Systems Engineer

I. Introduction

There is extremely new advancement in the engineering field. Systems are becoming more and more advanced, and thus systems engineering is becoming more complex. Systems are also becoming more and more networked not only within other companies but also within different disciplines of engineering. As these systems are becoming complicated and there is a need for more formal systems integration process, something must be done to make this easier.

Systems engineering has begun to focus on a different approach to overcome these complicated systems. Some of the algorithms that are being used to overcome these issues are sometimes not understood to a full extent. This also creates another problem within the complex systems. The algorithms sometimes don’t work the way the systems engineers tries to make them work. This alone makes the systems extremely complicated and the systems engineering process now becomes difficult. Systems engineering is in a time of evolution where new theories are evolving in their own principles, processes, and practices. Some of these are different kinds of theories, while others are different in degree than engineering at the system level. There are different ways being looked at to help the next generation of these complicated systems work together easily and without any problems. In this paper, different problems will be described and a way to help overcome these different problems will be looked at.

II. Classical Systems Engineering

a. Introduction

The Classical systems engineering process closely follows an approach developed by the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). This approach involves a chronological, iterative development process that is used to create systems and subsystems. It works as a sequence of steps in a project life cycle development. This sequence of steps is called the “VEE” model. The “VEE” Model is shown in figure 1 below. The left side of this model represents the...