SystemEngineering

• This page is designed for the course System Engineering at Australian National University.
• The course material and useful links will be added here to help students in their learning journey.

Weekly Course Content

Weekly course contents, activities and resources will be uploaded under its corresponding section.

1. Week 1 - System Analysis and Professional Practice
2. Week 2 - Customer Needs/Standards and Regulations
3. Week 3 - Requirement Analysis
4. Week 4 - Group Project
5. Week 5 - Functional Analysis and Allocation
6. Week 6 - Systems Architecture/Conceptual Design
7. Week 7 - Preliminary Design

Assessment

1. 3 Individual Assignments (20% each)
2. 3 Individual Reflections (5% each)
3. Group Design Project Report (20%)
4. Group Design Project Presentation (5%)

Important Deadlines

1. Assignment 1 ✔️
2. Reflection 1 ✔️
3. Assignment 2 ✔️
4. Reflection 2 ✔️
5. Assignment 3 🔲
6. Reflection 3 - REMOVED
7. Group Design Project Presentation 🔲
8. Group Design Project Report (28 May)🔲

Group Project Topics

The Group Project Instructions along with the Marking Rubric can be accessed here.

1. Project A: Urban Composting and Processing
2. Project B: Global Emergency Alert System
3. Project C: Software Security on Legacy Systems
4. Project D: Autonomous Ocean Mapping

Useful Links

To draw your diagrams (FFBD, System Architecture, Concepts etc.), you may use this website.

• It is completely free.
• It can be shared via Google Drive, OneDrive, DropBox for colaborations (useful for group project).
• It can generate PNG, SVG, PDF etc. formats with high quality (useful for assignments and group project).

Recommended Readings

• System Engineering Definitions
• Professional Reflection Module
• Chapter 4 of DOD Guidelines
• Requirements Engineering Book
• Requirements Writing Guide

Contact Me

For any course-related enquiries, please send me an email to: iman.hosseini@anu.edu.au