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3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Upper DivisionIntroduction to modeling tools and methods for understanding and designing systems. Topics include: defining the problem; defining and validating stakeholders' needs; system modeling and types of models; defining and modeling system behavior; defining and modeling functional, physical and allocated system architectures; and evaluating and modeling the tradeoffs between alternative system designs.
Learning Outcomes1Emphasize patterns of systems thinking.
2Introduce systems modeling and design processes and methods.
3Introduce model-based systems analysis and design.
4Provide practice in using model-based systems tools.