ENES 489p Special Topics in Engineering:
Systems Engineering Projects

This hands-on design projects course will expose senior-level undergraduate and graduate-level students from all areas of engineering to exciting career opportunities in the systems engineering field. Students will be introduced to the technical aspects of systems engineering practice through team-based project development and a systematic step-by-step procedure for product development that includes working with a real-world customer to define operations concepts, requirements gathering and organization, synthesis of models of system behavior and system structure, functional allocation to create system design alternatives, formal assessment of design alternatives through tradeoff analysis, and established approaches to testing and validation/verification.

Course Contents

The course will consist of lectures and hands-on project development in the laboratory. The laboratory work will include working with a real-world customer (industry and government experts) to define the project operational concepts and requirements, formulation of visual models, and formulation of design alternatives suitable for tradeoff analysis.

Course Outline

  • Introduction to Systems Engineering
  • Systems Engineering Drivers
  • Systems Engineering Development
  • Foundations for Model-Based Systems Engineering
  • UML and SysML
  • Working with Parametric Diagrams
  • Modeling System Structure and Behavior
  • Multi-Objective Optimization and Tradeoff Analysis
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    Lectures and Labs

    Lectures (Thursdays) will be a combination of lectures and demonstrations. Reading assignments will be announced beforehand so that students can prepare for class. Labs (Tuesdays) will provide students with the opportunity to practice skills with feedback from the instructor or TA. Students will use MagicDraw software to build models. This software is available in the lab and student licenses will be available.

    Design Project

    Students will form teams (nominally 4 students) to design a system using a model-based systems engineering process. The design team can select the system to be designed or choose from a list of projects provided by industry or faculty mentors. Project is subject to instructor approval.

    A conference will be held on Tuesday, April 28, 2015, at 3:00 pm in AV Williams 2460. Every design team will make a short presentation on their project.

    Homework

    There will be a series of ~7 assignments that will be assigned/performed during lab, and due before the next Thursday lecture.

    Grading

  • Mid-semester project report (10%)
  • Term project and presentation (50%)
  • Midterm exam(10%)
  • Homework (20%)
  • Final exam (10%)
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    Lecture Schedule

    Click to download schedule here.

    Lecture 1 Slides (9/2/2014)
    Project Update Report (due 3/24/2015)

    Projects

    For a list of ideas check out the 489p Projects Marketplace.

    Project Submission Guidelines Here

    Lab Session 1: 3:30-5:00 pm
    Lab Session 2: 5:00-6:30 pm

    Team 1: Smart Fridge
    Team 2: Microwave Optimization
    Team 3: Bicycle-Powered Charger
    Team 4: Floating Swarm Sensor Network
    Team 5: Smart Bike Charger*
    Team 6: Smart Garbage Can
    Team 7: Low-Cost UAVs for Building Inspections
    Team 8: Free Space Optical Communications
    Team 9: Voice Normalizer
    Team 10: Microwave Optimization
    Team 11: Self-Driving Car

    Contact

    Instructor: Huan Xu
    3180 Glenn L. Martin Building
    College Park, MD 20742
    Phone: +1 301 405 1133
    Email: mumu@umd.edu

    TA: Leonard Petnga
    2245 AV Williams Building
    College Park, MD 20742
    Phone: +1 301 405 6579
    Email: lpetnga@umd.edu