Course Goal Statement: The course aims to provide students with engineering backgrounds with in-depth knowledge and technical skills in the field of systems engineering, and prepares students for careers within industry and government. The course addresses the needs of engineers and scientists engaged in all aspects of analysis, design, integration, production, and operation of modern complex systems.

Course  Description:  Systems  engineering  is  an  interdisciplinary  approach  and  means  to  enable  the realization  of  complex  systems  with  desirable  specifications.  The  course  introduces  fundamentals  of systems engineering process and will prepare students for a diverse career opportunity. Topics of this course include a brief history of systems engineering, structure of complex systems, system life-cycle modeling, systems engineering methods in system development process and design issues for operational feasibility  such  as  reliability,  maintainability,  predictability,  usability,  and  supportability.  Some  basic engineering design methods and tools will be included. Successful systems engineering cases will also be studied.

The life cycle model is fundamental for systems engineering and it is a very important topic covered in EL- GY  5213  Introduction  to  Systems  Engineering.  Systems  of  systems  represent   a  trend   of  systems engineering and one specific class of systems of systems are cyber-physical systems. Course content in EL- GY 5213 also covers the inter-disciplinary study of systems of systems.

Prerequisites: The course is offered as a first-year graduate level course. Graduate status is needed.

Grading Policy:

.     Homework - 40%

.     Project - 60%

Recommended Text:

[SA]      A.P. Sage and J.E. Armstrong, Introduction to Systems Engineering, Wiley-Interscience, 2000.

[BF]      B.S. Blanchard and W.J. Fabrycky, Systems Engineering and Analysis, 5th Edition, Prentice-Hall,

2010.

[MK]     G. E. Mobus and M. C. Kalton, Principles of Systems Science, Springer, 2014.

[KS]      A. Kossiakoff and W.N. Sweet, Systems Engineering Principles and Practice, John Wiley & Sons,

2003.

Course Outline:

1.    What is systems engineering?

2.    Structure of complex systems

3.    Systems engineering through system life-cycle

4.    Needs analysis

5.    Concept exploration

6.    Concept definition

7.    Advanced development

8.    Engineering design

9.    Integration and evaluation

10.  Production

11.  Operation and support

12.  Systems engineering decision tools

13.  New trends of systems engineering

14.  Case study

Course Objectives

.     To introduce fundamentals of systems engineering process to engineers and applied scientists

.     To introduce the students to the ways in which systems engineering principles are applied in the kinds of work in which they are most likely to be involved.

.     To provide  students  with tangible, practical tools and skills that will enable effective and efficient engineering designs of modern systems.

.     To provide practical tools that will facilitate gaining desirable employment after graduation.

Moses Center Statement of Disability

If you are student with a disability who is requesting accommodations, please contact New York University’s Moses Center for Students with Disabilities (CSD) at 212-998-4980 or

[email protected]u.  You must be registered with CSD to receive accommodations.  Information about the Moses Center can be found at www.nyu.edu/csd. The Moses Center is located at 726 Broadway on the 3rd  floor.

NYU School of Engineering Policies and Procedures on Academic Misconduct

A.   Introduction: The School of Engineering encourages academic excellence in an environment that

promotes honesty, integrity, and fairness, and students at the School of Engineering are expected to

exhibit those qualities in their academic work. It is through the process of submitting their own work and receiving honest feedback on that work that students may progress academically. Any act of

academic dishonesty is seen as an attack upon the School and will not be tolerated. Furthermore, those who breach the School’s rules on academic integrity will be sanctioned under this Policy. Students are responsible for familiarizing themselves with the School’s Policy on Academic Misconduct.

B.   Definition: Academic dishonesty may include misrepresentation, deception, dishonesty, or any act of falsification committed by a student to influence a grade or other academic evaluation. Academic

dishonesty also includes intentionally damaging the academic work of others or assisting other

students in acts of dishonesty. Common examples of academically dishonest behavior include, but are not limited to, the following:

1.    Cheating: intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized notes, books, electronic media, or

electronic communications in an exam; talking with fellow students or looking at another person’s

work during an exam; submitting work prepared in advance for an in-class examination; having

someone take an exam for you or taking an exam for someone else; violating other rules governing the administration of examinations.

2.    Fabrication:  including but not limited to, falsifying experimental data and/or citations.

3.    Plagiarism: intentionally or knowingly representing the words or ideas of another as one’s own in any  academic exercise; failure to attribute direct quotations, paraphrases, or borrowed facts or information.

4.    Unauthorized collaboration: working together on work that was meant to be done individually.