Engineering Design of Systems (eBook)

Dennis M. Buede, PhD, has thirty-nine years' experience in both the theoretical development and engineering application of systems engineering and decision-support technologies. Dr. Buede has applied systems engineering methods throughout the federal government. He has been a Professor at George Mason University and Stevens Institute of Technology, and is currently President of Innovative Decisions, Inc. He is a Fellow of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). William D. Miller is an Executive Principal Analyst at Innovative Decisions, Inc. and Adjunct Professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology. Mr. Miller has forty-two years' experience as an engineer, manager, consultant, and educator in the conceptualization and engineering application of communications technologies, products and services in commercial and government sectors. He is a 48-year member of the IEEE, the former Technical Director of INCOSE and the current Editor-in-Chief of INSIGHT.

Preface ix

About the Companion Website xv

Part 1 Introduction, Overview, and Basic Knowledge 1

Chapter 1 Introduction to Systems Engineering 3

Chapter 2 Overview of the Systems Engineering Design Process 46

Chapter 3 Modeling and SysML Modeling 68

Chapter 4 Discrete Mathematics: Sets, Relations, and Functions 100

Chapter 5 Graphs and Directed Graphs (Digraphs) 117

Part 2 Design and Integration 143

Chapter 6 Requirements and Defining the Design Problem 145

Chapter 7 Functional Architecture Development 202

Chapter 8 Physical Architecture Development 241

Chapter 9 Allocated Architecture Development 274

Chapter 10 Interface Design 307

Chapter 11 Integration and Qualification 327

Chapter 12 A Complete Exercise of the Systems Engineering Process 357

Part 3 Supplemental Topics 373

Chapter 13 Graphical Modeling Techniques 375

Chapter 14 Decision Analysis for Design Trades 398

Chapter 15 The Science and Analysis of Systems 445

Chapter 16 The Value of Systems Engineering 471

Appendix A: Outline of Systems Engineering Documents 489

Appendix B: IDEF0 Model of the Engineering of a System 493

Glossary 513

References 526

Historical References 540

Index 543