The world of Systems Engineering is changing. In recent years, the whole field of Systems Engineering has been seen as no longer an emerging discipline but as a valid approach to realising successful systems. Systems Engineering is a broad field, but what do we mean by systems? What life cycles can Systems Engineering be applied to? And what areas can Systems Engineering be applied to? The main aim of this chapter is to tackle these topics.

Chapter Contents:

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Understand the concepts and terms that will be used throughout the book
• 1.2.1 Systems engineering
• 1.2.2 Model-Based Systems Engineering
• 1.3 Understand why we do what we do and define an approach
• 1.4 Understand the concept of the common language
• 1.4.1 The spoken language
• 1.4.2 The domain-specific language
• 1.5 Understand how to apply the approach for specific areas of Systems Engineering
• 1.6 Understand how to implement such an approach in real organisations
• 1.7 Using this book
• References

Inspec keywords: systems analysis; product life cycle management; SysML; systems engineering

Other keywords: programme life cycle; systems engineering; economic systems; quality assurance; product life cycle; technical systems; social systems

Subjects: Information technology applications; Engineering computing; Design; High level languages; Systems analysis and programming