As shown above, this course is delivered as part of the SDM program, an integrated graduate program in System Design and Management. (Image courtesy of Daniel Frey.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Daniel Frey
MIT Course Number
ESD.33
As Taught In
Summer 2004
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
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Course Description
Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems. It focuses on defining customer needs and required functionality early in the development cycle, documenting requirements, then proceeding with design synthesis and reliability improvement while considering the complete problem including operations, performance, test, manufacturing, cost, and schedule. This course emphasizes the links of systems engineering to fundamentals of decision theory, statistics, and optimization. The course also introduces the most current, commercially successful techniques for systems engineering.
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