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Systems Engineering (TISYE1-U01) (Q3) ( forår 2011 - 5 ECTS )

Rammer for udbud

• Uddannelsessprog: engelsk (eller dansk)
• Niveau: Graduate course
• Semester/kvarter: Q3
• Timer per uge: 4
• Deltagerbegrænsning: None
• Undervisningssted: Århus
• Hovedområde: Ingeniørhøjskolen
• Udbud ID: 29810

Formål

Systems engineering is the art and science of developing operable systems capable of meeting requirements within often opposing constraints. It is an holistic, integrative discipline to ensure that the stakeholder's needs are satisfied in a high quality, trustworthy, cost efficient and schedule compliant manner throughout a system's entire life-cycle.  Systems engineering has an interdisciplinary nature wherein the contributions of electrical engineers, mechanism designers, power engineers, human factors engineers, and many more specialities are evaluated and balanced, one against another, to produce a coherent whole that is not dominated by the perspective of a single discipline.

The purpose of the course is that the students acquire theoretical and practical understanding into systems engineering as a common engineering discipline for the development of complex systems comprising hardware, software and mechanics. The course is supported by external partners ensuring the linking of the course to domain specific practices and problems in real industrial designs.

Indhold

The course will cover the following aspects of systems engineering: Systems thinking and life-cycle stages; systems engineering management (technical processes); concept of operations; requirement analysis and management; configuration management and issue handling; project management processes; functional analysis/allocation; trade studies; system architecture and design; design for usability; systems capabilities and performance; modelling, simulations and prototyping; systems verification and validation; formal methods in systems engineering (SysML); case work (practicing the systems engineer role); agreement processes (acquisition and supply); system business case; special engineering areas and activities.

Faglige forudsætninger

Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng) degree or Bachelor of Science (Bsc) degree.

Underviser

Rune Jacobsen

Undervisnings- og arbejdsform

A combination of lectures, self-studies of the literature and written assignments (4h/week).

Litteratur

Primary reading: Systems Engineering Handbook; A guide for system life cycle processes and activities, INCOSE, Vers. 3.2, Jan 2010.

Supplementary reading: Articles and handouts to be determined later.

Udbyder

Aarhus School of Engineering (ASE)

Tilmelding til undervisning

http://mit.au.dk/

Læringsmål

The course provides an integrated approach to the set of management and technical disciplines which combine to optimise system effectiveness, enhance project success and reduce risk. The overarching learning objectives of the course is that students acquire a theoretical foundation to handle issues at the system level and learn to apply this knowledge in practice by working with one or more case studies in a selected engineering domain.

Specifically, students should be able to:

• Analyse the overall concepts which are characteristic of a systems approach to engineering and to organize concepts into a generic systems engineering framework
• Analyse the overall process elements, and their relationships, which collectively constitute the building blocks of systems engineering
• Explain the different roles involved in product life-cycle stages and discuss the roles of the customer, acquirers (internal and external) and suppliers (internal and external) within this framework
• Analyse and discuss customers and users' needs and requirements
• Perform the basics of important techniques of system requirements analysis, evaluation of solution alternatives (trade studies) and system design iteration including their subsequent validation and verification.
• Implement principles and major techniques of engineering management in a devlopment project context
• Explain and present proposed engineering solutions and methods in a clear and concise way

Bedømmelse

Oral exam (20 min.) without preparation, 7-scale, external examiner.