Systems engineering is a holistic approach to engineering that considers the system, including its components, interactions, and environment. It aims to ensure that the system meets the needs and expectations of its stakeholders while satisfying technical, performance, and safety requirements. In this course, you will be introduced to systems engineering, beginning with a discussion of its systems engineering principles, the systems engineering life cycle, the systems engineering process, the V-model, the iterative process model, and lean engineering. Then you will learn about process integration, systems engineering and complex systems, and how systems engineering compares to similar disciplines. Finally, you will explore system types and engineering product development.

Systems engineering aims to ensure that the system meets the needs and expectations of its stakeholders while satisfying technical, performance, and safety requirements. To accomplish that feat, it's important to understand systems engineering principles, planning, and process design. In this course, you'll learn about engineering systems, beginning with the importance of engineering, the systems engineer role, engineered system context, and the impact of systems engineering on project management. Then you'll dig into the benefits of systems engineering, how systems engineers solve complex problems, and systems engineering plans and planning. Finally, you'll explore the engineering design process, its key principles and advantages, solving engineering design process problems, and how to create an engineering design process project.

Systems engineering involves a structured and iterative process of defining, analyzing, designing, validating, and verifying the system. System architecture and design are key elements of that process and require a significant amount of understanding in order to complement how everything works together in the system engineering process. In this course, you will explore system architecture and design, beginning with system architecture and components, system requirements, and modeling and simulation. Then you will learn about considerations for system requirements, system modularity, and standardization. Next, you will examine stakeholders and stakeholder needs and requirements. Finally, you will explore the principles of system design, investigate metrics for evaluating system designs, and find out how to evaluate a system.

Systems Engineering requires effective communication and collaboration among various stakeholders, including customers, users, designers, developers, testers, and managers. Systems thinking is a way of understanding complexity and looking at systems in their entirety. In this course, you will begin with an introduction to systems thinking, its philosophy, and principles. Then you'll learn about the advantages of systems thinking, key systems thinking concepts, and common systems thinking tools. Finally, you'll look at systems thinking as it relates to systems engineering and how systems thinking can be applied to real-world problems.