Length: 3 Days
Aerospace Systems Engineering Training by Tonex
Aerospace Systems Engineering Training is a 3-day course that covers everything from systems engineering practices to system life cycles used by This hands-on training will focus on the challenging parts in systems development including requirements definition, integration, distribution of requirements, risk management, verification and validation. We also will discuss the techniques and methods used on commercial systems defiend by INCOSE, FAA/RTCA, European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), ESA, DoD and NASA
Participants learn to understand the fundamentals of systems engineering applied to aerospace industry.
Aerospace systems engineers have the knowledge and skills to design, integrate and control complementary space and aerial craft subsystems to work efficiently.
Modern aerospace systems are becoming increasingly complex and interconnected, while still being expected to meet stringent performance, reliability, and safety requirements. Examples include commercial aircraft, UAVs, transportation systems, and supply chains.
Our culture relies on these systems for common everyday tasks, in addition to missions of national and global importance.
Many analysts believe that for the aerospace systems engineer, designing such complex systems requires a holistic approach, starting from conceptual design th
rough mission design, operations analysis, and sustainment.
It’s a process supported by multi-disciplinary and collaborative research, implementing rigorous systems engineering principles and analytical methods.
Aerospace systems engineers may work on projects for the military sector, aviation businesses, or commercial aviation industry. Generally, aerospace systems engineers become members of large design teams with people from diverse fields who can develop a product from concept sketches to actual manufacture.
Over the past few years, additive manufacturing has become an important trend in aerospace systems engineering.
Manufacturing is a challenge in the aerospace industry. Not only are aerospace parts extraordinarily complex, but they also need to be structurally sound and meet the highest quality assurance standards of almost any industry.
To reduce costs and overcome traditional manufacturing challenges, many aerospace companies are turning from conventional manufacturing processes to additive manufacturing to produce the complex parts they need efficiently.
Additive manufacturing has been primarily limited to nonessential aerospace parts such as interior components where mechanical stresses are minimal. But with advances in metal 3D printing, additive manufacturing plays a significant role in aerospace manufacturing.
Additive manufacturing enables aviation companies to leverage low-volume production runs cost-effectively. Additionally, smart material allows manufacturers to deliver stronger and lighter alternatives to parts sourced from conventional materials.
Further, additive manufacturing allows aerospace companies to rapidly develop prototypes, reducing development roadblocks and improving efficiency.
Aerospace Systems Engineering Training Course by Tonex
Aerospace systems engineering training covers the fundamentals of systems engineering and their applications in aerospace systems, emphasizing commercial and military systems. We will provide you with a practical knowledge of all components, technical and managerial, included in systems engineering as used in aerospace systems of variable complexity.
This hands-on training will focus on the challenging parts in systems development including requirements definition, integration, distribution of requirements, risk management, verification and validation. We also will discuss the techniques and methods used on commercial systems, INCOSE, FAA/RTCA, European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), ESA, DoD and NASA
programs.
Learn About:
- Systems engineering practices.
- Terms and methods
- System life cycles used by INCOSE, FAA/RTCA, European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), ESA, DoD and NASA
- Requirements generation
- Trade studies
- Architectural practices
- Functional allocation
- Verification/validation methods
- Requirements Determination
- Risk management
- Evaluating specialty engineering contributions
- Importance of integrated product and process teams
Aerospace systems engineering training is delivered in the form of hands-on training that includes labs, group activities, real-world case-studies, and hands-on workshops.
Audience
Aerospace systems engineering training is a 3-day course designed for:
- Systems engineers
- Aerospace engineers
- Space program managers
- Military and commercial avionics project managers
- Space, military, and commercial product managers
Learning Objectives
Upon the completion of Aerospace systems engineering training, the attendees are able to:
- Understand the fundamentals of systems engineering applied to aerospace industry
- List aerospace industry programs and standards
- Describe avionics and aircraft systems
- Define aerospace systems engineering processes
- Describe the aerospace-associated programs life-cycle process
- Identify aerospace systems components
- Identify and provide systems requirements and management
- Design the aerospace system
- Integrate their aerospace specialty into systems engineering
- Model aerospace system architecture
- Apply verification and validation techniques
- Apply the models and methods fit aerospace systems
- Manage technical data
- Manage and mitigate technical risks
- Conducting crosscutting techniques
- Manage and support required logistics
- Understand data acquisition and control systems
Course Outline
Overview of Aerospace Systems Engineering
- Systems engineering
- Systems engineering components
- System of systems engineering
- Systems engineering objectives.
- INCOSE Systems engineering disciplines.
- Aerospace systems
- NASA space systems
- DoD System of Systems (SoS)
- DoD MIL-STD applied to aerospace.
- FAA and DO and European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)
- standards.
- ARP-4754 and system aspects of certification, ARP-4761, DO-178C and DO-254
- Overview of FAA/EASA Programs and Joint Certification Program Validation
- Joint Certification Program and Validation
- Overview of MIL-STD-810G and DO-160G.
- MIL-STD-810G, MIL-STD-461F, and RTCA DO-160 Testing and qualification programs
- Environmental simulation and EMC testing
System Lifecycle Process
- Researching
- The V diagram
- The project lifecycle process flow
- Preliminary analysis
- Definition
- Development
- Operations and maintenance
- The budget cycle
Aerospace Systems Engineering Management Concerns
- Coordinating balanced goals, work products, and organizations
- The aerospace Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP)
- The aerospace SEMP impact
- The aerospace SEMP content
- The aerospace SEMP development
- The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) vs. Product Breakdown Structure (PWBS)
- WBS and PBS roles
- WBS and PBS development tools
- Common mistakes of WBS and PBS
- Scheduling and scheduling impact
- System schedule info and visual styles
- Setting up a system schedule
- Reporting methods
- Resource leveling
- Budgeting and resource management
- Risk management
- Various types of risks
- Risk determination methods
- Risk assessment methods
- Risk reduction methods
- Configuration Management
- Baseline development
- Configuration management strategies
- Managing information
- Reviews, audits, and control
- Objectives
- Overall rules
- Main control accesses
- Temporary review
- Reporting the state and evaluation
- Cost and schedule control measurement indices
- Engineering performance evaluation
- Aerospace systems engineering process metrics
Systems Assessment and Modeling Concerns in Aerospace
- The trade study development
- Regulating the trade study
- Models and tools
- Selecting the selection rule
- Defining and modeling the budget
- Life Cycle expenses and other expenses evaluation
- Monitoring life-cycle costs
- Cost approximation
- Defining and modeling the effectiveness
- Measuring the system effectiveness methods
- NASA system effectiveness evaluation
- Accessibility and logistics supportability modeling
- Probabilistic management of cost and effectiveness
- Origins of uncertainty in models
- Modeling methods for managing uncertainty
Integrating Aerospace Engineering into the Systems Engineering Process
- Aerospace engineering role
- Reliability
- Role of the reliability
- Building consistent space-based systems
- Reliability assessment tools and methods
- Quality assurance
- Role of the quality assurance engineer
- Quality assurance tools and methods
- Maintainability
- Responsibility of the maintainability engineer
- The system maintenance notion and maintenance plan
- Designing maintainable space-based systems
- Maintainability evaluation tools and methods
- The avionics Integrated Logistics Support (ILS)
- ILS components
- Planning for ILS
- ILS tools and methods
- Continuous attainment and life-cycle support
- Verification
- Verification process
- Verification planning
- Qualification verification
- Acceptance verification
- Deployment verification
- Functional and disposal verification
- Production
- Production engineer responsibilities
- Tools and methods
- Publicly accepted
- Environmental impacts
- Nuclear safety launch authorization
- Planetary protection
Functional Assessment Methods
- Functional methods
- N2 diagrams
- Timeline analysis
Functional Analysis
- Boeing B-777: fly-by-wire flight control systems
- Electrical flight control systems
- Navigation and tracking Systems
- Flight management systems
- Synthetic vision
- Communication systems
- Satellite systems
- Data buses
- Sensor systems
Layers in Systems Engineering Project Success
- Product Success
- Project Management Success
- Project Execution on Schedule and Budget
- Scope
- Meet Quality Requirements
- Satisfy Quality Expectations
- Meet Safety Requirements
- Meet Non-Functional Requirements
- Meet Organizational Needs
- Achieved Desired Outcomes
- Engineering Ethics
Layers in Engineering Project Failures
- Dysfunctional and Ineffective Decision Making
- Misaligned Goals
- Communications Problems
- Corporate Culture
- Lack of Situational Awareness
- Cognitive Biases
- Political issues
- Lack of Trust or Openness
Tonex Case Study Sample: International Space Station (ISS)
- Some background
- ISS systems engineering elements
- ISS systems engineering principals
- ISS systems engineering accomplishments
- ISS systems engineering challenges and failures
- ISS systems engineering configuration management
- ISS systems engineering quality assurance and maintenance
- ISS software, communications. mechanical, electrical and electromechanical system design and engineering
Case Study Lessons Learned
This proposal describes the development of a course focused on case studies that investigate engineering design successes and failures both internal and external to NASA.
TONEX’s case study course includes industrially-derived case studies showing success engineering, failures, failure analysis, and forensic engineering focusing on:
- Design Failures
- Organizational and Planning Failures
- Leadership and Governance Failures
- Judgment Failures
- Underestimation and Analysis Failures
- Quality Failures
- Risk Failures
- Skills, Knowledge and Competency Failures
- Edgemont, Teamwork and Communications Failures
- Strategy Failures