Systems Engineering and Management
The YouTube playlist of lectures on Systems Engineering
Slides: https://github.com/animesh88/Systems_Engineering_Management
Unit 1 Introduction to Systems Engineering
1.1 Systems Engineering, Interdisciplinary Science, Engineering, and Management,
1.2 Systems theory, Systems thinking,
1.3 System development life cycles, Synergy, Project management,
1.4 Engineering Domains, and Communities (INCOSE and IEEE SMC Society).
Unit 2 Informatics Systems
2.1 Complex systems, Bioinformatics systems, Social Systems
2.2 Software systems, Database systems, Operating systems
2.3 Service Oriented Systems, Cloud Systems, Ubiquitous systems,
2.4 Distributed Version Control Systems (GitHub), and Software Container Systems (DockerHub and Google App Engine).
Unit 3: System Requirements Engineering
3.1 Requirement Engineering, Functional and Non-Functional Requirement, Functional specification, Engineering design process, Engineering Design Process
3.2 Logistics and Risk management.
Unit 4: System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
4.1 System analysis, System design, System modelling, System Architecture,
4.2 System testing (Unit testing, Integration testing, Regression testing).
Unit 5: Advance Systems Engineering Topics
5.1 System of systems engineering (SoSE), System “ilities” (Reliability, Availability, Changeability, Stability, and Evolvability),
5.2 State Series, System Network Complexity, and System Evolution Analytics (System Network Evolution Rules and System Evolution Recommender).
Project Discussions
P.1 Introduction to the Assignments and Projects,
P.2 Discussions with Groups, Feedbacks,
P.3 Presentations.
Textbook References:
Text Book Research Articles:
Defense Acquisition University Press. “System Engineering Fundamentals.” January 2001.
“Guide to the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK), version 2.2” 15 May 2020. https://www.sebokwiki.org/wiki/Guide_to_the_Systems_Engineering_Body_of_Knowledge_(SEBoK)
“Systems Engineering Jr. Handbook, 2015, version 1.0,” The International Council on Systems Engineering LA Chapter, & The Creativita Institute, 2015.
The MITRE Systems Engineering Guide, May 2014.
Chin K. S., et al. “Framework for managing System-of-systems ilities.” DSTA HORIZONS 14 (2013).
Life-Cycle Properties of Engineering Systems The Ilities, MIT Press, 2011.
Long A., “Proposed unified ‘ility’definition framework.” Presentation at the 15th Annual Systems Engineering Conference, San Diego, CA. 2012.
Ross A.M., Rhodes D.H., and Hastings D.E., “Defining Changeability: Reconciling Flexibility, Adaptability, Scalability, Modifiability, and Robustness for Maintaining Lifecycle Value,” Systems Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 246-262, Fall 2008.
Chaturvedi A., Tiwari A., and Chaturvedi S., “SysEvoRecomd: Network Reconstruction by Graph Evolution and Change Learning”, IEEE Systems Journal (2020).
Chaturvedi A., Tiwari A., and S. Nicolas, "minStab: Stable Network Evolution Rule Mining for System Changeability Analysis". IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (2019).
Chaturvedi A., and Tiwari A., "System Network Complexity: Network Evolution Subgraphs of System State Series." IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (2018).
ISO/IEC/IEEE “International Standard - Systems and Software Engineering– Vocabulary”, ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765: 2017 (E), 2017.
IEEE/ISO/IEC 15288-2015 “International Standard - Systems and software engineering -- System life cycle processes” C/S2ESC - Software & Systems Engineering Standards Committee, 2015-03-26.
Other Web Links References:
Wikipedia Pages: Systems engineering, Engineering, Requirement Engineering, systems development life cycle, and other miscellaneous pages related to the course example.
INCOSE Pages example https://www.incose.org/systems-engineering
https://www.incose.org/about-systems-engineering
Evaluation Method
Item, Weightage (%)
Assignment 1 Write-up: Define System and its components, an approach for the system analysis, experiments, and results of the project work, 10
Project: Technical work, 20
Assignment 2 Presentation of the project work, 10
Quiz, 10
Mid Term, 20
End Term, 30