Description Systems Engineering Principles and Practice is a national standard textbook for the study of traditional systems engineering for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. It addresses the need for an introductory overview, first-text for the development and acquisition of complex technical systems. The material is well organized, readable and fundamental to learning how to think like a systems engineer and carry out best practices in the field. Since systems engineering is still developing as a discipline, there have been new concepts and practices that have entered the field since the text was published in 2003. As an increasing number of students have used the text, topics have been discovered that would benefit from expansion, integration and clarification.
The proposed second edition will be developed by colleagues of the original authors to upgrade this unique interdisciplinary guide to systems engineering to maintain relevance and currency in this rapidly changing and demanding field.
Topics will be expanded to include advanced Systems Engineering concepts that go beyond the traditional systems engineering areas
Will included updated DOD and commercial standards, architectures and processes
New sections that include object oriented design and systems architecting
Improved discussions on requirements, systems management, functional analysis, analysis of alternatives, decision support, operational analysis and many others
Expanded discussions on the Post-Development stage
Updated Problems and References
A new Solutions Manual for Instructors will be provided
New to This Edition
For this new edition, colleagues of the original authors have upgraded and expanded the book to maintain relevance and currency in this rapidly changing interdisciplinary field, continuing to fill the needs of systems engineering courses and enhancing the book’s usefulness as a resource for practicing engineers.
Table of Contents Part I Foundations of System Engineering. 1 Systems Engineering and the World of Modern Systems. 2 Systems Engineering Landscape. 3 Structure of Complex Systems. 4 The System Development Process. 5 Systems Engineering Management. Part II Concept Development Stage. 6 Needs Analysis. 7 Concept Exploration. 8 Concept Definition. 9 Decision Analysis and Support. Part III Engineering Development Stage. 10 Advanced Development. 11 Software Systems Engineering. 12 Engineering Design. 13 Integration and Evaluation. Part IV Postevelopment Stage. 14 Production. 15 Operation and Support.