You will provide a minimum of a 5-page double-spaced (Graphics and Tables are not included in the page count) analysis of a real system which successfully or unsuccessfully applied the principles of systems engineering. This is to be developed from your personal experience and individual research in the library, internet, INCOSE website, media, corporate sources, etc. Note that:
The analysis shall be of an actual system, and must demonstrate the successful planning or implementation of some of the systems engineering processes or the results of failure to apply these processes. Other aspects of the project you might report on include:
You do not need to footnote this report, but you must provide a reference list on an additional page. Citations are required in your choice of format (such as APA). Only provide significant sources which directly contribute to the analysis. The system can be a large commercial project in any country, an international project, a civil works project or a military weapon system (no restricted information should be included), but must be documented. No development project is perfect, so a description of failures as well as successes should be included.
For your source references, you MUST use at least one academic book and a minimum of two secondary sources. Wikipedia is NOT a source, except for very general background information. Graduate students need to have research skills, analysis and synthesis of detailed information as part of their toolkit.
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After the crash, extensive investigations got launched to determine the reasons behind the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster (Cole, 2003). The investigators noted that problems started right after the shuttle got launched into space. A section of the foam insulating the ET fell off during its launch, hitting the orbiter resulting in quite some damage. The size of the foam resembled a briefcase and weighed approximately two pounds (Sharma, 2013). The people on the ground tasked with overseeing the launch sequence, failed to take notice of this occurrence. They only got wind of it, the next day after conduction the requisite photographic and video graphic analysis of the lift
