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ESD.33

Systems Engineering

Graduate · Historical course

Summer 2010

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Systems engineering as a human activity
  • Student project proposal presentations
  • Stakeholders and requirements, requirements and management
  • Innovation in systems engineering
  • Requirements driven systems design
  • Critical parameter development and management (guest lecture)
  • Concept selection/trade space study (guest lecture)
  • Midterm presentations
  • Experiments (guest lecture)
  • Robust design I (guest lecture)
  • Robust design II (guest lecture)
  • Development verification and validation, reliability, system attributes
  • Draper systems engineering activities (industry lecture)
  • Ford hybrid vehicle controls systems engineering (industry lecture)
  • Team presentations on Toyota safety recall case
  • Toyota quality board (industry lecture)
  • BMW VP of engineering in North America (industry lecture)
  • Final project presentations
  • Final project presentations (cont.)

Readings

  • Reading assignment
  • Miller, John. QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life . East Rutherford, NJ: Putnam Publishing Group, 2004. ISBN: 9780399152337.
    Listed reading
  • Allen, Thomas, J. “Architecture and Communication Among Product Development Engineers [1997].” Sloan WP #165-97, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
    Listed reading
  • Hommes, Qi D., and Paul W. Berry. “Managing System Interface Requirements Reconciliation Using Design Structure Matrix Method.” INCOSE conference, 2003.
    Listed reading
  • Reading assignment
  • Listed reading
  • Sampson, Mark E. “The Allegory of the Humidifier: A case study of Return on Investment in Systems Engineering.” INCOSE proceedings, 1994.
    Listed reading
  • Altshuller, Genrich, Dana W. Clarke, Uri Fedozeev, and Steve Rodman. 40 Principles: TRIZ Keys to Innovation . Ext. ed. Worcester, MA: Technical Innovation Center, Inc., 2005. ISBN: 9780964074057.
    Listed reading
  • Amabile, Theresa M. “How to Kill Creativity.” Harvard Business Review 76, no. 5 (1998): 76-87.
    Listed reading
  • Henderson, Rebecca M., and Kim B. Clark. “Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms.” Administrative Science Quarterly 35, no. 1 (1990): 9-30.
    Listed reading
  • Maniak, Remi, Christophe Midler, and Sylvain Lenfle. “Tracking the Routes of innovation Management Across Projects: A Cross-Cases Perspective.” Unsubmitted paper draft, 2010.
    Listed reading
  • Suh, Nam P. “Axiomatic Design Theory for Systems.” Research in Engineering Design 10 (1998): 189-209. (Pay attention to appendix A)
    Listed reading
  • Dong, Qi, and Daniel E. Whitney. “Designing a Requirement Driven Product Development Process.” Proceedings of ASME 2001 DETC, Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, September 9-12, 2001.
    Listed reading
  • Hommes, Qi D., Van Eikema, and Daniel E. Whitney. “The Predictability of Systems Interactions at Early Phase of the Product Development Process.” Proceedings of ASME 2003 DETC, Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Chicago, IL, September 2-6, 2003.
    Listed reading
  • “Introduction to Critical Parameter Management.” Chapter 8 in Design for Six Sigma: In Technology and Product Development . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002.
    Listed reading
  • Listed reading
  • McManus, Hugh L., and Todd E. Schuman. “Understanding the Orbital Transfer Vehicle Trade Space.” AIAA Space Conference and Exposition, Long Beach, CA, September 23-25, 2003.
    Listed reading
  • Ross, Adam M., and Daniel E. Hastings. “The Tradespace Exploration Paradigm.” INCOSE International Symposium, Rochester, NY, July 10-15, 2005.
    Listed reading
  • Listed reading
  • SES #: 9 · TOPICS: Midterm presentations · READINGS: (no reading)
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 10 · TOPICS: Experiments · READINGS: Thomke, Stefan. “Enlightened Experimentation: The New Imperative for Innovation.” Harvard Business Review Magazine (February 2001): 66-75.
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 12 · TOPICS: Robust design II · READINGS: Clausing, Don. “Operating Window: An Engineering measure for Robustness.” Technometrics 46, no. 1 (2004): 25-29.
    Reading assignment
  • Reading assignment
  • SES #: 14 · TOPICS: Draper systems engineering activities · READINGS: (no reading)
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 15 · TOPICS: Ford hybrid vehicle controls systems engineering · READINGS: (no reading)
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 16 · TOPICS: Team presentations on Toyota safety recall case · READINGS: (no reading)
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 17 · TOPICS: Toyota quality board · READINGS: (no reading)
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 18 · TOPICS: BMW VP of engineering in NA · READINGS: (no reading)
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 19 · TOPICS: Final project presentations · READINGS: (no reading)
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 20 · TOPICS: Final project presentations (cont.) · READINGS: (no reading)
    Reading assignment
  • Required
  • Miller, John. QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life . East Rutherford, NJ: Putnam Publishing Group, 2004. ISBN: 9780399152337.
    Required
  • Altshuller, Genrich, Dana W. Clarke, Uri Fedozeev, and Steve Rodman. 40 Principles: TRIZ Keys to Innovation . Worcester, MA: Technical Innovation Center, Inc., 2005. ISBN: 9780964074057.
    Required
Summer 2004

Topics

  • Course Introduction; What is Systems Engineering?
  • INCOSE Model of SE; RCI Model of SE
  • Lean Thinking; Set-Based Design
  • Axiomatic Design; Decision-Based Design; Summary of Frameworks Phase
  • Quality Function Deployment
  • Pugh Concept Selection; Controlled Convergence
  • Effective Innovation
  • Critical Parameter Management and Error Budgeting
  • Design of Experiments
  • Design of Experiments (cont.)
  • Physics Based Modeling
  • Robust Design
  • Extreme Programming
  • Aircraft Engines (GE)
  • Work on Aircraft Engines Assignment
  • NORAD Command and Control (Mitre)
  • Tactical Tomahawk
  • Course Summary; Feedback

Readings

  • LEC #: 1 · TOPICS: Course Introduction; What is Systems Engineering? · READINGS: Argyris, Chris. “Teaching Smart People How to Learn.” Harvard Business Review (May-June 1991): 3-16.
    Reading assignment
  • Schön, Donald A. Notes from The Reflective Practitioner . Ashgate Publishing, 1994. ISBN: 1-85742-319-4.
    Listed reading
  • RCI Systems Engineering Process Clausing, Don, Elliot Axelband, and R. B. Campbell. “Advances in Commercial Product Development Lessons for INCOSE Systems Engineering.” INCOSE INSIGHT (Fall 1999): 50-53.
    Listed reading
  • International Council on Systems Engineering. “Systems Engineering Overview.” Chapter 2 in INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook. Version 2a. June 2004. pp. 19-29.
    Listed reading
  • International Council on Systems Engineering. “Systems Engineering Overview.” Chapter 4 in INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook. Version 2a. June 2004. pp. 27-34.
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 3 · TOPICS: Lean Thinking; Set-Based Design · READINGS: Stanke, Alexis, and Earll Murman. “A Framework for Achieving Lifecycle Value In Aerospace Product Development.” 2002 International Council of Aeronautical Sciences Congress .
    Reading assignment
  • Ward, Allen, Jeffrey K. Liker, John J. Cristiano, and Durward K. Sobek II. “The Second Toyota Paradox: How Delaying Decisions Can Make Better Cars Faster.” Sloan Management Review (Spring 1995): 43-61.
    Listed reading
  • Womack, James P.. “Lean Thinking versus Muda.” In Lean Thinking. New York: Free Press, 2003. pp. 15-28. ISBN: 0743249275.
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 4 · TOPICS: Axiomatic Design; Decision-Based Design; Summary of Frameworks Phase · READINGS: Hirschi, N. W., and D. D. Frey. “Cognition and Complexity: An Experiment on the Effect of Coupling in Parameter Design.” Research in Engineering Design 13, no. 3 (2002): 123–131.
    Reading assignment
  • Gerd, Gigerenzer, and Peter M. Todd (corresponding author). “Bounding Rationality to the World.” Journal of Economic Psychology 24 (2003): 143–165.
    Listed reading
  • Hazerlrigg, G. A. “An Axiomatic Framework for Engineering Design.” National Science Foundation. Journal of Mechanical Design 121 (September 1999): 342-347.
    Listed reading
  • Suh, Nam P. “Axiomatic Design Theory for Systems.” Research in Engineering Design 10 (1998): 189–209.
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 6 · TOPICS: Quality Function Deployment · READINGS: Hauser, John R., and Don Clausing. “The House of Quality.” Harvard Business Review (May-June 1998): 63-73.
    Reading assignment
  • Griffin, Abbie. “Evaluating Development Processes: QFD As An Example.” MSI Report Summary. Report no. 91-121.
    Listed reading
  • Olewnik, Andrew T., and Kemper E. Lewis. “On Validating Design Decision Methodologies.” Proceedings of ASME 2003 Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Chicago, IL, September 2-6, 2003 .
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 7 · TOPICS: Pugh Concept Selection; Controlled Convergence · READINGS: Pugh, Stuart. “Design Core: Conceptual Design.” In Total Design . Addison-Wesley Longman: 1991. pp. 74-99. ISBN: 0-201-41639-5.
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 9 · TOPICS: Critical Parameter Management and Error Budgeting · READINGS: Creveling, Clyde M., Jeffrey Lee Slutsky, and David Antis. “The Architecture of the Critical Parameter Management Process.” In Design for Six Sigma in Technology and Product Development . Prentice Hall, 2002. pp. 257-263. ISBN: 0-13-009223-1.
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 10 · TOPICS: Design of Experiments · READINGS: Box, George E. P., and Patrick Y. T. Liu. “Statistics as a Catalyst to Learning by Scientific Method Part I—An Example.” Journal of Quality Technology 31, no. 1 (January 1999): 1-15.
    Reading assignment
  • Box, George E. P. “Statistics as a Catalyst to Learning by Scientific Method Part II—A Discussion.” Journal of Quality Technology 31, no. 1 (January 1999): 16-29.
    Listed reading
  • Frey, Daniel D., Fredrik Engelhardt, and Edward M. Greitzer. “A Role for “One-Factor-At-A-Time” Experimentation in Parameter Design.” Research in Engineering Design 14 (2003): 65–74.
    Listed reading
  • Thomke, Stefan. “Enlightened Experimentation: The New Imperative for Innovation.” Harvard Business Review (February 2001): 66-75.
    Listed reading
  • Isoperformance deWeck, Olivier L., and Marshall B. Jones. “Isoperformance: Analysis and Design of Complexity Systems with Known or Desired Outcomes.” INCOSE 2004 - 14th Annual International Symposium Proceedings _, Toulouse, France, June 21-24, 2004_.
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 12 · TOPICS: Physics Based Modeling · READINGS: Hazelrigg, G. A. “On the Role and Use of Mathematical Models of Engineering Design.” National Science Foundation. Journal of Mechanical Design 121 (September 1999): 336-341. Arlington, VA.
    Reading assignment
  • Senin, Nicola, David R. Wallace, and Nicolas Borland. “Distributed Object-Based Modeling in Design Simulation Marketplace.” Journal of Mechanical Design 125 (March 2003): 2-13.
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 13 · TOPICS: Robust Design · READINGS: Taguchi, Genichi, and Don Clausing. “Robust Quality.” Harvard Business Review (January-February 1990): 64-75.
    Reading assignment
  • Ulrich, K. T., and S. D. Eppinger. “Robust Design.” Chapter 13 in Product Design and Development. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003.
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 14 · TOPICS: Extreme Programming · READINGS: Beck, Kent. “Embracing Change with Extreme Programming.” IEEE Computer 32, no. 10 (October 1999): 70-77.
    Reading assignment
  • Williams, Laurie, Robert R. Kessler, Ward Cunningham, and Ron Jeffries. “Strengthening the Case for Pair Programming.” IEEE Software (July-August 2000): 19-25.
    Listed reading
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