Unit 1 Introduction

7 lecture hours

• System- Its Types
• Systems Engineering (SE)
• System Versus Systems Engineering
• Systems Thinking and SE
• The State of SE and System Development Performance
• Understanding the Problem: Root Cause Analysis
• Professional, and Standards Organizations Solutions
• Defining the Problem
• Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities

Unit 2 System Attributes, Properties, and Characteristics

8 lecture hours

• Analytical Representation of a System
• System Stakeholders: User and End User Roles
• System Attributes
• System Properties
• System Characteristics
• The System’s State of Equilibrium and the Balance of Power System/Product Life Cycle Concepts
• System Acceptability: Challenges for Achieving Success

Unit 3 System Concepts Formulation and Development

8 lecture hours

• Conceptualization of system operations
• the system operations model
• formulating and developing the system concepts
• System Phases of Operation: introduction to system modes and states
• enterprise perspective-engineered system states
• engineering perspective-modes and states
• applying phases
• modes, and states of operation
• modes and states constraints

Unit 4 System Levels of Abstraction, Semantics, and Elements

6 lecture hours

• Establishing and bounding the system’s context
• system levels of abstraction and semantics
• system decomposition versus integration entity relationships
• logical–physical entity relationship (er) concepts
• architectural system element concepts

Unit 5 Architectural Frameworks of the SOI and System Behavioral Response Model

• Definitions of Key Terms
• Approach to this Chapter
• Introduction to the SOI Architecture
• Understanding the OE Architecture
• Other Architectural Frameworks Understanding the 10 Subject Code: 3172428 w.e.f
• AY 2018-19 System Threat Environment
• SOI Interfaces
• System Command & Control (C2) Interaction Constructs
• Modeling System Control Flow and Data Flow Operations
• Modeling Mission System and Enabling System Operations
• Modeling an Operational Capability
• Nested Operational Cycles
• Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

Unit 6 Analytical Problem-Solving & Solution Development Synthesis and System Modeling & Simulation (M&S)

6 lecture hours

• System Engineering and Analysis Concepts
• shifting to a New Systems Engineering Paradigm
• The Four Domain Solutions Methodology
• Technical Decision-Making Aids
• Simulation-Based Models
• Application Examples of System Modeling and Simulation (M&S)
• M&S Challenges and Issues