Systems Engineering and Analysis provides a comprehensive introduction to the principles, methods, models, and analytical tools used to design, develop, evaluate, and improve complex systems throughout their entire life cycle. Created for senior undergraduate and graduate-level systems engineering courses, this text takes a practical, systems-focused approach, helping students understand how engineering decisions influence system performance, affordability, reliability, and stakeholder satisfaction from concept through to retirement.
Covering the full systems engineering life cycle, the text explores the process of transforming a need into an operational system through requirements development, functional analysis, design synthesis, testing, validation, support, and disposal. It also examines how existing systems can be continuously improved through analysis, evaluation, feedback, and optimization. With extensive coverage of decision-making, modelling, reliability, maintainability, logistics, life-cycle costing, and program management, it equips students with the knowledge and analytical skills needed to address real-world engineering challenges across a wide range of industries.
The content progresses from foundational concepts in systems science and engineering through conceptual and detailed design, system verification and validation, economic evaluation, optimization, queuing theory, control methods, and human factors. It also explores critical design considerations such as reliability, maintainability, supportability, producibility, disposability, affordability, and systems engineering management, providing students with a holistic understanding of how complex systems are engineered and sustained over time.
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1 Systems Science and Engineering
- Chapter 2 Bringing Systems Into Being
- Chapter 3 Conceptual System Design
- Chapter 4 Preliminary System Design
- Chapter 5 Detail Design and Development
- Chapter 6 System Test, Evaluation, and Validation
- Chapter 7 Alternatives and Models in Decision Making
- Chapter 8 Models For Economic Evaluation
- Chapter 9 Optimization in Design and Operations
- Chapter 10 Queuing Theory and Analysis
- Chapter 11 Control Concepts and Methods
- Chapter 12 Design for Reliability
- Chapter 13 Design for Maintainability
- Chapter 14 Design For Usability (Human Factors)
- Chapter 15 Design for Logistics and Supportability
- Chapter 16 Design for Producibility and Disposability,
- Chapter 17 Design for Affordability (Life-cycle Costing)
- Chapter 18 Systems Engineering Planning and Organization
- Chapter 19 Program Management, Control, and Evaluation
- Index
