No Prerequisites
Student Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students shall be able to:
- Use systems engineering tools on real-world problems.
- Understand the complexities of implementing systems engineering solutions.
- Plan to efficiently implement a systems engineered solution.
- Build MBSE models in software.
- Test and assess the effectiveness of a system.
- Design and implement efficient processes and systems.
- Communicate effectively (written).
Course Description
This course provides the student with an understanding of the context and framework for carrying out a systems engineering project and the system-level responsibilities of a systems engineer, through hands-on activity. Topics covered include systems design and development, system test and evaluation, system reliability, system maintainability, human factors and system design, system producibility and supportability, balancing life-cycle cost, scheduling, suitability and performance, risk management, and systems engineering project management and control.
Sample Lectures
INCOSE's Vee Model is abstract and applies to so many different systems. From abstraction to application is difficult for many students to understand and even more difficult to successfully implement. The following two lectures discuss home buying/apartment renting in terms of the vee model.
The class spends about 4-5 weeks building SysML models using Magic Systems of Systems Architecting (MSoSA). In two projects and the final exam students build SysML models in MSoSA by remotely logging in to the U's Cade Computer Lab. The following lecture is one of several lectures that build an activity diagram of a withdraw from an ATM machine. The use case diagram was built in a previous lecture.