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Systems Engineering Education

  1. We are keen to collaborate with NASA on development and delivery of Systems Engineering Curricula.

Research and Development

  1. Task 1. Generalize and implement pathways concepts to new applications (e.g., low-end traceability) and new tools (6 months work).
  2. Task 2. Design and implement XML schema for system descriptions. Develop software for file I/O of XML-based system descriptions (6 months work).
  3. Task 3. Database storage of web-based materials (6 months work).
  4. Ph.D. Research. Explore application of Semantic Web Technologies to Systems/Project Management (3 years work).

Parallel activities supported by NSF-CRCD:

  1. Reformat "small case studies" to take advantage of diagram technology. Test and evaluate the new material in academic and industry enviroments. Identify situations where "Java-enabled diagram technology" will add value to web-based systems engineering. Candidates include:

    • Step-by-step assembly procedures (e.g., for furniture assembly).
    • For signposting task-based models of design processes.

    We expect that both areas will employ combination of network and hierarchy system structures -- the Java-enabled diagram technology can handle this!

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