MSE 607B

Systems Engineering and Management - Overview of concepts and methods of systems engineering and management. Considerations of life cycles, requirements, and configuration and cost management. Standards, metrics, architectures, integration, and evaluation.  Survey of relevant tools and techniques and their relationships to effective systems engineering management.

Fall 2003 Syllabus

• Reading Guides, Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management, Sage & Rouse, eds.

Supplementary Readings

• Procedure for Requirements Analysis (DSMC)

• Benefit-Cost Analysis (Hinrichs & Taylor, Case 7)

• Concurrent Engineering - IPPD (INCOSE, Section 6)

• Risk Management (NASA, Section 4.6 and Appendix)

Selected Course Notes

• Systems Engineering Life Cycles (Sage & Rouse, Chapter 1, by F. G. Patterson, Jr.)

• Systems Engineering Management: The Multidisciplinary Discipline (Sage & Rouse, Chapter 2, by A. J. Shenhar)

• Discovering System Requirements (Sage & Rouse, Chapter 4, by A. T. Bahill & F. F. Dean)

• Configuration Management (Sage & Rouse, Chapter 5, by P. Brouse)

• Cost Management (Sage & Rouse, Chapter 6, by B. S. Blanchard)

• Reliability, Maintainability, Availability (Sage & Rouse, Chapter 8, by M. Pecht)

• Concurrent Engineering (Sage & Rouse, Chapter 9, by A. Kusiak & N. Larson)

• Systems Design (Sage & Rouse, Chapter 13, by K. P. White. Jr.)

• Systems Integration (Sage & Rouse,   Chapter 14, by J. D. Palmer)

• Systematic Measurements (Sage & Rouse, Chapter 15, by A. P. Sage & A. J. Jenson)

• Systems Reengineering (Sage & Rouse, Chapter 23, by A. P. Sage)

• Functional Analysis (Sage & Rouse, Chapter 25, by D. M. Bueds)

• Information Technology and Knowledge Management (Sage & Rouse, Chapter 30, by W. B. Rouse & A. P. Sage)

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