System Engineering
Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language |
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20SYIN-E | Z,ZK | 6 | 4P+2C | English |
- Course guarantor:
- Lecturer:
- Zuzana Bělinová
- Tutor:
- Zuzana Bělinová
- Supervisor:
- Department of Transport Telematics
- Synopsis:
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Enhanced system definition in engineering tasks, specification of selected system types against related tools of system analysis and design, refinement of selected types of system engineering tasks, definition of system strategy, connection to science-based methodological basics of transport, strategic thinking processes, strategic management system, context of sustainable development.
- Requirements:
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Zápočet: accepted seminary project, accepted tasks from trainings (ca 4 tasks), attandence 70%
Zkouška: assessment, oral exam from the theoretical topics and their application on the seminary project
- Syllabus of lectures:
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1. What is System Engineering - different approaches, explanation of the concept of the subject
2. Summary of System Analysis - system identification, importance of system interfaces
3. Summary of System Analysis - processes, behavior of systems
4. History of System Engineering
5. Advanced system parameters - identity, competence, ethics
6. Basic methodologies of system approaches
7. Process approach to system engineering - example of the IT area - ISO/IEC 15288 - System life cycle processes
8. Process approach to system engineering - IT area
9. System engineering from the viewpoint of quality management I.
10. System engineering from the viewpoint of quality management II.
11. Application of project approaches in system engineering
12. Soft approaches
13. Summary
- Syllabus of tutorials:
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1. Mutual introduction, motivation for the subject, preferences for using different approaches
2. Assignment of seminary project, examples of various seminary project topics
3. Example of identification of systems, presentation of the system structure of individual students
4. Comparison of historical and modern systems engineering tasks
5. System Identity
6. Competence and ethics of the system
7. ISO processes on the example of a system
8. Different ways of recording processes
9. Presentation of various methodologies by students
10. Soft methods - rich picture
11. Examples of the application of soft methods - student presentations
12. Meta approaches
13. Assessment test
- Study Objective:
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To understand the essence of holistic thinking, to master the projection of system analysis tools into engineering tasks, to control and design systems, to classify concepts and system access tools for common solutions to practical tasks.
- Study materials:
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Slides from the presentations
Indicated papers for reading
Additional study materials, e.g.:
James Robertson, Suzanne Robertson. Complete Systems Analysis. Dorset House, 1998 - in the CTU library
INCOSE. Systems engineering handbook - a guide for system life cycle processes and activities. Wiley. 2017 - online in the CTU library
Joseph Eli Kasser. Systems Engineering: A Systemic and Systematic Methodology for Solving Complex Problems. 2020 - online in the CTU library
- Note:
- Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:
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06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri - Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:
- Time-table is not available yet
- The course is a part of the following study plans:
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- Master Full-Time IS (EN) from 2023/24 (compulsory course)
- Master Full-Time IS (joint degree) from 2024/25 (compulsory course)