For senior-level undergraduate and first and second year graduate systems engineering and related courses.

A total life-cycle approach to systems and their analysis.

This practical introduction to systems engineering and analysis provides the concepts, methodologies, models, and tools needed to understand and implement a total life-cycle approach to systems and their analysis.

The authors focus first on the process of bringing systems into being—beginning with the identification of a need and extending that need through requirements determination, functional analysis and allocation, design synthesis, evaluation, and validation, operation and support, phase-out, and disposal. Next, the authors discuss the improvement of systems currently in being, showing that by employing the iterative process of analysis, evaluation, feedback, and modification, most systems in existence can be improved in their affordability, effectiveness, and stakeholder satisfaction.

Free instructor resources Free instructor resources including an instructor's solution manual and image powerpoints are available via this link. These resources are only available for Systems Engineering and Analysis, 5th Edition. No instructor resources are available for the Systems Engineering and Analysis Pearson New International Edition, 5th Edition"