Notes From Class
Notes From Class
Weeks 1 and 2: January 24 and 31, 2011.
Note. This case study outlines a series of missteps in the design and implementation of the automated baggage handling system at Denver Airport over a sixteen year timeframe, 1989-2005.
Week 3: February 7, 2011
Write a second 2 page report summarizing:
Week 4: February 14, 2011
Systems Analysis with Modelica:
Week 5: February 21, 2011
By now you should have already joined a team and written the first-draft of a project abstract.
Due next week (formats: text, word, or html):
Please e-mail me a list of five-to-ten references and/or sources of material relevant to your project.
They could be journal or conference papers, books, patents, articles in magazines, or web sites, etc.
Week 6: February 28, 2011
Week 7: March 7, 2011
Week 8: March 14, 2011
Week 9: March 21, 2011
Week 10: March 28, 2011
Week 11: April 4, 2011
Week 12: April 11, 2011
Week 13: April 18, 2011
Week 14: April 25, 2011
[ Project 8 ]: Software Defined Radio Waveform Development and Management
[ Project 9 ]: Deep Space Network Compatibility Testing Vehicle
[ Project 10 ]: A Service Robotic Gripper for Elderly Care Assistance
[ Project 11 ]: Smartphone Navigation through The Verizon Center
[ Project 12 ]: Software Package Design for Technical Education Support
[ Project 13 ]: Small Arms Ballistic Targeting System
Please limit your presentation to a maximum of 15 slides.
Please participate in the Global Survey of Learning Styles in Systems Engineering.
Background: I would appreciate your support in inviting your students at UM to participate in a global survey of learning styles of systems engineering graduate students. This 15-minute exercise is aimed at creating an inventory of learning styles that can help inform future curriculum design.
We are interested in surveying both on-campus and distance students.
The link to the survey is: http://learning.maxmo.net/
The website will be available for the next 15 days so I would appreciate you sharing it with your graduate students before the end of the school year. The survey has been validated by other researchers in engineering education and has been approved by the MIT Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects for this study.
If you are interested in the literature supporting the survey there is a conference paper available for download from the main page of the survey. I would be happy to share the results with you and the rest of the systems engineering community at the end of the data collection period.
Thank you for your help.
-Ricardo
Ricardo Valerdi, Ph.D.
Lean Advancement Initiative
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave. E38-602
Cambridge, MA 02139a
http://rvalerdi.mit.edu
Homework 1 and the midterm exam papers have been graded.
Almost everyone did very well on the homework (i.e., 20/20).
The midterm exam scores range from the mid 40s (i.e., 45/100) to the mid 90s (i.e., 95/100), with a median score of 65/100. If you find youself on the lower end of the range, then a good project will help to lift your overall score up a bit.
Week 15: May 2, 2011
[ Project 1 ]: A Barcode and Optical Recognition System for Improved Food Safety
[ Project 2 ]: Bacterial Biofilm Growth Modeling and Experimental Module
[ Project 3 ]: Weather Data Processing and Distribution Systems of the National Weather Service (NWS)
[ Project 4 ]: TerraPark (UMD Parking Mobile Application)
[ Project 5 ]: An Automated Vehicle Identification System for Large Government Installations
[ Project 6 ]: Automated Waterway (Lock) Systems
[ Project 7 ]: Wheelchair Seating Systems
Please limit your presentation to a maximum of 15 slides.
Week 16: May 9, 2011
The exam has questions covering requirements, system-level design, platform-based design, and tradeoff analysis. UML and SysML are not on the exam.
Please bring a calculator and some graph paper to the exam.
Last Modified: May 6, 2011,
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