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General Engineering Introduction/CDIO/Conceive

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CONCEIVING AND ENGINEERING SYSTEMS

Setting System Goals and Requirements

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Market needs and opportunities

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Customer needs
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Opportunities which derive from new technology or latent needs
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Factors that set the context of the requirements

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Enterprise goals, strategies, capabilities and alliances
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Competitors and benchmarking information
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The probability of change in the factors that influence the system, its goals and resources available
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System goals and requirements

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The language/format of goals and requirements
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Initial target goals (based on needs, opportunities and other influences)
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System performance metrics
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Requirement completeness and consistency
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Defining Function, Concept and Architecture

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Necessary system functions (and behavioral specifications)

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System concepts

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The appropriate level of technology

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Trade-offs among and recombination of concepts

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High level architectural form and structure

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The decomposition of form into elements, assignment of function to elements, and definition of interfaces

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Modeling of System and Ensuring Goals Can Be Met

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Appropriate models of technical performance

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The concept of implementation and operations

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Life cycle value and costs (design, implementation, operations, opportunity, etc.)

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Trade-offs among various goals, function, concept and structure and iteration until convergence

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Development Project Management

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Project control for cost, performance, and schedule

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Appropriate transition points and reviews
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Configuration management and documentation
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Performance compared to baseline

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Earned value recognition

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The estimation and allocation of resources

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Risks and alternatives

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Possible development process improvements

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