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1.3a SE in a nutshell

What is systems engineering?
 
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What is systems engineering? Systems engineering today! What does a systems engineer do? and A glossary of terms used throughout this course are presented in these video's.

Learning objectives

  • Be able to explain what systems engineering is in a few sentences.
  • Know the 3 systems engineering buzzwords.
  • Understand why sustainability is important for SE.
  • Understand why it is important to first know the actual problem
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References

ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2015

Systems and software engineering — System life cycle processes
https://www.iso.org/standard/63711.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_15288

Cure for chaos: Fresh Solutions to Social Problems Through the Systems Approach
Ramo, Simon
https://www.abebooks.com/Cure-Chaos-Fresh-Solutions-Social-Problems/31095439162/bd

The 17 Goals
United Nations
https://sdgs.un.org/goals

Systems Engineering Fundamentals
Terry Bayhill, Phil Brown, Dennis Buede, James Martin
https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.2002517a

Systems Engineering in 45 minutes
Maarten Bonnema
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0gzzAbO2mY

Systems design and engineering: facilitating multidisciplinary development projects
G. Maarten Bonnema, Karel T. Veenvliet, Jan F. Broenink
https://research.utwente.nl/en/publications/systems-design-and-engineering-facilitating-multidisciplinary-dev
https://doi.org/10.1201/b19135

Systems engineering and analysis
Authors:Benjamin S. Blanchard, W. J. Fabrycky
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241976516_Systems_Engineering_and_Analysis_Third_Edition
 

Extra reading material

Systems Engineering in 45 minutes
Maarten Bonnema
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0gzzAbO2mY

The 17 Goals
United Nations
https://sdgs.un.org/goals