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4.00 Credits
Covers principles and methods for technical System Architecture. Presents a synthetic view including the resolution of ambiguity to identify system goals and boundaries; the creative process of mapping form to function; the analysis of complexity and methods of decomposition and re-integration. Industrial speakers and faculty present examples from various industries. Heuristic and formal methods are presented.
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Prereq: ESD.32J or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Software architecting and design of software-intensive systems. Targeted at future CTOs who must understand both the business and technical issues involved in architecting enterprise-scale systems. Student teams confront technically challenging problems. Lectures and readings cover core database, XML, web server components and browser issues in a distributed web service environment. Enrollment limited.
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Prereq: 1.00, 1.124J, or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Focus on understanding engineering systems using network models. Framing of the interplay between theory and experiment, leading to new knowledge about complex system architecture. Review of network literature, network methods in social science, and recent results in large network analysis. Discussion of key system concepts, including modularity, hierarchy, flexibility, and complexity. Examples of engineering systems, organizations, and social systems. Descriptions of real systems, such as software, railways, telephones, and large social systems. Definition of network metrics and Matlab implementations of network analysis methods. Readings and discussion of current network research literature, including identification of needed research. Semester-long project analyzing a real system using these methods.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Studies the theory and practice of implementing flexibility (real options) in the design of products and systems. Topics include recognition of uncertainty, identification of best opportunities for flexibility, and valuation of these options and their effective implementation. Enables effective and efficient adaptation to future changes. Students apply the concepts by working in teams on an ongoing product development project. Final product is an advanced, dynamic business plan for design and deployment of products.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Addresses the architecting of air transportation systems. Focuses on the conceptual phase of product definition including technical, economic, market, environmental, regulatory, legal, manufacturing, and societal factors. Centers on a realistic system case study and includes a number of lectures from industry and government. Past examples include the Very Large Transport Aircraft, a Supersonic Business Jet and a Next Generation Cargo System. Identifies the critical system level issues and analyzes them in depth via student team projects and individual assignments. Overall goal is to produce a business plan and a system specifications document that can be used to assess candidate systems.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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4.00 Credits
Focus on developing space system architectures. Applies subsystem knowledge gained in 16.851 to examine interactions between subsystems in the context of a space system design. Principles and processes of systems engineering including developing space architectures, developing and writing requirements, and concepts of risk are explored and applied to the project. Subject develops, documents, and presents a conceptual design of a space system including a preliminary spacecraft design.
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Prereq: 16.851, 16.892, or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Reading and discussion on issues in the engineering of software systems and software development project design. Includes the present state of software engineering, what has been tried in the past, what worked, what did not, and why. Topics may differ in each offering, but are chosen from the software process and life cycle; requirements and specifications; design principles; testing, formal analysis, and reviews; quality management and assessment; product and process metrics; COTS and reuse; evolution and maintenance; team organization and people management; and software engineering aspects of programming languages.
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Prereq: 16.35, ESD.33, or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Subject focuses on management principles, methods, and tools to effectively plan and implement successful system and product development projects. Material is divided into four major sections: project preparation, planning, monitoring, and adaptation. Brief review of classical techniques such as CPM and PERT. Emphasis on new methodologies and tools such as Design Structure Matrix (DSM), probabilistic project simulation, as well as project system dynamics (SD). Topics are covered from strategic, tactical, and operational perspectives. Industrial case studies expose factors that are typical drivers of success and failure in complex projects with both hardware and software content. Term projects analyze and evaluate past and ongoing projects in student's area of interest. Projects used to apply concepts discussed in class.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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1.00 Credits
The application of systems engineering practices is increasing in commercial enterprises, but the semantics and process frameworks for 'commercial systems engineering' often appear to be quite different from the process and taxonomy developed in defense and aerospace, arguably the birthplace of modern systems engineering. Examines how systems engineering practices are employed in commercial industries, including product and service development and delivery. Special project. Limited to 5.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Examines the enterprise as a holistic and highly networked structure wherein strategic decisions must be made by applying system-level architecting principles and practices. Uses case-based exercises and examples. Team projects investigate a real-world enterprise from multiple perspectives and discuss the interrelationships of these views. Topics include theories, frameworks, and methods for generating and evaluating candidate architectures, selecting a preferred future state architecture, and developing transformation strategies.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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