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Courses - Spring 2027
ENTE
Engineering Test and Evaluation
ENTE601
Autonomy and AI Fundamentals for the Development, Test & Evaluation, Verification & Validation (DTEVV) Workforce
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg
Prerequisite: ENME472 or equivalent (undergraduate engineering capstone course), basic programming course (Python preferred), ENAE202/ENME202, or equivalent.
Restriction: Permission from ENTE Graduate Director.
The future of transportation is uncrewed and ultimately autonomous. Before these systems can be fielded, they will need to go through a risk mitigation and acceptance process that is managed by professionals in and out of the government. This course is designed to give the students the skills required to evaluate autonomous aviation systems during this Development, Test & Evaluation, Verification and Validation (DTEVV) process. The course will cover the basic concepts and challenges faced by the DTEVV community when evaluating systems that contain Autonomous/AI functionality. It will examine control methods that are used by the DTEVV community. The course will provide practical experience in evaluating these systems through formal methods analysis, reinforcement learning, and programming to perform perception tasks required within the DTEVV community. This course will give the student a solid understanding and the skills needed to perform DTEVV on autonomous/AI systems in aviation.
Must be in the Development and Certification of Autonomous Systems program. Golden ID students are not eligible for this section.

Class will meet at the USM Southern Maryland campus in the Smart Building, 44219 Airport Road, California, MD 20619. Room TBD.