Professional Certificate in System Architecting and Integration

Course content

The architectural design process including:  

• Requirements analysis, validation of the design inputs including customer expectations, requirements flow down and 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: 

• Off-the-shelf, modified OTS, or design trades for system 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, integratibility, 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