George Mason University
School of Information Technology and Engineering
Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research
Spring 2008
SYST513-001-13177
Total Systems
Engineering, Reengineering, and Enterprise Integration
7:20 pm - 10:00 pm Wednesdays – ENT 278 - Jan 23,
2008 – May 7, 2008
Syllabus
Professor: Dr. Tan N. Nguyen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DrTanNguyen
Tel: 703-993-1670 Mobile Phone: 703-338-7935 -Office Hours: By appointment
E-mail: tnguy1@gmu.edu
(please cc: drtannguyen@gmail.com)
Home Page: Class Web Site: http://webct.gmu.edu (required username and password)
Public Web Sites: http://classweb.gmu.edu/tnguy1
or http://www.gmu.edu/departments/seor/syllabi/spring08.htm
Course Description: Prerequisite: SYST 510 or SYST 520.
Principles of strategic quality, including TQM. Quality standards including ISO9000 and 14000. Organizational leadership, cultures, and process maturity,
reengineering. Quality, organization learning and
reengineering approaches to enable information integration and management and
environment and framework integration in the systems engineering of knowledge
intensive systems. Emphasis is placed on the role of integrated product
and process design teams, standard and commercial off the shelf products in
enterprise integration. Architecture driven system characteristics are studied,
as is transition management of legacy systems. Case studies of some current
U.S. Federal governmental or commercial enterprises are presented. In addition,
the professor will present topics related to "real-life" enterprise
architecture, enterprise integration, systems engineering, enterprise
engineering, and some practical issues with solutions from his experience in
large scale systems development, operating systems, data communications,
computer networks, and distributed systems integration.
Honor Code
Honor Code procedures will be strictly adhered. Students are required to be
familiar with the honor code. You must not utilize unauthorized material or
consultation in responding to your tests, homework, and assignments.
There are several web sites that published homework solutions, project examples,
etc. Numerous professors used the publisher’s homework solutions as
standard grading keys and published the solutions on the Internet. You
may use those solutions as references but you are not allowed to copy
them. Violations of the honor code will be reported. Obvious honor code
violations (exact copy of work, etc) will be graded as 0/100 (zero percent).
Textbook
Required (T1): Systems Engineering, Principles and Practice by
Alexander Kossiakoff and William N. Sweet, John Wiley
and Sons, 2003.
Reference (T2): Andrew P. Sage, Systems Management for Information
Technology and Software Engineering.
Reference (T3): Enterprise Integration - Paperback: 288
pages, Wiley; First edition (April 16, 2001), ISBN-10: 0471359939 or ISBN-13:
978-0471359937
References: Defense Acquisition Guidebook, DoD web site: https://akss.dau.mil/dag/TOC_GuideBook.asp?sNode=R4-0&Exp=Y
, Chapters 4 and 11.
References: Lectures and assigned materials will be made available on
the GMU web site (http://webct.gmu.edu) and
other WWW locations.
Grades
25% - Midterm, 30% Final, 25% - term paper, 20% - homework assignments. Two exams will be given, one approximately at
the middle of the semester and one at the end of the semester. There will
be a term paper assignment on total systems engineering and 4 homework
assignments.
The following table is used to convert the final numerical grade to a letter
grade:
|
Grade G |
Letter Grade |
|
[96,100] |
A+ or A |
|
[92,96) |
A- |
|
[87,92) |
B+ |
|
[82,87) |
B |
|
[77,82) |
B- |
|
[51,77) |
C |
|
[0, 50) |
F |
IMPORTANT NOTE: It requires an exceptionally challenging
performance to earn 92% or greater
Schedule:
1. Jan 23:
Course overview, administrative matters, and introduction
2, 3. Jan 30 & Feb 6: Part I: Total Systems Engineering Foundations
(Tan Lectures and Ref: Chapters 1-4, T1), HW
1 Released Feb 6
4, 5. Feb 13 & Feb 20:
Part II: Concept Development (Tan Lectures and Ref: Chapters 5-7), HW #1 Due Feb 20.
6.
Feb 27: Part III: Engineering
Development (Tan Lectures and Ref: Chapters 8-10) and Topics in
7.
Mar 5: Post-Development (Tan
Lecture and Ref: Chapters 11 and 12)
********** Note: Spring Break - March 12,
2008 – No class **********
8. Mar 19: Midterm Exam - HW2 Due March 19 – Term Paper
Outlines Due
9, 10. Mar 26 & April 2: Strategic Quality Assurance and Management
Practices and Trends (Tan Lectures and Ref. Chapter 6, T2) HW3 Released Mar 26
11, 12. April 9 & April 16:
Organizational Leadership, Cultures, and Process Maturity – Lean Process
and Six Sigma (Tan Lectures and Ref. Chapter 7, T2) HW3 Due April 9- HW #4 Release April 16
13, 14. April 23 & 30:
Reengineering (Tan Lectures and Chapter 8, T2) HW4 due April 30 – Term Paper Due April 30.
15. May 7, 2008 - Final Exam