GC: n

CT: Systems Engineering is an interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems. It focuses on defining customer needs and required functionality early in the development cycle, documenting requirements, then proceeding with design synthesis and system validation while considering the complete problem including operations, performance, test, manufacturing, cost, and schedule. This subject emphasizes the links of systems engineering to fundamentals of decision theory, statistics, and optimization. It also introduces the most current, commercially successful techniques for systems engineering.

S: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/engineering-systems-division/esd-33-systems-engineering-summer-2010/ (last access: 22 December 2014)

N: 1. Branch of engineering focusing on the design of systems to meet determined objectives, using a structured and interdisciplinary planning and development approach.
2. Systems engineering considers the complete lifespan of a project and its evolution, including not only the technical qualities of potential solutions, but also the cost and relative value of each solution.
At the system design stage, special attention is paid to defining the needs of the user and the functions that must be developed.

S: 1 & 2. GDT.

SYN: SE

S: GDT

CR: automatic control engineering, computer science, computer engineering, intelligent transportation system, robotics.