Friday, May 1, 2009

System Engineering - Concept

Systems Engineering signifies both an approach and, more recently, as a discipline in engineering. The aim of education in Systems Engineering is to simply formalize the approach and in doing so, identify new methods and research opportunities similar to the way it occurs in other fields of engineering. As an approach, Systems Engineering is holistic and interdisciplinary in flavor.

[edit] Holistic view

Systems Engineering focuses on defining customer needs and required functionality early in the development cycle, documenting requirements, then proceeding with design synthesis and system validation while considering the complete problem, the system lifecycle. Oliver et al. claim that the systems engineering process can be decomposed into

  • a Systems Engineering Technical Process, and
  • a Systems Engineering Management Process.

Within Oliver's model, the goal of the Management Process is to organize the technical effort in the lifecycle, while the Technical Process includes assessing available information, defining effectiveness measures, to create a behavior model, create a structure model, perform trade-off analysis, and create sequential build & test plan[11].

Depending on their application, although there are several models that are used in the industry, all of them aim to identify the relation between the various stages mentioned above and incorporate feedback. Examples of such models include the Waterfall model and the VEE model[12]

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing such a wonderful post.Whoever looking for the best Ahmedabad gate classes, then join ICE Gate Institute. It is one of the best institute for gate in Ahmedabad.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Nice information posted here. One can also get the details of online gate made easy only at Online ICE GATE institute.

    ReplyDelete