Maturity Curve of Systems Engineering
Abstract
Systems Engineering is a profession, a philosophy, and a discipline that adopts an iterative and parallel problem identification and solution-seeking process, coupled with a collaborative and integrated multi-disciplinary approach. It involves the life-cycle view of deriving functional solutions to the identified problems of the whole system and its dependents. The end-state is in the satisfaction of the requirements, timeline, and budget by the stakeholders. Systems Engineering requires the systems engineer to possess a series of traits that are academically and experientially acquired. This thesis examines capturing these required traits via fuzzy logic scales and learning curves. A qualitative approach was used to acquire and manage the data used for this analysis; a quantitative tool was used to examine and evaluate the data. The qualitative approach was intended to sort the acquired traits of a systems engineer relative to two variables: years of experience and annual income. Quantifying the systems engineering traits challenged the traditional means of analysis due to their overlap and underlap in defining properties. Therefore, a fuzzy logic approach was used to understand the relative quantization of these traits.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2008
- Accession Number
- ADA493919
Entities
People
- Roy Alphonso De Souza
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School