From the beginning of his five-year appointment as Royal Academy of Engineering Chair of Systems Engineering in 2007, Prof Charles Dickerson has sought to integrate his knowledge and experience gained from Systems Engineering research and best practice from industry into a coherent body of lectures on Model Based System Systems Engineering (MBSE). These have become three post graduate modules at Loughborough University:

  • Systems Architecture
  • Systems Design
  • Systems Verification & Validation.

These lectures are unique in their mathematical methods for model theory and a relational orientation towards architecture, analysis, and design of systems. The lectures combine mathematical rigor with practical real world case studies that students investigate using state of the art system modeling languages and tools.

FOUNDATIONAL TEXTBOOKS

Essential Architecture and Principles of Systems Engineering, Dickerson & Ji, Taylor & Francis Group CRC Press 2022.
Prof Dickerson and Dr Siyuan Ji codify their state of the art lectures for architecture, analysis and design of systems and systems of systems in this textbook. Heavily leveraging practical tutorials and case studies, students learn how to reason using rigorous mathematical and scientific methods to solve complex engineering problems. This book is for every Engineer and Applied Scientist, and their supervisors: both students at university and practicing professionals. The concepts and principles presented in this book will give you the essential knowledge to talk with systems engineering experts and understand what they do. If you aspire to be such an expert, you can gain insight and skills from the book for the practice of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).

Architecture and Principles of Systems Engineering, Dickerson & Mavris, Taylor & Francis Group CRC Press 2010.
Prof Dimitri Mavris at the Georgia Institute of Technology teamed with Prof Dickerson to integrate their advanced engineering principles and practices for architecture, analysis and design of aerospace and defence systems. Heavily leveraging practical case studies, this work captured key concepts of the transition from the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Model Driven Architecture (MDA) for software systems to the System Modeling Language (SysML) and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) for engineered systems.