Description:

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.

Contents:

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

Seminar contents:

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

Recommended literature:

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

Keywords:

System, engineering, virtual system, soft system, system analysis, system design, system existence

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar