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COURSE TEXTBOOK

Kossiakoff, A. Sweet, W.N., Systems Engineering Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, 2003. ISBN: 0471234435.

REFERENCE TEXTBOOKS

Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering Fundamentals: http://www.dau.mil/pubs/gdbks/sys_eng_fund.asp

Blanchard, B.S. and Fabrycky, W.J., Systems Engineering and Analysis, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2005. ISBN: 0131869779.

Chapman, W. L., Bahill, A. T., and Wymore, A.W., Wymore, A.W.), Engineering Modeling and Design, CRC Press Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 1992.

Sage, A.P. and J.E. Armstrong Jr., Introduction to Systems Engineering, Wiley, New York, Chapter 1, 2000.

Thomé, Bernhard (1993). Systems Engineering: Principles and Practice of Computer-based Systems Engineering. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-93552-2.

Systems Thinking

Derek K. Hitchins, Advanced Systems Thinking, Engineering, and Management, Artech House Publishers, 2003. ISBN: 1580536190.

 Gharajedaghi, J., Systems Thinking, Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Design Business Architecture, 2nd Edition, Butterworth Heinemann, 2005. ISBN: 0750679735.

Model-Based Systems Engineering

Wymore, W. A., Model-Based Systems Engineering, CRC Press Inc., Boca Raton FL, 1993.

Simulation

 Zeigler, B.P., H. Praehofer and T.G. Kim, Theory of Modeling and Simulation, 2nd Edition, Academic Press, 2000.


ONLINE READING MATERIAL

 

IDEF Methods-Knowledge Based Systems, Inc.

 

Systems Engineering Fundamentals

 

What is Systems Engineering?

 

International Council on Systems Engineering Website

 

DEVS - Arizona Center for Integrative Manufacturing and Simulation (ACIMS) LAB

 

Terry Bahill's Systems Engineering

 

FREE DEVSJAVA SOFTWARE

 


SELECTED PAPERS

Terry Bahill, et al., "Using object-oriented and UML tools for hardware and algorithm design: A case study" Systems Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 28-48, 2003.

 

Terry Bahill, et al., The Design-Methods Comparison Project, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 80-103, 1998.

 


 

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