Teaching – Essential Systems Architecture and Engineering ©

Over the past decade, Prof Charles Dickerson and Prof Andrew Bradly, have put their life-time knowledge and experience gained in Systems Engineering best practice from industry and research into a set of coherent lectures including Holistic Engineering, Systems Architecture, Systems Design, and Systems Verification and Validation. With the assistance from Dr Siyuan Ji, they are putting together a book targeting at students, teachers, and practitioner. The book will be available in mid-2019.

Below is a teaser for the book

This book is for every Engineer and Applied Scientist, and their supervisors: both students at university and practicing professionals. The current interest in systems has grown out of the successes of operations research in World War II and the appearance of "computing engines". It then spread rapidly in defense systems and aerospace about 50 years ago. However, the subject remains cloaked in a sense of mystery and jargon that seems to exclude practicing engineers as well as their management from accessing benefits of the original successes. This need not be the case for you, the reader.

The systems viewpoint seeks to understand something of interest as an integrated whole comprised of interrelated parts. Neither the whole object nor its parts are the sole subject of interest. This is the Essential Systems Idea. The fundamental concepts and principles of systems are simple and intuitive. They are readily understandable by anyone who will take a little time to read and reflect upon them. 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 an advanced understanding of architecture and systems engineering through the concepts, methods, and case studies in this book; and you will gain insight and skills for practical application.