1 Course Overview Mark E. Sampson UPDATED 7/02/04 EMIS 8390 Systems Engineering Tool—applying tools to engineering systems

2 ProfessorMark E. Sampson Office: Cell: Fax: Mail:EMIS Department PO Box Dallas, TX EMIS Dept:Tammy Sherwood Phone: Fax: Website: Blackboard: Instructor BS CE (BYU) MS SE (USC) 20+ yrs experience in CAE business (EE, SE) GE, TI, TD Tech, EDS, UGS… Consultant at: Northrop, CIA, NSA, NASA, Seagate, AT&T, P&G, GM, Renault, EDS, Intel, Oceaneering, Batelle, DOE,… INCOSE Tech Board 6+ years Born on my front lawn in Las Vegas

3 EMIS 8390 Course Description Computerized tools capture and deliver Systems Engineering (SE) information throughout the product development life cycle—the most common being Word™, Excel™, and Powerpoint™. This course moves beyond the Office Suite to survey the many tools that can be applied by SE across the entire lifecycle from inception to disposal. The best way to learn applications is to apply them to SE problems, so, we’ll start at the beginning by applying tools on scope/needs evaluation, moving into requirements analysis, down to functional and physical allocation, into optimization, wrapping up with test validation/verification and product management. A variety of SE tools are available to use during this course, you will identify and apply tools as you move through the lifecycle of your product--the end result is an understanding of what tools, methods, and techniques can be applied, to what part of the process, and how to use them.

4 EMIS 8390 Course Objectives..to a man with only a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Unknown During my days in systems engineering tool support, I received a call from one systems engineer informing me that he had run out of cells in his spreadsheet and wanted to know how to get more cells for his analysis. Having never heard of anyone ever running out of cells in a spreadsheet, I had to see what he was doing…he was using his spreadsheet to hold coordinate information from a flight test and using the plotting package to find anomalies in the data…

5 EMIS 8390 Course Objectives…continued …to provide you,the SE, a toolkit of tools to apply to your craft. Whole courses are taught on individual topics/process steps we will cover. Our goal is to explore how tools are applied to these topics/processes so you apply the right tool to the job. Tools include methods, techniques, and automated tools. Course includes exposing students to a variety of tools through hands on use and tool application demonstrations. Understanding of what tools to apply and how to apply them to SE problems. Since the same tools are used throughout the life cycle-- know when to use them. Leave the course with a tool kit that can be applied through out your SE career (rather than applying a hammer to everything…)

6 What’s needed for the course We will use SE Tools during this course. Assignments/Team projects will be using tools… You can bring your own, use your own, write your own, company provided or otherwise EDS/UGS is contributing their web-based Teamcenter PLM environment for student use. It includes: SE, Requirements Mgmt (RM) (class access point: & groupware collaboration ( …you will need web access for homework

7 What’s needed for the course…continued Lots of tools will be covered during this course. There will be a number of demonstrations (3 or 4 per class) Some of the tools will be available, others will not. …we want to expose you to the tools that will be useful to you as SE’s.

8 Course Textbook No Text Book No standard reference to the wide range of SE tools/methods covered during this course. Reference Book: INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook V. 2a,. Documents a standard development process that includes tools to apply, data passed between process steps, and recommended approaches. Through- out this course you will see references to the handbook. Available at INCOSE.org in the members section for INCOSE members at Not a member? You can contact INCOSE and join or sign up as a student for $10 and get access to it (rules for student membership may not apply…) Since LMCO is a INCOSE CAB Member, as an LMCO Employee you have access to an electronic version at:

9 Graduate Course Requirements Homework 20% Research/presentations on tools & applications : 10% for tool contributions, 10% for tools application case study Term paper30% Tool application paper & present Project 40% Team based product development experience supported by tools Final Exam10% Short paragraph responses

10 Tool Contributions (10%) …contribution of tools that can be applied to SE (with 5 minute presentation on SE tool, method, or application to educate other class members). Each student is required to deliver two tools during this course—1 to the class in presentation form, the other directly to the tools database. Tools are credited on entering them in the INCOSE general tools database ( ) or (

11 Tool Contributions…example A Design Structure Matrix (DSM) is a matrix representation of a system/project. The matrix lists all subsystems/activities and the corresponding information exchange and dependency patterns. Activity C relies on information from activities A and B and delivers information to activities D, E, F and G—feed forward Feedback is indicated in red…I provides information needed by G. This means G, may have rework based on new information received from I. You want to avoid these in process design See

12 Tool Application Case Study (10%) …real-world example of SE problems & how tools could be used to address them (1-2 page summary and brief presentation on the subject) Each student is required to deliver one (1) during this course.

13 Tool Application Case Study…example Ford Tire Recall May 20, Ford Motor Co. is recalling 50,000 brand new Explorers because an assembly line conveyor belt that was too narrow for the wider 2002 model may have cut the tire tread ( Spirit Rover Motor Freeze up PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 12--NASA had been unable to send commands to Spirit through its high-gain antenna Tuesday after the rover’s mast unexpectedly cast a frigid shadow over the motors that are used to position the lollipop- shaped antenna and keep it oriented toward Earth. The cold disabled the motors. (

14 Tool Application Paper & Presentation (30%) …applying tools to your job (a standard term paper describing a SE tool application in your job, hobby, social life,…) Each student is required to deliver one (1) during this course.

15 Tool Application Case Study…example #1 Applying SE tools to raising your kids Age  Perceived Intelligence Child Parent Child Parent Age 

16 Tool Application Case Study…example #2 Rigid-Cable optimization using Linear Programming

17 Tools Project & Presentation (40%) …working as a team with tools towards a defined objective (includes: assignment specs, trade studies, and presentation/debrief about the problems, what tools were used, how they were used, results,…) During the first class, teams will define a simple problem they wish to address (…a product to be redesigned, a new product idea, current job related issue, …) We will use this problem throughout the course— with each class building on the previous to walk through the SE process supported by SE tools.

18 Tools Project Example Redesigned Paint Can Problems with current paint cans Market research/requirements gathering Cost/Benefit Legacy systems—logistics, application,… Regulatory--Recycling Alternatives Storage Ergonomics Supply chain

19 Course Schedule Five, one-day classes Friday’s 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Location: Northwest Office Park Suite 103A Phone: (817) Fax: (817) Jan. 14Class #1: Before Requirements Feb. 11Class #2: Requirements Mar. 11Class #3: Functions & Architecture Apr. 8Class #4: Optimization May 6Class #5: Program Mgmt Project presentations/Final Exam during Class #5 Please visit for the official calendar.

20 Assignments - Submission Guidelines Use our class collaboration environment—post your assignments and… assignments as attachment. Indicate Course & Assignment Number in the ‘Subject’ line as follows… From: Joe Student To: Mark Sampson Attachment: Student_SE2_Termpaper.doc Subject: EMIS 8390 – Term Paper

21 Assignments - Submission Guidelines, continued MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint are the preferred file type for attachments… (PDF is also acceptable) Naming Convention: name_011405_assignment.doc Do not send zipped files to my.ugs address (they get knocked off by my firewall). You can send.zip files to my home address: These files may be printed, so please do not make the print area larger than 8.5” X 11”.