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A textbook designed to help graduate engineers studying system engineering, project management, or engineering management learn to think like systems engineers. It offers several different models of how the field works. Students are assumed to have a specialty in hardware or software.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Book Description
This classroom-tested approach is based on a successful course at Johns Hopkins University, originally developed to serve the needs of Westinghouse Co.
* Provides an excellent entry-level approach to understanding how to minimize complexity and maximize efficiency in industry and business.
* Each chapter will be accompanied by a set of problems to aid understanding.


From the Back Cover
A unique interdisciplinary guide to the engineering of complex systems Systems Engineering Principles and Practice is designed to help readers learn to think like systems engineers, to integrate user needs, technological opportunities, financial and schedule constraints, and the capabilities and ambitions of the engineering specialists who have to build the system. The book devotes particular attention to knowledge, skills, mindset, and leadership qualities needed to be successful professionals in the field. This book is an outgrowth of the Johns Hopkins University Master of Science Program in Engineering, developed to meet an urgent and expanding need for skilled systems engineering in industry and government. The authors, who have sixty years of collective experience in this field, were part of the curriculum design team as well as members of the initial faculty. The book is used to support four core courses in the curriculum, and has been exhaustively classroom tested. Systems Engineering Principles and Practice: Provides an excellent, pedagogically sound, entry-level approach to the subject Defines the breadth and depth of knowledge required by systems engineers Describes tools and techniques essential for development of complex systems Includes applied practical problems in every chapter to aid understanding This very readable book is an excellent resource for engineers, scientists, and project managers involved with systems engineering, as well as a useful textbook for short courses offered through industry seminars.


About the Author
ALEXANDER KOSSIAKOFF is a former director and current Chief Scientist of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and Program Chair of the MS program in Systems Engineering and Technical Management at GWC Whiting School of Engineering. WILLIAM N. SWEET, now retired, was Associate Department Head of the Fleet Systems Department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

FROM OUR EDITORS

The Barnes & Noble Review
Systems engineers must master a very diverse skill set in order to coordinate the complexities of developing a system capable of achieving a goal. There are user requirements to consider, as well as budget constraints, professional skill levels, technological capacities, and so much more. To achieve success as a system engineer, you must know the component parts and achieve the synergy of combining these parts into the whole.

This book consists of 14 chapters and five parts. The book provides an in-depth view of what one must know to successfully function as an engineer; and that is not surprising, considering the credentials and experience levels of the authors. The volume covers such areas as requirements analysis, work breakdown structures, prototyping, development, integration, testing, and installation. Each chapter also contains a summary, homework problems, and a bibliography. A glossary of important terms is also included. The chapter summaries are formatted to facilitate their use in lecture viewgraphs, making this book very usable in the classroom. John Vacca

John Vacca, the former computer security official (CSO) for NASA's space station program (Freedom), has written 38 books about advanced storage, computer security, and aerospace technology.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

A unique interdisciplinary guide to the engineering of complex systems

Systems Engineering Principles and Practice is designed to help readers learn to think like systems engineers, to integrate user needs, technological opportunities, financial and schedule constraints, and the capabilities and ambitions of the engineering specialists who have to build the system. The book devotes particular attention to knowledge, skills, mindset, and leadership qualities needed to be successful professionals in the field.

This book is an outgrowth of the Johns Hopkins University Master of Science Program in Engineering, developed to meet an urgent and expanding need for skilled systems engineering in industry and government. The authors, who have sixty years of collective experience in this field, were part of the curriculum design team as well as members of the initial faculty. The book is used to support four core courses in the curriculum, and has been exhaustively classroom tested.

Systems Engineering Principles and Practice:Provides an excellent, pedagogically sound, entry-level approach to the subjectDefines the breadth and depth of knowledge required by systems engineersDescribes tools and techniques essential for development of complex systemsIncludes applied practical problems in every chapter to aid understanding

This very readable book is an excellent resource for engineers, scientists, and project managers involved with systems engineering, as well as a useful textbook for short courses offered through industry seminars.

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