System Engineering in the R/D World

jjlindula · 2005-08-03T14:47:42+00:00

Hello, I couldn't find a single newsgroup to post my question, but Ineeded a good group of people to post my question to. So let meapologize if you don't think should be in your newsgroup. My questionis regarding the value (or importance) of System Engineering practicesin the R/D World. I work for the government and there are about 40people in my branch. We do a lot of R/D projects as well as projectsfor the testing groups. I would like to know from people in the R/Dworld how important do you feel System Engineering practices are onyour job? Many of my co-workers say, "oh that's for really bigprograms, we don't do that hear". Do you agree? Some believe Systemengineering only pertains to the integration of the pieces of thedesign. To me that is only part of SE, there's so much more. Withoutbeing long winded, can those who work in the R/D world, could youplease give your opinions of SE in your workplace? Is it important or awaste of time? What practices do you feel are necessary? Is SE only forthe production people? I appreciate any responses and hope I don'toffend anyone for posting my question. My intention is to gain enoughinformation to convince my coworkers to use some of the SE practicesI've read about.thanks,joe

Aug 03, 2005 44 Replies

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John Larkin 20 years ago

Just curious: did you also post your original query to the misc.business.product-dev newsgroup?

John

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Jerry Avins 20 years ago

Out of my dim past.

Jerry

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Rick Lyons 20 years ago

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Hi,

"DEC/Digital", huh? Didn't they used to make computers?

[-Rick-]

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haitaoz 20 years ago

Can't be true. One can easily design a 16ish bit processor in under a week's time. But it will have to be embedded. You are right if you mean a "competitive general purpose uP". It is awfully hard to compete single-handedly against the likes of Intel.

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haitaoz 20 years ago

This was in response to the following claim in parent message: "The story I hear is that Frederico Faggin was the last guy to single-handedly design a uP (Z-80). "

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