Pre-reading Guidance

There are a number of documents included as essential pre-reading for this module as well as additional recommended background reading. Any video or pre-reading document labelled as essential is mandatory pre-requisite for the module. You must have read or viewed them before class. Document labeled as recommended are for your own benefit.

This guidance explains which day the essential materials relate to, and any pointers to what to think about when reading them. As you read the material identify anything key concepts and be prepared to ask questions during the day.

Essential

UCLse Systems Design Pre-reading, Pigneur, 2020

This material a general introduction to the whole module. The document is organized by chapters corresponding to each day of the module. Please read chapter one “Introduction to design” by Monday, then the section on “Requirements” by Tuesday, followed by the pages on “Systems Architecture” by Wednesday and finally the section on “Decision Analysis” by Thursday.

Through the document, you will find some stop and thinkboxes. Reflect and prepare answers for discussion during the module. This is an essential part of your preparation to this module.

Monday

Essential

UCLse systems primer for short course attendees v1.2, Raper, 2017

This material provides a general introduction to the Systems Concepts taught by UCLse. It provides short course attendees a fast track to common understanding and language used in the module.

Managing as Designing, Boland & Collopy, Part One, Chapter 1: Design matters for management (pp3-18)

This material provides a general introduction to the concept of design attitude vs decision attitude.

Design for changeability, Fricke & Schulz

This article provides insight on the value of design with respect to changeability.

videos: All essential videos are related to the first day of the module

Design council’s video: What is design? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyUklqKrrZ0
Introduction to complex systems design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZRnxZBLZtk&list=PLsJWgOB5mIMDxrvzexu1BhfBFygW9gby0&index=4
Strategic design: https://vimeo.com/14534042

Recommended

Those are not essential but it'll be discussed in class so it is recommended that you familiarize yourself with the subjects.

videos:

Design thinking - Daylight’s application: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee4CKIPkIik
10 heuristics of design – Becoming Leonardo: how great designers think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdH8Kuku9tA
d.school design thinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7sEoEvT8l8
the 5 senses theory: https://www.ted.com/talks/jinsop_lee_design_for_all_5_senses

Design Thinking: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA, Luchs, chapter 1: A brief introduction to design thinking (pp1-12)

The Bootcamp Bootleg, d.school – companion book to the d.school design thinking approach.

Institute of Design IIT, https://www.id.iit.edu/artifact_types/framework-method/

Tuesday

Recommended

Requirements Engineering, Hull, Jackson & Dick, Chapter 1

This material provides a general introduction to requirements in the context of systems engineering, and the sessions on Tuesday will cover many of the topics.

Wednesday

Essential

Interpreting Systems Architecting, Emes

- section 1 "Introduction" pages 2 to 9,

- section 3.3 "General Observations" pages 29 to 31,

- section 3.4 "The relationships between Systems Engineering & Systems Architecting" pages 32 to 36.

We'll be discussing the contentious questions in systems architecting in the class, so be ready to contribute your opinions on these. When considering the relationship between systems engineering and systems architecting, do you prefer any of the perspectives over the others? If so, why do you have that preference? We'll discuss this too.

Thursday

No specific pre-reading.

Friday

Recommended

Strategic Multi-Stakeholder Trade Studies, Emes

This article provided background reading and you can use this reading to deepen your understanding after the class.

Systems engineering handbook, NASA

This document is an extract of the full handbook. This section highlights the decision analysis process used at NASA.