No Prerequisites

Student Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students shall be able to:

  • Describe and apply the elicitation process of stakeholder needs and their translation into system requirements.
  • Formulate system requirements that are atomic, quantitative, measurable, unambiguous, understandable, testable, and verifiable.
  • Describe the general phases and processes within requirements engineering and management.
  • Apply SWOT analysis, decision analysis, gap analysis, and benchmarking as tools to support the management process of requirements.
  • Develop and employ requirements traceability tools to support the decomposition and allocation of requirements.
  • Use MBSE software to model system requirements using SysML

Course Description

The course will cover Requirements Engineering and Management concepts focused on systems engineering. The course will provide the student an understanding of the main concepts and principles of Requirements Engineering and Management, as well as the different techniques and core methodologies utilized in Systems Engineering to support the sustainability and development theories. The course will examine the processes and methods to identify, control, audit, and track the evolution of system characteristics throughout the system life cycle, and the student will be able to create and maintain a configuration and requirements management plan and procedures.

Past Syllabus