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n. interdisciplinary field of engineering, focusing on the development, analysis and organization of complex systems.
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Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how to design and manage complex engineering systems over their life cycles. Issues such as requirements engineering, reliability, logistics, coordination of different teams, testing and evaluation, maintainability and many other disciplines necessary for successful system development, design, implementation, and ultimate decommission become more difficult when dealing with large or complex projects. Systems engineering deals with work-processes, optimization methods, and risk management tools in such projects. It overlaps technical and human-centered disciplines such as industrial engineering, control engineering, software engineering, organizational studies, and project management. Systems engineering ensures that all likely aspects of a project or system are considered, and integrated into a whole.
The systems engineering process is a discovery process that is quite unlike a manufacturing process. A manufacturing process is focused on repetitive activities that achieve high quality outputs with minimum cost and time. The systems engineering process must begin by discovering the real problems that need to be resolved, and identify the most probable or highest impact failures that can occur - systems engineering involves finding elegant solutions to these problems.
Usage examples of "systems engineering".
It placed little value on program management, contracting development work to industry, and the associated systems engineering skills.
Having passed her practicum with flying colorsdue as much to Sonny's tutelage as to the rigorous courses necessary to secure a psychotronic systems engineering degreeshe'd taken a job at Madison's spaceport, which was being rebuilt almost from the ground up.
Kuat Systems Engineering, a short-lived subsidiary of Kuat Drive Yards is sold to a group of investors thought to be Imperial loyalists.
The new Kuat Systems Engineering would be a pro New Republic company, although it's Vaathkree owners demanded top prices.
The crew was taken to the Food Systems Engineering Facility, for instance, where they were given samples of Shuttle food packs to try out, so they could select their own preferences.
Life-support systems engineering was far from Emma's area of expertise.