Course Description
Lifecycle, Processes And Systems Engineering (APPEL-LPSE)
Audience
This course is designed for NASA’s technical workforce, including systems engineers and project personnel developing the competencies required to succeed as a leader of a project team, functional team, or small project.
Goal
When asked what participants learned that would be most beneficial to their work, they said…
"My experiences have been parts of the whole. This class connected the dots & I see the entire process."
—ARC, 2007
This three-day course introduces systems engineering processes, NASA lifecycle phases, key technical reviews, and systems engineering management techniques. The course helps you realize the value of well-established systems engineering processes and deliverables.
Learning Methods
Lectures, discussions, exercises, and other activities including structured systems engineering processes and management undertakings enhance the learning experience.
Specific Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Define and demonstrate engineering of systems processes as illustrated in the Systems Engineering NASA Procedural Requirements (NPR) 7123.1A and the 7120.5D NPR.
- Describe how operations concepts are developed and their impact on the system of interest.
- Define system architecture functions and analyze their functional performance.
- Define system technical solution options and describe how trade studies are performed.
- Map architecture functions to sub-systems and define the relationships among the sub-systems.
- Describe internal and external interface definitions, designs, and changes for products and product components.
- Explain the importance of establishing a technical planning process for a given system of interest.
- Identify tools used for systems engineering activities.
