Goal
Develop a systems engineering plan for a realistic project.
Project Deliverables
The project deliverables comprise 40% of the final grade for this course.
- Individual Project proposal (presentation and 1-page description) — 10%
- Mid-term team presentation — 10%
- Final team presentation — 20%
Detailed Overview
During Ses #3, each student will have 2 minutes to present a project proposal. After viewing all of the proposals, students need to form teams of 3-5. Each team must have the project idea originator. A team formation report (a one page report containing names of the team members and project idea) must be submitted by Ses #5.
Your team will make an 8-minute mid-term progress presentation during Ses #9. In this presentation, you will need to include (but are not limited to) the following topics:
- Project definition / problem statement
- Project scope
- Stakeholders and their needs
- System requirements
- Your planned approaches
- Challenges and issues that you face
During the final two sessions, your team will make a 20-minute final presentation on your project. In the final presentation, you should include (but are not limited to) the following topics:
- Problem definition
- Project scope
- Stakeholders and their needs
- Approaches you took
- System Engineering methods and tools used
- Different concepts you generated
- Concept selection process
- Final recommendation
- Reflection on what your team have learned about systems thinking
