System Design and Integration

Course aim

This course aims to provide students with knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to conduct the design and integration processes of systems engineering. This course establishes a foundation of knowledge that will enable students to convert a conceptual design into a system definition that is suitable for detailed design and subsequent manufacture. The course covers both classical systems engineering design where the majority of components are purpose-developed for the system and systems-integration-based design that exploits Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) and Military Off-The-Shelf (MOTS) subsystems to the greatest extent possible. The course is taught from a design perspective and while it concentrates on industry sector technical design activities and outputs it also includes the concurrent activities that would be conducted by an acquisition organisation.

Course content

The architectural design process including: 

• Requirements analysis, validation of the design inputs including customer expectations, requirements flow down through design tiers, identification of technical performance measures. 
• Functional analysis, in particular, in the presence of constraints on the system design imposed by the use of commercial-off-the-shelf and military-off-the-shelf components. 
• Functional and physical partitioning. 
• Generation of solution concepts that involve both bespoke and pre-existing components. 
• Trade-off analyses to determine the preferred design concept. 
• Describing the design through architectural views, specification of subsystems, and interface definitions.

System implementation aspects

• Build /buy/subcontract decisions for components
• Selection of configuration items
• Choice of appropriate specification standards for components

Introduction to design assurance aspects 

• Discussion of factors sought in a good system design: reliability, maintainability, availability, manufacturability, testability, electromagnetic compatibility, integratability, safety, security, flexibility, interoperability, capability growth, disposal, etc.
• Design reviews 
• Interface management 
• Use of modelling and simulation during design and integration
• Process products and documentation; model-based systems engineering

Integration and Test

• Integration and test planning from a design perspective; test coverage
• The integration and test process

Accepting components into integration

Textbook(s)

Buede D.M. 2009, The Engineering Design of Systems: Models and Methods, 2, John Wiley & Sons Inc

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
EEET 5136	Systems Engineering Principles

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
EXTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES, ONLINE (INTENSIVE)
Workshop	8 hours x 1 day
External (Synchronous Online (Live Virtual Classroom0)	20 hours x N/A
External (Asynchronous Online)	50 hours x N/A

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Design Data Pack (Final Design Review Report), Design Review Presentation (group presentation), Participation (Participation in all facets of course), Trade-Off Study Report (group report)

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
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