Instructor: Dr.
George L. Donohue
Lecture: Innovation Hall
Rm. 205
Time: MW
Office Hours: Monday
Wednesday
http://www.ncees.org/exams/study_materials/fe_handbook/ (17.5 Mbyte pdf file)
Objective: Systems 490/495, together, provide the Capstone experience to the Systems Engineering undergraduate program. It provides the students with the opportunity to put all of the course material that they have covered in the last 4 years into practice. It also provides the faculty with the opportunity to test the student’s ability to assimilate the course material and certify that the students are ready to receive the Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Engineering. In addition to providing the students the opportunity to utilize the systems engineering processes (e.g. requirements determination, work-breakdown structures, Pert Charts, test and evaluation, life cycle costing, etc.) it requires them to use their analytical skills in system modeling, simulation and decision making. Emphasis in these courses is also placed on written and verbal communication skill development and the creative process of engineering design. The students should now have the basic skills that allow them to create new systems that are technically sound, affordable, environmentally compatible and safe. The students are asked to determine whether a Business Case exits for their designs in the Final Report that they submit in early May. They are required to manage a complex, unstructured project using the management and teamwork skills that they have developed. The class has been divided into three project teams, each working on a real problem. Each student MUST maintain a personal log of all design activity, to be inspected upon demand. Each student MUST submit a weekly time sheet to their team timekeeper. This team timesheet is to be submitted to Dr. Donohue weekly (via e-mail) and is open for discussion at all major program reviews as part of the EVM review. All teams will be entered into inter-scholastic senior design competitions at the end of this semester.
A significant part of the individual SYST 495 grade will be based upon a (2hour 45 min.) final comprehensive team project exam. This exam will test the student’s individual overall knowledge of the team problem (including requirements development process, critical path, analytical approach, modeling assumptions and results, etc.). Students who did not take the FE exam in the Fall are all strongly encouraged to take the FE exam this semester. Those who did so in 490 (and submitted their test results in Jan. 2005) will receive a 0.5 increase to their SYST 495 grade. Those who passed the FE exam will receive a 1.0 grade increase in SYST 495. Those who take the exam this semester may still get a grade increase of 0.5 on their final grade.
Grading: Each student’s final grade will be determined as follows:
30% Team
Individualized Final Exam
25% Final Project report (written)
25% Faculty / Sponsor Evaluation of Team Presentation
10% Team Project productivity self evaluation
5% Individual presentations
5% Timesheets/Notebooks
Team Assignments:
Team A: Janet Geldermann, Yusuf Mohamed, Robert Smith, Mahmoud Yessad
Design an FAA airport safety Monitoring System, SENSIS Corp. Sponsor , Mr. Tod Donovan POC, (Dr. Lance Sherry GMU technical liaison).
Team B: Mohamed Ashparie, Oluwaseyi Bashorum, Gregory Koch, Gregory Siegel, Petko Stoyanov
Design a National Infrastructure
Security Indication and Warning System with an emphasis on the interactions
between the
Team C: Jorge Bonilla, Hassan Mohamed, Joel Norris, Thang
Phung, Ingrid Zegada-Frias
Redesign the SENSIS United Airline
Ground Asset Tracking System (Donohue and Sherry POC).
Semester
Schedule:
January 24. Review Spring Semester Schedule (draw for sem. Pres order)
January 26-28.
Application deadline for Spring FE Exam
January 31. Detailed CP and EVM Presentations (all teams)
Feb. 2. submit UVA
abstracts for review prior to Feb 4 submission deadline
Feb. 7. Detailed Critical Path Interim Report due
Feb. 9. Individual team discussions should be scheduled
Feb. 14. Detailed
Presentation on Simulation and Analysis Status*
Feb. 16. Detailed Presentation on Simulation and Analysis Status
Feb. 21. Individual team discussions should be scheduled (Feb 23 no class)
Feb 28. Detailed Presentation on Simulation and Analysis Status
March 2. Detailed Presentation on Simulation and Analysis Status
March 7. Detailed Presentation on Simulation and Analysis Status
March 9. Detailed
Presentation on Simulation and Analysis Status
March 13-20 Spring
Break
March 21. Team Presentations on Simulation and Analysis Results to Date
March 23. Team Presentations on Simulation and Analysis Results to Date
March 28-30. Individual team work
April 4. UVA paper to Donohue for final review prior to submission
April 6. UVA paper pass-back for final changes
April 8. UVA Manuscript sent to UVA for peer review
April 11. Individual team discussions of project status
April 13. Individual team discussions of project status
April 18. USMA Abstract due
April 20. DRY RUN for
USMA presentation
April 25. DRY RUN for USMA presentation
April 27. DRAFT Final
Report due for internal review
April. 29 UVA Conference
May 2. Reports submitted for
Faculty and Sponsor evaluation
May 4. leave for USMA at
May 5. USMA Conference
May 9. Final Report Presentations to Faculty and Project Sponsors (team
and course eval)
May 16.
* Actual presentation order will be determined by random
draw