Practical Model-Based Systems Engineering

Jose L. Fernandez is an associate professor teaching project management, requirements engineering and systems engineering at Madrid Technical University. He is a researcher, developing engineering methodologies and tools as well as an independent consultant. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and is a member of IEEE. Carlos Hernandez is Postdoctoral researcher at Delft University of Technology and an associated researcher at the Delft Robotics Institute. He received his Ph.D. on automation and robotics from the Universidad.

• Introduction; Systems Engineering; Model Based Systems Engineering; The ISE & PPOOA process; Functional Architecture; Heuristics to apply in the engineering of systems; Physical Architecture; Example of Application: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle; Example of Application: Collaborative robot; Example of Application: Energy Efficiency for the Steam Generation Process of a Coal Power Plant; To Conclude; References; Appendix A: SySML Notation; Appendix B: Requirements Framework.