Systems Engineering Research
at Wayne State University:
An Overview
Lead Senior Researcher:
Walt Bryzik, Ph.D., DeVlieg Chair & Professor of ME
Presenters:
R. Darin Ellis, Associate Professor, IME
Kyoung-Yun Joseph Kim, Assistant Professor, IME
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Background
• Wayne State University
– University Research Corridor
– In Detroit, the “Arsenal of Democracy”
• Major customer/stakeholders
– TARDEC & TACOM (all Army ground vehicles)
– Defense Contractors (e.g. General Dynamics)
– Domestic Auto Industry
• TARDEC & TACOM responding to SE revitalization
– WSU’s SE efforts build on long relationship with
TARDEC & TACOM
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Army Ground Vehicle SE Concerns
Applications
New Vehicles &
Upgrades
Net-centric Ops
Robotic &
Manned Vehicles
Combat, Tactical &
Support
Functions
Attributes
Crew Health &
Safety
Power & Energy
Deployability
Sustainability
Mobility
Survivability
C4ISR
Lethality
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Endurance
Capacity
Reliability
Maintainability
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Systems Engineering Revitalization at TARDEC
Life Cycle SE
To Predict and Manage
• Cost
• Risk
• Schedule
• Performance
Methods, Tools & Processes (MTP)
SE Revitalization
• Training
• Organization
• Corporate culture
• Institutionalization
• New MTP
Adapt & Transfer for Ground Vehicles
TARDEC SE and SE
Support to TACOM
SE Center
at WSU
SE Research UARC
Issues, Opportunities & Effectiveness
Experience “In the Trenches”
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SER UARC Research Strategy Thrusts
• Enterprise Responsiveness
– Explore advancements in SE MPTs that are responsive to enterprise strategic and program-level needs,
– Enable agility and responsiveness during program conceptualization, execution, strategic choice & assessment.
– Support cross-system and enterprise decisions.
• Systems Science and Complexity
– Advance systems science and systems thinking for application to engineering and management of complex systems and
capabilities.
– Support systems engineering and management of complex systems, SoS, software-focused, & net-centric.
• SE Workforce
– Explore future SE workforce competencies
– Explore approaches to cultivate, educate, and prepare the future SE workforce.
– Consider the nature of the environment, system types, and changes in SE MPTs with respect to competencies.
• Program Management and SE Integration
– Promote and integrate SE methods, processes, and tools with program execution activities within all aspects of program
management to include political issues, cost issues, all other PM tools.
– Communicate the effectiveness of SE to leadership and PMs so that there will be increased usage of SE.
• Life Cycle Systems Engineering Processes
– Advance system engineering life cycle technical and management processes.
– Mature and Advance fundamental systems engineering technical and technical management processes.
– Evolve fundamentals to consideration security, information age tools, and lean principles.
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WSU Systems Engineering Research Thrusts
• Enterprise Responsiveness
Ground Vehicle
– Explore advancements in SE MPTs that are responsive to enterprise strategic and program-level needs,
Power
and choice
Energy
Systems
– Enable agility and responsiveness during program conceptualization, execution,
strategic
& assessment.
– Support cross-system and enterprise decisions.
(Bryzik & Henein)
• Systems Science and Complexity
– Advance systems science and systems thinking for application to engineering and management of complex systems and
capabilities.
– Support systems engineering and management of complex systems, SoS, software-focused, & net-centric.
• SE Workforce
– Explore future SE workforce competencies
– Explore approaches to cultivate, educate, and prepare the future SE workforce.
Detection of SOC and
– Consider the nature of the environment, system types, and changes in SE MPTs with respect to competencies.
Mode of injection
using Ion Current
Signal
• Program Management and SE Integration
– Promote and integrate SE methods, processes, and tools with program execution activities within all aspects of program
management to include political issues, cost issues, all other PM tools.
Rate of
heat
– Communicate the effectiveness of SE to leadership and PMs so that there
will
be increased usage of SE.
release vs IMEP
• Life Cycle Systems Engineering Processes
– Advance system engineering life cycle technical and management processes.
– Mature and Advance fundamental systems engineering technical and technical management processes.
– Evolve fundamentals to consideration security, information age tools, and lean principles.
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WSU Systems Engineering Research Thrusts
• Enterprise Responsiveness
Rapid HFE
– Explore advancements in SE MPTs that are responsive to enterprise strategic and program-level needs,
& choice
Evaluation
– Enable agility and responsiveness during program conceptualization, execution,Test
strategic
& assessment.
– Support cross-system and enterprise decisions.
to Support HSI in
Technology Development
Projects
Advance systems science and systems thinking for application to engineering and management
of complex systems and
• Systems Science and Complexity
–
capabilities.
– Support systems engineering and management of complex systems, SoS, software-focused, & net-centric.
(Ellis & Witus)
• SE Workforce
– Explore future SE workforce competencies
– Explore approaches to cultivate, educate, and prepare the future SE workforce.
– Consider the nature of the environment, system types, and changes in SE MPTs with respect to competencies.
• Program Management and SE Integration
– Promote and integrate SE methods, processes, and tools with program execution activities within all aspects of program
management to include political issues, cost issues, all other PM tools.
– Communicate the effectiveness of SE to leadership and PMs so that there will be increased usage of SE.
• Life Cycle Systems Engineering Processes
– Advance system engineering life cycle technical and management processes.
– Mature and Advance fundamental systems engineering technical and technical management processes.
– Evolve fundamentals to consideration security, information age tools, and lean principles.
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WSU Systems Engineering Research Thrusts
• Enterprise Responsiveness
Top Deck Deconfliction:
– Explore advancements in SE MPTs that are responsive to enterprise strategic and program-level needs,
Vehicle
KPPchoice
Requirements
– Enable agility and responsiveness during program conceptualization, execution,
strategic
& assessment.
– Support cross-system and enterprise decisions.
Management through Systems
Integration & Optimization
Advance systems science and systems thinking for application to engineering and
management
complex systems and
(Chinnam
&ofMurat)
• Systems Science and Complexity
–
capabilities.
– Support systems engineering and management of complex systems, SoS, software-focused, & net-centric.
• SE Workforce
– Explore future SE workforce competencies
– Explore approaches to cultivate, educate, and prepare the future SE workforce.
– Consider the nature of the environment, system types, and changes in SE MPTs with respect to competencies.
• Program Management and SE Integration
– Promote and integrate SE methods, processes, and tools with program execution activities within all aspects of program
management to include political issues, cost issues, all other PM tools.
Evaluate Top-Deck Overall Utility
– Communicate the effectiveness of SE to leadership and PMs so that there will be increased usage of SE.
• Life Cycle Systems Engineering Processes
– Advance system engineering life cycle technical and management processes.
– Mature and Advance fundamental systems engineering technical and technical management processes.
– Evolve fundamentals to consideration security, information age tools, and lean principles.
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WSU Systems Engineering Research Thrusts
• Enterprise Responsiveness
– Explore advancements in SE MPTs that are responsive to enterprise strategic and program-level needs,
– Enable agility and responsiveness during program conceptualization,
choice & assessment.
SEexecution,
Tools strategic
for Effective
Deployment
– Support cross-system and enterprise decisions.
• Systems Science and Complexity
of Condition-Based Maintenance
and Performance Based Logistics
– Advance systems science and systems thinking for application to engineering and management of complex systems and
capabilities.
(Chinnam&&net-centric.
Murat)
– Support systems engineering and management of complex systems, SoS, software-focused,
• SE Workforce
– Explore future SE workforce competencies
– Explore approaches to cultivate, educate, and prepare the future SE workforce.
– Consider the nature of the environment, system types, and changes in SE MPTs with respect to competencies.
• Program Management and SE Integration
– Promote and integrate SE methods, processes, and tools with program execution activities within all aspects of program
management to include political issues, cost issues, all other PM tools.
– Communicate the effectiveness of SE to leadership and PMs so that there will be increased usage of SE.
• Life Cycle Systems Engineering Processes
– Advance system engineering life cycle technical and management processes.
– Mature and Advance fundamental systems engineering technical and technical management processes.
– Evolve fundamentals to consideration security, information age tools, and lean principles.
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WSU Systems Engineering Research Thrusts
• Enterprise Responsiveness
Sustainable
System
– Explore advancements in SE MPTs that are responsive to enterprise strategic and
program-level needs,
– Enable agility and responsiveness during program conceptualization, execution,
strategic choice
& assessment.
Information
Management
– Support cross-system and enterprise decisions.
(SE Informatics):
• Systems Science and Complexity
Causal Knowledge
– Advance systems science and systems thinking for application to engineeringRepresentation
and management of&complex
systems and
Analysis
capabilities.
– Support systems engineering and management of complex systems, SoS, software-focused,
& net-centric.
Rough Set-Based
Semantic Rule
Complexity Reduction
• SE Workforce
– Explore future SE workforce competencies
– Explore approaches to cultivate, educate, and prepare the future SE workforce.
(Kim)
– Consider the nature of the environment, system types, and changes in SE MPTs with respect to competencies.
• Program Management and SE Integration
– Promote and integrate SE methods, processes, and tools with program execution activities within all aspects of program
management to include political issues, cost issues, all other PM tools.
– Communicate the effectiveness of SE to leadership and PMs so that there will be increased usage of SE.
• Life Cycle Systems Engineering Processes
– Advance system engineering life cycle technical and management processes.
– Mature and Advance fundamental systems engineering technical and technical management processes.
– Evolve fundamentals to consideration security, information age tools, and lean principles.
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Causal Knowledge Representation and Analysis
•
Current limitations of knowledge systems
in systems development & acquisition
•
Causal Knowledge network
•
Causal knowledge representation by
SysML
•
Degree of Causal Representation (DCR) is
a causal representation measure, which
is combined with
– Causality (C), Network Connectivity (NC),
Weighted Network Connectivity (WNC)
Probability Comparison
Recursion of O(n2)
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Rough set based semantic rule complexity reduction
• Incomplete information and
• Intensive design knowledge in
complexity issues
collaborative environment
• Efficient design rule management
methodology required
owl:Thing
Individual
Product
Material
Feature
Part
Assembly
FeatureForVisualization
Shape
SpatialRelationship
FusionWeldin
IndexedFace
Appearance
AppearanceColor
AppearanceTexture
FeatureForPart
GeometricFeature
FormFeature
FeatureForAssembly
AssemblyFeature
JointFeature
MatingFeature
MatingBond
JointFeatureCharacteristics
JoiningConstraint
JoiningTolerance
JointConfiguration
ContactShape
Manufacturing
DegreesOfFreedom
ManufacturingProcess
JoiningProcess
Against
Aligned
InclineOffset
IncludeAngle
ParallelOffset
ParaxOffset
SRDirection
FusionWeldingCondition
AdhesiveBondingCondition
BrazingCondition
MechanicalFasteningCondition
RivetingCondition
CompressionCondition
MetalStitchingCondition
CrimpingCondition
SnapInCondition
PushOnCondition
SpotWeldingCondition
SolderingCondition
FixtureLocation
FillerMetal
Gas
ElectricalSpecation
GMAW
GTAW
FCAW
SMAW
PAW
Fixed
Lin
Plan
Rot
AdhesiveBonding
Brazing
MechanialFasteningThreadedFastener
MechanialFasteningRivet
Compression
MetalStitchingStapling
Crimping
SnapIn
PushOnFastener
SpotWelding
Soldering
ButtJoint
ConerJoint
TJoint
WeldConfiguration
LapJoint
AdhesiveBondConfiguration
MechanicalFastenerConfiguration
RivetConfiguration
StapleConfiguration
SolderConfiguration
Colinear
Cylindrical
Plane
Spherical
• Minimal design rule selection
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Rule
1
3
5
7
If
(f2=31)
(f4=0)
(f6=1)
(f9=0)
Then
d=1
d=1
d=1
d=1
Rule
2
4
6
If
(f3=1)
(f5=1)
(f7=1)∧(f8=1)
Then
d=1
d=1
d=1
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WSU Systems Engineering Research Thrusts
• Enterprise Responsiveness
– Explore advancements in SE MPTs that are responsive to enterprise strategic and program-level needs,
– Enable agility and responsiveness during program conceptualization,Socio-Cultural
execution, strategic choice
& assessment.
Technical
Systems
– Support cross-system and enterprise decisions.
• Systems Science and Complexity
Roadmap for
Implementing IPD Teams
– Advance systems science and systems thinking for application to engineering and management of complex systems and
capabilities.
(Gluesing)
– Support systems engineering and management of complex systems, SoS, software-focused, & net-centric.
• SE Workforce
– Explore future SE workforce competencies
– Explore approaches to cultivate, educate, and prepare the future SE workforce.
– Consider the nature of the environment, system types, and changes in SE MPTs with respect to competencies.
• Program Management and SE Integration
– Promote and integrate SE methods, processes, and tools with program execution activities within all aspects of program
management to include political issues, cost issues, all other PM tools.
– Communicate the effectiveness of SE to leadership and PMs so that there will be increased usage of SE.
• Life Cycle Systems Engineering Processes
– Advance system engineering life cycle technical and management processes.
– Mature and Advance fundamental systems engineering technical and technical management processes.
– Evolve fundamentals to consideration security, information age tools, and lean principles.
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SE Workforce Development:
Key Issues for WSU
•
SE is growing in MI
Graduate Certificate
– Government (DoD, NASA)
– Contractors (GDLS, BAE, SAIC)
•
SE/IME 6840
Project Management
•
SE/IME 7995
Systems Engineering
•
SE/IME 7720
Engineering Risk and Decision
Analysis
•
SE/IME 7998
Engineering Management and
Leadership
Customer-focused approach
– Tight integration with stakeholders
– Need options for offerings
(Grad Certificate leading to MS)
– Need “SE” brand, not just
“engineering management”
•
•
Build on successes
– Engineering Management onsite
program at Ford
– Use existing coursework where
possible
– Enrich with case studies from local
partners (TACOM/TARDEC, GDLS)
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End
Questions?
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