System Engineering Analysis, Design, and Development

“This excellent text will be useful to every system engineer (SE) regardless of the domain. It covers ALL relevant SE material and does so in a very clear, methodical fashion. The breadth and depth of the author’s presentation of SE principles and practices is outstanding.” -Philip Allen

This textbook presents a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to System Engineering analysis, design, and development via an integrated set of concepts, principles, practices, and methodologies. The methods presented in this text apply to any type of human system – small, medium, and large Enterprise System development projects delivering Engineered Systems or services across multiple business sectors such as medical, energy, telecommunications, aerospace and defense, automotive, transportation, governmental, political, and charity, among others.

The objective of this book is to enable systems engineers, engineers, system analysts, project managers, and others to understand how Systems Engineering and Development (SE&D) are performed to improve their productivity and competitiveness in the marketplace. There is a solid examination of SE&D concepts, principles, processes, and practices used to evolve a System User’s abstract operational need into a physical, field-operable system or product.

Topical discussions are supported by practical examples, observations, mini-case studies, lessons learned, and real-life events that illustrate how system engineering impacts technical and programmaticdecision-making and the Enterprise bottom line.

Highlights/introduces a new Twenty-First Century multi-discipline Systems Engineering & Development (SE&D) paradigm that is easy to understand and implement.

Provides a common focal point for “bridging the gap” between and unifying System Users, System Acquirers, multidiscipline System Engineering, and Project, Functional, and Executive Management education, knowledge, and decision making for developing systems, products, or services.

Each chapter provides definitions of key terms, guiding principles, examples, author’s notes, real-world examples, and exercises, which highlight and reinforce key SE&D concepts and practices.

Addresses concepts employed in multi-discipline SE&D such as Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Unified Modeling Language (UMLTM)/Systems Modeling Language (SysMLTM), and Agile/Spiral/V-Model Development. Concepts include: Stakeholder Identification, Needs, User Stories, and Use Cases; System Life Cycle; Mission Analysis; ConOps Development; System Architecture Frameworks; System Phases, Modes and States; and Behavioral Modeling.

Provides practices that are critical staging area for technical decision making such as Technical Strategy Development; SE Process; Specification Development; Requirements Derivation, Allocation, Flow Down, and Traceability; System Architecture Development, User-Centric System Design (UCSD); Engineering Standards, Coordinate Systems, and Conventions; Interface Definition & Control; Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability (RMA); System Integration & Test; and Verification & Validation (V&V).

Thoroughly illustrated with graphics, end-of-chapter exercises, mini-case studies and examples, Systems Engineering Analysis, Design, and Development:

Concepts, Principles, and Practices, Second Edition is a valuable textbook for undergraduate/graduate level students and practitioners of multi-disciplined Systems Engineering.

Contents

Chapter 1 Systems, Engineering, and Systems Engineering

Chapter 2 The Evolving State of SE Practice-Challenges and Opportunities

Part I System Engineering and Analysis Concepts

Chapter 3 System Attributes, Properties, and Characteristics

Chapter 4 User Enterprise Roles, Missions, and System Applications

Chapter 5 User Needs, Mission Analysis, Use Cases, and Scenarios

Chapter 6 System Concepts Formulation and Development

Chapter 7 System Command and Control (C2) – Phases, Modes, and States of Operation

Chapter 8 System Levels of Abstraction, Semantics, and Elements

Chapter 9 Architectural Frameworks of the SOI and Its Operating Environment

Chapter 10 Modeling Mission System and Enabling System Operations

Chapter 11 Analytical Problem-Solving and Solution Development Synthesis

Part II System Engineering and Development Practices

Chapter 12 Introduction to System Development Strategies

Chapter 13 System Verification and Validation (V&V) Strategy

Chapter 14 The Wasson Systems Engineering Process

Chapter 15 System Development Process Models

Chapter 16 System Configuration Identification and Component Selection Strategy

Chapter 17 System Documentation Strategy

Chapter 18 Technical Reviews Strategy

Chapter 19 System Specification Concepts

Chapter 20 Specification Development Approaches

Chapter 21 Requirements Derivation, Allocation, Flow Down, and Traceability

Chapter 22 Requirements Statement Development

Chapter 23 Specification Analysis

Chapter 24 User-Centered System Design (UCSD)

Chapter 25 Engineering Standards of Units, Coordinate Systems, and Conventions

Chapter 26 System and Entity Architecture Development

Chapter 27 System Interface Definition, Analysis, Design, and Control

Chapter 28 System Integration, Test, and Evaluation (SITE)

Chapter 29 System Deployment, OM&S, Retirement, and Disposal

Part III Analytical Decision Support Practices

Chapter 30 Introduct ion to Analytical Decision Support

Chapter 31 System Performance Analysis, Budgets, and Safety Margins

Chapter 32 Trade Study Analysis of Alternatives (AoA)

Chapter 33 System Modeling and Simulation (M&S)

Chapter 34 System Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability (RMA)

About the Author

CHARLES S. WASSON, BSEE, MBA, INCOSE FELLOW and ESEP, is a member of the INCOSE, ASEE, PMI, IEEE, and Tau Beta Pi and is President/Principal Consultant of Wasson Strategics, LLC. His professional career spans over 40 years of leadership in program/project management; system, hardware, and software design, development, integration, and test; and organizational and team development. Wasson Strategics (www. wassonstrategics.com) is a provider of multi-discipline SE, technical project management, and organizational and team development training and consulting services for clients ranging from small or medium to large Fortune 100 & 500 Enterprises striving to achieve System Engineering and Development excellence.