Systems Engineering, Design and Management

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Apply structured systems engineering approaches to define, control, and manage project scope across the full lifecycle
• Conduct and participate effectively in system design reviews, including SDR, PDR, and CDR, to support informed technical decisions
• Establish and maintain requirements traceability from proposal through contract execution
• Evaluate system performance, compliance, and risk using recognized technical review and management tools
• Integrate systems engineering processes to support reliable transition from concept through commissioning

Description

Complex engineering projects often involve competing requirements, multiple stakeholders, evolving constraints, and high expectations for performance and compliance. Without a disciplined systems engineering approach, teams can quickly lose control of scope, requirements, and technical risk, leading to costly redesigns, delays, or operational gaps.

This course provides practical, structured training in systems engineering principles that support effective project execution. You will examine how requirements are developed, allocated, traced, and verified, and how system design and technical reviews are used to manage risk and ensure alignment with contractual and performance objectives. Emphasis is placed on applying these methods consistently from early feasibility and design through validation and commissioning.

Through real‑world examples and applied discussion, you will develop the skills needed to integrate systems engineering practices into your day‑to‑day work. The course equips you with tools and frameworks that can be applied immediately to improve technical decision‑making, coordination, and lifecycle management on complex engineering projects.

Who This Course Is For

This course is designed for:

• Engineers and engineering technologists involved in mechanical, electrical, or multidisciplinary systems
• Project and systems engineers responsible for scope, requirements, and technical coordination
• Field engineers and technical consultants supporting system design, integration, or commissioning
• Government, defense, or regulated‑industry professionals working within formal lifecycle frameworks
• Early‑career through senior practitioners seeking practical systems engineering capability

Day I

System Engineering, An Interdisciplinary Approach

• From ‘System’ to ‘System Engineering’
• Engineered control systems
• System engineering approach in managing project scope
• Feasibility analysis

Identifying, Controlling and Management of System Requirements

• From proposal to contract, the negotiation
• Requirements, traceability and allocation
• Controlling compliance with requirements
• Managing compliance matrices
• Methods and tools for tracking system requirements

Analysis and Design

• Basic concepts
• Representation of systems
• Bottom-up vs top-down design
• System block diagrams
• System flow charts
• System interfaces
• System specifications
• Technical Performance Measurements (TPM)

System Technical Reviews

• Planning of technical reviews
• System Requirements Review (SDR)
• Preliminary Design Review (PDR)
• Interface Design Review
• Critical Design Review (CDR)
• Conducting technical reviews

Day II

System Engineering Process, from Proposal to Commission

• System life cycle: from requirements through design and testing to deployment and obsolescence
• Management plan
• Functional analysis, Modeling and Simulation tools,
• Prototype development
• Verification and Validation plan
• System configuration control and management (SCM)
• Qualification process

Applicable Design Standards and Practices

• ISO/IEC 15288 System and Software Engineering, Life Cycle Items standard
• IEEE/ EIA 12207: The Life Cycle Process Framework
• Human engineering as part of systems development
• Design of industrial workplace
• System safety, hazard identification and analysis
• Hazards Log
• Mitigation of hazards through the design process
• Failure effects analysisCapability Maturity Models, Integrated (CMMI)