Simulation Professionals Will Gain Certification.

• Jurisdiction: United States
• Date: 01 November 2001
• Author: Foster, Sharon

Lack of standards prompts efforts to develop new industry criteria

Professionals in the modeling and simulation field currently suffer from lack of standards in areas such as computational science, systems engineering and training delivery, said Mark Yerkes, assistant vice president at the University of Central Florida's Office of Research.

"This lack of identity and the associated fragmentation of this evolving industry are an impediment to the necessary development and application of modeling and simulation technologies and practices," he said.

The development and advancement of professionals in this industry is inhibited, because there is no generally accepted set of qualifications or functional competencies that are inherent in modeling and simulation, Yerkes said. "Additionally, there is no specific form of...