Engineering Informatics to Support Civil Systems Engineering Practice

2018 ◽  
pp. 262-275
Author(s):  
Timo Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Engineering Practice

Systems Engineering Design Projects in Freshmen Engineering Courses

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter R. Frise
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
First Year ◽  
Engineering System ◽  
High Failure Rate ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Freshmen Students ◽  
System Solution

Abstract The first year of most engineering programs: does not normally include much material in engineering practice or design, nor are professionalism, human factors or the concept of an engineering system solution to design problems emphasized. This lack of engineering content has been found to be a factor in the relatively high failure rate in the first year due to students not becoming interested in, and energized by, their studies. The author has developed a number of open-ended design problems which have been successful in teaching the engineering method to freshmen students while at the same time not over-taxing their relatively undeveloped engineering analysis skills. The projects are described and examples are available upon request from the author to allow interested readers to use them in their own programs. The other benefit of these projects has been in identifying students who have difficulty with written communications. Using the design project reports as a diagnostic tool we have been able to refer these students to assistance with their writing skills from the on-campus writing tutorial service.

META-SYNTHESIS SYSTEM APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE SCIENCE

2007 ◽  
Vol 06 (03) ◽  
pp. 559-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIFA GU ◽  
XIJIN TANG
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
System Approach ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Synthesis System ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
Synthetic View

Meta-synthesis system approach (MSA) is proposed to tackle with open complex giant systems (OCGS) problems by Chinese system scientists since the late 1980s. Its essential idea can be simplified as from confident qualitative hypothesis to vigorous quantitative validation. To apply this approach, the synthesis of human expert opinions and emergent knowing, machines' powerful computing capacity and the available knowledge and cases are specifically emphasized from the perspective of systems engineering practice. Then the MSA practice may bring new understandings, knowledge and even paradigms about messy and unknown issues, which are under exploration in knowledge science research. In this paper, MSA to knowledge science is addressed. After brief introduction of meta-synthesis approach, a working flow of MSA during problem solving process is addressed and leads to meta-synthetic view toward knowledge science, especially on knowledge creation. Next comes brief introduction to a test for demonstrating the MSA to a macroeconomic problem, which shows a new paradigm to macroeconomic problem solving, a kind of knowledge creation which is different from general macroeconomic problem solving.

Strengthen Practice Reform of Professional Teaching and Cultivate Students' Project Practice Ability

2012 ◽  
Vol 591-593 ◽  
pp. 2194-2198
Author(s):  
Shu Li Sun ◽  
Yang Fang Wu ◽  
Qi Qiu ◽  
Hua Liu ◽  
Qiang Qiang Lu
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Teaching Program ◽  
Teaching System ◽  
Workplace Environment ◽  
Practice Teaching ◽  
Actual Environment ◽  
Professional Teaching

This paper gives a detailed discuss in the construction of teaching system, discusses the characteristics of professional teaching practice reform, and lays stress on the approaches and methods of the college students' engineering practical ability training. The reform consist of three fields, the first is designing of the professional teaching program based on the characteristics of engineering practice, which is composed of theory teaching and practice teaching system and Increase the proportion of professional teaching practice, give prominence to project practice. The second is strengthening the construction of inside workplace environment, cultivate of the students' engineering consciousness”. The last is strengthening the humanism quality, innovative quality and engineering quality. In short, College students' comprehensive quality training is a systems engineering, No matter from teaching planned arrangements and implementation, or the actual environment construction, tremendous efforts are needed.

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