Handbook

This course familiarizes systems engineering students with all the related concepts and practices of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). The course starts with an introduction to System Modeling Language (SysML), covering its diagrams and prototypes. Approximately half of the course is devoted to SysML, with the remaining focused on methodologies for creating system models, including top-down and bottom-up modelling approaches that illustrate the acausal nature of MBSE as it is built and verified. In particular, Object-Oriented Systems Engineering Methodology (OOSEM), as a top-down methodology, will be discussed in detail, which includes creating the required artifacts for analyzing stakeholder needs, defining system requirements, defining logical architectures, synthesizing candidate allocated architectures, optimizing and evaluating alternatives, and validating and verifying the system. The course includes several tutorials with practical system examples drawn from space systems and involving three main areas of MBSE use: requirements management, cyber-attack surface and kill-chain assessment, and supply chain management.