0 or 3 credits
Spring 2026 Distance Learning Lecture Upper Division
Aerospace system lifecycle and design process. Stakeholder needs elicitation and requirements generation. Quality function deployment and hierarchical objective trees. Concept generation and creativity techniques. Introduction to safety, risk, cost and value analysis. Critical evaluation of the applicability of systems engineering techniques in specific contexts. Application of these techniques to a team semester design project.
Learning Outcomes1Identify appropriate tools, methods and processes to formulate an aerospace system design problem including realistic constraints from technical, economic, social, political, safety, and other relevant contexts.
2Apply those tools, methods and processes to generate solutions to the aerospace system design problem.
Prerequisites
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