ENES 489P Special Topics in Engineering: Hands-On Systems Engineering Projects
INSTRUCTOR Associate Professor Mark Austin , Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park. PROJECT ASSISTANTS Parastoo Delgoshaei, Graduate MSSE Student. David Daily, Graduate MSSE Student.	CLASS Meet the Class: [ Fall 2010 ] [ Spring 2011 ] [ Fall 2012 ] Notes from Class: [ Fall 2012 ] PROJECTS Project Abstracts: [ Fall 2010 ] [ Spring 2011 ] [ Fall 2012 ]
PROJECTS: SPRING SEMESTER 2011 Midterm Project Presentations, Spring Semester 2011 Border Security Groups Automobile Collision Avoidance System Solar Decathlon House: Sink Group Solar Decathlon House: Sources Group Maglev Train Transportation System Final Project Reports, Spring Semester, 2011 Border Security (Air Team) Border Security (Ground Team) MBSE Design for an Automobile Collision Avoidance System Maglev Trains: A Look into Economic Concessions Smart Tire System (docx) Solar House HVAC System Design (Sink Group) Solar Decathlon House (Source Group) Enhancing Security in Wireless Devices for the American Healthcare System	PROJECTS: FALL SEMESTER 2010 Project Presentations, Fall Semester 2010 Black Box System Design Integrated Security of Wireless Sensor Networks Wireless Sensor Networks: Perimeter Security Final Project Reports, Fall Semester 2010 Black Box System Design Integrated Security of Wireless Sensor Networks Wireless Sensor Networks: Perimeter Security System-Level Modeling of Particle Steering using Microfluidic Device
GOALS This hands-on design projects course will expose senior-level undergraduate and graduate-level students from all areas of engineering to exciting career opportunities in the systems engineering field. Students will be introduced to the technical aspects of systems engineering practice through team-based project development and a systematic step-by-step procedure for product development that includes working with a real-world customer to define operations concepts, requirements gathering and organization, synthesis of models of system behavior and system structure, functional allocation to create system design alternatives, formal assessment of design alternatives through tradeoff analysis, and established approaches to testing and validation/verification COURSE CONTENTS - FALL SEMESTER, 2012 The course will consist of lectures and hands-on project development in the laboratory. The lecture topics to be covered include: Systems Engineering in Mainstream US Industry Models of Systems Engineering Development Economics of System Development Strategies of Systems Engineering Development Foundations of Model-Based Systems Engineering Modeling abstractions for System Behavior and System Structure Introduction to Languages for Visual Modeling of Systems (e.g., UML and SysML). Requirements Gathering and Organization (e.g., use case modeling). Non-functional requirements. Requirements Allocation/Flowdown and Traceability. Functional Allocation to Create the System-Level Design Simplified Approaches to Tradeoff Analysis (e.g., using spreadsheets). Requirements Evaluation (e.g., for system testing and verification). The hands-on laboratory and homework exercises will cover: Systems Thinking Abstraction and Hierarchical Decomposition Emergent properties of systems Requirements Use Cases and Use Case Diagrams Non-functional Requirements Generation of constraints from requirements Design System Structure with Block Diagrams System Behavior with Activity Diagrams Combining Structure and Behavior (e.g., with swimlanes and sequence diagrams). Modeling and Simulation Matlab or Modelica Numerical Integration Discrete Event Simulation Verification/Optimization Verification of Functional Requirements using Simulation Traces Verification of Non-functional Requirements using Constraints and Parametric Diagrams Trade Studies using Spreadsheets and Pareto Principle The laboratory work will include working with a real-world customer (industry and government experts) to define the project operational concepts and requirements, formulation of visual models, and formulation of design alternatives suitable for tradeoff analysis.
COURSE CREDITS AND PREREQUISITES This course will be 3 credits. Senior-level status in engineering. TIME AND LOCATION OF CLASS/OFFICE HOURS Lectures will be given in ENGR 3106, Tuesday 5-6.15 pm. Laboratory work will be conducted in the Systems Engineering and Integration Laboratory (SEIL) at ISR, Room 2250, A.V. Williams Building), 3.30-6.00 pm every Thursday. Office Hours. By appointment. For a quick response to your problems, send the instructor an e-mail. STUDENT ASSESSMENT The term project and presentation will account for 60% of the grade. There will be two midterm exams, spaced approximately one month apart (20%). There will be five homeworks, accounting for 20% of the grade. Students may drop the lowest homework score. Students may drop the lowest midterm exam score. There will be no makeup exams.
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