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Title: Systems Engineering at Purdue: A work in progress


1
Systems Engineering at Purdue A work in progress
  • 03 April 2008 at USC
  • CESUN Meetings Day 2 - Panel Discussion
  • prepared by Prof. Bill Crossley
    (crossley_at_purdue.edu)School of Aeronautics and
    Astronautics
  • Chair of System of Systems Signature Area
  • and Prof. Vince Duffy (duffy_at_purdue.edu)
  • School of Industrial Engineering Ag. Bio. Eng.
  • Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering

2
Recent Purdue SE discussion / thinking
3
Purdue Activities Related to Systems Engineering
  • System of Systems signature area
  • Trans-disciplinary research initiative
    originated by AAE faculty member
  • College-level, involves faculty in several
    schools
  • AAE Aerospace Systems area
  • Research and curriculum for design, development,
    operation of aerospace systems (aircraft,
    spacecraft, etc.)
  • Within AAE involves plans of study, shared
    research interests, PhD qualifying examination
  • Systems Engineering education
  • Educational support to SoS research
  • Address external stakeholder needs for graduate
    education in SE
  • Could be college-level, currently AAE-led,
    support offered from ProEd

AAE Aerospace Systems area
System of Systems signature area
Systems Engineering education
4
Stakeholder / Customer Push for SE
  • Industry and government employers looking for
    systems engineers
  • Aerospace / defense organizations
  • Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General
    Motors, BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, GE Aircraft
    Engines, NASA, USAF
  • Other engineering / product development
    companies
  • Cummins, General Motors, International Truck
  • Student interest developing around new course
    offerings
  • Purdue Alumni at companies are earning graduate
    SE degrees from other universities
  • Crossroads of America (IN / IL) chapter of INCOSE
    actively engaging Purdue have twice hosted
    mini-conference on campus
  • Involvement with Lean Aerospace Initiative
    highlights need for systems engineering
  • Student interest in systems engineering topics
    and in academic programs linked to SoS signature
    area

5
Plans for SE Academics at Purdue
  • Interactions to gain best practices and to see
    potential models with
  • Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Cummins, NASA
  • Air Force Systems Engineering Center of
    Excellence
  • CESUN
  • AERO (Aerospace Education, Research, Operations)
    Institute in Palmdale, CA
  • Center of Excellence in Systems Engineering at
    Indiana-Purdue Ft. Wayne
  • Purdue Engineering Professional Education (ProEd)
  • Offers graduate courses, non-thesis MSE degrees
    to distance-learning students
  • Fall 2007, offered GRAD 597N Introduction to
    Systems Engineering
  • Instructor, Dr. Dan Surber, Principal Engineer of
    Systems Engineering and Systems Safety
    Engineering Division at Raytheon Technical
    Services, Indianapolis, IN
  • Taught using studio facility at IUPUI in
    Indianapolis
  • Available only to distance-learning students for
    Fall 07 intend to have available for on-campus
    West Lafayette students Fall 09
  • New Engineering Management and Leadership MSE
    degree specialization
  • Plans of study will contain 9 credits of systems
    engineering topics
  • Common SE courses to support ProEd MSE
    specialization and on-campus area of concentration

6
Options for SE Academics at Purdue
  • Three major options
  • Area of concentration
  • Students earn MS degree from traditional
    engineering program
  • Certificate
  • Post-baccalaureate course work, fewer credits
    than MS degree
  • MS degree in Systems Engineering
  • Non-thesis option likely thesis option possible
  • Prevailing attitudes favor Graduate Area of
    Concentration in SE
  • Most Purdue on-campus students have little
    previous work experience
  • Often cited as necessary prerequisite for
    graduate degree in Systems Engineering
  • Re-emphasized in discussions with Mike Griffin,
    NASA Administrator
  • Comparative ease of implementation
  • No new school or department
  • No (or few) new additional faculty
  • Several existing Areas of Concentration to
    provide template

7
Potential Graduate Area of Concentration
  • Students earn graduate degree from existing
    school
  • For example, MS AAE, MS CE, MS ME, etc.
  • Total of 30 credits (all course work, if
    non-thesis option 21 credits course work with
    thesis option)
  • Systems Engineering area of concentration appears
    on transcript
  • Students take three to four SE courses (nine to
    12 credits) from an approved list
  • Choose from a core list covering SE topics and
    a related list with discipline-specific topics
  • Need to leverage GRAD 597N Introduction to
    Systems Engineering course as a core course
  • Several precedents exist for this
  • Software Engineering - cooperation between
    Computer Science and Engineering (across
    Colleges) one of the most visible

8
Potential Certificate Program
  • Post-graduate studies resulting in an awarded
    certificate
  • 12 or 15 credits (four or five courses) in
    Systems Engineering
  • Courses from same list of courses that could be
    used in area of concentration (at graduate school
    level, not short courses)
  • Precedents exist for this
  • Digital Signal Processing from EE, as an example
  • Quality Engineering program under development as
    interdisciplinary
  • Purdue Engineering Professional Education (ProEd)
    helping to coordinate new certificates
  • Enables off-campus students to pursue advanced
    study
  • A lower-commitment than direct entry in MS program

9
Graduate Degree in Systems Engineering
  • Would require an entire SE curriculum
  • 30 course credits for MS non-thesis, 21 for MS
    thesis option
  • Likely need several new courses
  • Faculty needed to serve as advisory committee
    chairs and members
  • Thesis topics in SE maybe more difficult to
    define
  • Should include some sort of SE practice / case
    study / similar as formal part of program
  • Somewhat more challenging to implement
  • New faculty likely needed
  • New program or department needed

10
SE-related Courses on Campus
  • Many engineering faculty have teaching and
    research interests aligned with systems
    engineering
  • Systems engineering-related courses are currently
    available on campus
  • Predominately graduate (dual 500) level courses
  • Focus is usually discipline-specific (e.g.
    aerospace systems, civil engineering systems)
  • Purdue strengths in operations research,
    optimization, systems modeling and analyses

11
A Sampling of Current SE-relevant Courses
  • AAE 550 Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
  • Basics of numerical optimization. Calculus-based
    techniques for univariate and multivariate
    optimization. Constrained and unconstrained
    optimization methods. Global optimization
    methods. Multi-objective optimization. Recent
    multidisciplinary design optimization.
  • Applications of methods and techniques to
    representative engineering problems, culminating
    in a final project.
  • AAE 551 Design Theory and Methods for Aerospace
    Systems
  • Introduction to design theory, aerospace design
    process, design specification and requirements,
    concept generation and selection, design
    decomposition, improving designs, process design,
    concurrent engineering, and design for X.
  • Projects allow for application and analysis of
    design methods.

12
A Sampling of Current SE-relevant Courses
  • CE 594 Transportation Systems Analysis
  • Planning, design, operation, and management of
    transportation systems. Aims to impart a systems
    perspective to transportation problems.
  • Incorporates concepts from economics,
    engineering, operations research, management,
    psychology, and public policy analysis.
  • CE 660 Demand Analysis And Forecasting
  • Analysis and forecasting of demand for facilities
    and services, for use in the planning, design,
    and operations of transportation systems.
    Emphasis on the collection and analysis of survey
    data for demand model development.
  • Covers alternative sample designs, individual
    choice theories, probabilistic discrete choice
    models, estimation of disaggregate and aggregate
    models, and aggregate forecasting methods and
    simulation.

13
A Sampling of Current SE-relevant Courses
  • ME 553 Product and Process Design
  • Principles of product and process development to
    produce a marketable product, a preliminary
    business strategy and prototype.
  • Team-based project course A market analysis,
    design parameters, manufacturing prototype plan,
    production process plan, and a business strategy
    will be developed by project team.
  • ME 557 Design for Manufacture
  • Topics include the product development cycle,
    manufacturing process selection, tolerancing,
    quality function deployment (QFD), design for
    assembly (DFA), quality control techniques,
    Taguchi's robust design methodology, life cycle
    engineering, and reliability.
  • Laboratory projects in the area of tolerancing,
    assembly, and manufacturability are included.

14
A Sampling of Current SE-relevant Courses
  • ME 571 Reliability Based Design
  • Basic concepts of probability and random
    variables. Time-dependent reliability models.
    Strength-based reliability and interference
    theory. Weakest-link and fail-safe systems.
    Extremal distributions. Monte Carlo methods.
    Maintainability and availability. Fault tree
    analysis. Quality control and reliability.
  • Relevant courses available from other departments
    / schools include (but are not limited to)
  • ECE computer systems, power systems, distributed
    systems
  • IE operations research
  • MGMT new product design, total quality management

15
A Sampling of Current SE-relevant Courses
  • IE 656A Design of IT Systems
  • Research seminar providing understanding of
    human-computer interaction theory and research
    methodologies with emphasis on human factors for
    systems with a variety of industrial application.
  • IE656B Modeling Healthcare Systems
  • Research seminar providing bridge between human
    factors, systems and healthcare for improved
    clinical performance, healthcare delivery and
    patient safety systems.
  • IE656C Digital Human Modeling
  • Research seminar focused on advancing
    computer-aided engineering tools to provide
    visualization and math/science that enable human
    factors and ergonomics considerations earlier in
    the design process.
  • Each of the IE656 courses is focused on helping
    graduate students learn the research process.

16
Next Steps for Purdue SE
  • Purdue participants to move forward with
    formalizing and gaining approval for Systems
    Engineering area of concentration
  • Formalize SE curriculum/ academic advisory
    council
  • Analog to school industrial advisory council
  • Industry and government SE experts to help craft
    programs, provide continuous improvement
  • Leverage ProEds Introduction to Systems
    Engineering course
  • Serve as core course, independent of specific
    disciplines
  • Facilitate on-campus student enrollment
  • Identify opportunities for case study and SE
    practice as part of academic studies
  • Requires input and collaboration from industry /
    government advisory council and other partners

17
Continue cooperation to better serve Ph.D.
program development
  • Internally consider Branding what level of
    recognition is needed now (vs. what may happen
    more naturally with time)
  • what may quicken that impact (eg. rankings
    funding success of junior faculty hires
    continued communication/support between and
    within consider ES/SE in ENGR 2020 education
    initiatives)
  • Opportunities to share experience with new AAE
    home- building developed for cross-disciplinary
    engineering and research Neil Armstrong Hall of
    Engineering
  • Continue hiring/recruiting faculty across
    Engineering Schools (depts). Including AAE,
    Civil, Industrial Eng.
  • https//engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/
  • SoS has hired 2 faculty over the last 3 years
    interviewing now - will hire this 1 year 2 in
    coming 2-4 years.
  • IE alone has 9 faculty positions remaining (hired
    3 in the past year interviewed 10 this semester
    will likely hire 3 this year)
  • Head Search - Industrial Engineering - position
    announcement

18
ES/SE Program Development Challenges
  • At M.S. level
  • there are obvious new program opportunities to
    meet external demand
  • however, junior faculty time spent in new course
    prep for grad level courses that primarily have
    non-research track students can be (justifiably)
    questioned by senior faculty concerned about long
    term School/College interests
  • At Ph.D. level
  • New faculty hires require awareness among
    existing faculty about potential impact of
    multi-disciplinary trans-disciplinary and/or
    cross-disciplinary research
  • A blending of research cultures (across
    disciplines) and faculty generations is
    occurring
  • consideration of breadth vs. depth can be
    supported by faculty cooperation yet, junior
    faculty may be evaluated somewhat by their
    ability to develop their research portfolios more
    independently
  • continual balancing of preconceived notions of
    need within the College with perspectives on
    excellence eg. know it when you see it.
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