Research Summaries

Back MOVES Curriculum and Research Update

Fiscal Year 2019
Division Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department Computer Science
Investigator(s) Balogh, Imre L.
Sponsor Navy Modeling & Simulation Office (Navy)
Summary The Naval Postgraduate School’s Modeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation (MOVES) curriculum provides professional technical education to military students, particularly US Navy and US Marine Corps students, in all facets of modeling and simulation (M&S). Together with the MOVES Institute research organization in NPS, the MOVES curriculum provides research opportunities addressing current operational challenges across the services and Department of Defense. M&S is a rapidly changing field, influenced by changes in operational requirements across multiple domains (training, analysis, experimentation, planning, etc.) as well as the evolving science in the underlying disciplines of computer science, information systems, and operations research. Maintaining currency and agility in the M&S curriculum and research topics is essential to meeting needs of the students and their sponsoring organizations. Moreover, there is a growing demand for other kinds of professional education in the form of short courses and professional certificates, offered through on-site instruction in student facilities or through distance learning. The MOVES curriculum must be in a constant state of review and renewal to remain directly applicable to fleet requirements. There must be a clear method for sponsors and other agencies to submit research ideas and thesis topics so that the curriculum and supporting research address current needs to the extent possible. The work proposed here continues and extends prior curriculum adaptation while creating more effective means to identify and correlate course learning objectives with educational skill requirements (ESRs) together with in-progress and future/emerging research activities.
Keywords Curriculum Education Modeling Research Simulation
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