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Systems Engineering
and Management

Course No. 420

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For Whom Intended  This course is designed to assist program and project managers, engineering managers, and development project engineers to understand the systems engineering process—its structure and methodology, decision making techniques, and the systems engineering disciplines involved in the planning design, and development of large scale engineering systems.

Objectives  Completion of this course gives participants practical and basic knowledge of management concepts and skills prerequisite to effectively participating either directly as members of the Program/Project Management Off ice (PMO) staff or in a support role to the PMO staff. Emphasis can be placed on 1) Avionics systems engineering, 2) DoD weapons systems engineering and/or 3) Management Information Systems (MIS) projects such as hardware and software upgrades, new hardware and software acquisitions and development.

Brief Course Description  This course covers Reliability aspects of Systems Engineering: reliability, maintainability, and safety design considerations; integrated logistic support considerations; test and evaluation; cost as a design parameters; and workshops and case studies.

Because of the highly interactive format, a semester long course can be presented and should be understood in this time frame. The instructor welcomes questions and comments during lectures. Private discussions can be arranged between instructor and participants after class. There will be a final exam which will be used to evaluate the students understanding of the course material presented.

Certificate Programs  This course may be used as an elective for any TTi Specialist Certificate program.

Prerequisites  There are no specific prerequisites. This course is aimed toward individuals actively involved in related technical fields. This course is designed to serve the varied needs of technicians and engineers. The instructor maintains a good balance between practical training and theory, wherever possible.

Text  Each student will receive a course workbook, including most of the viewgraphs used in the course presentation.

Course Hours, Certificate and CEUs  Open courses meet seven hours per day. Upcoming presentation dates can be found on our current open course schedule. Class hours/days for on-site courses can vary from 14-35 hours over 2-5 days as requested by our clients. Upon successful course completion, each participant receives a certificate of completion and one Continuing Education Unit (CEU) for every ten class hours.

Course Outline No. 420

• Introduction
• Reliability: Introduction
  • Application
  • Purpose
  • History of reliability
  • Importance of reliability
  • Reliability elements
    • Requirements
    • Specifications
    • Reliability Plan
    • Reliability design
    • Reliability Test
    • Environmental Qualification
  • Reliability Specifications and Standards
  • Reliability Test and Evaluation
  • Test Design
  • Test Instrumentation
  • Test Facilities
  • Reliability Analysis
    • Probability
    • Distributions
    • Practical application
  • Failure Analysis
  • Reliability Data Bases
  • The Acquisition Process and Associated Reliability Effort
  • Quality and Reliability
  • Accelerated Reliability Testing
  • Class Problem — Develop a Reliability Program Plan
• Maintainability
  • The Naval Aviation Maintenance Program
  • Missiles
  • Targets
  • Avionics
  • Specification
  • Assessment
  • Class problem — Plan a maintainability demonstration
• Safety Design
  • General safety considerations
  • Flight safety
  • Ordnance safety
  • Industrial safety
  • Risk assessment
  • Class Problem — Develop a risk assessment—a missile launch
• Integrated Logistics Support
  • ILS elements
  • ILS considerations
  • Weapons
  • Electronic warfare
  • Targets
  • Class problem — Develop an ILS plan
• Test And Evaluation
  • DOD Policy and Navy Implementation
  • Developmental T&E — Operational T&E — Production T&E
    • Purpose
    • Participants and roles
  • Considerations
  • Case histories
  • Class problem — Develop a TEMP (Test and Evaluation Master Plan)
• Design To Cost
  • Concept
  • Application
  • Emphasis in Army—several examples
  • Navy example—The 75K missile
• Summary and overview
• Final Examination
• Award of Certificates for successful completion

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