General Engineering Introduction/CDIO/Conceive

CONCEIVING AND ENGINEERING SYSTEMS Setting System Goals and Requirements Market needs and opportunities Customer needs Opportunities which derive from new technology or latent needs Factors that set the context of the requirements Enterprise goals, strategies, capabilities and alliances Competitors and benchmarking information Ethical, social, environmental, legal and regulatory influences The probability of change in the factors that influence the system, its goals and resources available System goals and requirements The language/format of goals and requirements Initial target goals (based on needs, opportunities and other influences) System performance metrics Requirement completeness and consistency Defining Function, Concept and Architecture Necessary system functions (and behavioral specifications) System concepts The appropriate level of technology Trade-offs among and recombination of concepts High level architectural form and structure The decomposition of form into elements, assignment of function to elements, and definition of interfaces Modeling of System and Ensuring Goals Can Be Met Appropriate models of technical performance The concept of implementation and operations Life cycle value and costs (design, implementation, operations, opportunity, etc.) Trade-offs among various goals, function, concept and structure and iteration until convergence Development Project Management Project control for cost, performance, and schedule Appropriate transition points and reviews Configuration management and documentation Performance compared to baseline Earned value recognition The estimation and allocation of resources Risks and alternatives Possible development process improvements