Introduction to Systems Engineering and Decision Analysis

3 Credits

Systems Engineering modeling techniques. Architectures for large scale systems design. Includes physical, functional, and operational architectures. Requirements engineering, interface and integration issues, graphical modeling techniques. Additional topics may include: decision analysis techniques for systems, uncertainty analysis, utility functions, multiattribute utility functions and analysis, influence diagrams, risk preference, Analytical Hierarchy and Node Processes in decision making. A student cannot receive credit for both ISE 333 and ISE 356. Prerequisites: ISE 230 and ISE 240