This document provides an overview of using systems engineering methodology for student projects. It discusses: - Project management and systems engineering approaches that are critical for complex, multidisciplinary projects to succeed on the first attempt. - Product versus project lifecycles, with project lifecycles following a predictive waterfall model to deliver the project within cost and time. - Key elements of project management including work breakdown structure, network diagrams, critical path method, milestones, and Gantt charts. - The importance of systems engineering in taking a top-down, interdisciplinary approach to define requirements, evaluate design options, and achieve quality targets. - How these project management and systems engineering principles can be applied to

1. Systems Engineering Methodoloy for
student projects
A.Dhurkadas, DRDO Scientist (Retd)

2. Overview
• Introduction
• Project Management
• Systems Engineering
• Applications in Students Project

3. Major Projects
Project Management Approach

4. • Critical Technology
• Multidisciplinary
• Succeed in first
attempt
Complex Projects
Project Management / Systems Engineering Approach

11. Product Vs Project Life cycle

12. Project Life Cycle –Predictive Life cycle
Water fall Model
•Product /Service
to be delivered is
fully understood
•Construction
Industry

14. •Complete the project within cost & time

15. Project Phases

16. Project Phases

17. Project Time Management
Plan schedule
Prepare WBS / activity list
Sequence the activities
Allocate resources
Create network diagram
Estimate Activity Duration
Prepare Schedule
Control Schedule
Project Time Management defines the process requires
to manage the timely completion of the project

19. Network Diagram
• Network Diagram is interconnect of all activities in the project
• Sequence the activities & prepare Network Diagram
• It is useful for planning and tracking the project from beginning to finish
• It helps to find out Project Critical Path
• A good network diagram will be a clear graphic representation of
a project
Activity on Node
• Boxes denote activities
in the project
• Various boxes or
“nodes” are connected
from beginning to end
with arrows

20. Critical Path Method
1 ABCG = 10
2. ABFG = 15
3. DEFG =17
4. DHI=11
Critical Path
•In a network diagram, the longest path from start to finish.
•Shortest time in which the project can be completed
•A delay in one of the critical path activities will delay the entire project
•Put more resources to complete those activities in the critical path

21. Milestones
 Milestones are significant events in the project,
typically one require customer to approve further
work
 Metro Construction
 Construction of elevated structure
 Laying Rails
 Copleting Signaling system
 Metro station construction

22. Gantt Chart
It is a bar chart that illustrates a project schedule
It illustrates the start and finish dates of all activities in the
project.
It also show the dependency relationships between
activities
It also contains milestone in the project
 It can be used to show current schedule status using
percent-complete shadings and a vertical "TODAY" line

23. Gantt Chart
WBS S
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Task Bar
Milestone
Arrows show
Dependencies

24. Gantt Chart Example

25. Systems Engineering

26. What is Systems Engineering?
• Employs top down approach
• Inter disciplinary development work
– Aeronautics, Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics
• Multi discipline design optimization
Systems engineering is systematic way of doing the projects
“An interdisciplinary approach and means to
enable the realization of successful systems”

27. Systems Engineering emphasis on…
• User Requirement
• Right Product / Product right
• Document & Develop
• Verification & Validation

28. Right Product
User Requirement
Requirement analysis
Various Options
Apply Constraints
Select Right Product

29. Product Right
System Specification
System Design
Design Review
System Development
System Acceptance

30. Complex Product Development
Project Management
• Focus on Managerial
aspect
• Project schedule, cost &
time
• Team selection & building
• Resource management
• Reviews & Decision making
Systems Engineering
• Focus on Technical
aspects
• Problem Analysis
• Design Options
• Design decision
• System acceptance
• Achieving Quality targets
Better outcomes are achieved when Systems Engineering
and Project Management work well together

31. Right Product / Product Right
Can be extended to …….
Other activities
– Right Career / Achieve Career Rightly
– Right Cell phone / Purchase Cell phone Rightly
– Right Picnic place / Visit Picnic place Rightly
One can logically use this technique in
almost all day to day activities

32. Project Success

33. Student Project

34. Student Project-Systems Engineering Approach
Right Project
Internet Search
Innovative technique
Industry Requirement
Improvements on
earlier project
Technical Guidance
Facilities available
Finalize Scope
Project Right
Paper design
Design Review
HW / SW development
System testing
System Demonstration
Report preparation
These activities are distributed in Five Phases

35. Project Phases
1. Initiating Phase …….. 2 weeks (Zeroth Review)
 Identify Right Project
 Prepare Project Proposal
2. Planning Phase ……….. 4 weeks (First Review)
 Estimate Scope, Time, Cost
 Prepare Project Management Plan
 Prepare Acceptance plan
 Complete Paper Design
3. Executing Phase ……….4 weeks (Second Review)
 Develop & Integrate the system
4. Monitoring & Controlling …… 4weeks (Third review)
 Monitor Progress
 Demonstration as per Acceptance Plan
5. Closing Phase ….. 1 week
 Prepare Project Report

36. Preparation of Project Proposal ….2 weeks
1. Project Description
2. Project Objective
3. Innovation
4. Applications
5. Project team members
6. Place: College / Industry
7. Project Guide
Project Approval - Project Guide & HOD
This document address
Right Project

37. Preparation of Development cum Design Doc … 4 weeks
 A. Development Plan
1. Deliverables
2. Work breakdown structure (Min 8 – 10 no)
3. Gantt Chart & Project schedule (MS Project)
B. Design
1. System / Software Requirement Specifications (SRS)
2. Assumptions, Constraints and Challenges
3. System configuration
4. System / Software Design Description (SDD)
C. Acceptance Plan
 Test procedure
D. Document approval - Project Guide
Project team will give presentation to HOD
This document address
Project Right

38. Case study Presentation on Grey
Water Purification Machine
by
S.Lionel Beneston
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering