Systems Engineering Demystified: A practitioner's handbook for developing complex systems using a model-based approach

by Jon Holt

Get to grips with systems engineering life cycles, processes, and best practices and discover techniques to successfully develop complex systems Systems engineering helps us to understand, specify, and develop complex systems, and is applied across a wide set of disciplines. As systems and their associated problems become increasingly complex in this evermore connected world, the need for more rigorous, demonstrable, and repeatable techniques also increases. Written by Professor Jon Holt – an internationally recognized systems engineering expert – this book provides a blend of technical and business aspects you need to understand in order to develop successful systems. You'll start with systems engineering basics and understand the complexity, communication, and different stakeholders' views of the system. The book then covers essential aspects of model-based systems engineering, systems, life cycles, and processes, along with techniques to develop systems. Moving on, you'll explore system models and visualization techniques, focusing on the SysML, and discover how solutions can be defined by developing effective system design, verification, and validation techniques. The book concludes by taking you through key management processes and systems engineering best practices and guidelines. By the end of this systems engineering book, you'll be able to confidently apply modern model-based systems engineering techniques to your own systems and projects. This book is for aspiring systems engineers, engineering managers, or anyone looking to apply systems engineering practices to their systems and projects. While a well-structured, model-based approach to systems engineering is an essential skill for engineers of all disciplines, many companies are finding that new graduates have little understanding of systems engineering. This book helps you acquire this skill with the help of a simple and practical approach to developing successful systems. No prior knowledge of systems engineering or modeling is required to get started with this book.

468 pages, Paperback

Published January 29, 2021

Reviews

[Christoph Kappel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a rather lenghty book, which goes full circle and explains SE with SE and sysML with sysML. I kind of like this approach, although I am quite puzzled how to actually start.

Further read is probably required, but for me it was a good introduction into the whole idea, which covers lots of ground I am used to in e.g. like architecture documentation.