SIE501

This course presents advanced concepts in requirements engineering. The course will combine a practical focus on improving the quality of problem formulation and a research focus on advancing the state of the art in problem formulation. Topics include different types of problem spaces (outcomes vs functions), formal distinction between problem and solution, formal modeling of needs and requirements, formal syntax and ontologies for textual formulation of needs and requirements, elicitation and derivation as a byproduct of mission engineering, decomposition as a byproduct of systems architecture, mixed-formulation approaches, traceability, techniques to identify necessary vs constraining needs and requirements, and techniques to identify gaps in needs and requirements.

SIE 454A/554A Systems Engineering Process, SIE 458/558 Model Based Systems Engineering.