Assignment: System Design and Development

1. You must answer 1 of the 2 questions contained in each of the four sections, for a total of 4 (and only 4) of the 8 questions.

2. Use scholarly journal articles and generally accepted scholarly materials as support for your answers.

3. Answers to each question will be limited to 1 page and be single spaced in Times New Roman 12 point font with 1 inch margins on all sides.

4. References and citations will be made using APA style and references will be listed at the end of each answer (references will not count as part of the 1 page answer limit).

Q1: Explain the difference between systematic life cycle driven design models and the Axiomatic Design Methodology when designing complex man-made systems.

Q2: Discuss the significance of the independence axiom as used in the axiomatic design methodology.

Q3: Explain the importance and rationale for adopting industry standards as part of systems design endeavors.

Q4: Discuss how you would use one of the ISO/IEC/IEEE Systems and Software Engineering standards in a design endeavor.

Q5: Explain the importance associated with the identification, categorization, and management of a systems' stakeholders during a system design endeavor.

Q6: Describe how a systems' hierarchy of requirements are generated from the system need, goals, and objectives statements.

Q7: Explain how system level functional requirements are transformed into a preliminary system architecture.

Q8: Identify and explain the essential tasks required to be accomplished in order to sufficiently identify the need for a system during a system design endeavor.