ENSE 622: Systems Engineering Requirements, Design, and Trade-Off Analysis
Mark Austin, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park.	Notes from Class Frequently-Asked Questions Internet Resources Meet the Class, [ 2004 ] [ 2005 ] Project Requirements, [ 2005 ] Project Abstracts, [ 2002 ] [ 2004 ] [ 2005 ]
COURSE CONTENTS - SPRING SEMESTER, 2005. This course will build upon material covered in ENSE 621: System Modeling and Analysis. The topics will be as follows: Quick review of ENSE 621: System Modeling and Analysis. Requirements engineering; requirements management; implementation and applications of traceability. Capabilities of Commercial Requirements Engineering Tools. Generation of architecture-level (logical) and technology-level (physical) designs. Component- and Interface-based Design Methods. Principles of Modular Design. Design Concept Enhancement via Design Structure Matrices. Multi-Objective Optimization-Based Design of Engineering Systems. Object and Relational Databases. Principles of Platform-Based Design. By the end of semester all students should have a "project abstract" summarizing their project and a link to a project report (word or pdf format).
COURSE PREREQUISITES Graduate level status in engineering. ENSE 621: Systems Modeling and Analysis (from Fall Semester, 2003 or 2004). A good knowledge of engineering mathematics (e.g., calculus, linear algebra, differential equations). A willingness to create web-based projects demonstrating ideas from systems engineering principles. TIME AND LOCATION OF CLASS/OFFICE HOURS Class. M, 6.40 pm - 9.10 pm, Room 3118, CSIC Building. Office Hours. Mark Austin. By appointment. For a quick response to your problems, send me e-mail. Teaching Assistant -- Nazanin Alborzi Office Hours: M, W, Th 2-5pm. AVW Rm. 3181. E-mail: nazanin "at" gmail.com COURSE NOTES/TEXTS We will handout the class notes and two readers for background material (about 1,000 pages in total). Tutorial on Design Structure Matrices . Concurrency: State Models and Java, by Magee and Kramer. Click here for slides summarizing the key concepts in each chapter. Comparison of Relational and Object Oriented Databases Labelled Transition System Analyser Labelled Transition System Analyser Home Page LTSA BPEL4WS plugin This web page references LTSA 2.3 with BPEL4WS 1.1 Plugin, the MSC plugin ... etc. Darwin plugin for the LTSA Tool. LTSA Extensions Manual Page . This version of LTSA supports timed transition systems. Optimization Software CPLEX is an interactive opimizer for integer and mixed-integer programming. It is available on the UMD's glue system. Click here for details on working step by step through a basic example. Download Free Student/Trial Versions of MPL/CPLEX and OptiMax 2000 . OptiMax 2000 is an object-oriented Component Library, specifically designed to embed optimization models into end-user applications. Handouts Uchitel S. and Kramer J., Workbench for Synthesis of Behavior Models , Department of Computing, Imperial College, UK. DOORS Webinar on Requirements Engineering ILOG CPLEX 9.0 User's Manual , October, 2003. This is a 560 page pdf file describing everything you'd ever need to know about programming CPLEX applications (e.g., in C++ and Java) and solving discrete and continuous optimization problems (e.g., linear programming; mixed integer programming; using logical constraints). EXAM SCHEDULE There will be two exams: Midterm (25%) : April 8. 2 hrs long. Final (35%) : May 13. 2 hrs long plus 10 minutes to read the paper. The exam is open book and open notes. Please bring some graph paper. Note. There will be no midterm or final make-up exams. Students may drop the midterm score is they do better in the final (i.e., the final exam can count for up to 60% of the grade) The final exam must count for at least 35% of the final grade. Occasional homework assignments will account for 10% of the grade. The systems requirements and design project will count for 30% of the grade. All project material must be presented on the web.
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