Boeing Systems Engineering Teaching Laboratory
About the Systems Engineering Teaching Laboratory (SETL)
The SETL lab is located at the
Software in the Lab
- Telelogic DOORS - This
software is for requirements management and the traceability of those
customer requirements throughout the process of conceiving, designing and
implementing a system. For example it allows teams of engineers from
different specialisations and different companies to work cooperatively to
collect, analyse, review and update broad customer requirements all the
way through to detailed technical design details and test cases.
- Telelogic Tau and Rational Rose – These two
allow the engineer to model and verify the behaviour of a system early in
the design. For example these tools allow systems to be described in
a visual language (UML) that can be understood at all levels of an
organisation from requirements analysts through to the engineers designing
the system and the people using the system.
- Matlab - This software is a
mathematics specific language, simulation environment and visualisation
tool for the mathematical analysis and simulation of detailed technical
designs in all fields of science, math and engineering. A systems
engineering example is that engineers can use the software to do numerical
analysis and advanced modelling to predict how their systems will perform
in different environments.
- Crystal Ball 2000 and Excel Solver - These two tools use statistical methods that will be used in this lab for financial analysis, optimisation and project planning. For example an engineer can determine how to optimally prioritise the scheduling of the manufacture of parts in a system. Another is determine which projects should be initiated based on market analysis and cost / benefit studies.
- Core - This tool allows the systems engineer to model the control flow, function flow and data flow of a systems engineering project. The tool can show various views of a project by generating diagrams and reports. The diagrams it can generate are
Element, Relationship, Attribute View (ERA)
Hierarchy View
Functional Flow Block Diagram (FFBD)
Enhanced FFBD (EFFBD)
IDEF0 Diagram
Functional Interface (N2) Diagram
Physical Block Diagram
The tool can also automatically generate reports and html representations of the systems engineering database with a scripting language to support user generated reports.
Systems Engineering at the
Beginning in January 2004, UQ will be offering Systems Engineering as a field of study in the Masters of Engineering program. For more details contact Professor Peter Lindsay, Boeing Professor of Systems Engineering.
Tutorials and Documentation for Tools in the Boeing Systems Engineering Teaching Laboratory