COURSE: INTRODUCTION IN SYSTEM ENGINEERING

Mark Sh. Levin

The College of Judea and Samaria (Now: Ariel University Center)
Faculty of Engineering (Ariel, Israel)
Febr. 1999 - June 1999.

Goals

In the course, the following is studied:
(i) fundamentals of system life cycle,
(ii) issues of systems engineering/management,
(iii) system analysis,
(iv) multicriteria decision making,
(v) applications (case studies and applied projects).

Structure:

1. Lectures
2. Intermediate test work
3. Team student projects

Students:

1. S. Inon
2. A. Shiff
3. R. Shraga
4. H. Zamir
5. E. Ben-Ezri
6. O. Blonder
7. A. Shem-Tov
8. N. Lev
9. K. Hershkovits

Team Projects:

Project 1. "Multicriteria design of product trajectory: Example"
Students: S. Inon, A. Shiff, R. Shraga, H. Zamir
Presentation: National Meeting on Operations Research, ORSIS, Israel, Eilat, May 2000.

Project 2. "Hierarchical design of life cycle"
Students: E. Ben-Ezri, O. Blonder, A. Shem-Tov, N. Lev, K. Hershkovits
Presentation: 15th Int. Conf. on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM'2000),
Ankara, Turkey, Jule 2000.

Publications (talks) on the course:

1. M.Sh. Levin, Towards systems engineering education.
15th Eur. Meeting on Cybern. and Syst. Research EMCSR'2000,
Vienna, Austria, vol. 1, 257-262, 2000.

2. G.T. Lang, M.Sh. Levin, Multilevel approach to systems engineering education.
13th Int. Conf. on Syst. Eng. ICSE'1999, Las Vegas, USA, SE181-185, 1999.