SYSTEM ENGINEERING (SE)
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The power of System Engineering (SE) is so immense that it could only have come from the gods (Davius?). SE, critical to CAV-System success, is explained here and highlighted on subsequent pages. One SE concept is to divide a system into subsystems and to design interfaces between the subsystems. Each designer stays within his area and designs his subsystem to conform to all interfaces. While staying within an assigned area might, at first glance, appear to limit the designer, a SE framework such as a layered network architecture with stable interfaces, allows one engineer to cooperate effectively with engineers in other layers to build continually improving systems.
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Davius' fourth Commandment
Think inside the box, system engineering. Davius is keenly aware of the failure of numerous, ingenious research efforts to transition into the real world because the researchers did not have access to a SE framework in which to embed their results. This saddened Davius so much that he issued the above commandment. Of course, as every cultured person knows, Davius only controls transportation systems, such as freeways, where his fourth commandment is law. |
Definitions
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System: a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole
Engineering: the application of science [technology] and math by which the properties of matter and the sources of energy in nature are made useful to people Systems Engineering: an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design and manage complex systems over their life cycles. System Life Cycle
SE is discussed at a very high-level, based on the system life cycle, in the next three sections:
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