Systems Engineers - Solving Problems In The Spotlight
Systems Engineers face many problems which may have several different resolutions. Some problems have more than one solution. The Systems Engineer at times must make the best decision utilizing the available resources to achieve the main objective. Having stated this here are my responses to the research project titled “Weeding out a Solution” which provides a scenario of problems brought upon by various departments, that a Systems Engineer might face in the course of a workday in regards to a UAV weight design issue. A UAS is to be designed for precision crop-dusting. In the middle of the design process, the system is found to be overweight. · Two subsystems – 1) Guidance, Navigation & Control [flying correctly] and 2) Payload delivery [spraying correctly] have attempted to save costs by purchasing off-the-shelf hardware, rather than a custom design, resulting in both going over their originally allotted w...