This course provides a framework for the interdisciplinary systems engineering program. It outlines the design process for an engineering product or service. The systems approach is used to give students an understanding of how to integrate the technical engineering disciplines required to solve complex problems. This approach is traditionally applied to highly technical engineering problems. However, students will also see how sustainable design principles can be introduced to the design process in order to accommodate environmental considerations.

Specific topics include:

-     Systems engineering definitions and classifications; life-cycle engineering

-     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

Problem sets (25%); Quiz (25%); Individual design exercise (25%); Group Design Project (25%).

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