Systems Engineering for Software Engineers

Society relies on many complex systems of interacting technology, people, processes, laws and other elements. Examples of such systems include air transport, telecommunications and energy supply. Systems Engineering is a holistic, multi-disciplinary and well established approach to the engineering of these complex systems. Because software is a critical component of such systems, Software Engineers will often work in Systems Engineering teams. This course prepares students for such roles by covering the following topics: - Systems concepts. - The Systems Engineering life-cycle and processes. - Conceptual system design: including problem definition, technical performance measures, quality function deployment (QFD), trade-off analyses, and system specification. - Preliminary system design: subsystem design requirements, design review. - Detailed design and development: Detailed design requirements and design engineering activities; review and feedback, and incorporation of design changes. - Design testing, evaluation and validation. - Design for sustainability: approaches that integrate sustainability principles into the design process. - Integration of Systems Engineering and Software Engineering activities.