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Dec 14, 2025
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ISE 5311 - 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:
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- The student will construct a system life cycle plan to meet system requirements.
- The student will create a top-level plan to introduce a lean manufacturing or six-sigma methodology to an industrial operation.
- The student will create concise definitions of the terms systems thinking and systems engineering.
- The student will discover how best to improve the performance of a system by modeling the selected portion(s) of the system using analytical, simulation and/or optimization tools and presenting alternatives that do it better.
- The student will formulate a leadership philosophy and staffing plan most likely to achieve success in the design and development of a mid-to-large-scale, complex system.
- The student will select and use simulation tools to obtain improvement(s) in efficiency and/or cost-effectiveness of an industrial operation.
- The student will solve basic problems of the type(s) encountered when designing to ensure affordability (i.e., life cycle costing and estimation).
- The student will solve basic problems of the type(s) encountered when designing to ensure reliability, and will select methodologies for ensuring maintainability, usability, supportability, producibility, disposability and/or sustainability.
- The student will successfully apply key system engineering and decision-making competencies in the context of selected exercises, projects and/or case studies: problem definition, system design, decision making, plan for solution implementation.
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