO 

model for estimating systems engineering 

effort which has been used by BAE 

Systems, Boeing, General Dynamics, L-3 

Communications, Lockheed Martin, 

Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and SAIC. 

Dr. Valerdi is a Visiting Associate of the 

Center for Systems and Software 

Engineering at the University of Southern 

California where he earned his Ph.D. in Industrial & 

Systems Engineering. Previously, he worked at The 

Aerospace Corporation, Motorola and General 

Instrument. He served on the Board of Directors of 

INCOSE, is an Editorial Advisor of the Journal of Cost 

Analysis and Parametrics, and is the author of the book 

The Constructive Systems Engineering Cost Model 

(COSYSMO): Quantifying the Costs of Systems 

Engineering Effort in Complex Systems (VDM Verlag, 

2008). 


• What are the most important cost estimation methods 

• How is a WBS used to define project scope 

• What are the appropriate cost estimation methods for 

my situation 

• How are cost models used to support decisions 

• How accurate are cost models How accurate do they 

need to be 

• How are cost models calibrated 

• How can cost models be integrated to develop 

estimates of the total system 

• How can cost models be used for risk assessment 

• What are the principles for effective cost estimation 

From this course you will obtain the knowledge and 

ability to perform basic cost estimates, identify tradeoffs, 

use cost model results to support decisions, evaluate the 

goodness of an estimate, evaluate the goodness of a 

cost model, and understand the latest trends in cost 

estimation. 

February 22-23, 2012 


July 17-18, 2012 


$1150 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 




1. Introduction. Cost estimation in context of 

system life cycles. Importance of cost estimation in 

project planning. How estimation fits into the 

proposal cycle. The link between cost estimation 

and scope control. History of parametric modeling. 

2. Scope Definition. Creation of a technical work 

scope. Definition and format of the Work Breakdown 

Structure (WBS) as a basis for accurate cost 

estimation. Pitfalls in WBS creation and how to 

avoid them. Task-level work definition. Class 

exercise in creating a WBS. 

3. Cost Estimation Methods. Different ways to 

establish a cost basis, with explanation of each: 

parametric estimation, activity-based costing, 

analogy, case based reasoning, expert judgment, 

etc. Benefits and detriments of each. Industryvalidated 

applications. Schedule estimation coupled 

with cost estimation. Comprehensive review of cost 

estimation tools. 

4. Economic Principles. Concepts such as 

economies/diseconomies of scale, productivity, 

reuse, earned value, learning curves and prediction 

markets are used to illustrate additional methods 

that can improve cost estimates. 

5. System Cost Estimation. Estimation in 

software, electronics, and mechanical engineering. 

Systems engineering estimation, including design 

tasks, test & evaluation, and technical management. 

Percentage-loaded level-of-effort tasks: project 

management, quality assurance, configuration 

management. Class exercise in creating cost 

estimates using a simple spreadsheet model and 

comparing against the WBS. 

6. Risk Estimation. Handling uncertainties in the 

cost estimation process. Cost estimation and risk 

management. Probabilistic cost estimation and 

effective portrayal of the results. Cost estimation, 

risk levels, and pricing. Class exercise in 

probabilistic estimation. 

7. Decision Making. Organizational adoption of 

cost models. Understanding the purpose of the 

estimate (proposal vs. rebaselining; ballpark vs. 

detailed breakdown). Human side of cost estimation 

(optimism, anchoring, customer expectations, etc.). 

Class exercise on calibrating decision makers. 

8. Course Summary. Course summary and 

refresher on key points. Additional cost estimation 

resources. Principles for effective cost estimation. 


Certified Systems Engineering Professional - CSEP Preparation 

Guaranteed Training to Pass the CSEP Certification Exam 

March 20-21, 2012 


April 20-21, 2012 

Orlando, Florida 

$1150 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 



Video! 

www.aticourses.com/CSEP_preparation.htm 

Summary 

This two-day course walks through the CSEP 

requirements and the INCOSE Handbook Version 3.2.2 to 

cover all topics on the CSEP exam. Interactive work, study 

plans, and sample examination questions help you to prepare 

effectively for the exam. Participants leave the course with 

solid knowledge, a hard copy of the INCOSE Handbook, 

study plans, and three sample examinations. 

Attend the CSEP course to learn what you need. Follow 

the study plan to seal in the knowledge. Use the sample exam 

to test yourself and check your readiness. Contact our 

instructor for questions if needed. Then take the exam. If you 

do not pass, you can retake the course at no cost. 

Instructors 

Eric Honour, CSEP, international consultant and 

lecturer, has a 40-year career of complex systems 

development & operation. Founder and 

former President of INCOSE. Author of 

the “Value of SE” material in the 

INCOSE Handbook. He has led the 

development of 18 major systems, 

including the Air Combat Maneuvering 

Instrumentation systems and the Battle 

Group Passive Horizon Extension 

System. BSSE (Systems Engineering), US Naval 

Academy, MSEE, Naval Postgraduate School, and 

PhD candidate, University of South Australia. 

Michael C. Jones completed a career as a 

Submarine Officer before becoming a member of the 

Senior Professional Staff at the Johns Hopkins 

University, Applied Physics Laboratory. He has more 

than twenty years of experience in technical 

management and systems engineering of complex 

systems in nuclear power, submarine combat control, 

anti-submarine warfare, cyber warfare, and training & 

simulation. He co-authored the simulation track in the 

Systems Engineering Masters degree program in the 

Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals 

Program. Mikehas a BS in Computer Science from the 

US Naval Academy, an MS in Electronic Systems 

Engineering and an MBA in Defense Systems 

Acquisition, both from the Naval Postgraduate School, 

and is a PhD student in Modeling and Simulation at Old 

Dominion University. 


• How to pass the CSEP examination! 

• Details of the INCOSE Handbook, the source for the 

exam. 

• Your own strengths and weaknesses, to target your 

study. 

• The key processes and definitions in the INCOSE 

language of the exam. 

• How to tailor the INCOSE processes. 

• Five rules for test-taking. 


1. Introduction. What is the CSEP and what are the 

requirements to obtain it Terms and definitions. Basis of 

the examination. Study plans and sample examination 

questions and how to use them. Plan for the course. 

Introduction to the INCOSE Handbook. Self-assessment 

quiz. Filling out the CSEP application. 

2. Systems Engineering and Life Cycles. Definitions 

and origins of systems engineering, including the latest 

concepts of “systems of systems.” Hierarchy of system 

terms. Value of systems engineering. Life cycle 

characteristics and stages, and the relationship of 

systems engineering to life cycles. Development 

approaches. The INCOSE Handbook system 

development examples. 

3. Technical Processes. The processes that take a 

system from concept in the eye to operation, maintenance 

and disposal. Stakeholder requirements and technical 

requirements, including concept of operations, 

requirements analysis, requirements definition, 

requirements management. Architectural design, including 

functional analysis and allocation, system architecture 

synthesis. Implementation, integration, verification, 

transition, validation, operation, maintenance and disposal 

of a system. 

4. Project Processes. Technical management and 

the role of systems engineering in guiding a project. 

Project planning, including the Systems Engineering Plan 

(SEP), Integrated Product and Process Development 

(IPPD), Integrated Product Teams (IPT), and tailoring 

methods. Project assessment, including Technical 

Performance Measurement (TPM). Project control. 

Decision-making and trade-offs. Risk and opportunity 

management, configuration management, information 

management. 

5. Enterprise & Agreement Processes. How to 

define the need for a system, from the viewpoint of 

stakeholders and the enterprise. Acquisition and supply 

processes, including defining the need. Managing the 

environment, investment, and resources. Enterprise 

environment management. Investment management 

including life cycle cost analysis. Life cycle processes 

management standard processes, and process 

improvement. Resource management and quality 

management. 

6. Specialty Engineering Activities. Unique 

technical disciplines used in the systems engineering 

processes: integrated logistics support, electromagnetic 

and environmental analysis, human systems integration, 

mass properties, modeling & simulation including the 

system modeling language (SysML), safety & hazards 

analysis, sustainment and training needs. 

7. After-Class Plan. Study plans and methods. 

Using the self-assessment to personalize your study plan. 

Five rules for test-taking. How to use the sample 

examinations. How to reach us after class, and what to do 

when you succeed. 

The INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering 

Professional (CSEP) rating is a coveted milestone in 

the career of a systems engineer, demonstrating 

knowledge, education and experience that are of high 

value to systems organizations. This two-day course 

provides you with the detailed knowledge and 

practice that you need to pass the CSEP examination. 


Fundamentals of COTS-Based Systems Engineering 

Leveraging Commercial Off-the-Shelf Technology for System Success 

May 8-10, 2012 


$1690 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 



Summary 

This three day course provides a systemic overview of 

how to use Systems Engineering to plan, manage, and 

execute projects that have significant Commercial-off-the- 

Shelf (COTS) content. Modern development programs are 

increasingly characterized by COTS solutions (both 

hardware and software) in both the military and 

commercial domains. 

This course focuses on the fundamentals of planning, 

execution, and follow-through that allow for the delivery of 

excellent and effective COTS-based systems to ensure 

the needs of all external and internal stakeholders are 

met. Participants will learn the necessary adjustments to 

the fundamental principles of Systems Engineering when 

dealing with COTS technologies. Numerous examples of 

COTS systems are presented. Practical information and 

tools are provided that will help the participants deal with 

issues that inevitably occur in the real word. Extensive inclass 

exercises are used to stimulate application of the 

course material. 

Each student will receive a complete set of lecture 

notes and an annotated bibliography. 

Instructor 

David D. Walden, ESEP, is an internationally 

recognized expert in the field of Systems Engineering. 

He has over 28 years of experience in leadership of 

systems development as well as in organizational 

process improvement and quality having worked at 

McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics before 

starting his own consultancy in 2006. He has a BS 

degree in Electrical Engineering (Valparaiso 

University) and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering 

and Computer Science (Washington University in St. 

Louis) and Management of Technology (University of 

Minnesota). Mr. Walden is a member of the 

International Council on Systems Engineering 

(INCOSE) and is an INCOSE Expert Systems 

Engineering (ESEP). He is also a member of the 

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 

and Tau Beta Pi. He is the author or coauthor of over 

50 technical reports and professional 

papers/presentations addressing all aspects of 

Systems Engineering. 

NEW! 


1. COTS Concepts and Principles. Key COTS 

concepts. COTS-Based Systems Engineering (CBSE). 

Complexity inherent in COTS-based solutions. CBSE 

compared and contrasted with Traditional Systems 

Engineering (TSE). Key challenges and expected 

benefits of CBSE. COTS lessons learned. 

2. COTS Influences on Requirements 

Development. Tailored and new approaches to 

requirements. Stakeholder requirements and 

measures of effectiveness (MOEs). System 

Requirements and measures of performance (MOPs). 

Flow down of requirements to COTS components. 

3. COTS Influences on Architecture and Design. 

Architecting principles. Make vs. buy decisions. 

Architectural and design strategies for CBSE. 

Supporting the inherent independence of the 

leveraged COTS components. Dealing with the unique 

interdependencies of overlapping COTS and system 

lifecycles. Support for ongoing change and evolution of 

the COTS components. Architectural frameworks. 

Technical performance measures (TPMs). Readiness 

levels. Modeling and simulation. 

4. COTS Life Cycle Considerations. Reliability, 

Maintainability, Availability (RMA). 

Supportability/Logistics, Usability/Human Factors. 

Training. System Safety. Security/Survivability. 

Producibility/ Manufacturability. Affordability. 

Disposability/Sustainability. Changeability (flexibility, 

adaptability, scalability, modifiability, variability, 

robustness, modularity). Commonality. 

5. COTS Influences on Integration and V&V. 

Integration, verification, and validation approaches in a 

COTS environment. Strategies for dealing with the 

dynamic and independent nature of the COTS 

components. Evolutionary and incremental integration, 

verification, and validation. Acceptance of COTS 

components. 

6. COTS Influences on Technical Management. 

Planning, monitoring, and control. Risk and decision 

management, Configuration and information 

management. Supplier identification and selection. 

Supplier agreements. Supplier oversight and control. 

Supplier technical reviews. COTS Integrator role. 


• Prime and subcontractor engineers who procure 

COTS components. 

• Suppliers who produce and supply COTS 

components (hardware and software). 

• Technical team leaders whose responsibilities include 

COTS technologies. 

• Program and engineering managers that oversee 

COTS development efforts. 

• Government regulators, administrators, and sponsors 

of COTS procurement efforts. 

• Military professionals who work with COTS-based 

systems. 


• The key characteristics of COTS components. 

• How to effectively plan and manage a COTS 

development effort. 

• How using COTS affects your requirements and 

design. 

• How to effectively integrate COTS into your systems. 

• Effective verification and validation of COTS-based 

systems. 

• How to manage your COTS suppliers. 

• The latest lessons learned from over two decades of 

COTS developments. 



February 14-15, 2012 


June 6-7, 2012 

Denver, Colorado 

$1150 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 



Summary 

Today's complex systems present difficult challenges to 

develop. From military systems to aircraft to environmental 

and electronic control systems, development teams must face 

the challenges with an arsenal of proven methods. Individual 

systems are more complex, and systems operate in much 

closer relationship, requiring a system-of-systems approach 

to the overall design. 

This two-day workshop presents the fundamentals of a 

systems engineering approach to solving complex problems. 

It covers the underlying attitudes as well as the process 

definitions that make up systems engineering. The model 

presented is a research-proven combination of the best 

existing standards. 

Participants in this workshop practice the processes on a 

realistic system development. 

Instructors 

Dr. Scott Workinger has led innovative technology 

development efforts in complex, risk-laden 

environments for 30 years. He currently 

teaches courses on program management 

and engineering and consults on strategic 

management and technology issues. Scott 

has a B.S in Engineering Physics from 

Lehigh University, an M.S. in Systems 

Engineering from the University of Arizona, 

and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environment Engineering from 

Stanford University. 

Michael C. Jones completed a career as a 

Submarine Officer before becoming a member of the 

Senior Professional Staff at the Johns Hopkins University, 

Applied Physics Laboratory. He has more than twenty 

years of experience in technical management and 

systems engineering of complex systems in nuclear 

power, submarine combat control, anti-submarine 

warfare, cyber warfare, and training & simulation. He coauthored 

the simulation track in the Systems Engineering 

Masters degree program in the Johns Hopkins 

Engineering for Professionals Program. Mikehas a BS in 

Computer Science from the US Naval Academy, an MS in 

Electronic Systems Engineering and an MBA in Defense 

Systems Acquisition, both from the Naval Postgraduate 

School, and is a PhD student in Modeling and Simulation 

at Old Dominion University. 


You Should Attend This Workshop If You Are: 

• Working in any sort of system development 

• Project leader or key member in a product development 

team 

• Looking for practical methods to use today 

This Course Is Aimed At: 

• Project leaders, 

• Technical team leaders, 

• Design engineers, and 

• Others participating in system development 


1. Systems Engineering Model. An underlying 

process model that ties together all the concepts and 

methods. System thinking attitudes. Overview of the 

systems engineering processes. Incremental, 

concurrent processes and process loops for iteration. 

Technical and management aspects. 

2. Where Do Requirements Come From 

Requirements as the primary method of measurement 

and control for systems development. Three steps to 

translate an undefined need into requirements; 

determining the system purpose/mission from an 

operational view; how to measure system quality, 

analyzing missions and environments; requirements 

types; defining functions and requirements. 

3. Where Does a Solution Come From 

Designing a system using the best methods known 

today. What is an architecture System architecting 

processes; defining alternative concepts; alternate 

sources for solutions; how to allocate requirements to 

the system components; how to develop, analyze, and 

test alternatives; how to trade off results and make 

decisions. Establishing an allocated baseline, and 

getting from the system design to the system. Systems 

engineering during ongoing operation. 

4. Ensuring System Quality. Building in quality 

during the development, and then checking it 

frequently. The relationship between systems 

engineering and systems testing. Technical analysis as 

a system tool. Verification at multiple levels: 

architecture, design, product. Validation at multiple 

levels; requirements, operations design, product. 

5. Systems Engineering Management. How to 

successfully manage the technical aspects of the 

system development; planning the technical 

processes; assessing and controlling the technical 

processes, with corrective actions; use of risk 

management, configuration management, interface 

management to guide the technical development. 

6. Systems Engineering Concepts of 

Leadership. How to guide and motivate technical 

teams; technical teamwork and leadership; virtual, 

collaborative teams; design reviews; technical 

performance measurement. 

7. Summary. Review of the important points of 

the workshop. Interactive discussion of participant 

experiences that add to the material. 


Model Based Systems Engineering with OMG SysML 

Productivity Through Model-Based Systems Engineering Principles & Practices 

May 22-24, 2012 


$1690 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 



Summary 

This three day course is intended for practicing systems 

engineers who want to learn how to apply model-driven 

systems engineering practices using the UML Profile for 

Systems Engineering (OMG SysML). You will apply 

systems engineering principles in developing a 

comprehensive model of a solution to the class problem, 

using modern systems engineering development tools and a 

development methodology tailored to OMG SysML. The 

methodology begins with the presentation of a desired 

capability and leads you through the performance of activities 

and the creation of work products to support requirements 

definition, architecture description and system design. The 

methodology offers suggestions for how to transition to 

specialty engineering, with an emphasis on interfacing with 

software engineering activities. Use of a modeling tool is 

required. 

Each student will receive a lab manual describing how to 

create each diagram type in the selected tool, access to the 

Object-Oriented Systems Engineering Methodology 

(OOSEM) website and a complete set of lecture notes. 

Instructor 

J.D. Baker is a Software Systems Engineer with expertise 

in system design processes and methodologies that support 

Model-Based Systems Engineering. He has over 20 years of 

experience providing training and mentoring in software and 

system architecture, systems engineering, software 

development, iterative/agile development, object-oriented 

analysis and design, the Unified Modeling Language (UML), 

the UML Profile for Systems Engineering (SysML), use case 

driven requirements, and process improvement. He has 

participated in the development of UML, OMG SysML, and 

the UML Profile for DoDAF and MODAF. J.D. holds many 

industry certifications, including OMG Certified System 

Modeling Professional (OCSMP), OMG Certified UML 

Professional (OCUP), Sun Certified Java Programmer, and he 

holds certificates as an SEI Software Architecture 

Professional and ATAM Evaluator. 


• Identify and describe the use of all nine OMG 

SysML diagrams. 

• Follow a formal methodology to produce a system 

model in a modeling tool. 

• Model system behavior using an activity diagram. 

• Model system behavior using a state diagram. 

• Model system behavior using a sequence diagram. 

• Model requirements using a requirements diagram. 

• Model requirements using a use case diagram. 

• Model structure using block diagrams. 

• Allocate behavior to structure in a model. 

• Recognize parametrics and constraints and describe 

their usage. 

NEW! 


1. Model-Based Systems Engineering Overview. 

Introduction to OMG SysM, role of open standards and 

open architecture in systems engineering, what is a 

model, 4 modeling principles, 5 characteristics of a 

good model, 4 pillars of OMG SysML. 

2. Getting started with OOSEM. Use case 

diagrams and descriptions, modeling functional 

requirements, validating use cases, domain modeling 

concepts and guidelines, OMG SysML language 

architecture. 

3. OOSEM Activities and Work Products. Walk 

through the OOSEM top level activities, decomposing 

the Specify and Design System activity, relating use 

case and domain models to the system model, options 

for model organization, the package diagram. 

Compare and contrast Distiller and Hybrid SUV 

examples. 

4. Requirements Analysis. Modeling 

Requirements in OMG SysML, functional analysis and 

allocation, the role of functional analysis in an objectoriented 

world using a modified SE V, OOSEM activity 

–"Analyze Stakeholder Needs”. Concept of 

Operations, Domain Models as analysis tools. 

Modeling non-functional requirements. Managing large 

requirement sets. Requirements in the Distiller sample 

model. 

5. OMG SysML Structural Elements. Block 

Definition Diagrams (BDD), Internal Block Diagrams 

(IBD), Ports, Parts, Connectors and flows. Creating 

system context diagrams. Block definition and usage 

relationship. Delegation through ports. Operations and 

attributes. 

6. OMG SysML Behavioral Elements. Activity 

diagrams, activity decomposition, State Machines, 

state execution semantics, Interactions, allocation of 

behavior. Call behavior actions. Relating activity 

behavior to operations, interactions, and state 

machines. 

7. Parametric Analysis and Design Synthesis. 

Constraint Blocks, Tracing analysis tools to OMG 

SysML elements, Design Synthesis, Tracing 

requirements to design elements. Relating SysML 

requirements to text requirements in a requirements 

management tool. Analyzing the Hybrid SUV 

dynamics. 

8. Model Verification. Tracing requirements to 

OMG SysM test cases, Systems Engineering Process 

Outputs, Preparing work products for specialty 

engineers, Exchanging model data using XMI, 

Technical Reviews and Audits, Inspecting OMG SysML 

and UML artifacts. 

9. Extending OMG SysML. Stereotypes, tag 

values and model libraries, Trade Studies, Modeling 

and Simulation, Executable UML. 

10. Deploying OMG SysML in your 

Organization. Lessons learned from MBSE 

initiatives, the future of SysML.OMG Certified System 

Modeling Professional resources and exams. 


Principles of Test & Evaluation 

Assuring Required Product Performance 

March 13-14, 2012 


$1150 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 



Summary 

This two day workshop is an overview of 

test and evaluation from product concept 

through operations. The purpose of the 

course is to give participants a solid 

grounding in practical testing methodology 

for assuring that a product performs as 

intended. The course is designed for Test 

Engineers, Design Engineers, Project 

Engineers, Systems Engineers, Technical 

Team Leaders, System Support Leaders 

Technical and Management Staff and Project 

Managers. The course work includes a case 

study in several parts for practicing testing 

techniques. 

Instructor 

Dr. Scott Workinger has led projects in 

Manufacturing, Eng. & 

Construction, and Info. Tech. for 

30 years. His projects have made 

contributions ranging from 

increasing optical fiber bandwidth 

to creating new CAD technology. 

He currently teaches courses on 

management and engineering and consults 

on strategic issues in management and 

technology. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering 

from Stanford. 


• Create effective test requirements. 

• Plan tests for complete coverage. 

• Manage testing during integration and 

verification. 

• Develop rigorous test conclusions with 

sound collection, analysis, and reporting 

methods. 


1. What is Test and Evaluation Basic 

definitions and concepts. Test and evaluation 

overview; application to complex systems. A 

model of T&E that covers the activities needed 

(requirements, planning, testing, analysis & 

reporting). Roles of test and evaluation 

throughout product development, and the life 

cycle, test economics and risk and their impact on 

test planning. 

2. Test Requirements. Requirements as the 

primary method for measurement and control of 

product development. Where requirements come 

from; evaluation of requirements for testability; 

deriving test requirements; the Requirements 

Verification Matrix (RVM); Qualification vs. 

Acceptance requirements; design proof vs. first 

article vs. production requirements, design for 

testability. 

3. Test Planning. Evaluating the product 

concept to plan verification and validation by test. 

T&E strategy and the Test and Evaluation Master 

Plan (TEMP); verification planning and the 

Verification Plan document; analyzing and 

evaluating alternatives; test resource planning; 

establishing a verification baseline; developing a 

verification schedule; test procedures and their 

format for success. 

4. Integration Testing. How to successfully 

manage the intricate aspects of system 

integration testing; levels of integration planning; 

development test concepts; integration test 

planning (architecture-based integration versus 

build-based integration); preferred order of 

events; integration facilities; daily schedules; the 

importance of regression testing. 

5. Formal Testing. How to perform a test; 

differences in testing for design proof, first article 

qualification, recurring production acceptance; 

rules for test conduct. Testing for different 

purposes, verification vs. validation; test 

procedures and test records; test readiness 

certification, test article configuration; 

troubleshooting and anomaly handling. 

6. Data Collection, Analysis and Reporting. 

Statistical methods; test data collection methods 

and equipment, timeliness in data collection, 

accuracy, sampling; data analysis using statistical 

rigor, the importance of doing the analysis before 

the test;, sample size, design of experiments, 

Taguchi method, hypothesis testing, FRACAS, 

failure data analysis; report formats and records, 

use of data as recurring metrics, Cum Sum 

method. 

This course provides the knowledge and 

ability to plan and execute testing procedures 

in a rigorous, practical manner to assure that 

a product meets its requirements. 


Requirements Engineering with DEVSME 

Summary 

This two and one half -day course is designed for 

engineers, managers and educators who wish to enhance 

their capabilities to capture needs and requirements in a 

standardized, interoperable format that allows immediate 

dynamic visualization of workflows and relationships. One of 

the most serious issues of modern systems engineering is 

capturing requirements in an unambiguous, interoperable 

language that is structured in terms of input, output, timing 

and coupling to other requirements. The DEVS Modeling 

Environment (DEVSME) uses a restricted natural language 

that is easy to use, but powerful enough to express complex 

mathematical, logical and process functions in such a way 

that other engineers and stakeholders will understand the 

intent as well as the behavior of the requirement. 

The course covers the basics of systems concepts and 

discrete event systems specification (DEVS), a computational 

basis for system theory. It demonstrates the application of 

DEVS to "virtual build and test" requirements engineering in 

complex information-intensive systems development. The 

DEVSME Requirements Engineering Environment leverages 

the power of the DEVS modeling and simulation methodology. 

A particular focus is the application of model-based data 

engineering in today’s data rich – and information challenged 

– system environments. 

Instructors 

Bernard P. Zeigler is chief scientist for RTSync, 

Zeigler has been chief architect for 

simulation-based automated testing of 

net-centric IT systems with DoD’s Joint 

Interoperability Test Command as well 

as for automated model composition for 

the Department of Homeland Security. 

He is internationally known for his 

foundational text Theory of Modeling and Simulation, 

second edition (Academic Press, 2000), He was 

named Fellow of the IEEE in recognition of his 

contributions to the theory of discrete event simulation. 

Phillip Hammonds is a senior scientist for RTSync, 

He co-authored (with Professor Zeigler). the 2007 

book, “Modeling & Simulation-Based Data 

Engineering: Introducing Pragmatics into Ontologies 

for Net-Centric Information Exchange”. Elsevier Press. 

He has worked as a technical director and program 

manager for several large DoD contractors where 

skilled requirements and data engineering were critical 

to project success. 


• Overview of IEEE and CMMI approaches to requirements 

engineering. 

• Basic concepts of Discrete Event System Specification 

(DEVS) and how to apply them using DEVS Modeling 

Environment. 

• How to understand and develop requirements and then 

simulate them with both Discrete and Continuous temporal 

behaviors. 

• System of Systems Concepts, Interoperability, service 

orientation, and data-centricity within a modeling and 

simulation framework. 

• Integrated System Development and virtual testing with 

applications to service oriented and data-distribution 

architectures. 

From this course you will obtain the understanding 

of how to leverage collaborative modeling and 

simulation to develop requirements and analyze 

complex information-intensive systems engineering 

problems within an integrated requirements 

development and testing process. 

NEW! 

April 24-26, 2012 


$1490 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 

(8:30am- 12:30pm on last day) 




1. Introduction to the Requirements 

Engineering Process. 

2. Introduction to Discrete Event System 

Specification. (DEVS)--System-Theory Basis and 

Concepts, Levels of System Specification, System 

Specifications: Continuous and Discrete. 

3. Framework for Modeling and Simulation 

Based Requirements Engineering. DEVS 

Simulation Algorithms, DEVS Modeling and 

Simulation Environments. 

4. DEVS Model Development. Constrained 

natural language DEVS-based model construction, 

System Entity Structure - coupling and hierarchical 

construction, Verification and Visualization. 

5. DEVS Hybrid Discrete and Continuous 

Modeling and Simulation. Introduction to 

simulation with DEVSJava/ADEVS Hybrid software, 

Capturing stakeholder requirements for space 

systems communication and service architectures. 

6. Interoperability and Reuse. System of 

Systems Concepts, Component-based systems, 

modularity, Levels of Interoperability (syntactic, 

semantic, and pragmatic). Service Oriented 

Architecture, Data Distribution Service standards. 

7. Integrated System Requirements 

Development and Visualization/Testing. Using 

DEVS Modeling Environment (DEVSME) – 

Requirements capture in an unambiguous, 

interoperable language, structured in terms of input, 

output, timing and coupling to other requirements, 

Automated DEVS-based Test Case Generation, 

Net-Enabled System Testing – Measures of 

Performance/Effectiveness. 

8. Cutting Edge Concepts and Tools. Model 

and Simulation-based data engineering for interestbased 

collection and distribution of massive data. 

Capturing requirements for IT systems 

implementing such concepts. Software/Hardware 

implementations based on DEVS-Chip hardware. 


Technical CONOPS & Concepts Master's Course 

A hands on, how-to course in building Concepts of Operations, Operating Concepts, 

Concepts of Employment and Operational Concept Documents 

March 13-15, 2012 

Virginia Beach, Virginia 

April 3-5, 2012 


April 10-12, 2012 


May 8-10, 2012 


$1690 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 



Video! 

www.aticourses.com/Technical_CONOPS_Concepts.htm 

Summary 

This three-day course is de signed for engineers, scientists, 

project managers and other professionals who design, build, 

test or sell complex systems. Each topic is illustrat ed by realworld 

case studies discussed by experienced CONOPS and 

requirements professionals. Key topics are reinforced with 

small-team exercises. Over 200 pages of sample CONOPS 

(six) and templates are provided. Students outline CONOPS 

and build OpCons in class. Each student gets instructor’s 

slides; college-level textbook; ~250 pages of case studies, 

templates, checklists, technical writing tips, good and bad 

CONOPS; Hi-Resolution personalized Certificate of CONOPS 

Competency and class photo, opportunity to join US/Coalition 

CONOPS Community of Interest. 

Instructors 

Mack McKinney, president and founder of a consulting 

company, has worked in the defense industry 

since 1975, first as an Air Force officer for 8 

years, then with Westinghouse Defense and 

Northrop Grumman for 16 years, then with a 

SIGINT company in NY for 6 years. He now 

teaches, consults and writes Concepts of 

Operations for Boeing, Sikorsky, Lockheed 

Martin Skunk Works, Raytheon Missile 

Systems, Joint Forces Command, MITRE, Booz Allen 

Hamilton, all the uniformed services and the IC. He has US 

patents in radar processing and hyperspectral sensing. 

John Venable, Col., USAF, ret is a former Thunderbirds 

lead, wrote concepts for the Air Staff and is a certified 

CONOPS instructor. 


• What are CONOPS and how do they differ from CONEMPS, 

OPCONS and OCDs How are they related to the DODAF and 

JCIDS in the US DOD 

• What makes a “good” CONOPS 

• What are the two types and five levels of CONOPS and when is 

each used 

• How do you get users’ active, vocal support in your CONOPS 

After this course you will be able to build and update 

OpCons and CONOPS using a robust CONOPS team, 

determine the appropriate type and level for a CONOPS 

effort, work closely with end users of your products and 

systems and elicit solid, actionable, user-driven 

requirements. 

NEW! 


1. How to build CONOPS. Operating Concepts (OpCons) 

and Concepts of Employment (ConEmps). Five levels of 

CONOPS & two CONOPS templates, when to use each. 

2. The elegantly simple Operating Concept and the 

mathematics behind it (X2-X)/2 

3. What Scientists, Engineers and Project Managers 

need to know when working with operational end users. 

Proven, time-tested techniques for understanding the end 

user’s perspective – a primer for non-users. Rules for visiting an 

operational unit/site and working with difficult users and 

operators. 

4. Modeling and Simulation. Detailed cross-walk for 

CONOPS and Modeling and Simulation (determining the 

scenarios, deciding on the level of fidelity needed, modeling 

operational utility, etc.) 

5. Clear technical writing in English. (1 hour crash 

course). Getting non-technical people to embrace scientific 

methods and principles for requirements to drive solid 

CONOPS. 

6. Survey of major weapons and sensor systems in trouble 

and lessons learned. Getting better collaboration among 

engineers, scientists, managers and users to build more 

effective systems and powerful CONOPS. Special challenges 

when updating existing CONOPS. 

7. Forming the CONOPS team. Collaborating with people 

from other professions. Working With Non-Technical People: 

Forces that drive Program Managers, Requirements Writers, 

Acquisition/Contracts Professionals. What motivates them, how 

work with them. 

8. Concepts, CONOPS, JCIDS and DODAF. How does it 

all tie together 

9. All users are not operators. (Where to find the good 

ones and how to gain access to them). Getting actionable 

information from operational users without getting thrown out of 

the office. The two questions you must ALWAYS ask, one of 

which may get you bounced. 

10. Relationship of CONOPS to requirements & 

contracts. Legal minefields in CONOPS. 

11. OpCons, ConEmps & CONOPS for systems. 

Reorganizations & exercises – how to build them. OpCons and 

CONOPS for IT-intensive systems (benefits and special risks). 

12. R&D and CONOPS. Using CONOPS to increase the 

Transition Rate (getting R&D projects from the lab to adopted, 

fielded systems). People Mover and Robotic Medic team 

exercises reinforce lecture points, provide skills practice. 

Checklist to achieve team consensus on types of R&D needed 

for CONOPS (effects-driven, blue sky, capability-driven, new 

spectra, observed phenomenon, product/process improvement, 

basic science). Unclassified R&D Case Histories: $$$ millions 

invested - - - what went wrong & key lessons learned: (Software 

for automated imagery analysis; low cost, lightweight, 

hyperspectral sensor; non-traditional ISR; innovative ATC 

aircraft tracking system; full motion video for bandwidthdisadvantaged 

users in combat - - - Getting it Right!). 

13. Critical thinking. creative thinking, empathic thinking, 

counterintuitive thinking and when engineers and scientists use 

each type in developing concepts and CONOPS. 

14. Operations Researchers. and Operations Analysts 

when quantification is needed. 

15. Lessons Learned From No/Poor CONOPS. Real world 

problems with fighters, attack helicopters, C3I systems, DHS 

border security project, humanitarian relief effort, DIVAD, air 

defense radar, E/O imager, civil aircraft ATC tracking systems 

and more. 

16. Beyond the CONOPS: Configuring a program for 

success and the critical attributes and crucial considerations 

that can be program-killers; case histories and lessons-learned. 


Acoustics Fundamentals, Measurements, and Applications 

April 10-12, 2012 

Silver Spring, Maryland 

July 17-19, 2012 

Bremmerton, Washington 

$1795 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 



Summary 

This three-day course is intended for 

engineers and other technical personnel and 

managers who have a work-related need to 

understand basic acoustics concepts and how to 

measure and analyze sound. This is an 

introductory course and participants need not 

have any prior knowledge of sound or vibration. 

Each topic is illustrated by appropriate 

applications, in-class demonstrations, and 

worked-out numerical examples. Each student 

will receive a copy of the textbook, Acoustics: An 

Introduction by Heinrich Kuttruff. 

Instructor 

Dr. Alan D. Stuart, Associate Professor Emeritus 

of Acoustics, Penn State, has over forty years 

experience in the field of sound and vibration. He 

has degrees in mechanical engineering, 

electrical engineering, and engineering 

acoustics. For over thirty years he has taught 

courses on the Fundamentals of Acoustics, 

Structural Acoustics, Applied Acoustics, Noise 

Control Engineering, and Sonar Engineering on 

both the graduate and undergraduate levels as 

well as at government and industrial 

organizations throughout the country. 


• How to make proper sound level 

measurements. 

• How to analyze and report acoustic data. 

• The basis of decibels (dB) and the A-weighting 

scale. 

• How intensity probes work and allow near-field 

sound measurements. 

• How to measure radiated sound power and 

sound transmission loss. 

• How to use third-octave bands and narrowband 

spectrum analyzers. 

• How the source-path-receiver approach is used 

in noise control engineering. 

• How sound builds up in enclosures like vehicle 

interiors and rooms. 

Recent attendee comments 

... 

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1. Introductory Concepts. Sound in fluids and 

solids. Sound as particle vibrations. Waveforms and 

frequency. Sound energy and power consideration. 

2. Acoustic Waves. Air-borne sound. Plane and 

spherical acoustic waves. Sound pressure, intensity, 

and power. Decibel (dB) log power scale. Sound 

reflection and transmission at surfaces. Sound 

absorption. 

3. Acoustic and Vibration Sensors. Human ear 

characteristics. Capacitor and piezoelectric 

microphone designs and response characteristics. 

Intensity probe design and operational limitations. 

Accelerometers design and frequency response. 

4. Sound Measurements. Sound level meters. 

Time weighting (fast, slow, linear). Decibel scales 

(Linear and A-and C-weightings). Octave band 

analyzers. Narrow band spectrum analyzers. Critical 

bands of human hearing. Detecting tones in noise. 

Microphone calibration techniques. 

5. Sound Radiation. Human speech mechanism. 

Loudspeaker design and response characteristics. 

Directivity patterns of simple and multi-pole sources: 

monopole, dipole and quadri-pole sources. Acoustic 

arrays and beamforming. Sound radiation from 

vibrating machines and structures. Radiation 

efficiency. 

6. Low Frequency Components and Systems. 

Helmholtz resonator. Sound waves in ducts. Mufflers 

and their design. Horns and loudspeaker enclosures. 

7. Applications. Representative topics include: 

Outdoor sound propagation (temperature and wind 

effects). Environmental acoustics (e.g. community 

noise response and criteria). Auditorium and room 

acoustics (e.g. reverberation criteria and sound 

absorption). Structural acoustics (e.g. sound 

transmission loss through panels). Noise and vibration 

control (e.g. source-path-receiver model). 



Submarines in Shallow Water and Regional Conflicts 

Summary 

Advanced Undersea Warfare (USW) covers the latest 

information about submarine employment in future 

conflicts. The course is taught by a leading innovator in 

submarine tactics. The roles, capabilities and future 

developments of submarines in littoral warfare are 

emphasized. 

The technology and tactics of modern nuclear and 

diesel submarines are discussed. The importance of 

stealth, mobility, and firepower for submarine missions are 

illustrated by historical and projected roles of submarines. 

Differences between nuclear and diesel submarines are 

reviewed. Submarine sensors (sonar, ELINT, visual) and 

weapons (torpedoes, missiles, mines, special forces) are 

presented. 

Advanced USW gives you a wealth of practical 

knowledge about the latest issues and tactics in 

submarine warfare. The course provides the necessary 

background to understand the employment of submarines 

in the current world environment. 

Advanced USW is valuable to engineers and scientists 

who are working in R&D, or in testing of submarine 

systems. It provides the knowledge and perspective to 

understand advanced USW in shallow water and regional 

conflicts. 

Instructors 

Capt. James Patton (USN ret.) is President of Submarine 

Tactics and Technology, Inc. and is 

considered a leading innovator of pro- and 

anti-submarine warfare and naval tactical 

doctrine. His 30 years of experience 

includes actively consulting on submarine 

weapons, advanced combat systems, and 

other stealth warfare related issues to over 

30 industrial and government entities. 

While at OPNAV, Capt. Patton actively participated in 

submarine weapon and sensor research and 

development, and was instrumental in the development of 

the towed array. As Chief Staff Officer at Submarine 

Development Squadron Twelve (SUB-DEVRON 12), and 

as Head of the Advanced Tactics Department at the Naval 

Submarine School, he was instrumental in the 

development of much of the current tactical doctrine. 

Commodore Bhim Uppal, former Director of Submarines 

for the Indian Navy, is now a consultant 

with American Systems Corporation. He 

will discuss the performance and tactics of 

diesel submarines in littoral waters. He has 

direct experience onboard FOXTROT, 

KILO, and Type 1500 diesel electric 

submarines. He has over 25 years of 

experience in diesel submarines with the Indian Navy and 

can provide a unique insight into the thinking, strategies, 

and tactics of foreign submarines. He helped purchase 

and evaluate Type 1500 and KILO diesel submarines. 

May 1-3, 2012 

Newport, Rhode Island 

$1790 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 




1. Mechanics and Physics of Submarines. 

Stealth, mobility, firepower, and endurance. The hull - 

tradeoffs between speed, depth, and payload. The 

"Operating Envelope". The "Guts" - energy, electricity, 

air, and hydraulics. 

2. Submarine Sensors. Passive sonar. Active 

sonar. Radio frequency sensors. Visual sensors. 

Communications and connectivity considerations. 

Tactical considerations of employment. 

3. Submarine Weapons and Off-Board Devices. 

Torpedoes. Missiles. Mines. Countermeasures. 

Tactical considerations of employment. Special Forces. 

4. Historical Employment of Submarines. Coastal 

defense. Fleet scouts. Commerce raiders. Intelligence 

and warning. Reconnaissance and surveillance. 

Tactical considerations of employment. 

5. Cold War Employment of Submarines. The 

maritime strategy. Forward offense. Strategic antisubmarine 

warfare. Tactical considerations of 

employment. 

6. Submarine Employment in Littoral Warfare. 

Overt and covert "presence". Battle group and joint 

operations support. Covert mine detection, localization 

and neutralization. Injection and recovery of Special 

Forces. Targeting and bomb damage assessment. 

Tactical considerations of employment. Results of 

recent out-year wargaming. 

7. Littoral Warfare “Threats”. Types and fuzing 

options of mines. Vulnerability of submarines 

compared to surface ships. The diesel-electric or airindependent 

propulsion submarine "threat". The 

"Brown-water" acoustic environment. Sensor and 

weapon performance. Non-acoustic anti-submarine 

warfare. Tactical considerations of employment. 

8. Advanced Sensor, Weapon & Operational 

Concepts. Strike, anti-air, and anti-theater Ballistic 

Missile weapons. Autonomous underwater vehicles 

and deployed off-board systems. Improved C-cubed. 

The blue-green laser and other enabling technology. 

Some unsolved issues of jointness. 


• Changing doctrinal "truths" of Undersea Warfare in Littoral Warfare. 

• Traditional and emergent tactical concepts of Undersea Warfare. 

• The forcing functions for required developments in platforms, sensors, weapons, and C-cubed capabilities. 

• The roles, missions, and counters to "Rest of the World" (ROW) mines and non-nuclear submarines. 

• Current thinking in support of optimizing the U.S. submarine for coordinated and joint operations under tactical 

control of the Joint Task Force Commander or CINC.N 


Applied Physical Oceanography Modeling and Acoustics: 

Controlling Physics, Observations, Models and Naval Applications 

June 5-7, 2012 

Slidell, Louisiana 

$1690 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 



Summary 

This three-day course is designed for engineers, 

physicists, acousticians, climate scientists, and managers 

who wish to enhance their understanding of this discipline 

or become familiar with how the ocean environment can 

affect their individual applications. Examples of remote 

sensing of the ocean, in situ ocean observing systems and 

actual examples from recent oceanographic cruises are 

given. 

Instructors 

Dr. David L. Porter is a Principal Senior Oceanographer 

at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics 

Laboratory (JHUAPL). Dr. Porter has been at JHUAPL for 

twenty-two years and before that he was an 

oceanographer for ten years at the National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration. Dr. Porter's specialties are 

oceanographic remote sensing using space borne 

altimeters and in situ observations. He has authored 

scores of publications in the field of ocean remote 

sensing, tidal observations, and internal waves as well as 

a book on oceanography. Dr. Porter holds a BS in 

physics from University of MD, a MS in physical 

oceanography from MIT and a PhD in geophysical fluid 

dynamics from the Catholic University of America. 

Dr. Juan I. Arvelo is a Principal Senior Acoustician at 

JHUAPL. He earned a PhD degree in 

physics from the Catholic University of 

America. He served nine years at the 

Naval Surface Warfare Center and five 

years at Alliant Techsystems, Inc. He has 

27 years of theoretical and practical 

experience in government, industry, and 

academic institutions on acoustic sensor 

design and sonar performance evaluation, experimental 

design and conduct, acoustic signal processing, data 

analysis and interpretation. Dr. Arvelo is an active member 

of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) where he holds 

various positions including associate editor of the 

Proceedings On Meetings in Acoustics (POMA) and 

technical chair of the 159th joint ASA/INCE conference in 

Baltimore. 


• The physical structure of the ocean and its major 

currents. 

• The controlling physics of waves, including internal 

waves. 

• How space borne altimeters work and their 

contribution to ocean modeling. 

• How ocean parameters influence acoustics. 

• Models and databases for predicting sonar 

performance. 


1. Importance of Oceanography. Review 

oceanography's history, naval applications, and impact on 

climate. 

2. Physics of The Ocean. Develop physical 

understanding of the Navier-Stokes equations and their 

application for understanding and measuring the ocean. 

3. Energetics Of The Ocean and Climate Change. The 

source of all energy is the sun. We trace the incoming energy 

through the atmosphere and ocean and discuss its effect on 

the climate. 

4. Wind patterns, El Niño and La Niña. The major wind 

patterns of earth define not only the vegetation on land, but 

drive the major currents of the ocean. Perturbations to their 

normal circulation, such as an El Niño event, can have global 

impacts. 

5. Satellite Observations, Altimetry, Earth's Geoid and 

Ocean Modeling. The role of satellite observations are 

discussed with a special emphasis on altimetric 

measurements. 

6. Inertial Currents, Ekman Transport, Western 

Boundaries. Observed ocean dynamics are explained. 

Analytical solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations are 

discussed. 

7. Ocean Currents, Modeling and Observation. 

Observations of the major ocean currents are compared to 

model results of those currents. The ocean models are driven 

by satellite altimetric observations. 

8. Mixing, Salt Fingers, Ocean Tracers and Langmuir 

Circulation. Small scale processes in the ocean have a large 

effect on the ocean's structure and the dispersal of important 

chemicals, such as CO2. 

9. Wind Generated Waves, Ocean Swell and Their 

Prediction. Ocean waves, their physics and analysis by 

directional wave spectra are discussed along with present 

modeling of the global wave field employing Wave Watch III. 

10. Tsunami Waves. The generation and propagation of 

tsunami waves are discussed with a description of the present 

monitoring system. 

11. Internal Waves and Synthetic Aperture Radar 

(SAR) Sensing of Internal Waves. The density stratification 

in the ocean allows the generation of internal waves. The 

physics of the waves and their manifestation at the surface by 

SAR is discussed. 

12. Tides, Observations, Predictions and Quality 

Control. Tidal observations play a critical role in commerce 

and warfare. The history of tidal observations, their role in 

commerce, the physics of tides and their prediction are 

discussed. 

13. Bays, Estuaries and Inland Seas. The inland waters 

of the continents present dynamics that are controlled not only 

by the physics of the flow, but also by the bathymetry and the 

shape of the coastlines. 

14. The Future of Oceanography. Applications to global 

climate assessment, new technologies and modeling are 

discussed. 

15. Underwater Acoustics. Review of ocean effects on 

sound propagation & scattering. 

16. Naval Applications. Description of the latest sensor, 

transducer, array and sonar technologies for applications from 

target detection, localization and classification to acoustic 

communications and environmental surveys. 

17. Models and Databases. Description of key worldwide 

environmental databases, sound propagation models, and 

sonar simulation tools. 


Fundamentals of Passive & Active Sonar 

Summary 

This four-day course is designed for SONAR 

systems engineers, combat systems engineers, 

undersea warfare professionals, and managers who 

wish to enhance their understanding of passive and 

active SONAR or become familiar with the "big picture" 

if they work outside of either discipline. Each topic is 

presented by instructors with substantial experience at 

sea. Presentations are illustrated by worked numerical 

examples using simulated or experimental data 

describing actual undersea acoustic situations and 

geometries. Visualization of transmitted waveforms, 

target interactions, and detector responses is 

emphasized. 

Instructors 

Dr. Harold "Bud" Vincent, Research Associate 

Professor of Ocean Engineering at the University of 

Rhode Island is a U.S. Naval officer qualified in 

submarine warfare and salvage diving. He has over 

twenty years of undersea systems experience working 

in industry, academia, and government (military and 

civilian). He served on active duty on fast attack and 

ballistic missile submarines, worked at the Naval 

Undersea Warfare Center, and conducted advanced 

R&D in the defense industry. Dr. Vincent received the 

M.S. and Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering (Underwater 

Acoustics) from the University of Rhode Island. His 

teaching and research encompasses underwater 

acoustic systems, communications, signal processing, 

ocean instrumentation, and navigation. He has been 

awarded four patents for undersea systems and 

algorithms. 

Dr. Duncan Sheldon has over twenty-five years’ 

experience in the field of active sonar signal 

processing. At Navy Undersea Warfare laboratories 

(New London, CT, and Newport, RI) he directed a 

multiyear research program and developed new active 

sonar waveforms and receivers for ASW and mine 

warfare. This work included collaboration with U.S. 

and international sea tests. His experience includes 

real-time direction at sea of surface sonar assets 

during ’free-play’ NATO ASW exercises. He was a 

Principal Scientist at the NATO Undersea Research 

Centre at La Spezia, Italy. He received his Ph.D. from 

MIT in 1969 and has published articles on waveform 

and receiver design in the U.S. Navy Journal of 

Underwater Acoustics. 


• The differences between various types of SONAR 

used on Naval platforms today. 

• The fundamental principles governing these 

systems’ operation. 

• How these systems’ data are used to conduct 

passive and active operations. 

• Signal acquisition and target motion analysis for 

passive systems. 

• Waveform and receiver design for active systems. 

• The major cost drivers for undersea acoustic 

systems. 

NEW! 

July 16-19, 2012 


$1890 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 




1. Sound and the Ocean Environment: 

Conductivity, temperature, depth (CTD), 

sound velocity profiles, refraction, decibels, 

transmission loss, and attenuation. Source 

reference levels in air and water. 

2. SONAR System Fundamentals. 

Major system components in a SONAR 

system (transducers, signal conditioning, 

digitization, signal processing, displays and 

controls). Various SONAR systems (hull, 

towed, side scan, multibeam, 

communications, navigation, etc.). 

Calculation of source level (dB) as a function 

of acoustic power output (watts) and source 

directivity index. Measurement of target 

strength at sea, echo energy splitting. 

3. Array Gain and Beampatterns. 

Calculation of beam patterns for line arrays, 

directional steering, shading for sidelobe 

control. Directivity index of an array and 

array grating lobes. 

4. SONAR Equations. Passive and active 

SONAR equations. Probabilities of detection 

and false alarm. Relationship between 

energy, intensity, and spectrum height. 

Alternative active SONAR equations when 

working against noise or reverberation. 

Limitations of these equations in deep and 

shallow water. 

5. Target Motion Analysis (TMA). What 

it is, why it is done, how SONAR is used to 

support it, what other sensors are required to 

determine the motion of passive targets. 

6. Time-Bearing Analysis. How relative 

target motion affects bearing rate, ship 

maneuvers to compute passive range 

estimates (Ekelund Range). Use of timebearing 

information to assess passive target 

motion. 

Register online at www.ATIcourses.com or call ATI at 888.501.2100 or 410.956.8805 Vol. 109 111 – 51

Fundamentals of Random Vibration & Shock Testing 

for Land, Sea, Air, Space Vehicles & Electronics Manufacture 

Summary 

This three-day course is primarily designed for 

test personnel who conduct, supervise or 

"contract out" vibration and shock tests. It also 

benefits design, quality and reliability specialists 

who interface with vibration and shock test 

activities. 

Each student receives the instructor's, 

minimal-mathematics, minimal-theory hardbound 

text Random Vibration & Shock Testing, 

Measurement, Analysis & Calibration. This 444 

page, 4-color book also includes a CD-ROM with 

video clips and animations. 

Instructor 

Wayne Tustin is the President of an 

engineering school and 

consultancy. His BSEE degree is 

from the University of Washington, 

Seattle. He is a licensed 

Professional Engineer - Quality in 

the State of California. Wayne's first 

encounter with vibration was at Boeing/Seattle, 

performing what later came to be called modal 

tests, on the XB-52 prototype of that highly reliable 

platform. Subsequently he headed field service 

and technical training for a manufacturer of 

electrodynamic shakers, before establishing 

another specialized school on which he left his 

name. Wayne has written several books and 

hundreds of articles dealing with practical aspects 

of vibration and shock measurement and testing. 


• How to plan, conduct and evaluate vibration 

and shock tests and screens. 

• How to attack vibration and noise problems. 

• How to make vibration isolation, damping and 

absorbers work for vibration and noise control. 

• How noise is generated and radiated, and how 

it can be reduced. 

From this course you will gain the ability to 

understand and communicate meaningfully 

with test personnel, perform basic 

engineering calculations, and evaluate 

tradeoffs between test equipment and 

procedures. 

March 20-22, 2012 

College Park, Maryland 

May 8-10, 2012 

Boxborough, Massachusetts 

July 9-11, 2012 

Boulder, Colorado 

$2895 (8:00am - 4:00pm) 

“Also Available As A Distance Learning Course” 

(Call for Info) 




1. Minimal math review of basics of vibration, 

commencing with uniaxial and torsional SDoF 

systems. Resonance. Vibration control. 

2. Instrumentation. How to select and correctly use 

displacement, velocity and especially acceleration and 

force sensors and microphones. Minimizing mechanical 

and electrical errors. Sensor and system dynamic 

calibration. 

3. Extension of SDoF. to understand multi-resonant 

continuous systems encountered in land, sea, air and 

space vehicle structures and cargo, as well as in 

electronic products. 

4. Types of shakers. Tradeoffs between mechanical, 

electrohydraulic (servohydraulic), electrodynamic 

(electromagnetic) and piezoelectric shakers and systems. 

Limitations. Diagnostics. 

5. Sinusoidal one-frequency-at-a-time vibration 

testing. Interpreting sine test standards. Conducting 

tests. 

6. Random Vibration Testing. Broad-spectrum allfrequencies-at-once 

vibration testing. Interpreting 

random vibration test standards. 

7. Simultaneous multi-axis testing. Gradually 

replacing practice of reorienting device under test (DUT) 

on single-axis shakers. 

8. Environmental stress screening. (ESS) of 

electronics production. Extensions to highly accelerated 

stress screening (HASS) and to highly accelerated life 

testing (HALT). 

9. Assisting designers. To improve their designs by 

(a) substituting materials of greater damping or (b) adding 

damping or (c) avoiding "stacking" of resonances. 

10. Understanding automotive. Buzz, squeak and 

rattle (BSR). Assisting designers to solve BSR problems. 

Conducting BSR tests. 

11. Intense noise. (acoustic) testing of launch 

vehicles and spacecraft. 

12. Shock testing. Transportation testing. Pyroshock 

testing. Misuse of classical shock pulses on shock test 

machines and on shakers. More realistic oscillatory shock 

testing on shakers. 

13. Shock response spectrum. (SRS) for 

understanding effects of shock on hardware. Use of SRS 

in evaluating shock test methods, in specifying and in 

conducting shock tests. 

14. Attaching DUT via vibration and shock test 

fixtures. Large DUTs may require head expanders and/or 

slip plates. 

15. Modal testing. Assisting designers. 


Fundamentals of Sonar Transducer Design 

April 10-12, 2012 


$1690 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 



Summary 

This three-day course is designed for sonar 

system design engineers, managers, and system 

engineers who wish to enhance their understanding 

of sonar transducer design and how the sonar 

transducer fits into and dictates the greater sonar 

system design. Topics will be illustrated by worked 

numerical examples and practical case studies. 

Instructor 

Mr. John C. Cochran is a Sr. Engineering Fellow 

with Raytheon Integrated Defense 

Systems., a leading provider of 

integrated solutions for the 

Departments of Defense and 

Homeland Security. Mr. Cochran has 

25 years of experience in the design 

of sonar transducer systems. His 

experience includes high frequency mine hunting 

sonar systems, hull mounted search sonar systems, 

undersea targets and decoys, high power 

projectors, and surveillance sonar systems. Mr. 

Cochran holds a BS degree from the University of 

California, Berkeley, a MS degree from Purdue 

University, and a MS EE degree from University of 

California, Santa Barbara. He holds a certificate in 

Acoustics Engineering from Pennsylvania State 

University and Mr. Cochran has taught as a visiting 

lecturer for the University of Massachusetts, 

Dartmouth. 


• Acoustic parameters that affect transducer 

designs: 

Aperture design 

Radiation impedance 

Beam patterns and directivity 

• Fundamentals of acoustic wave transmission in 

solids including the basics of piezoelectricity 

Modeling concepts for transducer design. 

• Transducer performance parameters that affect 

radiated power, frequency of operation, and 

bandwidth. 

• Sonar projector design parameters Sonar 

hydrophone design parameters. 

From this course you will obtain the knowledge and 

ability to perform sonar transducer systems 

engineering calculations, identify tradeoffs, interact 

meaningfully with colleagues, evaluate systems, 

understand current literature, and how transducer 

design fits into greater sonar system design. 


1. Overview. Review of how transducer and 

performance fits into overall sonar system design. 

2. Waves in Fluid Media. Background on how the 

transducer creates sound energy and how this energy 

propagates in fluid media. The basics of sound 

propagation in fluid media: 

• Plane Waves 

• Radiation from Spheres 

• Linear Apertures Beam Patterns 

• Planar Apertures Beam Patterns 

• Directivity and Directivity Index 

• Scattering and Diffraction 

• Radiation Impedance 

• Transmission Phenomena 

• Absorption and Attenuation of Sound 

3. Equivalent Circuits. Transducers equivalent 

electrical circuits. The relationship between transducer 

parameters and performance. Analysis of transducer 

designs: 

• Mechanical Equivalent Circuits 

• Acoustical Equivalent Circuits 

• Combining Mechanical and Acoustical Equivalent 

Circuits 

4. Waves in Solid Media: A transducer is 

constructed of solid structural elements. Background in 

how sound waves propagate through solid media. This 

section builds on the previous section and develops 

equivalent circuit models for various transducer 

elements. Piezoelectricity is introduced. 

• Waves in Homogeneous, Elastic Solid Media 

• Piezoelectricity 

• The electro-mechanical coupling coefficient 

• Waves in Piezoelectric, Elastic Solid Media. 

5. Sonar Projectors. This section combines the 

concepts of the previous sections and developes the 

basic concepts of sonar projector design. Basic 

concepts for modeling and analyzing sonar projector 

performance will be presented. Examples of sonar 

projectors will be presented and will include spherical 

projectors, cylindrical projectors, half wave-length 

projectors, tonpilz projectors, and flexural projectors. 

Limitation on performance of sonar projectors will be 

discussed. 

6. Sonar Hydrophones. The basic concepts of 

sonar hydrophone design will be reviewed. Analysis of 

hydrophone noise and extraneous circuit noise that 

may interfere with hydrophone performance. 

• Elements of Sonar Hydrophone Design 

• Analysis of Noise in Hydrophone and Preamplifier 

Systems 

• Specific Application in Sonar Hydronpone Design 

• Hydrostatic hydrophones 

• Spherical hydrophones 

• Cylindrical hydrophones 

• The affect of a fill fluid on hydrophone performance. 



Fundamentals and Advances in Acoustic Quieting 

Summary 

The course describes the essential mechanisms of 

underwater noise as it relates to ship/submarine 

silencing applications. The fundamental principles of 

noise sources, water-borne and structure-borne noise 

propagation, and noise control methodologies are 

explained. Illustrative examples will be presented. The 

course will be geared to those desiring a basic 

understanding of underwater noise and 

ship/submarine silencing with necessary mathematics 

presented as gently as possible. 

A full set of notes will be given to participants as well 

as a copy of the text, Mechanics of Underwater Noise, 

by Donald Ross. 

Instructors 

David Feit retired from his position as 

Senior Research Scientist for Structural 

Acoustics at the Carderock Division, 

Naval Surface Warfare Center 

(NSWCCD) where he had worked since 

1973. At NSWCCD, he was responsible 

for conducting research into the complex 

problems related to the reduction of ship 

vulnerability to acoustic detection. These involved 

theoretical and applied research on the causes, 

mechanisms, and means of reduction of submarine 

hull vibration and radiation, and echo reduction. Before 

that he worked at Cambridge Acoustical Associates 

where he and Miguel Junger co-authored the standard 

reference book on theoretical structural acoustics, 

Sound, Structures, and their Interaction. 

Paul Arveson served as a civilian 

employee of the Naval Surface Warfare 

Center (NSWC), Carderock Division. 

With a BS degree in Physics, he led 

teams in ship acoustic signature 

measurement and analysis, facility 

calibration, and characterization 

projects. He designed and constructed 

specialized analog and digital electronic measurement 

systems and their sensors and interfaces, including the 

system used to calibrate all the US Navy's ship noise 

measurement facilities. He managed development of 

the Target Strength Predictive Model for the Navy. He 

conducted experimental and theoretical studies of 

acoustic and oceanographic phenomena for the Office 

of Naval Research. He has published numerous 

technical reports and papers in these fields. In 1999 

Arveson received a Master's degree in Computer 

Systems Management. He established the Balanced 

Scorecard Institute, as an effort to promote the use of 

this management concept among governmental and 

nonprofit organizations. He is active in various 

technical organizations, and is a Fellow in the 

Washington Academy of Sciences. 

May 1-3, 2012 


$1795 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 




1. Fundamentals. Definitions, units, sources, 

spectral and temporal properties, wave equation, 

radiation and propagation, reflection, absorption and 

scattering, structure-borne noise, interaction of sound 

and structures. 

2. Noise Sources in Marine Applications. 

Rotating and reciprocating machinery, pumps and 

fans, gears, piping systems. 

3. Noise Models for Design and Prediction. 

Source-path-receiver models, source characterization, 

structural response and vibration transmission, 

deterministic (FE) and statistical (SEA) analyses. 

4. Noise Control. Principles of machinery quieting, 

vibration isolation, structural damping, structural 

transmission loss, acoustic absorption, acoustic 

mufflers. 

5. Fluid Mechanics and Flow Induced Noise. 

Turbulent boundary layers, wakes, vortex shedding, 

cavity resonance, fluid-structure interactions, propeller 

noise mechanisms, cavitation noise. 

6. Hull Vibration and Radiation. Flexural and 

membrane modes of vibration, hull structure 

resonances, resonance avoidance, ribbed-plates, thin 

shells, anti-radiation coatings, bubble screens. 

7. Sonar Self Noise and Reduction. On board and 

towed arrays, noise models, noise control for 

habitability, sonar domes. 

8. Ship/Submarine Scattering. Rigid body and 

elastic scattering mechanisms, target strength of 

structural components, false targets, methods for echo 

reduction, anechoic coatings. 


Military Standard 810G Testing 

Understanding, Planning and Performing Climatic and Dynamic Tests 

NEW! 

Summary 

This four-day class provides understanding of 

the purpose of each test, the equipment required 

to perform each test, and the methodology to 

correctly apply the specified test environments. 

Vibration and Shock methods will be covered 

together with instrumentation, equipment, control 

systems and fixture design. Climatic tests will be 

discussed individually: requirements, origination, 

equipment required, test methodology, 

understanding of results. 

The course emphasizes topics you will use 

immediately. Suppliers to the military services 

protectively install commercial-off-the-shelf 

(COTS) equipment in our flight and land vehicles 

and in shipboard locations where vibration and 

shock can be severe. We laboratory test the 

protected equipment (1) to assure twenty years 

equipment survival and possible combat, also (2) 

to meet commercial test standards, IEC 

documents, military standards such as STANAG 

or MIL-STD-810G, etc. Few, if any, engineering 

schools cover the essentials about such 

protection or such testing. 

Instructor 

Steve Brenner has worked in environmental 

simulation and reliability testing for over 30 years, 

always involved with the latest 

techniques for verifying equipment 

integrity through testing. He has 

independently consulted in reliability 

testing since 1996. His client base 

includes American and European 

companies with mechanical and 

electronic products in almost every industry. Steve's 

experience includes the entire range of climatic and 

dynamic testing, including ESS, HALT, HASS and long 

term reliability testing. 


When you visit an environmental test laboratory, 

perhaps to witness a test, or plan or review a test 

program, you will have a good understanding of the 

requirements and execution of the 810G dynamics and 

climatics tests. You will be able to ask meaningful 

questions and understand the responses of test 

laboratory personnel. 

March 19-22, 2012 

Boxborough, Massachusetts 

April 2-5, 2012 

Jupiter, Florida 

June 18-21, 2012 

Detroit, Michigan 

$3295 (8:00am - 4:00pm) 




1. Introduction to Military Standard testing - 

Dynamics. 

• Introduction to classical sinusoidal vibration. 

• Resonance effects 

• Acceleration and force measurement 

• Electrohydraulic shaker systems 

• Electrodynamic shaker systems 

• Sine vibration testing 

• Random vibration testing 

• Attaching test articles to shakers (fixture 

design, fabrication and usage) 

• Shock testing 

2. Climatics. 

• Temperature testing 

• Temperature shock 

• Humidity 

• Altitude 

• Rapid decompression/explosives 

• Combined environments 

• Solar radiation 

• Salt fog 

• Sand & Dust 

• Rain 

• Immersion 

• Explosive atmosphere 

• Icing 

• Fungus 

• Acceleration 

• Freeze/thaw (new in 810G) 

3. Climatics and Dynamics Labs 

demonstrations. 

4. Reporting On And Certifying Test Results. 


Ocean Optics 

Fundamentals & Naval Applications 

NEW! 

Summary 

This 2-day course is designed for scientists, 

engineers, and managers who wish to learn the 

fundamentals of ocean optics and how they are 

used to predict detectability of submerged objects 

such as swimmers or submarines. Examples will 

be provided on how much optical conditions vary 

by depth, by geographic location and season, 

and by wavelength. Examples from the in situ 

online databases and from satellite climatologies 

will be provided. 

Instructor 

Jeffrey H. Smart is a member of the Principal 

Professional Staff at the Johns Hopkins University 

Applied Physics Laboratory where he has spent 

the past 33 years specializing in ocean optics and 

environmental assessments. He has published 

numerous papers on empirical ocean optical 

properties and he is the Project Manager and 

Principal Investigator of the World-wide Ocean 

Optics Database project. 

(see http://wood.jhuapl.edu). 


• Naval applications of ocean optics (mine 

warfare, port security, anti-submarine 

warfare, etc.) 

• Common terminology & wavelength 

dependencies of key optical properties. 

• Traps to avoid in using raw optical data. 

• Typical values for various bio-optical 

properties & empirical relationships among 

optical properties. 

• Methods and equipment used to make 

measurements of optical parameters. 


knowledge and ability to extract and 

analyze bio-optical data from NASA, ONR, & 

NODC databases, files, & websites, 

converse meaningfully with colleagues 

about bio-optical parameters, and estimate 

detectability of submerged objects from in 

situ data &/or satellite imagery. 

June 12-13, 2012 


$1150 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 




1. Naval Applications of Ocean Optics. Mine 

Warfare, SPECOPS, Laser Comms, Port Security, 

Anti-Submarine Warfare. 

2. Common Terminology. Definitions and 

descriptions of key Inherent and Apparent Optical 

Properties such as absorption, “beam c,” diffuse 

attenuation (K), optical scattering ("b") & optical 

backscatter (“bb”). 

3. Typical Values for Optical Properties. In 

deep, open ocean waters, in continental shelf 

waters, and in turbid estuaries Tampa Bay. 

4. Chesapeake Bay, Yellow Sea, etc. 

Relationships Among Optical Properties. Estimating 

“K” from chlorophyll, beam attenuation from diffuse 

attenuation, and wavelength dependence of K, c, 

etc. 

5. Measurement Systems & Associated Data 

Artifacts. Overview of COTS bio-optical sensors 

and warnings about their various “issues” & 

artifacts. 

6. In Situ & Satellite Imagery Data 

Archives/Repositories. How to use the 

ONR/JHUAPL, NODC, & NASA on-line databases & 

satellite imagery websites. 

7. Software to Display, Process, & Analyze 

Optical Data. How to display customized subsets of 

NASA’s world-wide images of optical properties. 

Learn about GUI tools such as “ProfileViewer,” 

(Java program to display hundreds or even 

thousands of profiles at once, but to select individual 

ones to map, edit, or delete; “Hyperspec” ( powerful 

Matlab editor capable of handling ~ 100 

wavelengths of WETLabs ACs data), and “S2editor” 

(Matlab GUI allowing simultaneous 

screening/editing of up & down casts, or two 

different parameters). 



June 11-14, 2012 


$1995 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 



Summary 

This course provides an excellent introduction to underwater sound and highlights how sonar principles are 

employed in ASW analyses. The course provides a solid understanding of the sonar equation and discusses indepth 

propagation loss, target strength, reverberation, arrays, array gain, and detection of signals. 

Physical insight and typical results are provided to help understand each term of the sonar equation. The 

instructors then show how the sonar equation can be used to perform ASW analysis and predict the performance 

of passive and active sonar systems. The course also reviews the rationale behind current weapons and sensor 

systems and discusses directions for research in response to the quieting of submarine signatures. 

The course is valuable to engineers and scientists who are entering the field or as a review for employees who 

want a system level overview. The lectures provide the knowledge and perspective needed to understand recent 

developments in underwater acoustics and in ASW. A comprehensive set of notes and the textbook Principles of 

Underwater Sound will be provided to all attendees. 

Instructors 

Dr. Nicholas Nicholas received a B. S. degree from 

Carnegie-Mellon University, an M. S. 

degree from Drexel University, and a 

PhD degree in physics from the Catholic 

University of America. His dissertation 

was on the propagation of sound in the 

deep ocean. He has been teaching 

underwater acoustics courses since 

1977 and has been visiting lecturer at the U.S. Naval 

War College and several universities. Dr. Nicholas has 

more than 25 years experience in underwater 

acoustics and submarine related work. He is working 

for Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory (ARL). 

Dr. Robert Jennette received a PhD degree in 

Physics from New York University in 

1971. He has worked in sonar system 

design with particular emphasis on longrange 

passive systems, especially their 

interaction with ambient noise. He held 

the NAVSEA Chair in Underwater 

Acoustics at the US Naval Academy 

where he initiated a radiated noise measurement 

program. Currently Dr. Jennette is a consultant 

specializing in radiated noise and the use of acoustic 

monitoring. 


• Sonar parameters and their utility in ASW Analysis. 

• Sonar equation as it applies to active and passive 

systems. 

• Fundamentals of array configurations, 

beamforming, and signal detectability. 

• Rationale behind the design of passive and active 

sonar systems. 

• Theory and applications of current weapons and 

sensors, plus future directions. 

• The implications and counters to the quieting of the 

target’s signature. 


1. Sonar Equation & Signal Detection. Sonar 

concepts and units. The sonar equation. Typical active 

and passive sonar parameters. Signal detection, 

probability of detection/false alarm. ROC curves and 

detection threshold. 

2. Propagation of Sound in the Sea. 

Oceanographic basis of propagation, convergence 

zones, surface ducts, sound channels, surface and 

bottom losses. 

3. Target Strength and Reverberation. 

Scattering phenomena and submarine strength. 

Bottom, surface, and volume reverberation 

mechanisms. Methods for modeling reverberations. 

4. Elements of ASW Analysis. Fundamentals of 

ASW analysis. Sonar principles and ASW analysis, 

illustrative sonobuoy barrier model. The use of 

operations research to improve ASW. 

5. Arrays and Beamforming. Directivity and 

array gain; sidelobe control, array patterns and 

beamforming for passive bottom, hull mounted, and 

sonobuoy sensors; calculation of array gain in 

directional noise. 

6. Passive Sonar. Illustrations of passive sonars 

including sonobuoys, towed array systems, and 

submarine sonar. Considerations for passive sonar 

systems, including radiated source level, sources of 

background noise, and self noise. 

7. Active Sonar. Design factors for active sonar 

systems including transducer, waveform selection, and 

optimum frequency; examples include ASW sonar, 

sidescan sonar, and torpedo sonar. 

8. Theory and Applications of Current 

Weapons and Sensor Systems. An unclassified 

exposition of the rationale behind the design of current 

Navy acoustic systems. How the choice of particular 

parameter values in the sonar equation produces 

sensor designs optimized to particular military 

requirements. Generic sonars examined vary from 

short-range active mine hunting sonars to long-range 

passive systems. 



May 15-17, 2012 


$1690 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 



Summary 

This intensive short course provides an 

overview of sonar signal processing. Processing 

techniques applicable to bottom-mounted, hullmounted, 

towed and sonobuoy systems will be 

discussed. Spectrum analysis, detection, 

classification, and tracking algorithms for passive 

and active systems will be examined and related 

to design factors. Advanced techniques such as 

high-resolution array-processing and matched 

field array processing, advanced signal 

processing techniques, and sonar automation will 

be covered. 

The course is valuable for engineers and 

scientists engaged in the design, testing, or 

evaluation of sonars. Physical insight and 

realistic performance expectations will be 

stressed. A comprehensive set of notes will be 

supplied to all attendees. 

Instructors 

James W. Jenkins joined the Johns Hopkins 

University Applied Physics 

Laboratory in 1970 and has worked 

in ASW and sonar systems analysis. 

He has worked with system studies 

and at-sea testing with passive and 

active systems. He is currently a 

senior physicist investigating 

improved signal processing systems, APB, ownship 

monitoring, and SSBN sonar. He has taught 

sonar and continuing education courses since 

1977 and is the Director of the Applied 

Technology Institute (ATI). 

G. Scott Peacock is the Assistant Group 

Supervisor of the Systems Group at 

the Johns Hopkins University 

Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL). Mr. 

Peacock received both his B.S. in 

Mathematics and an M.S. in 

Statistics from the University of 

Utah. He currently manages 

several research and development projects that 

focus on automated passive sonar algorithms for 

both organic and off-board sensors. Prior to 

joining JHU/APL Mr. Peacock was lead engineer 

on several large-scale Navy development tasks 

including an active sonar adjunct processor for 

the SQS-53C, a fast-time sonobuoy acoustic 

processor and a full scale P-3 trainer. 


1. Introduction to Sonar Signal 

Processing. Introduction to sonar detection 

systems and types of signal processing 

performed in sonar. Correlation processing, 

Fournier analysis, windowing, and ambiguity 

functions. Evaluation of probability of detection 

and false alarm rate for FFT and broadband 

signal processors. 

2. Beamforming and Array Processing. 

Beam patterns for sonar arrays, shading 

techniques for sidelobe control, beamformer 

implementation. Calculation of DI and array 

gain in directional noise fields. 

3. Passive Sonar Signal Processing. 

Review of signal characteristics, ambient 

noise, and platform noise. Passive system 

configurations and implementations. Spectral 

analysis and integration. 

4. Active Sonar Signal Processing. 

Waveform selection and ambiguity functions. 

Projector configurations. Reverberation and 

multipath effects. Receiver design. 

5. Passive and Active Designs and 

Implementations. Design specifications and 

trade-off examples will be worked, and actual 

sonar system implementations will be 

examined. 

6. Advanced Signal Processing 

Techniques. Advanced techniques for 

beamforming, detection, estimation, and 

classification will be explored. Optimal array 

processing. Data adaptive methods, super 

resolution spectral techniques, time-frequency 

representations and active/passive automated 

classification are among the advanced 

techniques that will be covered. 


• Fundamental algorithms for signal 

processing. 

• Techniques for beam forming. 

• Trade-offs among active waveform designs. 

• Ocean medium effects. 

• Optimal and adaptive processing. 


April 24-25, 2012 


$1225 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 



Underwater Acoustics 201 

Summary 

This two-day course explains how to translate our 

physical understanding of sound in the sea into 

mathematical formulas solvable by computers. It 

provides a comprehensive treatment of all types of 

underwater acoustic models including environmental, 

propagation, noise, reverberation and sonar 

performance models. Specific examples of each type 

of model are discussed to 

illustrate 

model 

formulations, assumptions 

and algorithm efficiency. 

Guidelines for selecting and 

using available propagation, 

noise and reverberation 

models are highlighted. 

Demonstrations illustrate the 

proper execution and 

interpretation of PC-based 

sonar models. 

Each student will receive a copy of Underwater 

Acoustic Modeling and Simulation by Paul C. Etter, in 

addition to a complete set of lecture notes. 

Instructor 

Paul C. Etter has worked in the fields of oceanatmosphere 

physics and environmental 

acoustics for the past thirty-five years 

supporting federal and state agencies, 

academia and private industry. He 

received his BS degree in Physics and 

his MS degree in Oceanography at 

Texas A&M University. Mr. Etter served 

on active duty in the U.S. Navy as an Anti-Submarine 

Warfare (ASW) Officer aboard frigates. He is the 

author or co-author of more than 180 technical reports 

and professional papers addressing environmental 

measurement technology, underwater acoustics and 

physical oceanography. Mr. Etter is the author of the 

textbook Underwater Acoustic Modeling and 

Simulation (3rd edition). 


• Principles of underwater sound and the sonar 

equation. 

• How to solve sonar equations and simulate sonar 

performance. 

• What models are available to support sonar 

engineering and oceanographic research. 

• How to select the most appropriate models based on 

user requirements. 

• Models available at APL. 


1. Introduction. Nature of acoustical 

measurements and prediction. Modern 

developments in physical and mathematical 

modeling. Diagnostic versus prognostic 

applications. Latest developments in inverseacoustic 

sensing of the oceans. 

2. The Ocean as an Acoustic Medium. 

Distribution of physical and chemical properties in 

the oceans. Sound-speed calculation, 

measurement and distribution. Surface and bottom 

boundary conditions. Effects of circulation patterns, 

fronts, eddies and fine-scale features on acoustics. 

Biological effects. 

3. Propagation. Basic concepts, boundary 

interactions, attenuation and absorption. Ducting 

phenomena including surface ducts, sound 

channels, convergence zones, shallow-water ducts 

and Arctic half-channels. Theoretical basis for 

propagation modeling. Frequency-domain wave 

equation formulations including ray theory, normal 

mode, multipath expansion, fast field (wavenumber 

integration) and parabolic approximation 

techniques. Model summary tables. Data support 

requirements. Specific examples. 

4. Noise. Noise sources and spectra. Depth 

dependence and directionality. Slope-conversion 

effects. Theoretical basis for noise modeling. 

Ambient noise and beam-noise statistics models. 

Pathological features arising from inappropriate 

assumptions. Model summary tables. Data support 

requirements. Specific examples. 

5. Reverberation. Volume and boundary 

scattering. Shallow-water and under-ice 

reverberation features. Theoretical basis for 

reverberation modeling. Cell scattering and point 

scattering techniques. Bistatic reverberation 

formulations and operational restrictions. Model 

summary tables. Data support requirements. 

Specific examples. 

6. Sonar Performance Models. Sonar 

equations. Monostatic and bistatic geometries. 

Model operating systems. Model summary tables. 

Data support requirements. Sources of 

oceanographic and acoustic data. Specific 

examples. 

7. Simulation. Review of simulation theory 

including advanced methodologies and 

infrastructure tools. 

8. Demonstrations. Guided demonstrations 

illustrate proper execution and interpretation of PCbased 

monostatic and bistatic sonar models. 


Underwater Acoustics for Biologists and Conservation Managers 

A comprehensive tutorial designed for environmental professionals 

NEW! 

April 17-19, 2012 

Silver Spring, Maryland 

$1690 (8:30am - 4:30pm) 



Summary 

This three-day course is designed for biologists, and 

conservation managers, who wish to enhance their 

understanding of the underlying principles of 

underwater and engineering acoustics needed to 

evaluate the impact of anthropogenic noise on marine 

life. This course provides a framework for making 

objective assessments of the impact of various types of 

sound sources. Critical topics are introduced through 

clear and readily understandable heuristic models and 

graphics. 

Instructor 

Dr. Adam S. Frankel is a senior scientist with Marine 

Acoustics, Inc., Arlington, VA and vicepresident 

of the Hawai‘i Marine Mammal 

Consortium. For the past 25 years, his 

primary research has focused on the role 

of natural sounds in marine mammals 

and the effects of anthropogenic sounds 

on the marine environment, especially 

the impact on marine mammals. A graduate of the College 

of William and Mary, Dr. Frankel received his M.S. and 

Ph.D. degrees from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, 

where he studied and recorded the sounds of humpback 

whales. Post-doctoral work was with Cornell University’s 

Bioacoustics Research Program. Published research 

includes a recent paper on melon-headed whale 

vocalizations. Both scientist and educator, Frankel 

combines his Hawai‘i - based research and acoustics 

expertise with teaching for Cornell University and other 

schools. He has advised numerous graduate students, all 

of whom make him proud. Frankel is a member of both the 

Society for the Biology of Marine Mammals and the 

Acoustical Society of America. 


• The fundamentals of sound and how to properly 

describe its characteristics. 

• Modern acoustic analysis techniques. 

• What are the key characteristics of man-made sound 

sources and usage of correct metrics. 

• How to evaluate the resultant sound field from 

impulsive, coherent and continuous sources. 

• What animal characteristics are important for 

assessing both impact and requirements for 

monitoring/and mitigation. 

• Capabilities of passive and active monitoring and 

mitigation systems. 


Understanding and Measuring Sound 

The Language of Physics and the Study of Motion. 

This quick review of physics basics is designed to 

introduce acoustics to the neophyte. 

1. What Is Sound and How to Measure Its Level. 

This includes a quick review of physics basics is 

designed to introduce acoustics to the neophyte. The 

properties of sound are described, including the 

challenging task of properly measuring and reporting 

its level. 

2. Digital Representation of Sound. Today almost 

all sound is recorded and analyzed digitally. This 

section focuses on the process by which analog sound 

is digitized, stored and analyzed. 

3. Spectral Analysis: A Qualitative Introduction. 

The fundamental process for analyzing sound is 

spectral analysis. This section will introduce spectral 

analysis and illustrate its application in creating 

frequency spectra and spectrograms.. 

4. Basics of Underwater Propagation and Use of 

Acoustic Propagation Models. The fundamental 

principles of geometric spreading, refraction, boundary 

effects and absorption will be introduced and illustrated 

using propagation models. Ocean acidification. 

The Acoustic Environment and its Inhabitants. 

5. The Ambient Acoustic Environment. The first 

topic will be a discussion of the sources and 

characteristics of natural ambient noise. 

6. Basic Characteristics of Anthropogenic 

Sound Sources. Implosive (airguns, pile drivers, 

explosives). Coherent (sonars, acoustic models, depth 

sounder, profilers,) continuous (shipping, offshore 

industrial activities). 

7. Review of Hearing Anatomy and Physiology: 

Marine Mammals, Fish and Turtles. Review of hearing 

in marine mammals. 

8. Marine Wildlife of interest and their 

characteristics. MM, turtles fish, inverts. 

Bioacoustics, hearing threshold, vocalization behavior; 

supporting databases on seasonal density and 

movement. 

Effects of Sound on Animals. 

9. Review and History of ocean anthropogenic 

noise issue. Current state of knowledge and key 

references. 

10. Assessment of the impact of anthropogenic 

sound. Source-TL- receiver approach, level of sound 

as received by wildlife, injury, behavioral response, 

TTS, PTS, masking, modeling techniques, field 

measurements, assessment methods. 

11. Monitoring and mitigation techniques. 

Passive devise (fixed and towed systems). Active 

Detections, matching device capabilities to 

environmental requirements 9examples of passive and 

active localization, long-term monitoring, fish exposure 

testing). 

12. Overview of Current Research Efforts. 


Underwater Acoustic Modeling and Simulation 

June 11-14, 2012 

Bay St. Louis, Mississippi 

$1995 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 



Summary 

The subject of underwater acoustic modeling deals with 

the translation of our physical understanding of sound in 

the sea into mathematical formulas solvable by 

computers. 

This course provides a comprehensive treatment of all 

types of underwater acoustic models including 

environmental, propagation, noise, reverberation and 

sonar performance models. 

Specific examples of each 

type of model are discussed 

to illustrate model 

formulations, assumptions 

and algorithm efficiency. 

Guidelines for selecting and 

using available propagation, 

noise and reverberation 

models are highlighted. 

Problem sessions allow 

students to exercise PCbased 

propagation and active 

sonar models. 

Each student will receive 

a copy of Underwater Acoustic Modeling and Simulation 

by Paul C. Etter (a $250 value) in addition to a complete 

set of lecture notes. 

Instructor 

Paul C. Etter has worked in the fields of oceanatmosphere 

physics and environmental acoustics for the 

past thirty years supporting federal and 

state agencies, academia and private 

industry. He received his BS degree in 

Physics and his MS degree in 

Oceanography at Texas A&M University. 

Mr. Etter served on active duty in the U.S. 

Navy as an Anti-Submarine Warfare 

(ASW) Officer aboard frigates. He is the 

author or co-author of more than 140 technical reports and 

professional papers addressing environmental 

measurement technology, underwater acoustics and 

physical oceanography. Mr. Etter is the author of the 

textbook Underwater Acoustic Modeling and Simulation. 


• What models are available to support sonar 

engineering and oceanographic research. 

• How to select the most appropriate models based on 

user requirements. 

• Where to obtain the latest models and databases. 

• How to operate models and generate reliable 

results. 

• How to evaluate model accuracy. 

• How to solve sonar equations and simulate sonar 

performance. 

• Where the most promising international research is 

being performed. 


1. Introduction. Nature of acoustical measurements 

and prediction. Modern developments in physical and 

mathematical modeling. Diagnostic versus prognostic 

applications. Latest developments in acoustic sensing of 

the oceans. 

2. The Ocean as an Acoustic Medium. Distribution 

of physical and chemical properties in the oceans. 

Sound-speed calculation, measurement and distribution. 

Surface and bottom boundary conditions. Effects of 

circulation patterns, fronts, eddies and fine-scale 

features on acoustics. Biological effects. 

3. Propagation. Observations and Physical Models. 

Basic concepts, boundary interactions, attenuation and 

absorption. Shear-wave effects in the sea floor and ice 

cover. Ducting phenomena including surface ducts, 

sound channels, convergence zones, shallow-water 

ducts and Arctic half-channels. Spatial and temporal 

coherence. Mathematical Models. Theoretical basis for 

propagation modeling. Frequency-domain wave 

equation formulations including ray theory, normal 

mode, multipath expansion, fast field and parabolic 

approximation techniques. New developments in 

shallow-water and under-ice models. Domains of 

applicability. Model summary tables. Data support 

requirements. Specific examples (PE and RAYMODE). 

References. Demonstrations. 

4. Noise. Observations and Physical Models. Noise 

sources and spectra. Depth dependence and 

directionality. Slope-conversion effects. Mathematical 

Models. Theoretical basis for noise modeling. Ambient 

noise and beam-noise statistics models. Pathological 

features arising from inappropriate assumptions. Model 

summary tables. Data support requirements. Specific 

example (RANDI-III). References. 

5. Reverberation. Observations and Physical 

Models. Volume and boundary scattering. Shallowwater 

and under-ice reverberation features. 

Mathematical Models. Theoretical basis for 

reverberation modeling. Cell scattering and point 

scattering techniques. Bistatic reverberation 

formulations and operational restrictions. Data 

support requirements. Specific examples (REVMOD 

and Bistatic Acoustic Model). References. 

6. Sonar Performance Models. Sonar equations. 

Model operating systems. Model summary tables. Data 

support requirements. Sources of oceanographic and 

acoustic data. Specific examples (NISSM and Generic 

Sonar Model). References. 

7. Modeling and Simulation. Review of simulation 

theory including advanced methodologies and 

infrastructure tools. Overview of engineering, 

engagement, mission and theater level models. 

Discussion of applications in concept evaluation, training 

and resource allocation. 

8. Modern Applications in Shallow Water and 

Inverse Acoustic Sensing. Stochastic modeling, 

broadband and time-domain modeling techniques, 

matched field processing, acoustic tomography, coupled 

ocean-acoustic modeling, 3D modeling, and chaotic 

metrics. 

9. Model Evaluation. Guidelines for model 

evaluation and documentation. Analytical benchmark 

solutions. Theoretical and operational limitations. 

Verification, validation and accreditation. Examples. 

10. Demonstrations and Problem Sessions. 

Demonstration of PC-based propagation and active 

sonar models. Hands-on problem sessions and 

discussion of results. 


Vibration and Noise Control 

New Insights and Developments 

Summary 

This course is intended for engineers and 

scientists concerned with the vibration reduction 

and quieting of vehicles, devices, and equipment. It 

will emphasize understanding of the relevant 

phenomena and concepts in order to enable the 

participants to address a wide range of practical 

problems insightfully. The instructors will draw on 

their extensive experience to illustrate the subject 

matter with examples related to the participant’s 

specific areas of interest. Although the course will 

begin with a review and will include some 

demonstrations, participants ideally should have 

some prior acquaintance with vibration or noise 

fields. Each participant will receive a complete set of 

course notes and the text Noise and Vibration 

Control Engineering, a $210 value. 

Instructors 

Dr. Eric Ungar has specialized in research and 

consulting in vibration and noise for 

more than 40 years, published over 

200 technical papers, and translated 

and revised Structure-Borne Sound. 

He has led short courses at the 

Pennsylvania State University for over 

25 years and has presented 

numerous seminars worldwide. Dr. Ungar has 

served as President of the Acoustical Society of 

America, as President of the Institute of Noise 

Control Engineering, and as Chairman of the 

Design Engineering Division of the American 

Society of Mechanical Engineers. ASA honored him 

with it’s Trent-Crede Medal in Shock and Vibration. 

ASME awarded him the Per Bruel Gold Medal for 

Noise Control and Acoustics for his work on 

vibrations of complex structures, structural 

damping, and isolation. 

Dr. James Moore has, for the past twenty years, 

concentrated on the transmission of 

noise and vibration in complex 

structures, on improvements of noise 

and vibration control methods, and on 

the enhancement of sound quality. 

He has developed Statistical Energy 

Analysis models for the investigation 

of vibration and noise in complex structures such as 

submarines, helicopters, and automobiles. He has 

been instrumental in the acquisition of 

corresponding data bases. He has participated in 

the development of active noise control systems, 

noise reduction coating and signal conditioning 

means, as well as in the presentation of numerous 

short courses and industrial training programs. 


• How to attack vibration and noise problems. 

• What means are available for vibration and noise control. 

• How to make vibration isolation, damping, and absorbers 

work. 

• How noise is generated and radiated, and how it can be 

reduced. 

April 30 -May 3, 2012 


June 11-14, 2012 


$1995 (8:30am - 4:00pm) 




1. Review of Vibration Fundamentals from a 

Practical Perspective. The roles of energy and force 

balances. When to add mass, stiffeners, and damping. 

General strategy for attacking practical problems. 

Comprehensive checklist of vibration control means. 

2. Structural Damping Demystified. Where 

damping can and cannot help. How damping is 

measured. Overview of important damping 

mechanisms. Application principles. Dynamic behavior 

of plastic and elastomeric materials. Design of 

treatments employing viscoelastic materials. 

3. Expanded Understanding of Vibration 

Isolation. Where transmissibility is and is not useful. 

Some common misconceptions regarding inertia 

bases, damping, and machine speed. Accounting for 

support and machine frame flexibility, isolator mass 

and wave effects, source reaction. Benefits and pitfalls 

of two-stage isolation. The role of active isolation 

systems. 

4. The Power of Vibration Absorbers. How tuned 

dampers work. Effects of tuning, mass, damping. 

Optimization. How waveguide energy absorbers work. 

5. Structure-borne Sound and High Frequency 

Vibration. Where modal and finite-element analyses 

cannot work. Simple response estimation. What is 

Statistical Energy Analysis and how does it work How 

waves propagate along structures and radiate sound. 

6. No-Nonsense Basics of Noise and its Control. 

Review of levels, decibels, sound pressure, power, 

intensity, directivity. Frequency bands, filters, and 

measures of noisiness. Radiation efficiency. Overview 

of common noise sources. Noise control strategies and 

means. 

7. Intelligent Measurement and Analysis. 

Diagnostic strategy. Selecting the right transducers; 

how and where to place them. The power of spectrum 

analyzers. Identifying and characterizing sources and 

paths. 

8. Coping with Noise in Rooms. Where sound 

absorption can and cannot help. Practical sound 

absorbers and absorptive materials. Effects of full and 

partial enclosures. Sound transmission to adjacent 

areas. Designing enclosures, wrappings, and barriers. 

9. Ducts and Mufflers. Sound propagation in 

ducts. Duct linings. Reactive mufflers and side-branch 

resonators. Introduction to current developments in 

active attenuation. 


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Introduction To Space 

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Risk Assessment for Space Flight 

Satellite Communication Introduction 

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