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Systems-engineered aircraft are designed to transport passengers safely. This book explores the concept of aircraft as a complex system, including humans, with safety as a crucial aspect. By prioritizing safety and quality, fewer fatalities can be achieved, leading to efficient, reliable, and safe aircraft for passengers and crew.
List of contents
1. Introduction. 2. Commercial Aircraft. 3. Functional Analysis. 4. Requirements and Needs. 5. Constraints and Specialty Requirements. 6. Interfaces. 7. Synthesis. 8. Top-Level Synthesis. 9. Subsystem Synthesis. 10. Certification, Safety, and Software. 11. Verification and Validation. 12. Systems Engineering Management and Control. 13. Adapting Systems Engineering to the Commercial Aircraft Domain. 14. Large Scale System Integration. 15. Risk Management. 16. Resilience of the Aircraft System. 17. System Quality. 18. Final Comments. 19. Appendix 1: The Mathematics of Reliability Allocation. 20. Appendix 2: Example Commercial Specification Outline. 21. Appendix 3: Systems Engineering Automated Tools.
About the author
Dr. Scott Jackson, Principal Engineer at Burnham Systems Consulting, assists commercial aircraft companies worldwide in adapting and implementing systems engineering processes. With extensive experience in aircraft design and production, he has taught graduate-level courses at the University of Southern California and has worked with Boeing, Embraer, SA of Brazil, and the NASA Glenn Research Center. He has authored two books,
Systems Engineering for Commercial Aircraft and
Systems Engineering for Commercial Aircraft: A Domain-Specific Adaptation, which emphasize the adaptation of systems engineering processes to commercial aircraft to save time, schedule, cost, and reduce risk. He also authored the book
Architecting Resilient Systems, used in a graduate-level course at the University of Southern California.
