Jul 02, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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ISE 4311 - Applied Systems Engineering
Introduces students to key thoughts and tools needed to move to the next level of engineering design excellence, where designing an operational component that works well by itself is not enough. Here students learn how to ensure that a product meets the customer’s actual need, that it works optimally and behaves as expected within a much larger and more complex system, that it lasts for its entire expected life, and that it does all these things at an affordable and stable cost. Individual disciplines of system engineering, such as requirements analysis, functional design, and life cycle cost analysis, are identified, integrated into a new way of thinking–systems thinking–and illustrated by a series of exercises and actual case studies from industry and government. Notable successes and spectacular failures are examined, and the indispensable role of the influential team leader is described. Systems engineering is shown to be a uniquely effective interface between management, customers, suppliers, specialty engineers and other stakeholders in the systems development process.
Requisites: (ET 2400 or ET 2450) and (junior or senior)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to create concise definitions of the terms “systems thinking” and “systems engineering”.
- Students will be able to successfully apply four stages of a systems decision process (problem definition, solution design, decision making, and planning for implementation) in selected exercises, projects, system models and/or case studies.
- Students will be able to construct a system life cycle plan to meet system requirements.
- Students will be able to solve basic problems of the type(s) encountered when designing to ensure affordability and reliability, and explain other criteria including maintainability, producibility, supportability, and sustainability.
- Students will be able to formulate a leadership philosophy most likely to achieve success as a systems engineer in the design and development of a mid-to-large-scale, complex system.
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