Motivating concepts; an overview of systems engineering; methodologies and models in systems engineering; optimizing the systems engineering process; mitigating project development risks; the contractual background to systems engineering; costs and their relation to quality; process improvement; anticipatory testing; metrics for system engineering; systems engineering documentation; the procurement; proposals; requirements definition phase; the preliminary design phase; the design, build, integrate, and test phases; the operations and maintenance phases; ethics in systems engineering; applying TQM to systems engineering; ISO 9000 in systems engineering; epilogue.
