Systems Engineering

A pyramid chart with foundations on the bottom, integration in the middle, and leadership on the top.

As shown above, this course is delivered as part of the SDM program, an integrated graduate program in System Design and Management. (Image courtesy of Daniel Frey.)

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MIT Course Number

ESD.33

As Taught In

Summer 2004

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

Course Features

Course Description

Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems. It focuses on defining customer needs and required functionality early in the development cycle, documenting requirements, then proceeding with design synthesis and reliability improvement while considering the complete problem including operations, performance, test, manufacturing, cost, and schedule. This course emphasizes the links of systems engineering to fundamentals of decision theory, statistics, and optimization. The course also introduces the most current, commercially successful techniques for systems engineering.

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Daniel Frey. ESD.33 Systems Engineering. Summer 2004. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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