Fundamentals of Systems Engineering (SYS625)

Understand fundamental principles and processes for designing effective systems, including how to determine customer needs, distinguish between needs, requirements, and solutions, and translate customer requirements into designs for systems that provide required performance and that are reliable, supportable and maintainable throughout the system life-cycle. Learn to appreciate the concept of operational effectiveness and the "cause and effect" relationship between design decisions and system operations, maintenance, and logistics. Discover how system lifecycle modeling can be used to support strategic design decision-making. Explore illustrative case studies.