Instructor: Prof. George L. Donohue

Room: S&T II, 121

Ext. 32093

e-mail: gdonohue@gmu.edu Web Page http://mason.gmu.edu/~gdonohue/

Office Hours: Thursday 13:00 to 15:30

Class: Thursday 16:30 to 19:20 Rm ENT 173

Teaching Assistant: Will Laska, Office: Central Module (Bld 4) Rm 13, x33562 , Hrs: M, 09:00-12:00

Text: B. S. Blanchard, Systems Engineering Management, 2^nd Ed. 1998, John Wiley & Sons ($79.00)

Case Study: F. P. Brooks, The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Ed., 1995, Addison-Wesley ($24.95)

CD-ROM: Integrated Product Process Development (IPPD), Georgia Institute of Technology, US Navy, National Center for Advanced Technologies, 1250 Eye St. NW, Suite 1100, Washington DC, 20005, (202)371-8458, ncat@ncat.com, http://www.ncat.com/ ( )

• Introduce students to systems engineering management methods that can be used to develop and produce well-integrated, cost-effective, high-quality systems which satisfy customer needs. Introduce the importance of LEADERSHIP to the management process.

• Learn the entire system life-cycle from requirements determination and conceptual design, through preliminary and detailed design, production and/or construction, operational use, product support, and ultimately system retirement;

• Become familiar with the use of the System Engineering Management Plan (SEMP), work breakdown structure (WBS), program schedules, and cost projections;

• Define the role of the systems engineering manager.

• Introduction to the Systems Engineering Management (SEM) Process
• Organizing and working as a Team
• Requirements Determination and Tracking
• Project Management and Technical Control Specifications
• Estimating - Activity Based Costing
• Cost and Schedule Management

Work Breakdown Structures

CPM/PERT

• System Engineering Management Plans (SEMPs)
• Life-Cycle Cost, Supportability, Reliability
• Maintainability, Human Engineering, Safety
• Testing, Manufacturing, Production, and Design to Cost
• Conflict Resolution

• Preparation and submission of a major program proposal to include conceptualization, requirement specification, preliminary conceptual design, plan for prototype development, preliminary test plan, product refinement phase, production, warranty and technology refresh cycle;

• All work will be completed in and out of class by competitive teams;

• Each individual will maintain a Project Journal that tracks the proposal completion and a short summary report that analyzes the SEM practices of the project. The journal grade and report will represent 30% of the grade for the final.

• The last 30 min to 1 hour of each class will be used for project work;

• The proposals will be presented and the system engineering management process diagnosed during the last two class sessions (12/ 2 /99&12/ 9/99)

• Propose to Major automobile manufacturer an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) onboard Traffic Information Transceiver and Display system. Your company will design, develop and maintain warranty of the subsystem to be included in their high end product line. You will be establishing a long-term relationship and will be expected to maintain technology refresh options for up to 10 years. Include cost and schedule for design, development, warranty repair and technology refresh. Include level 3 WBS and CPM/PERT in proposal to justify cost proposal. Proposals will be ranked: 1^st -30 points, 2^nd -27 points, 3^rd -23 points, 4^th -19 points, 5^th -15 points toward your final grade.
• Background data: http://www.odetics.com/itsarch/ and http://www.echoflight.com/

Introduction to the Systems Engineering Management Process

Read Chapter 5 Blanchard: The Design Review and Evaluation pp. 207 – 228

Class Discussion on System Engineering Management , Final Exam Review