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Class #5 Assignments

Mark E. SampsonUPDATED 9/20/04

EMIS 8390

Systems Engineering Tool—applying tools to engineering systems

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Deliver Design Specification

…appended with your functional spec.:1. Requirement verification matrix that includes test mapped back to

design, functions, and requirements2. Documented Failure modes (at least 2) in the form of FMEA’s or

Fault Tree, Petri Net,…3. Maintenance concept4. A Technical Budget/Constraint allocation (one of…cost, weight,

power,…)

Each team will deliver finished design spec with project checklist at the next class (30 minutes each)

Final write-up delivered in paper form to instructor during class and electronic form at our TcCommunity site before our 12/3 class.

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Tools Application Case Study

• One from each team (individual grade)• 1-2 page written brief on a systems problem and how it could be addressed by systems engineering tools. • Delivered also in presentation form to the class (5-10 minutes)

…see Ford and Mars Spirit Rover examples

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Tool Contributions…

• Tool (defined generically as any method, computerized tool, technique, etc.) contribution is a brief <5 minute presentation on a tool germane to systems engineering. • The point is to educate your fellow students & instructor on the tool and its potential application• One from each team for our next class (individual grade)• Entered in the INCOSE General Tools Database (http://www.paper-review.com/tools/tdb/home.php)

…see Design Structure Matrix example

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Term Papers

• Term-paper delivered in paper form to instructor during class and electronic form at our TcCommunity site before our 12/3 class. • Not possible to present all the papers with projects, so no term paper presentations. You will be graded on the paper only.

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Delivered in 4 weeks…

• Questions: email mark.sampson@ugs.com msampson@smu.edu• Office: 972 987-3227 • Urgent: Cell: 469.855-1461

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Final Exam

• Individual short answer/paragraph written test • Handed out in our next class• Posted in electronic form on our TcCommunity Site for download. • Filled out in Word• Due Sunday Night Midnight. Emailed to instructor. • Instructor will respond with a receipt when received (as well as update Community assignment status page)

…taken by yourself…remember the honor system.

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Course Follow-up

• Grades posted by end of following week. • Course improvement survey will be posted shortly on Community Site…suggestions on how to improve the course please.