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A. Terry Bahill
Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering
University of Arizona

I do not think that slides are a good handout to accompany a presentation, so I usually handout a published paper to accompany my lectures. But so many people have asked me for copies of my slides, that I have decided to make them available. Some of these files are large. They are not necessarily the exact same slides that I present, because of copyright laws and size considerations. Works in progress are not here.

Here is a listing of the files that are in this directory in roughly the order in which they are presented in SIE-554a.

  • What Is Systems Engineering? (25 Mbytes)
  • Design and Testing of an Illuminance System
  • The 8 Systems Engineering Documents
  • Distinguishing between Product and Process
  • 40 years of Systems Engineering at the UofA
  • The SIMILAR Process
  • The SIMILAR Process
  • Comparison of Engineering Design Tools
  • The Unified Systems Engineering Process Based on UML and SysML
  • Decision Making and Tradeoff Studies
  • Tradeoff Studies, Mathematical Analysis
  • Requirements in Use Cases
  • Discovering System Requirements
  • Case Studies and Metrics for Systems Engineering Design
  • The System Design Process is NP-Complete
  • part two of Case Studies and Metrics
  • Risk Analysis
  • Sensitivity Analysis a Powerful Validation Tool
  • Reusability and COTS: a theory paper
  • The Make-Reuse-Buy Decision
  • Observable States May be Necessary When Using COTS Products
  • Principles of Good Design
  • What Are Levels?
  • Mappings between models
  • Why Priortize?
  • A Zachman Framework Populated with Baseball Models
  • Famous Failures
  • Systems Engineering Started in the Middle
  • CMMI, a Collection of Best Business Practices
  • Decision Analysis and Resolution
  • Ameliorating Mistakes in Tradeoff Studies
  • Blackboard Architecture
  • Technical Reviews
  • Sensitivity of the QFD Process
  • Clairfication of some important Systems Engineering Concepts
  • Systems Engineering of the Baseball Bat
  • The Batter Can't Keep His Eye on the Ball
  • The System Life Cycle
  • The Perceptual Illusion of the Rising Fastball
  • The Vertical Sweet Spot of the Bat
  • What the Batter's Eye Tells the Batter's Brain
  • Describing Baseball Pitch Movement with Right-Hand Rules
  • NickelAndDime Pitches

    • Here is my template for UML use cases

    This is not a good place to put it, but I could not think of a better place, so I put a program written by Tom Rogers that implements the four basic Wymorian Scoring Functions right here
    I have been told that this program will not work on 64 bit machines.

    Here is a good, but light-hearted, book on communications, both written and oral The Tongue and Quill

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    This site is owned by Terry Bahill (520) 621-6561 The last major change was on August 25, 2010.