John Dill on Model Driven Development with SysML to Support Effective System Engineering Abstract: As systems become more complex the need to improve communication is critical to developing successful systems and products. The SysML standard provides systems engineers and architects a way to collaborate using a common language. As a standard modeling language for systems engineering, SysML will:[…]

John Dill on Advanced Excel for Your Systems Engineering Bag of Tricks Abstract: There are many hidden features of Excel which are ideal for the bag of tricks needed by today’s SE challenges.  The cost of analysis tools like MatLab, MathCAD, Excel add-ons are high and in many cases not available to most engineers.  There are pains in[…]

Tom Gilb on “Competitive Engineering” Abstract: “Competitive Engineering (CE)” presents Tom Gilb’s unique, ground-breaking approach to communicating systems engineering requirements and project management objectives, clearly and unambiguously.  Some systems engineering is done in continuous international competition (examples include telecommunications products and military systems).  The challenge is not merely to get it done well, but to visibly beat[…]