New for the third edition, chapters on: Complete Exercise of the SE
Process, System Science and Analytics and The Value of Systems
Engineering
The book takes a model-based approach to key systems engineering design
activities and introduces methods and models used in the real world.
This book is divided into three major parts: (1) Introduction, Overview
and Basic Knowledge, (2) Design and Integration Topics, (3) Supplemental
Topics. The first part provides an introduction to the issues associated
with the engineering of a system. The second part covers the critical
material required to understand the major elements needed in the
engineering design of any system: requirements, architectures
(functional, physical, and allocated), interfaces, and qualification.
The final part reviews methods for data, process, and behavior modeling,
decision analysis, system science and analytics, and the value of
systems engineering. Chapter 1 has been rewritten to integrate the new
chapters and updates were made throughout the original chapters.
- Provides an overview of modeling, modeling methods associated with
SysML, and IDEF0
- Includes a new Chapter 12 that provides a comprehensive review of the
topics discussed in Chapters 6 through 11 via a simple system - an
automated soda machine
- Features a new Chapter 15 that reviews General System Theory, systems
science, natural systems, cybernetics, systems thinking, quantitative
characterization of systems, system dynamics, constraint theory, and
Fermi problems and guesstimation
- Includes a new Chapter 16 on the value of systems engineering with
five primary value propositions: systems as a goal-seeking system,
systems engineering as a communications interface, systems engineering
to avert showstoppers, systems engineering to find and fix errors, and
systems engineering as risk mitigation
The Engineering Design of Systems: Models and Methods, Third Edition
is designed to be an introductory reference for professionals as well as
a textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students in systems
engineering.
