NSYS-6131 Systems Integration and Test
(SY 562)
Note: The following provides a suggested course description,
objectives, and an outline. These may be modified pending discussion with
the Faculty Chairs, proposing faculty, and other curriculum reviewers.
Representative Course Description:
Highlights decisions to be made in choosing engineering processes. Aids
understanding of strategies to use for designing, integrating, testing,
and validating products and systems. Topics include overview of the
systems engineering activities; synthesis of solutions; integration of
knowledge and requirements; verification and validation of the system; and
managing these engineering areas.
Representative Course Objectives:
This course helps students understand issues in engineering and testing
products and systems. This course focuses from synthesis through
verification and validation. Students gain insight into designing and
delivering systems and products faster, with fewer resources, and less
risk to the enterprise and its customers.
Representative Course Topical Areas:
- A brief review of the systems engineering activities with a focus on
synthesis, or selection of solutions as pertinent to integration and
test considerations.
- Requirements flow-down and its relationship to the test requirement
development.
- Systems integration - integrating engineering knowledge to produce
the best engineering decisions. A systems engineer must understand the
benefits and key products of specialty engineering. These specialty
knowledge areas include: life cycle cost; supportability; reliability;
maintainability; human engineering; safety; electromagnetic
compatibility; testability; software; producibility and
manufacturability; value analysis; and design to cost. (Note these
topics are also covered in SY 740 NT and should be developed to
complement or as a review of that course)
- The course completes integration by studying requirements
integration, interface development, architectures of solutions, and
systems considerations such as standardization, grounding, and power
distribution.
- Verification and validation - development testing and the
relationships among risks and testing. This area covers the testing of
units, systems, acceptance tests, qualification tests, and burn-ins.
- Operational testing for commercial and government systems.
- Test and evaluation - a Test and Evaluation Master Plan and how to
write a Test and Evaluation Master Plan. Various government test
organizations and facilities. Also the documentation requirements for
working with these agencies. Costing and scheduling techniques for test
and evaluation are presented. Practical examples of good test planning
techniques are discussed.
Prerequisite Knowledge:
None required.
