Prentice Hall International Series in Industrial & Systems Engineering: Systems Engineering and Analysis

For senior-level undergraduate and first and second year graduate systems engineering and related courses. Systems Engineering and Analysis 5/e provides a total life-cycle approach to systems and their analysis. This practical introduction to systems engineering and analysis provides the concepts methodologies models and tools needed to understand and implement a total life-cycle approach to systems and their analysis. The authors focus first on the process of bringing systems into being--beginning with the identification of a need and extending that need through requirements determination functional analysis and allocation design synthesis evaluation and validation operation and support phase-out and disposal. Next the authors discuss the improvement of systems currently in being showing that by employing the iterative process of analysis evaluation feedback and modification most systems in existence can be improved in their affordability effectiveness and stakeholder satisfaction.