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Systems Engineering
IDI offers five courses in systems engineering:
Foundations in Systems Engineering, Case Studies in
Systems Engineering, Fundamentals in Requirements and
Functional Analysis, Fundamentals in
Architectures for Systems, Basics of Trade Studies in
Systems Engineering.
The Foundations of Systems
Engineering course is a 2-day program that emphasizes
the importance of systems thinking in the execution of
one’s job, and encourages and informs those desiring to
further their development in the discipline of systems
engineering. This course includes lecture, in-class
breakout sessions and exercises, and case studies.
The Case Studies in Systems
Engineering course is ideal for illustrating the value
of systems engineering to top management and other key
decision makers. The course covers successes (Black and
Decker product line, Boeing 777, Central America gold
recovery, Pioneer 10, Wright brothers first flight, )
and failures (Air Bag Safety Restraints, Apollo 13,
Arianne 5, buffer overflow attacks, Hubble telescope,
and Therac 25) traces these back to good and bad
practices of systems engineering. This course can be
tailored substantially to meet the needs of the
organization requesting it.
The Fundamentals in Requirements
and Functional Analysis course can be delivered over 1
or 2 days. The course describes the role and importance
of requirements, demonstrates the value of starting the
definition of requirements outside the system at the
mission level and then deriving system-level
requirements based upon a functional analysis of the
system’s interaction with peer (or external) systems.
The basics of functional analysis are described and
writing of good vs. bad requirements is illustrated via
examples. Both the 1 and 2-day courses have student
exercises; the 2-day course has more depth and student
exercises.
The Fundamentals in Architectures
for Systems course describes the role of architectures
for defining alternatives that can be used in trade
studies as well as providing the foundation for deriving
subsystem through configuration item requirements based
upon the system-level requirements. Architectural views
that represent the functional, physical and interface
perspectives of the system’s operational capability are
described. Techniques for creating these views and
enabling consistency among the views are also described.
Student exercises complete the 2 days needed to cover
this material.
The Basics of Trade Studies in Systems Engineering
course is a 2-day course identifies the many and varied
types of trade studies conducted during systems
engineering, ranging from concept studies through
subsystem trades. The course covers brainstorming
activities that are key to enumerating the range of
alternatives that should be considered, multi-attribute
value analysis for defining the value structure of the
stakeholders so that consistent and coherent trades can
be made throughout the design process. Exercises in
these topics and case studies round out the 2 days
needed for this course.
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