Samantha Planas is a systems engineer at Fenwal and member of the INCOSE Chicagoland chapter as well as a current MEM student. In this post she shares an overview of systems engineering and offers ...

The benefits of using simulation early and often in the product development process are clear. You can verify requirements and begin studying and exploring design alternatives before prototyping and ...

How model-based systems engineering (MBSE) has improved system design. Thermal design and MBE come together. When considering systems-level design, it’s important to understand the criticality of the ...

Model-based systems engineering is quietly, but consistently, becoming an important part of the design, maintenance, and cybersecurity of the federal government’s most complex IT platforms. MBSE ...

The so-called V-model provides many benefits for organizing the system engineering perspective by depicting the orderly progression, from requirements definition to system-level specification, ...

Heavy machinery is entering a new phase where hydraulics, electronics and embedded software are engineered as one integrated system. Using model-based systems engineering (MBSE) as a framework to ...

It won’t surprise anyone who read this blog that I am not an admirer of the Design Thinking phenomenon. I will call myself a skeptic observer. However I am not directly oppose to it. If you wonder how ...

As heterogenous integration increases design complexity and forces engineers out of long-standing silos, model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is becoming essential for improving quality and reducing ...

The following is the second of two excerpts from The Way to Design, a guide to becoming a designer founder and to building design-centric businesses. It was adapted and reprinted with the author’s ...

A heavily cited fact within the architecture industry is that the built environment accounts for 40% of global carbon emissions. The concerning statistic puts immense responsibility on construction ...

A longtime marketing executive describes how to implement design thinking methods into company leadership — and just what it can do for a workplace — in this guest op-ed. What design thinking entails, ...