Instructor

Hemendra Arya

Semester

Spring’20

Course Difficulty

Easy to Moderate. The content was really Interesting and unique.

Time Commitment Required

Just need to attend the lectures.

Grading Policy and Statistics

Everyone was given a AA/AB

Attendance Policy

No attendance requirements

Pre-requisites

No pre-requisites

Evaluation Scheme

The course had a midsem, endsem and a group project. No quizzes. The endsem and midsem had a few questions which were based on the project.

Topics Covered in the Course

Systems definitions and concepts. Conceptual system design; Introduction to engineering design and decision making; Requirements capture; Requirements analysis, functional decomposition; System architecture; Quality Function Deployment; Queuing theory; Design options; Monte Carlo modeling; Utility theory; Forecasting. Engineering systems modeling. Analysis of system: Reliability; Maintainability; Serviceability; Disposability and Affordability. Cost and benefit analysis. Methods of decision analysis; State transition matrix models; Modeling the research and development process;Information, System life-cycle modeling and optimization. Game theory;Management of engineering systems design and operation; Programmemanagement with case studies.

Teaching Style

The prof had a guest Speaker from the industry come and give weekly lectures. Apart from this we had a course project running where we had to directly apply the knowledge we gained from the lectures

Tutorials/Assignments/Projects

The project was a bit time consuming but had the maximum weightage and we did not have to prepare for the exams if enough research was done for the project.

Feedback on Exams

The Exams were case based and no mugging up was required in any of them. If one had attended all lectures, nothing else was required

Motivation for taking this course

I was a part of the Student Satellite Team. The content of the course was directly applicable to the project I was working on.

Course Highlights

The project helped me understand the course a lot better.

Course Importance

The course content was really unique and hands on. The prof was really flexible with submissions and the guest lectures were really interesting.

How strongly would I recommend this course?

Really enjoyed the course, would definitely recommend it

When to take this course?

I took this course in my 4th Semester. As there are no pre-requisites/associated courses, can take this up in any semester.

Going Forward

This is a basic course on systems engineering and the only course in this domain that IITB offers according to my knowledge hence it can be used as a great opportunity to explore the field.

References Used

Only the lecture slides.

Review By: Vidushi Verma