Systems Engineering Principles and Practice

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• Publisher: Artech House
• Year: 2000
• eBook ISBN: 9781630817176
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

If you're new to systems engineering, or simply want to broaden your view of the field, here's an excellent resource that gives you a sound understanding of systems engineering principles and practical guidance in doing the job. You get a step-by-step approach to a systems engineering assignment and a thoroughly explained set of dimensions to a system that enables you to start new projects with speed and confidence. The book also identifies profitable interactions amongst systems engineers and development engineers, management, and customers. Well-illustrated chapters cover everything from describing systems engineering activities, defining system objectives and measures, and proposing system concepts to selecting technology, evaluating systems engineering steps, and analyzing evaluations. Examples drawn from the author 's extensive professional experience support each discussion and offer a unique point of view you won't find in any other book. Eleven detailed appendices, with 700 equations, prescribe innovative systems-level designs and specify the advantages and limitations of common evaluation techniques.

Table of contents

• SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
• Chapter 1 ONE MAN'S SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 1
• Chapter 2 WHAT IS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING? 5
• Chapter 3 ON KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE 23
• Chapter 4 WHAT DOES A SYSTEMS ENGINEER DO?(AND HOW?) 27
• Chapter 5 ON THE OBJECTIVE 49
• Chapter 6 OBJECTIVES AND THE POLICY MAKERS 61
• Chapter 7 THE OPERATING CONCEPT AND THE FRAMEWORK OF A SYSTEM 73
• Chapter 8 SELECTING FROM TECHNOLOGY 97
• Chapter 9 WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE IDLE AN'LYST? 117
• Chapter 10 ALL ABOUT EVALUATION ... AND CREATIVITY, TOO. WELL, ALMOST ALL.
• Chapter 11 UNDERPINNINGS OF THE RECOMMENDATION; EVALUATION AND (UN)COMMON SENSE 139
• Chapter 12 ENVOY 147
• APPENDIX A A SYNOPSIS OF RELEVANT EXPERIENCES AND AN INTRODUCTION TO APPENDICES B - K 151
• Appendix B DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS 171
• Appendix C NUMERICAL METHODS 189
• Appendix D RADIO AND RADAR PROPAGATION 211
• Appendix E C2, C3, C3I, etc. 239
• Appendix F CLASSICAL TWO-BODY ORBIT THEORY 253
• Appendix G PERTURBATION METHODS - WITH CLASSICAL ORBIT THEORY APPLICATIONS 271
• Appendix H ROCKETRY 297
• Appendix J THE TIME VALUE OF MONEY 357
• APPENDIX K ON QUEUING OR TRAFFIC THEORY WITH SOME PERSONAL MUSING ON PROBABILITY 361
• INDEX 377