Systems Engineering Purpose Elements Resources Stakeholders Lifecycle & Dynamics

Natural engineered a portable device,

Desalination plant in Hamburg
Social
Industrial & Infrastructure
Projects
salt water as a possible source
using nanotechnology that
for fresh water supply, as
combines membrane filtration
unconventional irrigation for
with light-harvesting photonics
certain crops, and as a medium
to convert hot salt water,
use the energy of the sun to turn from which to extract heat geo-
passing over a porous surface,
salt water into fresh drinking Saltwater People in Hamburg Germany thermally as an alternative
to cold and enhancing the
water. energy supply. But surely, such
distillation process using less
a vast resource must have other
and freely available energy for
serious uses that could be of
application off the grid in
even greater benefit for the
coastal areas where the salt
future.
water is readily available.
Design efforts can suffer
several types of problems
Design-Build projects have
caused by
some unique characteristics of
the inadequate application of
their own that have the
The application of systems systems engineering methods.
potential to increase project
engineering in construction For example, if the
risk. On
lags behind that of some other requirements aren’t properly
design-build projects, there is a
sectors, such as aerospace. documented
shift in responsibility for the
Progress has been made on and managed, the design may
quality of the work, including
applying systems engineering not include elements critical to
the development of final
to construction projects in the meeting the needs of
requirements and city, county, state, and federal
EU and Australia. While there stakeholders or applicable
specifications, away from the
has been no clear mandate for codes or
agency and
SE historically, the US High standards. Often, the various
towards the contractor. The
Speed Rail projects create an components of the design are
design is initiated by one firm,
opportunity for future large- not well integrated, leading to
but completed by another: this
scale infrastructure projects to design conflicts. Changes in
handoff increases the potential
follow the same path. requirements or stakeholder
for misinterpreted
needs lead to scope creep, late
requirements or incomplete
design changes, and cost and
incorporation of requirements.
schedule overruns. Solving
these
 and other issues drives the need
for a more formal approach
to managing engineering
design on infrastructure
projects.
Systems engineering helps
address these issues in an
increasingly complex
environment.
Business Work alongside Business
System Administrators to turn
Source Control (Git) business requirements into
detailed approach to technical specifications and
identifying and implementing Understanding of the Business Systems project approach. Develop
the business processes, tasks, Salesforce.com data model and Data, product quality, security, and Administrators, Data Analysts, APEX and Visualforce
and transactions that are how to effectively extract, performance. and Sales Operations solutions that follow
required to successfully operate transform and load data Specialists Salesforce.com best practices
a business. and templating. Communicate
and collaborate with other
technical resources across
GitLab.
Political Environment Such studies embrace the
The need for systems
Systems design in this broad subject matter of many
engineering in modern industry
Agriculture framework evidently includes different fields and this
is easily established with
engineering. But the engineer suggests the research team as a
respect to an automated factory
contributes best as one of a productive—even necessary
or a telephone system. To work
team of specialists, each highly approach. If well organized,
at all, such facilities require
skilled in a special field. His such teams would have the
perfectly integrated
concern in agriculture is with Agricultural Crops Farmers capability of deep penetration
performance of many
materials, machines, labor, and in special problem areas. They
individual parts. Planning and
energy and their use to modify would be equipped for
engineering of the system as a
natural processes and to control exhaustive search for
whole—as well as attention to
environmental factors in the significant interrelationships
individual components and
production of livestock and among individual system
their relation to it—cannot be
crops and storage of crops. components, but also be
avoided.
prepared to set aside those

Public Environment
Healthcare
Systems engineering models
can provide structured,
quantitative methods of
Much of the current research in
studying alternative control
logistics is driven by the needs
policies and system designs for
of public and private
almost any industry. The
organizations, such as health
methods can be used to help
care systems, that operate in
coordinate information
environments characterized by
systems, operations, and capital
intense competition, constant
investment; develop control
change, and a strong focus on
policies; predict and evaluate
customer needs.
outcomes; and evaluate the
benefits and costs of a given
program or system design.
Health care delivery systems,
for example, consist of a
variety of health care
Healthcare Equipments
organizations, caregivers, and
patients. State and federal
governments are involved
likely to be of little significance
in overall systems operation
The elements included in the
model depend on the question
or problem to be solved. For the
output of the model to be
useful, it must mimic the
expected behavior of the real
system. To control the behavior
of one part of the system, the
incentives driving that aspect of
the system must be built into
the model. Operations research
tools and systems engineering
tools have been used to address
a wide variety of problems,
from the operation of a hospital
to higher levels of complexity,
such as incentives, efficiency,
and payment schemes.
Quantitative models can
provide important input for
making decisions that involve
complex societal, ethical, and
economic issues.