Systems Engineering Practice

Course Outline

The course consists of 12 modules presented over three days including practical group work to introduce tools and techniques.

• Introduction to Systems Approaches
  • Exercise 1: Context Diagrams
• Systems Engineering Standards, Processes and Life cycle Models
  • Exercise 2: Scenario lists and Life cycles
• Systems Engineering Management
• Module 5:  Front-End Systems Engineering Stages
• Stakeholder Needs and Requirements Engineering
  • Exercise 3: Scenarios
• Requirements Engineering (Continued)
  • Exercise 4: Quality Function Deployment & Performance Based Specifications
• Functional Analysis
  •  Exercise 5: Determining Basic Problems
• Ideas Generation and Synthesis
  • Exercise 6: Solution Generation and Morphological Tables
• Trade-Off Analysis
  • Exercise 7:Trade Studies and the Pugh Method
• Implementation and Specialty Disciplines
  •  Exercise 8:Test and Support Concepts •
• Group Assignment
• Group Presentations

Course Details

Duration: 3 days

Location: Adelaide

Who should attend: Designed for engineers, technicians and project managers

Prerequisite: No prerequisities are mandated for this course

Accreditation: National accreditation is currently not available for this course

Trainer: Dr Neil Davidson, Systems Engineering Consultant, former Associate Professor in Systems Engineering at the University of South Australia’s Defence and Systems Institute