Systems Engineering

As taught in: Summer 2004

Level:

Graduate

Instructors:

Prof. Daniel Frey

Dr. Don Clausing

Mr. Pat Hale

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Technical Requirements

As shown above, this course is delivered as part of the SDM program, an integrated graduate program in System Design and Management. (Image courtesy of Daniel Frey.)

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Course Description

Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems. It focuses on defining customer needs and required functionality early in the development cycle, documenting requirements, then proceeding with design synthesis and reliability improvement while considering the complete problem including operations, performance, test, manufacturing, cost, and schedule. This course emphasizes the links of systems engineering to fundamentals of decision theory, statistics, and optimization. The course also introduces the most current, commercially successful techniques for systems engineering.

Lecture Notes

LEC # TOPICS Frameworks 1 Course Introduction; What is Systems Engineering? (PDF) 2 INCOSE Model of SE; RCI Model of SE (PDF) RCI Systems Engineering Process 3 Lean Thinking; Set-Based Design 4 Axiomatic Design; Decision-Based Design; Summary of Frameworks Phase (PDF) 5 Exam 1 Tools 6 Quality Function Deployment (PDF) 7 Pugh Concept Selection; Controlled Convergence (PDF) 8 Effective Innovation (PDF) 9 Critical Parameter Management and Error Budgeting (PDF) 10 Design of Experiments (PDF) 11 Design of Experiments (cont.) (PDF) Isoperformance (PDF - 2.1 MB) (Courtesy of Olivier de Weck. Used with permission.) 12 Physics Based Modeling (PDF) 13 Robust Design (PDF) 14 Extreme Programming (PDF) 15 Exam 2 Case Studies 16 Aircraft Engines (GE) Automobiles 17 Work on Aircraft Engines Assignment Project Oxygen 18 NORAD Command and Control (Mitre) 19 Tactical Tomahawk 20 Course Summary; Feedback