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System Engineering �- Focusing on High Technology Systems – �

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2023

전길남

Chon Kilnam

2022.10.01rev2023.2.14

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Moon Exploration (유인달탐사)

Apollo Program: 1961 – 1972

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Artemis Program: 2017 - 2027

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�� Mars Exploration(유인화성탐사)

Under Study (NASA, SpaceX,…)

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Table of Contents

  1. System Engineering Example – Apollo Program
  2. Systems
  3. Engineering
  4. My Experiences
  5. System Engineering vs Project Management
  6. Issues and Remarks

References

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1. Apollo Program as Example of System Engineering

  • Kennedy declared “landing a man on the Moon by the end of 1960s” in 1960.
  • Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the Moon on 1969.07.20.
  • 400,000 people from 20,000 organizations involved at peak time.

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  • Artemis Project (2020s) – Second Moon Exploration Program

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2. Systems

  • Manned system
  • Active system (원자로,…)
  • Complex/Large-Scale system (Internet, Financial,…)
  • Special system (Outer Space Exploration,…)
  • New technology (AI,…)
  • Real-time system

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3. Engineering

  • Technology (기술) vs Engineering (공정)

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  • Technology; All(Hardware, Software, Material, User Interface, System,……)

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  • Engineering; Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, System Engineering

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4. My Experience

  • Collins Radio/1960s

Mobile Network, Real-Time Network

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  • NASA/1970s

Viking (Mars), Voyager (Grand Tour: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus,…)

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  • Computer Development (컴퓨터국산화 프로젝트)/1979~

Personal Computer

Unix Computer (Minicomputer)

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  • Internet Development (한국, Asia,…)/1980s~

Several protocols, Router, Human resource, Users

Global collaboration (~100s countries)

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5. System Engineering vs Project Management

  • Cost management
  • High technology management
  • One or more System Engineering projects under project management

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6. Issues and Remarks

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  1. Hardware vs Software

D. Future (unknown) technology

E. New issue (revision of plan)

F. Cost overrun

G. Schedule delay

H. Human resource

I. Long term (Human mission to Mars, Nuclear plant dismantling,…)

J. Time critical case

K. Documentation

L . Ecosystem

M. Global Warming; Special case

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References

구봉권, System Engineering, Class-e, 2022

Kilnam Chon, System Engineering, Class101, 2022

Chuckland, System thinking, systems practice

Climate Change Conference (COPxx), UN

Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Dismantling�Internet (ARPANET, Korean Internet,…)�Grier Miller, Living Systems

Ludwig von Bertalanffy, General System Theory

SpaceX, Human-Spaceflight/Mars

Struggle of building the original iPhone, YouTube, 2009.�Weinberg, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

Waldrop, Complexity

NASA; JPL (Voyager, Mars,..), Huston (Apollo Program, Artemis Program,…)

Moshe Rubenstein, Pattern of Problem Solving

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