George Mason University
School of Information Technology and Engineering
Department of
Systems Engineering and Operations Research
Fall 2004
SYST513-001-72310
Total Systems
Engineering, Reengineering and Enterprise Integration
7:20 pm - 10:00 pm Wednesdays - Krug Hall 242
Aug 30, 2004 - Dec 20, 2004
Syllabus
Professor: Dr. Tan N. Nguyen
Telephone: (703) 993-1670
E-mail: tnguy1@cs.gmu.edu
Office Hours:
By appointment
Home Page: http://classweb.gmu.edu/classweb/tnguy1
or
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/seor/syllabi/fall04.htm
Course Description: Prerequisite: SYST 510 or SYST 520.
Principles of strategic quality, including TQM. Quality standards including
ISO9000 and 14000. Organizational
leadership, cultures, and process maturity, reengineering. Quality, organization
learning and reengineering approaches to
enable information integration and management and environment and framework
integration in the systems engineering of knowledge intensive systems. Emphasis
is placed on the role of integrated product
and process design teams, standard and commercial off the shelf products
in enterprise integration. Architecture driven system characteristics are
studied, as is transition management of
legacy systems. Case studies of some
current U.S. Federal governmental or commercial enterprises are presented. In addition, the
professor will present topics related to "real-life" enterprise
architecture, enterprise integration, systems engineering, enterprise
engineering, and some practical issues with solutions from his experience in
large scale systems development, operating systems, data communications,
computer networks, and distributed systems integration.
Honor Code
Honor Code procedures will be strictly adhered. Students are required to be familiar with
the honor code. You must not utilize unauthorized material or consultation in
responding to your tests, homework, and assignments. There are several web
sites that publish homework solutions, project assignment programs, etc.
Numerous professors used the homework solutions from the textbook as their
standard grading keys and also published the solutions on the Internet.
You may use those solutions as references but you are not allowed to copy
them. Violations of the honor code will be reported. Obvious honor code
violations (exact copy of work, etc) will be graded as 0/100 (zero
percent).
Textbook:
Grades
Grades: 20% - Midterm, 30% Final, 30% - project
& presentation, 20% - home assignments. Two take home exams
will be given, one approximately at the middle of the semester and one at the
end of the semester. There
will be a term paper assignment on total systems engineering, including a
written report and a seven-minute
oral presentation, and weekly assignments.
The following table is used to convert the final numerical grade
to a letter grade:
|
Grade G |
Letter Grade |
|---|---|
|
[96,100] |
A+ or A |
| [92,96) | A- |
| [87,92) | B+ |
| [82,87) | B |
|
[77,82) |
B- |
|
[51,77) |
C |
|
[0, 50) |
F |
IMPORTANT NOTE: It requires an exceptionally challenging performance to earn 92% or greater
Tentative Detailed Schedule – Fall 2004:
1. September 1: Lecture 1 - Course overview, administrative matters, and
introduction (Ref. textbook Ch.1) - HW 1
2. September 8 and 15: Lectures 2 and 3 - System engineering life cycles (Ref. textbook ch. 2). HW
2
3. September 22, 29, and October 6: Lectures 4 and 5 .Strategic quality assurance and management practices and
trends (Ref. ch. 6).
HW 3 on Oct 6.
4. October 20 and 27: Lecture 6 and 7. Organizational leadership, cultures, and process maturity
- Six Sigma
(Ref. textbook ch. 7)
5. November 3: Midterm - Research topics release. HW 4 release.
6. Nov. 10 and Nov 17 Lecture 8 - Business process reengineering (Ref. textbook ch. 8)
HW 5
7. Dec. 1: Lecture 9 - Topics in Enterprise Integration - HW6
8. Dec. 8 : Term paper presentations/reports
9. Dec 15 - Final exam
Note: Oct 13 and Nov 24: No class (Columbus and Thanksgiving Recesses)