ESD.34 | January IAP 2007 | Graduate

System Architecture

Course Description

This course covers principles and methods for technical System Architecture. It presents a synthetic view including: the resolution of ambiguity to identify system goals and boundaries; the creative process of mapping form to function; and the analysis of complexity and methods of decomposition and re-integration. …
This course covers principles and methods for technical System Architecture. It presents a synthetic view including: the resolution of ambiguity to identify system goals and boundaries; the creative process of mapping form to function; and the analysis of complexity and methods of decomposition and re-integration. Industrial speakers and faculty present examples from various industries. Heuristic and formal methods are presented. Restricted to SDM (System Design and Management) students.
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Diagram of a skateboard and photo of the space shuttle.
The concepts and practice of system architecture are relevant to the design of both simple products, like a skateboard, and highly complex systems, like the Space Shuttle. (Skateboard by MIT OCW. Space Shuttle photo courtesy of NASA.)