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Systems Engineering, Architecture and Lifecycle Design: Principles, Models, Tools & Applications [6.18s]
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Date: July 28-August 1, 2008 | Tuition: $3,200 | Continuing Education Units (CEUs): 3.5
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Please note that laptops are required for this course.
Introduction
System and product complexities are increasing with time due to requirements for more functionality, higher performance, competitive cost/schedule pressures, more flexibility or adaptability, and fancier, friendlier human interface. Multiple sources of complexity are usually involved when truly large-scale product failures occur. Academics and practitioners alike have been realizing in recent years that complex engineering systems have a set of common principles embedded in a theory that goes beyond and cuts across the traditional fields of engineering. New products and systems require the involvement of professionals with multiple disciplinary backgrounds and other stakeholders, notably the customer, who need to communicate using a minimal common set of domain-neutral concepts.
The Systems Engineering discipline has been continuously growing with an objective of dealing with increasing system and product complexity. Many systems engineers, system architects, and managers of complex product development efforts receive their training via on-the-job experiences. The engineering education provided in this course grounds intuition and experience in theory and practice and nurtures systems thinking and engineering skills. The approach underlying the system modeling is Object-Process Methodology (OPM). OPM is a comprehensive approach to systems architecting and lifecycle support. An integrated engineering software environment, called OPCAT, which combines graphics with an automatically-generated subset of English, implements OPM and supports the modeling of the system's requirements, top-level architecture, analysis and design models, and the deployment of the system. The resulting OPM model is the central artifact of the system, product, or project that evolves and serves as a major reference to all the stakeholders throughout the entire lifecycle.
Highlights for 2008
- Out-of-the-box thinking that fosters a holistic approach and creative solutions;
- Combination of systems architecting principles with a modeling methodology;
- Hands-on small-scale project based on Object-Process Methodology--a novel modeling paradigm that is emerging as a preferred solution for systems engineering;
- Using OPCAT software environment for OPM-based system modeling;
- Multidisciplinary, cross-lifetime complex product treatment
Fundamentals: Core concepts, understandings and tools (5%)
Latest Developments: Recent advances and future trends (40%)
Industry Applications: Linking theory and real-world (35%)
Out-of-the-box thinking & problem solving skills (20%)
Lecture: Delivery of material in a lecture format (40%)
Discussion or Groupwork: Participatory learning (20%)
Labs: Demonstrations, experiments, simulations (20%)
Small group mini-project in student's area of expertise (20%)
Introductory: Appropriate for a general audience (40%)
Specialized: Assumes experience in practice area or field (40%)
Advanced: In-depth explorations at the graduate level (20%)
Who Should Attend
This program is intended for system architects, system integrators, system analysts and designers, executives, product developers, project leaders, methods engineers, software engineers, and database administrators.
Learning Objectives
- Synthesize and analyze existing architecting approaches to enhancing creativity while reducing ambiguity and complexity.
- Utilize out-of-the-box “system thinking” in developing system concepts.
- Describe what a system is and how its behavior emerges.
- Define system architecture, modeling, form, function, structure and behavior.
- Distinguish what a product, a service, and a project are, and how each creates value and competitive advantage.
- Evaluate the use of OPM and UML using OPCAT software in class.
- Integrate complexity management with abstraction and refinement.
- Model a generic system lifecycle and Product Development Process (PDP) with OPCAT and their variants.
Included in tuition
Course Reading Materials
Dori, D. Object-Process Methodology: A Holistic Systems Paradigm. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, New York, 2002.
Slides and course handouts of Professor Crawley's System Architecture course
Course Software
Used in industry and academia, OPCAT (academic version 2.75 or higher) is a software tool designed to support OPM. The updated version will be distributed to the students and serve as a platform to practice and apply the OPM analysis and design techniques, do the examples and case studies, and carry out the mini-project.
Please note that laptops are required for this course.
Course schedule, registration times and Special Events
Class runs 8:30 am - 5:00 pm every day except Friday when it ends
at 1:00 pm.
Registration is on Monday morning from 7:15 - 8:00 am.
Special events include a dinner for course participants and faculty on
Thursday night. Evening activities are included in tuition.
About The Instructors
Professor Edward Crawley is Head of the Cambridge MIT Institute and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow. He received an SB (1976) and an SM (1978) in Aeronautics and Astronautics, and an ScD (1980) in Structural Dynamics from MIT. He was Department Head of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. Professor Crawley's current research interests include architecture of large engineering systems, design of spacecraft and space systems, and the development of intelligent structures with embedded actuators, sensors and processors. He is the author of over 50 journal publications in the AIAA Journal, the ASME Journal, the Journal of Composite Materials, and Acta Astronautica. Dr. Crawley has served as the Chairman of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI), Structures and Dynamics Technical Committee, and serves as Chairman of the Soaring Society of America (SSA) Structures and Materials Panel. He is a Fellow of the AIAA. In 1987, Dr. Crawley was an advisor to the National Academy of Engineering Committee on Space Station, and in 1993 was a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Space Station Redesign. He is also a member of the NASA Technology and Commercialization Advisory Committee (TCAC). He is conversant in Russian, and has spent time as a visitor at the Moscow Aviation Institute and the Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was a finalist in the NASA Astronaut selection in 1980, is an active pilot, and was the 1990 and 1995 Northeast Regional Soaring champion.
Home page: http://web.mit.edu/aeroastro/www/people/crawley/bio.html
Professor Dov Dori is Head of Technion's Area of Information Systems Engineering at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, and Research Affiliate at MIT. Between 1999-2001 he was visiting faculty at MIT's Engineering Systems Division and Visiting Scholar at Sloan School of Management. Professor Dori received his B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Technion in 1975, M.Sc. in Operations Research from Tel Aviv University in 1981, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel , in 1988. Between 1978 and 1984 he was Chief Industrial Engineer of the MERKAVA Tank Production Plant. His research interests include Systems Development Methodologies, Information Systems Engineering, Computer Aided Software Engineering and Web systems engineering. Dov Dori has developed the Machine Drawing Understanding System (MDUS) and Object-Process Methodology (OPM). Between 1999 - 2001 Prof. Dori was Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI). He is Associate Editor of International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition and is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. He is author/co-editor of four books and author of over 130 publications. He is a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and a Senior Member of IEEE. He has been consultant and invited lecturer for companies including Pratt and Whitney Canada, Ford Motor Company, FAA, NASA, The MITRE Corporation, Xerox, Kodak, and others.
