Composing a course book for system and enterprise architecture education

The systems designed and build today are very involved, yet engineers seek ways of building systems that are even more complex. The key to success in this effort is mature systems architectures to guide engineers in the process of integrating components and evolving them into larger systems. The academic research and study in this area is expanding, although the amount of educational material and textbooks in the field of system architecting is minimal. The contribution of this paper is in outlining an advanced student text for system and enterprise architecting. In addition to providing an overview of major architecting topics to be included in the text, the work also adds the needed context. The author plans to elaborate upon this effort to create a volume that is to serve not only as a pedagogical aid, but also as a handy reference of any systems architect